I’m sitting down to type up this list, and there’s a prompt appearing in the WordPress text box, which I delete in order to write this sentence. It says: “Have you ever performed on stage, or given a speech?” The answer to that question, is yes, on both counts, but that’s not why we’re here… Read More My Favourite Albums of 2022
Hey, long time no see, Internet. Here I am, re-emerging from my year-long hibernation to participate in the annual record recap/love-in. It’s been quite the year, but you already know that. It’s been a year for music too, which is something you probably also already know. Here are my choice cuts from the last twelve… Read More My Favourite Albums of 2021
The World Is A Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid To Die have never been a band afraid to push the envelope. Even their very name seems a challenge to the listener, an obstacle of sorts to overcome as a way to gain a greater appreciation for the music produced under the moniker. With… Read More Record of the Day #2 – The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Between Bodies
Hey, I guess that it has been a little while, six months, since I wrote anything music related on here. I have been away, taking a long vacation from my wannabe music journalist vocation. I think that the time has been put to good use, spent finishing off my degree, working part-time and writing poetry… Read More Bullet Music, A Beginning
Another list to round off another year of music. This time I counted down my favourite songs of 2016.… Read More My Favourite Songs of 2016
I listed 101 records that I’ve enjoyed this year, as my field of interest dictates that I must. It gets real.… Read More Top 101 Records of 2016
I turned twenty-two yesterday. I heard Taylor Swift’s hit song 22 probably more than twenty-two times yesterday. Probably twenty-three Turning twenty-two means that it’s been twelve years since I owned my first iPod. At ten, to celebrate moving into double-digits, my parents bought me an iPod Mini, in bright blue. I think they bought it… Read More On the Importance of the iPod, Over the Years
Moose Blood – Blush (Review)… Read More Moose Blood – Blush (Review)
Excellent production and a shift in style make for a stellar second LP Let’s start by going back nineteen months in order to move forwards, back to the first line of Haunted to be precise, the first track on Young and Heartless’ 2014 full-length debut LP. ‘She is losing all her religion’ frontman Jeremy Henninger… Read More Young And Heartless – Stay Away (Review)
Max Bemis returns with what may be the strangest album you’ll hear in 2o16, and one which also may be his best in years. I give some thoughts as to why this might be the case.… Read More Say Anything – I Don’t Think It Is (Review)
Review of the new Basement record which, despite promising everything, didn’t really deliver… Read More Basement – Promise Everything (Review)
A 1,500 word essay on the importance of a one-time encounter. In my case it was definitely an important one.… Read More On Finding Nirvana (The Band, Not The State of Enlightenment)
Take off, taking away, leaving family, leaving friends for a southern state appeal. I watch them from a congested commuter train then think about them later on the plane, as wheels retract and consequences impact. At 21 I’m already twenty-gone. I’m alone up here now, hesitant and hovering above a waking world, above everything, all… Read More Thoughts From 40,000 Feet (Another Quick Poem)
20) Vaarwell – Love & Forgiveness 19) Hot Mulligan – Honest & Cunning 18) Faces Of Eve – The Story So Far 17) Beach House – Buddy Holiday 16) Scout Boys – What If, Like, When We Die… 15) Sundressed – Dig Up A Miracle 14) headcold – Awkward Tape 13) Gnarwolves – Adolescence (Purchase)… Read More My Favourite EPs of 2015
After working my way through the multitude of music releases I’ve amassed in 2015 I’ve whittled them down to a final ten, my favourite ten of the year. I should stress the word ‘favourite’, because these are by no means the best ten records of the year, simply the ones I’ve enjoyed the most. That’s probably… Read More My Favourite Albums of 2015 (Numbers 10-1)
What follows is the second part of my countdown, with the first half available to view here. As things are heating up, I figured I’d write a little about some of these records, trying to justify why they ended up where they are. The rest of my list should follow shortly (hopefully). 25) Frank Carter… Read More My Favourite Albums of 2015 (Numbers 25-11)
It’s that time of the year again, so over the next week I’ll be counting down my favourite releases of the year, feeling obliged to as somebody who enjoys and writes about music. Also, I’m a sucker for a good of year lists, and I always enjoy compiling them, if only because it gives me… Read More My Favourite Albums of 2015 (Numbers 100 – 26)
Since first hearing The Upsides some five years ago, in an old friends bedroom, The Wonder Years have always been a constant in my musical life, each of their records an anchor to a particular period of time, realigning with each new release. The bands second record was for the angst-riddled teenager I was back then, hating… Read More The Wonder Years – No Closer To Heaven (Review)
Inspired by Mikill Pane’s No-One Gets Left Behind: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds The cab arrives on time, its bright yellow sides reflecting on the snow piled high opposite the Swiss hotel we’re staying in for one night only, our lightly packed suitcases still standing by the door, casting shadows from the early… Read More A Short Story I Wrote For University
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