Never cared for Metallica until this came out. Never cared much for them since.
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…
Killing in The Name was a kick in the teeth when I first saw it performed live on The Word (one of many memorable performances on that car crash show) and the eponymous debut album of Rage Against The Machine was definitely a statement and did what it said on the tin…
The Comet is Coming: The Afterlife
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…
Good grief this is a good album. First encountered Mowgli’s Road when it went a bit viral for being an interesting video but the song is so interesting I had to have more…
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…
The Prodigy: Fat of The Land
1997? I remember being a student in Glasgow and the posters going up for this and the first tracks coming out and it feeling like a good time to be alive for music…
Ghetto Kumbé: Ghetto Kumbé
I think I saw this on Cory Doctorow’s twitter, specifically…
I think my first encounter with Fiona Apple was hearing about her new album, Extraordinary Machine, which had been leaked onto teh internets alongside rumours that her vision was being squashed by evil record label executives who refused to release it, or something along those lines, so of course I had to download it from Napster or whatever was in vogue at the time and I loved it…
HAAi: Systems Up, Windows Down
If we can’t go dancing, it’s still good music to work to…