SOUND AND COLOUR... Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color | Released: 2015 Rough Trade | Produced: Blake Mills | Genre: Kaleidoscopic future-blues pop | WITH ME IN MY MIND... What's blue about the blues? As humans, we have an instinctive understanding of how colours map to emotions. Don't we? Anyone who has ever chosen a … Continue reading 37. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
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WHERE ALL ROADS MEET... Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures | Released: 1979 Factory | Produced: Martin Hannett | Genre: The post-punk sound that launched a thousand t-shirts | WORDS ARE BRILLIANT... Joy Division. You know Joy Division. You already know the story. You know the dark, pulsating music. The mega-hit, Love Will Tear Us Apart with … Continue reading 36. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
YOU CAN'T HURRY FORWARD, IT'S HOLDING YOU BACK... The La's - The La's | Released: 1990 Go! Disks | Produced: Steve Lillywhite | Genre: Ethereal freshman jangle-pop | IF YOU WANT I'LL SELL YOU A LIFE STORY / ABOUT A MAN WHO'S AT LOGGERHEADS WITH HIS PAST... Considering the sheer scale of its influence, it's … Continue reading 19. The La's – The La's
GLEAMING DETAILS... Silver Jews - American Water | Released: 1998 Drag City | Produced: Nicolas Vernhes | Genre: The drunk being thrown out of the comedy club who is still funnier than the comedian on stage. THAT TANLINE ON YOUR RING FINGER... In Franz Kafka's modernist classic The Trial (Original German: Der Prozeß, all quotations … Continue reading 13. American Water – Silver Jews
WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS... Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle - Bill Callahan | Released: 2009 Drag City | Produced: "Raven" | Genre: Baritone, dreamy folk americana to mask the vortex lurking below the surface | I looked all around, / It was not written down, / And so I tell you now... In … Continue reading 7. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
A Heart Like a James Joyce Novel... Dogrel - Fontaines D.C. Released: 2019 Partisan Records Produced: Dan Carey Genre: Exuberant, unmistakeably Irish post-punk... Dogrel (noun): poetry of little to no literary merit. “Dublin in the rain is mine A pregnant city with a catholic mind” Grian Chatten barks these lines – the first of album … Continue reading 1. Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel