although everything surrounding that particular release is out of this world. Nor the airbrushed and spacious ambience that wraps itself tightly around that record’s follow-up,Second Toughest In The Infants, even if such a record would see you alright for a ...
Released in 1977 at the height of Year Zero (or would this be Year1?),Ian Dury‘sSex & Drugs & Rock & Rollwas, suprisingly, not a hit. Given its familiarity, I’d always thought of it as something of a late 70s monster smash, but apparently not. Neither was it anIan Dury & The...
It’s not the first timeChris Bell‘sI Am The Cosmoshas been mentioned round here, but it’s the first time (surely not!) that I’ve shone the spotlight on the single’s flip side,You And Your Sister. The only solo material released in his lifetime, the 7″ is the perfect distilla...
Take the escalator to the second floor (the tension builds), enter Viewing Room 1 (anticipation strains on the invisible leash connected to your brain), browse the rows and rows of exquisite art (the synapses start to jangle) and then…Baaam! There’s the drop. First, it’sGeorges Braque...