Shirley Lee
By Donald Bush • Aug 31st, 2011 • Category: long playersIf you’ve heard of Shirley Lee it’s most likely ‘An Old Cricketer (For John Peel)’, the single from this extensive double album and one which, in a way, characterises this release.
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The Seventeenth Century
By Donald Bush • Aug 31st, 2011 • Category: jrwee, short playersFour more tracks from the GLasgow folk troubadours, which see them employ sweeping strings and soaring brass to out-Mumford the Mumfords.
She’s Hit
By Donald Bush • Jul 3rd, 2011 • Category: jrbig, long playersIt’s easy to be sneery about a band who wear their influences so readily on their sleeves, and She’s Hit – who are named after a Birthday Party song, for goodness sake – are definitely not shy at hiding these.
King Post Kitsch
By Donald Bush • Jul 3rd, 2011 • Category: jrbig, long playersBeing a bit late to the game, the fact that this debut from Charlie Ward’s album shares its title with Talk Talk’s 80s debut has been already discussed
Crayons
By Donald Bush • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: jrwee, short playersHowling At The Moon’ is the ‘A-side’ to this CD single, some Cramps-y stuff that in true form, is shaking all over. However, better still is the B (or is it a double A?) ‘The Future is Deaf’, which kind of distills all that’s good abut second division new wave through the ages – Talk [...]
