Aimee Mann — Bachelor №. 2One rainy day at university we sat down to watch Magnolia, a film I’d recently bought on video. I thought it was great. Dave pronounced it…Feb 14, 2022Feb 14, 2022
Idlewild — Hope Is ImportantIdlewild were huge for me in the early noughties. The first thing I heard by them that I really liked was Little Discourage, the first…Feb 10, 2022Feb 10, 2022
Throwing Muses — The Real RamonaThis is a classic example of a CD bought alongside several others and then forgotten about, only to be rediscovered a decade later with…Jan 11, 2022Jan 11, 2022
Sonic Youth — Daydream NationThis one dates from some point in the spring or early summer of 2001. I know this because I associate it with a beer festival I went to at…Jan 5, 2022Jan 5, 2022
Belle & Sebastian — Dog On WheelsBelle and Sebastian were something new to my sixteen-year old ears, which up to that point had been saturated by the world-weary heaviness…Feb 10, 2018Feb 10, 2018
Pink Floyd — The Dark Side of the MoonMy dad was born in 1956, making him seventeen when this album came out. He and his friends used to put the track ‘Time’ on at parties after…Jun 11, 2017Jun 11, 2017
Pixies — Surfer RosaGiven the lack of internet in the mid-90s, it was only really through the radio, the NME or Q/Select magazines that I found out about other…May 29, 2017May 29, 2017
Kings of Convenience — VersusI’ve tried a few times over the years to get to know this album, but it keeps sitting there being aloof and uncommunicative until I…Oct 23, 2016Oct 23, 2016
Sparklehorse — VivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplotI love this album so much I didn’t even need to look up how to spell the title.Oct 23, 2016Oct 23, 2016
