Tag: Nostalgia
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Lou Hayter – Private Sunshine
Rather late to the party – but my what a party! Listening to Lou Hayter’s Private Sunshine, which I would say quickly has rocketed up to my favourite albums of 2021, but it was released last year. The deluxe was released this year, so sorta qualifies. To the layman they’d probably say ‘chilled 80’s’ but…
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The Secret OV Kleptones
I’ve been featuring bits off the first three Kleptones albums in this quad-trilogy on the podcast for the last few years (just realised there were four of them, I somehow missed ‘AD”!) – OV, ER, and LO. They are being released on YouTube over the next four weeks, every Wednesday at 4pm UK time. The…
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Mr B is Back With An Existential Crisis
A THOROUGHLY MODERN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer It seems the lockdown is now paying major dividends – another new(ish) release is this album from Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer ‘A Thoroughly Modern Existential Crisis’ about COVID-19 and the state of the nation. Particularly like the live-streaming ode ‘Live Stream for One’ – been…
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Another Green World
Fascinating documentary on Brian Eno by BBC’s Arena (he provided the music for their famous floating bottle logo) about how he works and his life. I especially love the whole thing about coming from family of postmen ‘we’re in communications!’ and him going fossil hunting as a kid. But the thing it seems people remember…
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Low Triptych
I’ve been listening to Double Negative – in fact my mask from when they played live in August is just a few feet away – and the album is taking some time to settle with it’s ‘Beach House’ and chillwave distortion and vocal effects…Quorum was such a shock I was like – do I like…
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New Pet Shop Boys
Obviously if you’re going to cash in on the current 90’s nostalgia boom, then Pet Shop Boys are the best people to do it. I liked Inner Sanctum, from their new album Super, but Kirk directed me to this song especially towards the lyrics! Yes, a lot of feels and deja vu there, not at…