Liked That? Try This is a fortnightly column: I pick a trending album and recommend three others based on their shared musical ideas, aesthetics or approaches. This week – Sun Kil Moon – Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood. Mark Kozelek is an asshole, and he knows it. Whether it be […]
Ned Blackburn
Album Review – Ty Segall – s/t
Traditionally, the mid-career eponymous album release is spun one of two ways – restatement or reinvention. In the first case, the artist looks to cast off the highfalutin concepts and dodgy stylistic experiments of their past and embrace a (ugh) ‘back-to-basics’ approach – think Pearl Jam or Killing Joke. In the second, the opposite is […]
Liked That? Try This: Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound
Liked That? Try This is a fortnightly column: I pick a trending album and recommend three others based on their shared musical ideas, aesthetics or approaches. This week – Life Without Sound by Cloud Nothings, released on the 27th of January After modest beginnings, Cloud Nothings took a quantum leap in both popularity and critical […]
Liked That? Try This: The xx – I See You
Liked That? Try This is a fortnightly column: I pick a trending album and recommend three others based on their shared musical ideas, aesthetics or approaches. This week’s album choice is The xx’s ‘I See You’, released on 13th January and perhaps the first major release event of 2017. Marking a shift toward the pulsing […]