This is my favourite Tim Buckley. So good.

What an absolute banger that thread is. “Bald men have more testosterone and more free time, so if we ever meet I will take pleasure in administering a lengthy kicking, you short-arsed, hairist bastard!”

We should have deep sympathy for the citizens of Iran, Ukraine, Palestine, Russia and Israel, and reserve our contempt (where applicable) for their respective governments. We should also take care to ensure […]

Hey, I did say the first 45 seconds are really beautiful 🤷‍♂️

I have mixed feelings about God Only Knows. Obviously, it’s charming – in a mannered sort of way – but I really dislike the horse shoe clip clop that runs throughout it, and the weird, uncalled for descending b […]

Oh dear. Having made a playlist of my 100 favourite songs and spent a year thinking and writing about them I have some recent experience of this. I can’t say that the exercise diminished my love of any of the r […]

One of the reasons I’ve never much enjoyed the Beach Boys is that I read the hype before I ever heard the music.

Agree that this thing got started in Rock journalism. You’ll see the word “genius” used in other areas of the music press, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone sincerely argue that (say) Frankie Knuckles […]

People will probably always use “genius” as a throwaway synonym for “I really like this”, but I think it’s possible that the era of adults sincerely attempting to argue that their chosen pop star is objective […]

The two biggies in this category: Nothing Compares 2 U Islands In The Stream

Think it’s just younger critics coming in. Alexis Petridis is well into his 50s by now, whereas I’d imagine the other two are probably a generation younger. I don’t massively get on with the writings of […]

It’s a wonderful record. New album due in August, but in the mean time if you haven’t already heard this it’s well worth checking out.

I’ve been enjoying quite of few of those (Djrum, Horsegirl, DJ Koze, Venturing, Perfume Genius, Bad Bunny), but the one I’ve been looking for an excuse to post on here for a while is YHWH Nailgun. Absolutely […]

Spot on review. This franchise used to be 80% mind blowing action sequences, 20% people talking nonsense in conference rooms. The last couple of movies have reversed those ratios and been all the worse for it. The […]

Great review and love the outfit!

This, from Dan Harmon, remains the closest I’ve read to my own take on the matter: “The knowledge that nothing matters, while accurate, gets you nowhere. The planet is dying. The sun is exploding. The u […]

Very sorry to read this, sounds absolutely awful, and definitely worth a vent. I hope you guys have better times ahead.

“Suerte” and “guapo”.

Pretty confident it’s Northern Ireland. IIRC there were a few players who ran up cricket scores in the domestic league back in the day.