2024 Year in Music

2023 sounded like this…

Volta, Loula Yorke

Volta, Loula Yorke

Quietus review says that “Yorke’s new release Volta is deeply cyclical” and reflect a period of focused composition rather...

Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above, Burial

Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above, Burial

“caustic rave maximalism… comes across like a forlorn mini cassette mix from the 90s vaults” according to The...

Future Days, Can

Future Days, Can

The latest episode of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking arts programme features a showcase of Can’s third album, Future...

Philip Glass Solo

Philip Glass Solo

There’s already a great deal of Philip Glass in my music collection but I couldn’t resist listening to this...

Gallagher & Squire

Gallagher & Squire

Eventually listened through Liam Gallager John Squire, the new album by.. er… Liam Gallagher and John Squire. Alexis Petridis...

Three, Four Tet

Three, Four Tet

“It’s got enough heart that we won’t accuse it of going through the motions, yet if that was all...

Tom Tom Club, 1981

Tom Tom Club, 1981

I’ve been listening to a LOT of Talking Heads lately and – while I was listening to Genius of...

Rock Bottom, Robert Wyatt

Rock Bottom, Robert Wyatt

My attention in music recently has shifted again towards the early 1970s to the post-psychedelic stuff produced by musicians...

Bob Mould, Hüsker Dü, Sugar

Bob Mould, Hüsker Dü, Sugar

It must be the general mood I’m in at the moment but among the albums I’ve been sorting through...

Love in Constant Spectacle, Jane Weaver

Love in Constant Spectacle, Jane Weaver

Have been listening to Jane Weaver’s Love in Constant Spectacle for a couple of weeks now. Such a carefully...

Hüsker Dü Live

Hüsker Dü Live

Spent a couple of hours today listening to some of the live recordings of Hüsker Dü that can be...