ORGAN THING OF THE DAY: A rather exciting thing today, a fresh slice of Chicago’s Cheer Accident, a first slice of their forthcoming new album Fades. Surely one of the finest bands on the planet, one of the few really truly progressive bands, progressive in all senses, a band who challenge themselves as much as…
Cardiacs, for those of you who like to be downloading rather than to be holding these things in our hands, have finally got around to opening a Bandcamp page and making a whole load of their beautifully heaven born and ever bright back catalogue of albums officially available… Meanwhile, in a very (very) slightly related…
It feels kind of strange walking down Vyner Street these days, feels so so empty even though the buildings are still kind of occupied (and even though that beautiful oil slick of a taxi garage is still there). These days there’s not often a reason to walk down the once beautiful street, Limewharf is a…
DANNY POCKETS – “Houses of The Holy”, Royal Albert Hall, London, March 2018 – Of course it was emotional, of course it was, Danny Pockets, a much respected contemporary painter, a much appreciated person who was always a pleasure to work with and share space with, a well known and extremely respected character and significant…
Animation has a terrible burden to bear. What other art form is expected by so many to be juvenile, to be cheery, to be so damn normal and much of the time so damn American? Imagine if the same was expected of a painter, a writer, anyone who gathers images with a camera to tell…
Organ Thing of The Day? That’s Aaron Roche up there, and here’s his latest rather impressive album….. . Rather beautifully different Brooklyn-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Roche offers us, according to the press release we’re going to blatantly quote here, “contrasting narratives: a singer-songwriter with an ear for the avant-garde; a contemporary composer who sings American folk music;…
Don’t let it pass you by, so easy to let something pass you by…. ALBUM REVIEW: THE LAST DINOSAUR – The Nothing (Naim Records) – it really is a bit of a slow burner and those in need of that instant energy rush with the first half a minute or so might be tempted…
