Understated Classics #28: The Meadowlands by The Wrens
One of the first lines of “The House That Guilt Built”, the soft cricket-laden lament that opens The Meadowlands by The Wrens, …
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Understated Classics #27: A Ghost Is Born by Wilco
I have already given some of the personal background to why I love this album and now it’s time to give a bit of love to the music itself so …
Understated Classics #26: Come On Die Young by Mogwai
I’ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and ah… and ah… heartless manipulators about …
Understated Classics #25: Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans
The single biggest fact of life is that you are always going to be alone, you just might not realise it. Listening to The Cardigans’ …
Understated Classics #24: Reservoir by Fanfarlo
I have written a lot in these posts about how music gets indelibly tied up with places, events and feelings. For me this album by Fanfarlo …
Understated Classics #23: Gorgeous by 808 State
It was quite hard to choose an 808 State album for the understated classics series for two reasons. The first is that I was introduced to …
Understated Classics #22: Walking With Thee by Clinic
“Walking With Thee” is the second album by Liverpool band Clinic. It was released in 2002, which seems like an age ago now. Even longer ago …
Understated Classics #21: Woob 2 by Woob
The second Woob album (AKA “Woob 4495”) is probably the greatest ambient album ever made and is certainly the best one you have never heard …
Understated Classics #20: Folklore by Nelly Furtado
It’s rather spooky but shortly after deciding to write about Nelly Furtado’s “Folklore” as the next understated classic, I found out that …
Understated Classics #19: The Dreaming by Kate Bush
“I see the people working and see it working for them.” (Sat In Your Lap)
Understated Classics #18: Fabric 12 mixed by The Amalgamation Of Soundz
Say what? We’re allowing compilations now?
Understated Classics #17: Nearly God by Nearly God (Tricky)
Sit back and let it happen, / Let us take your time away.