WATCH THE KERB SOAK UP THIS MADNESS... Sleaford Mods - Eton Alive | Released: 2019 Extreme Eating | Produced: Matt Colton | Genre: Surly brexit-Britain post-punk pub-rap electronica | IT'S HARD WORK BEING KIND... This is (I think) the only signed record in my collection. As a rule, record signings or fan meets aren't really … Continue reading 27. Sleaford Mods – Eton Alive
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AND YOU SAID IT WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS... Low - Christmas | Released: 1999 Kranky | Produced: Low & Tom Herbers | Genre: A festive alternative for the season | BUT YOU WERE WRONG. / IT WASN'T LIKE CHRISTMAS AT ALL... Brace yourselves: what I'm about to say will be unpopular with some of you out … Continue reading 25. Low – Christmas
MAN UP, PIPE DOWN... IDLES - Joy As An Act Of Resistance | Released: 2018 Partisan Records | Produced: Space | Genre: Hardcore vulnerability | THE MASK OF MASCULINITY / IS A MASK THAT'S WEARING ME... At time of writing, it's World Mental Health Day - an event designed to increase awareness of mental health … Continue reading 17. IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
BEFORE THE WATER GETS TOO HIGH... Parquet Courts - Wide Awake | Released: 2018 Rough Trade | Produced: Dangermouse | Genre: Anxiety punk | NOTHING REMINDS THE MIND OF POWER LIKE THE CHEAP ODOUR OF PLASTIC / LEAKING FUMES, WE CRAVE, CONSUME: THE RUSH, IT FEELS FANTASTIC... How do you write about the end of the … Continue reading 15. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
NO GIRLS ALOUD... Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls | Released: 2007 Too Pure Records | Produced: Jessica Ruffins & Bill Skibbe | Genre: Psychedelic post-krautrock reveries sung on an East Berlin football stand | TEARING DOWN THE WALLS, THE WALLS, THE WALLS, THE WALLS... There's a school of thought that says you're supposed to … Continue reading 11. No Shouts, No Calls – Electrelane
THE BEAUTY IN OUR DIFFERENCES... Kamasi Washington - Harmony Of Difference | Released: 2017 Young Turks | Produced: Kamasi Washington | Genre: Sweeping harmonic jazz for the soul | It's all a matter of perspective... A Thundercat thumb resonating against fretboard. Gently cast adrift, lured by a woozy siren's call, fluttering upward like a leaf … Continue reading 9. Kamasi Washington – Harmony Of Difference
MY QUEEN IS ZORA NEALE HURSTON... Your Queen is a Reptile - Sons of Kemet | Released: 2018 Impulse records | Produced: Shabaka Hutchings, Dilip Harris | Genre: Frenetic, feminist, post colonial jazz rap | Don't want to take my country back mate. / I want to take my country forwards. At time of writing, … Continue reading 3. Sons of Kemet – Your Queen Is a Reptile