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Kiki T and Ayka Reviewed
December 17, 2025
Kiki T – Stuck with me
The pressure’s on. We’re well into December, and you’d better have a good time, or else. In the absence of any true spiritual practices, the vast majority of us have to rely on Christmas, a holiday brought to you in association with…
Ma Polaine's Great Decline and Ojahara Reviewed
December 11, 2025
Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Gasoline Can
If you look at passers-by and try to guess their stories, if you’re conservative enough in your estimates, you’re going to be right nine out of ten times. But don’t flatter yourself! It’s not because you are an…
Dylan Rockwell and Oceans Of Mercury Reviewed
December 1, 2025
Dylan Rockwell – Born Ready
Bad news is the easiest to sell. I should start a website simply criticising every piece of media that I come upon if I hope to become wealthy and influential. In fact, I’m confident that if I were to turn to this dastardly plan, I…
The Mellons x Triptides AND personne Reviewed
November 18, 2025
The Mellons x Triptides – From the Vine
How healthy is the current musical climate? Is there any strategy that we can use to tell for sure? Sure, there is. Here’s what I do, and you can apply the same tactics at home. Just think of the best five pop songs…
Dewey Kincade and The Navigators AND Baker Island Reviewed
November 18, 2025
Dewey Kincade and The Navigators- All Alone in This Together
Well, they do say that nobody’s properly dead and gone until the day that everybody stops talking about them, remembering them, living with the stories that they created. Remembrance is the one great…
A Mess and Self Torque Reviewed
November 18, 2025
A Mess – I Wish Me a Merry Christmas
Ugh! A terrible time is upon us, and you’re about to feel it more acutely than most if you happen to be a music fan and record collector. It’s that time of the year when, seemingly, every single pop and rock singer starts…
Almamor and Maw Sit Sit Reviewed
November 18, 2025
Almamor – Far Apart
Don’t know ambition. It’s done more for your record collection than an army of producers, managers and fashion consultants ever could have. In fact, a close and unemotional investigation could likely reveal that ambition always trumps…
Top 10 Songs by The J. Geils Band
November 15, 2025
The J. Geils Band was made up of mad, bad, and dangerous to know blues players who, by the 1980s, had become a successful pop group. Fans of either one or the other era were never quite able to reconcile the two extremes. Still, I believe that both are worth your time. The…
Dru Cutler and Conversing with Oceans x Nate Fox Reviewed
November 13, 2025
Dru Cutler – Love Light
The next crop of big pop stars will be people who never reveal their identities, tell you almost nothing about what they like or hate, and, very rarely,even accept having their pictures taken. Finding these individuals will be hard, but once…