At the end of every year I write a post ranking my favourite music releases of the year. But for 2008 I was very busy, and I had other things I wanted to write about more. Now that it’s February, I think I’d really better get on with it. I know not many people will […]
Music of 2007: #20–#11
Getting there slowly but surely. We might be two weeks into 2008, but that won’t stop me from looking back at 2007. By this rate it will be February before we get to the end of this list… 20. The Tuss — Rushup Edge Whoever is responsible for this is at least a genius at […]
Sigur Rós — Hvarf, Heim, Heima
I was beginning to lose my faith in Sigur Rós a bit. Takk… was a pretty good album, but lacked the oceanic beauty of Ágætis Byrjun, the novelty of ( ) and the experimentation of Von and Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do. The most recent EP, Sæglópur, contained the most boring output I have […]
Music of 2006 — Three sloppy turds
This will be a short post, outlining what I think were the three most disappointing releases of the year. Prefuse 73 — Security Screenings At least Surrounded by Silence grew on me. But Security Screenings is far too mundane, and I’ve had almost a full year to let it grow on me. What I said […]
Sæglópur delayed (+advert music, ITV’s F1 title sequence)
The new Sigur Rós EP, ‘Sæglópur’, has been delayed yet again. Which is a bit annoying. It was originally meant to be coming out some time in spring, but was delayed because of the belated success of ‘HoppÃpolla’, with the single having to be re-issued after it was used on trailers for ‘Planet Earth’ until […]
BBC Radio on Last.fm
This guy who worked at the BBC decided to experiment with Last.fm and created an account for 6Music (via plasticbag.org). So we have a true picture of what 6Music sounds like: 6Music’s favourite artists, favourite tracks and so on, broken down by week as well! The Last.fm account kind of sums up why I don’t […]
Chris Clark — Throttle Furniture
Chris Clark’s first album, Clarence Park, was one of the albums that really grabbed me when I was first getting into Warpy electronic IDM whatever music. He seemed to be an exciting prospect, but I didn’t quite fully get into the EP and album he released in 2003. Well, now Chris Clark has finally re-emerged […]
Most played music meme
This is my iTunes music, sorted by play count, to see what tracks I play the most. Even more than Last.fm, this is very biased towards what I have been listening to for the past year because I didn’t get round to ripping most of my CDs until last spring. Music that I had on […]
Fame can do wonders for a back catalogue
Fame can do wonders for a back catalogue. According to Eighteen Seconds Before Sunrise, Sigur Rós’ first two albums gone platinum in Iceland. Despite the fact that ‘Von’ is now a platinum album, it sold only 313 copies in its first year!
Remind me why I fell out with indie?
Aaargh. Yesterday’s Film & Music section in The Guardian contains a letter that really just typifies everything that made me go into a violent, year-long anti-guitar rage a few years back. The letter is from somebody called DP Woodhead, which is already a bad sign. Does he think he’s a novelist or something? This is […]