Author: Niall
The Decemberists: I’ll Be Your Girl
Beck: Mellow Gold
Fontaines DC: Dogrel
I believed the hype. Just a couple of years late.
Back in the day, living in Glasgow listening to The Downward Spiral on my little stereo in Kelvingrove Park, watching crows demolish a chick of some species and reading Edgar Allan Poe. It would be embarrassing if it wasn’t so cool.
N.E.R.D.: No One Ever Really Dies
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Tropical Fuck Storm: Braindrops
Another Needle Drop review led me to this album that sounds like things falling apart, which seems timely.
Aficionado: Aficionado
One upon a time, when torrents were a thing, SXSW used to publish a big fat bundle of music from bands that were playing and I used to download them and I reckon there’s still tracks on those lists I’ve never heard. Over 700 songs from 2005 alone. I *think* one of the bands I did listen to and liked enough to buy the album was Aficionado.
Beak>: >>>
Beak> came up on a playlist (the same playlist that introduced me to Richard Dawson) drawn up to provide atmospheric context to the 2000AD folk horror joint Thistlebone, which has by coincidence started it’s second run this week.