Friday, December 3 2010
Saint Etienne: Good Humor / Tales From Turnpike House
These bountiful versions of the British pop band's fourth and seventh albums find them trying to escape the world they had created, and then trying to go back home. They got there, only to find no-one was waiting at the door.
Friday, December 19 2008
Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out by Gordon Thompson
This book is one of the most thorough, as well as one of the most entertaining and engaging, treatises on the topic yet written.
Tuesday, August 7 2007
Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook learns the best part of breaking up is making up
"You hang around for years and years and years and no one seems to care. Then you break up, and everyone is interested again."
Friday, June 15 2007
The Only Ones, Special View (1979)
The Only Ones' Peter Perrett was power pop's Baudelaire, assailing city life with delirious, love-struck curses.
Wednesday, May 2 2007
Patrick Wolf: The Magic Position
A bold, romantic album touched by a rare imagination and an indefinable magic -- pop music at its most deliriously inventive and exciting.
XTC: Skylarking (Reviews) [21.Feb.03]
Andy Partridge: Fuzzy Warbles, Vol. 1 / Fuzzy Warbles, Vol. 2 (Reviews) [12.Feb.03]
XTC: A Coat of Many Cupboards (Reviews) [6.May.02]
XTC: Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (Reviews) [23.May.00]
XTC, Apple Venus Volume 1 / Transistor Blast (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
