The Dam at Otter Creek, by Live. It’s both a glorious racket, and a load of nonsense.

There are plenty of “calm down, love!” moments in the category of complaint rock. This one is hilariously cross: Apparently the singer is exhibit B in the turd museum.

Phil Collins might qualify here. He almost explodes at the end of Mama, whichever version of it you choose. He’s a fricking amazing singer and Mama is one of the weirdest songs ever. This is a good version:

They were good. Absolutely square, probably state approved by the same department that looked after Raye (and has now switched to Lola Young). Sky 2 is the one that I remember fondly, my dad had it on cassette and […]

I was a remote worker, so I had to send them one in the post.

Here is some Sky-adjacent gentle grooving.

I’m sometimes a bit sniffy about Queen, but there’s a reason that they have been carried over into the list of bands that cross generations. That is an awesome display of firepower, melody and confidence. The […]

Same experience with me re. WhatsApp->Signal. People are stuck on that horrible green app with a stupid name. Having worked in that industry for most of my career, I can tell you that you absolutely cannot trust […]

At least the bloody bastards didn’t steal his synthesiser.

…and mine!

Yep, and also the reliably weird Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange, formerly Lightspeed Champion) cites Vini as an influence and uses a sample of his guitar on the recent Essex Honey album, which I heartily recommend to […]

Here’s a song written by Vini Reilly, and performed by his next door neighbour. It’s on the Durutti Column’s new album. I swear it’s the most perfect song I’ve ever heard, and this is a film of the actual ta […]

Bloody Nora. Welcome back to life!

I’ve just listened to this, and it’s excellent. Beautifully produced and recorded, who knew that old school engineering could make such a luminous sound? The songs are reliably excellent and a bit more edgy in places.

I didn’t know about this! Thanks for your review and recommendation. I love Son Volt but it’s easy to get out of touch, they are so low key.

Have seen the same. Essentially the scale is derived from the tone of the news (or overall weather conditions on the second one) and this resets every time a new set of data is fetched. The bug is that I didn’t r […]

I have another one. This is a weather app with a difference, in that it is heavily influenced by the album ‘First Narrows’ by Loscil. I guess each of these sites is effectively a composition. I am creating the […]

…thanks! But watch out! The music becomes less pleasant as the pleasantness of headlines declines. It has been teetering on the edge acceptable listening while I tested it.

thanks! Great fun to do.

—> me, me, me.