2024: A Year in Music
26 Thursday Dec 2024
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2023: A Year in Music
28 Thursday Dec 2023
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A Certain Ratio, A Year in Music, A&W, Alma Mater, Avalanche of Love, Bleachers, Burt Bacharach, Candy Necklace, Celebration Tour, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Elvis Presley, God Games, Holly MacVe, Hollywood Bowl, Ireland, John Denver, Jon Batiste, LA Hex, Lana Del Rey, Life Lesson, Lost at Sea, Madonna, Mitski, My Love Mine All Mine, Nothing Really Matters, People Say, Rob Grant, Samo, Say Yes to Heaven, Shane McGowan, Sinead O’Connor, Steve Mason, Suburban House, The Kills, The Pogues, Tina Turner, W.I.T.C.H.
Lana Del Rey’s ‘diarist era’ has surely reached its apogee with Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard. Sprawling, eccentric, and soul-baring, it has more in common with her poetry than previous albums. In a female-dominated race, her five Grammy nominations include the supremely dark A&W, hailed by many as song of the year; while the jazz-inflected Candy Necklace has already nabbed two MTV awards. Continue reading
2022: A Year in Music
29 Thursday Dec 2022
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A Year in Music, All the Good Times, And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow, Angel Olsen, Angelo Badalamenti, Big Time, Black Obsidian, Bobbie Gentry, Buddy's Rendezvous, Caitlin Rose, CAZEMI, Compilations, Country Music, David Lynch, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Dream-Pop, Euphoria, Father John Misty, Finally Enough Love, Fun Boy Three, Ghost Town, Grapevine, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Irene Cara, Julee Cruise, Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Remixes, Ronnie Spector, Ska, Soundtracks, Terry Hall, The Colourfield, The Girl From Chickasaw County, The Ronettes, The Specials, Watercolour Eyes, Weyes Blood
My favourite album of 2022 – Weyes Blood’s And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow – arrived quite recently. It’s dream-pop with passion, as Natalie Mering’s cut-glass vocal mines for hope amid post-pandemic isolation. Continue reading
2021: A Year in Music
23 Thursday Dec 2021
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A Year in Music, Ace Records, Alabama 3, Amy Winehouse, Barrie-James, Beyond Black, Blue Banisters, Charlie Watts, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Choctaw Ridge, Documentaries, Instead of Dreaming, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, Kate Solomon, Lana Del Rey, Lives of the Musicians, Lyndsy Spence, Madame X, Madonna, Maria Callas, Marissa Nadler, Naomi Parry, Nico, Rickie Lee Jones, Riverside, Rolling Stones, Sleep Walk, Tyler James, Yolanda
As the world’s big sleep entered its second year, Lana Del Rey turned away from social media and gave us not just one, but two albums: Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters. Continue reading
2020: A Year in Music
21 Monday Dec 2020
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A Year in Music, Absolute Beginners, Angel Olsen, Blonde On the Tracks, Bob Dylan, Bobbie Gentry, Brighton, Change, Charley Pride, David Bowie, David Roback, Delta Sweete, Dirk Timmerman, Emma Swift, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple, Ghost Highway, Hallucinogenics, L.A. Witch, Lana Del Rey, Lissie, Little Bastards, Madonna, Madonna: The Day I Was There, Matt Maeson, Mazzy Star, Play With Fire, Stargazing, The Kills, The Neighbourhood, Whole New Mess
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. For music lovers, this was the year the stage went dark, and we sought comfort in our record collections. Then in April 2020, with the world in lockdown, Fiona Apple surprised us with Fetch the Bolt Cutters, her first album in eight years and perhaps, the wake-up call we all needed. Continue reading
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