What he should do next is challenge the election result. Close the loop. When they go low, we go aye.

The Sabrina part is often left off the Soundcloud versions, which is a shame. I should have added that he manages to mix the three disparate parts and make them fit together as if they were always meant to be. […]

He’s raised it again today off the back of this. Not that what he says is much of a reliable guide to what he’ll actually do. Ugh.

Trump will almost certainly pardon the 6 January rioters. There is nothing to stop anyone abusing the pardon right. All you can do it protect your own integrity in complaining about the abuse and avoid helping to […]

He hasn’t just pardoned him for the trivial crimes either. He’s pardoned him for “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, […]

Trump’s legacy has been to drag so much of US politics down, if not to his level, then at least towards it. Ten years ago this would have been recognised as a completely glaring abuse of power. This morning, […]

Desolate is the word. I’ve forced myself to come round to the idea that it works better as a punctuation mark than a conjunction, but man what a shame he couldn’t follow through on some of those ideas.

9. Chanel/A New Order/Sabrina – Fred Again/Frank Ocean/Moderat “Music is the shorthand of emotion” – Leo Tolstoy. It was early January 2020 when my best friend and I decided to go to a festival togethe […]

10. Nikes – Frank Ocean “We’ll let you guys prophesy/we gon’ see the future first”. What will music sound like a century from now? Will it be as strange to the ear as, say, Dubstep might have sounded to the av […]

It’s literally what I’m doing right now.

New album is wonderful. I would never have expected them to have the staying power they’ve had, particularly in the last decade or so. I guess the world is giving them plenty of material to work with.

Outstanding choice! The glory of GY!BE is that they don’t often take their foot off the listener’s throat, which makes it all the more delightful when they finally do.

I’m conscious that I’m not doing the usual thing of ending these posts with a conversational prompt, hence the difficulty in responding. They’re statements, rather than question marks. In this case I’ll make an […]

I went to the premier of this a couple of months ago. Some truly beautiful scenes and memorable imagery, but ultimately hard to escape that feeling that it’s essentially a very glossy episode of Call The Midwife, […]

11. Bring It On Home To Me (Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963) – Sam Cooke Sam Cooke. The greatest voice there has ever been, the catalyst for so much of the music I have loved. Bring It On Home To Me, p […]

12. Run Away With Me – Carly Rae Jepsen Joan Didion once wrote of self-respect: “without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home”. There […]

Love Cueva de las Manos. So many interesting details: a number of the hand prints are missing fingers – no one is sure whether this is due to deformity/amputation, or a deliberate form of sign language used to […]

No worries, I didn’t take it as snarky at all! I’ve found that genpop come around pretty quickly after about the third go around. It is a power ballad after all….

That is absolutely brilliant – I love the backing singers crowded round one mic. God, what a tune. Thank you!