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"These are deep, emotional, sometimes bruising songs, though the insinuation of total darkness belies the exquisiteness of its spiritually rigorous forty-eight minutes." —The Quietus Buy it at Amazon or stream it at Apple Music Anti- #9: 89 Tigers Blood (Anti-) by Waxahatchee After esta...
and it just arrived so I feel like it’s been released all over again. A collection of 15 feral half-songs recorded in 1993-ish, all spikes and squalls and twangs and the agitation and energy
"Songs Of A Lost World is a straight-up, bona fide masterpiece." —Record Collector Atlantic #1: 95 Brat (Atlantic) by Charli XCX Metacritic's Official #1 Album of 2024. Easily the best-reviewed album by Charli XCX to date, Brat is the sixth LP overall from the 31-year-old English...
2022’s Best Songs of the Year “About Hunger, About Love”by Pearla Pearla has always been capable of summing up emotions of anxiety and loneliness in a dreamily poetic way and it’s always around autumn when her music feels the most fitting. It was the case with “Pumpkin” released in...
Nov 26, 2024 PubicEnema 2,950 57 The Smiths Continue… The Quietus: "Something They’ll Never Have: Why Hatful of Hollow is The Smiths’ Best Album" (November 12, 2024) Nov 12, 2024 Bluebirds 2,687 65 Despite not being a proper album, Hatful Of Hollow possesses a freshness and...
London venue The Pheasantry on March 9th, 2024, and Pete Atkin kicked off the evening with this pair of Atkin/James songs. Here Simon Wallace accompanies Pete on piano. The Flowers And The Wine "The hardest songs to write are small, neat ones – maybe because every single word counts ev...
‘field’, as they were employed to document the songs of rural America. Later, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger developed the radio ballad format with Charles Parker, which mixed field recording, music and the human voice for radio documentary, with field recordings on tape played live in the ...
As manager Keith Aspden toldThe Quietusin 2013, Verve offered Hollis and co the opportunity to further embrace the experimental approach they’d adopted while piecingSpirit Of Edentogether. “Verve guaranteed full funding forLaughing Stock, without interference,” he said. “[The band] took full ...
popularity in the late '70s. They added horror themes to their music and image — ultimately leading to the birth of the horror punk genre. The element of shock they brought to the scene caught the attention of musicians of every style, leading Metallica to cover several of their songs ...