I’m talking to A about electro. I quite like A. She’s looking at me the way you indulge a child who’s learned a new word, and with a slight superiority. She’s smiling in a half grimace, head tilted slightly. She means well, though. I’m going on about Frankie Knuckles. I do not know if AContinue reading “Talking To A About Electro”
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The Last Piece I Will Write About You
The last time I saw you, you brushed past me on the subway like we were strangers. It was your eyes that struck me. It was your eyes but they weren’t your eyes anymore. They were dulled, glassy, like dirty window panes where no light gets in. I wondered where you had been, but IContinue reading “The Last Piece I Will Write About You”
Overlooked Classics: Bad Education (2004)
Pedro Almodovar’s dark drama is a brilliant character study, taking on themes of desire, abuse, blackmail, cinema, and the sins of the Catholic church. Gorgeously shot by Jose Luis Alcaine , it’s part fever dream, part Hitchcockian thriller, and the cast- from Gael Garcia Bernal as Angel, to Fele Martinez as Enrique, and Daniel GimenezContinue reading “Overlooked Classics: Bad Education (2004)”
Album Review: Geordie Greep- The New Sound
Trust Geordie Greep , former lead singer of the endlessly inventive Black Midi, to blend a huge cocktail of genres for this, his debut solo album. Much of his work is all about pulling together genres to create something unique and wilfully bonkers. Take the first single to be lifted from the album, ‘Holy Holy’.Continue reading “Album Review: Geordie Greep- The New Sound”
Album Review: Nubya Garcia – Odyssey
It’s hard to believe that this is only the second studio album from tenor saxophonist Nubya Garcia, such is her effortless sounding, voluptuous playing and compositional skill. The range of moods here, too, often takes others a lifetime to perfect. ‘Clarity’ for example, is a slow-burning dreamscape with a hypnotic melody line. The shimmering ‘Solstice’Continue reading “Album Review: Nubya Garcia – Odyssey”
Overlooked Classics: The Cure – Faith
Pornography is often referred to in The Cure’s early eighties trilogy (which also includes Seventeen Seconds) as a classic, but I think their third album, Faith, is absolutely divine, and overlooked. Far from being as miserable as painted, it’s actually pretty diverse in scope. There’s the anthemic ‘Primary ‘, shimmering majesty of ‘The Funeral Party’Continue reading “Overlooked Classics: The Cure – Faith”
Lost In Music: The Cure – Alone
There’s a sense of real finality to The Cure’s first single in sixteen years. “This is the end of every song that we sing”, sings Smith in that teary register that’s moved legions of fans for decades. The vocals don’t kick in for minutes, and we’re in the majestic, melancholy terrain of Disintegration. ” WeContinue reading “Lost In Music: The Cure – Alone”
Twitch
They imprisoned themselves with desire, settled in with trust, threw away the key with marriage. I am floating directly above them now, laughing at their laboured positions as they fumble in the bed in the corner of the room where I died. Now, they seem to think that children will paper over the cracks ofContinue reading “Twitch”
Grace at 30
I remember the first time I heard Jeff Buckley singing. I was hanging out at my then boyfriend Paul ‘s flat. He’d just bought the album. I sat frozen in my seat, jaw dropping. I perused the album cover: the impossibly beautiful man in a sequinned coat, looking soulful and untouchable, clutching an old-fashioned microphone.Continue reading “Grace at 30”
Album Review: Masayoshi Fujita- Migratory
Inspired by the endless wonders of nature, and in particular the flight paths of birds, Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita has created a beautiful, meditative album here, with enough left turns to stop it fading into the background. In that sense, it’s a post-ambient work. ‘Tower Of Cloud’ is hypnotic and dreamy, butContinue reading “Album Review: Masayoshi Fujita- Migratory”
Hit The North 