Paul Draper – ‘Spooky Action’ reviewed
❉ The music world is a better place for the return of former Mansun frontman Paul Draper.
ALBUM REVIEW
Richard Thompson – ‘Acoustic Classics Vol. II’ reviewed
❉ Richard Thompson blazes with passion as he revisits 14 classics from his catalogue.
The Fall – ‘New Facts Emerge’ reviewed
❉ Strange, surprising, thrilling, funny, impenetrable and accessible, this is a practically perfect Fall album.
Keith Seatman – ‘all hold hands and off we go’ reviewed
❉ The fifth album of Electronica, Psych, Radiophonics, Drone and wyrd folk by Keith Seatman.
David Palfreyman & Nicholas Pegg – ‘Decades’ reviewed
❉ Decades is a shameless embrace of the full glory of what the concept album can do.
The Beach Boys – ‘1967: Sunshine Tomorrow’
❉ A bruised Brian Wilson may have stood down from the helm after Smile but he was still hugely gifted and capable.
‘Milk Of The Tree: An Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk & Singer-Songwriters 1966-1973’ reviewed
❉ A female folk Nuggets, from one of music’s most fertile periods.
A Year In The Country – ‘From The Furthest Signals’ reviewed
❉ Distant echoes of lost transmissions, wreathed in the music of the spheres.
Jessica Lee Morgan – ‘Around The Block’ reviewed
❉ A remainder that sometimes the bad times can be endured for the sake of some joy.
‘Spaced Out: The Story Of Mushroom Records’ reviewed
❉ A fascinating document of an independent label from the hippy era.