Underworld, Second Toughest in the Infants (Superdeluxe edition)
Last week Underworld reissued their excellent second album “Second Toughest In The Infants” in various formats including a four disc super …
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Understated Classics #32: They Were Wrong So We Drowned by Liars
As it is Halloween, I’m writing about a spooky understated classic. Liars’ second album “They Were Wrong, So We …
Everything Everything, Get To Heaven
It’s difficult to write honestly about your feelings. It’s difficult to write about your feelings consistently, for a living on …
Understated Classics #31: The White Room by The KLF
This little masterpiece was released in 1991. I got my copy on cassette for Christmas that year, but by May in 1992 they’d already …
An Initial Comparison of Apple Music and Spotify
My previous post about Apple Music was more a response to how it was presented at the WWDC Keynote rather than to the idea of Apple Music …
Album Digest, June 2015
To reboot this series, Album Digest June 2015 features five fantastic albums from Hot Chip, Jamie xx, Blanck Mass, Holly Herndon, and The …
Understated Classics #30: Our Aim Is to Satisfy by Red Snapper
The thirtieth understated classic is by a band named after a fish. There isn’t a great deal for me to say about “Our Aim Is To …
You Can’t Just Switch Off Free
Ministry of Sound boss Lohan Presencer does the cry baby act in today’s Guardian, complaining that Spotify’s freemium model …
Album Digest, February 2015
Understated Classics #29: Let It Come Down by Spiritualized
I listened to Let It Come Down by Spiritualized for the first time during a difficult time in my life. I think this will always affect my …
Album Digest, January 2015
Album Digest January 2015 rounds up a few albums from the tail end of 2014 that I didn’t get much time to write about. The only one of …
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, …