and Volume 3 was no different. It lost some of the grit – anything Dilated in the mid-2000s was always expertly engineered and sounded CRISP – but the only reason this sits at 199 is “Dearly Departed” felt like jabs rather than a knockout blow, given the song title....
“Artemisia,” she supplied, her arms starting to burn from holding the basket high enough to cover her face but still see. “And, yes, youarein the wrong villa, because we have guests booked to arrive soon, and you’re not one of them.” He turned his hands skyward in a less thr...
“I’ll tell you later. Too many ears here.” He surveyed the guests nearby. “Let’s see…there’s Warren Pontell and his lovely wife Sarah. He’s talked about making a major contribution. His wife was a theatre actress in her younger days. And they have money to burn.” He turne...
and it’s clear this single would have done well in the charts a few years earlier. Unfortunately, if a M.O.P. track was to chart in 2009 then it would have needed to be an R&B hook or a Lil Wayne feature. Neither of those are genuine options, thankfully, but “Blow the Horns...
she knew he was dead. She had known the imminence of his death from the moment he came in, gave her the flowers and then sat in the chair and closed his bright blue eyes: she had known it for months of illness, and all the same, when it happened, it was incomprehensible. Because ...