Best Albums of 2020 – longlist
Who’ll make the final cut? My best albums of 2020 list is growing. Beats, jazz, indie, rap, afrobeat, drone…
The Art Of Loving
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one “falls into” if one is lucky? This little book is based on the former premise, while undoubtedly the majority...
By Night In Chile
Every now and then, Farewell burst into excessively sonorous laughter. At each of these guffaws, I looked at him out of the corner of my eye. He looked like the god Pan, or Bacchus in his den, or some demented Spanish conquistador ensconced in a southern fort. The...
Best Albums List of 2019
So long 2019, howdo 2020. Another big year for music, with plenty of great albums and quite a few ‘orphaned’ tracks coming out too (suspect the album’s importance has taken a big hit with the onset of Spotify as the primary listening platform for...
Snorecore
Snorecore is actually a slightly different style of music, heroes of which include Low, Spaceman 3, Red House Painters, etc. That’s all well and good, but they won’t lull your eyelids as seductively as this playlist that sits more in the warm drone,...