Category: Tune Tuesday

I believed the hype. Just a couple of years late.

Another Needle Drop review led me to this album that sounds like things falling apart, which seems timely.

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.

Spotify recommendations is probably the best thing Spotify has going for it. Self Esteem first got recommended to me in 2018…

Album dropped on the 14th, I saw the Needle Drop review on the 19th and I bought it today. That sort of urgency to Have The Music is rare, but it’s good stuff.

Slightly perplexingly for doddery old fools like myself, Black Dresses have declared that they are no longer a band (from what I gather they have been victim of the internet’s propensity towards being entitled and devoid of human empathy because nothing is real) but are still putting out music. And pleased I am.

It’s sad, it’s uplifting, it’s angry, it’s beautiful and I know it’s not the main focus of digital music but look at the cover art by bani, it’s gorgeous.

Originally seen way back in 2019 in a Guardian One to Watch column (I keep saying they don’t recommend anything good but I keep buying stuff they recommend) their original album is excellent but their second effort steps things up a bit with a bit more variety and the mandatory Sleaford Mods collaboration…

The Comet is Coming feels like they might be the perfect third side of a triptych of acts I’ve skimmed alongside Melt Yourself Down and Sons of Kemet…

This is not really new, is it? This, the third album by John Grant was released in 2015 and the excellent “Disappointing” came to me via brotherly Christmas tracks that year. It’s been sitting in semi-regular circulation on Spotify, and on my “things to buy” list since then…