“Life is unfair,” sings Sarah Nixey. “Kill yourself or get over it.” As pop choruses go, it’s a dark one; as dark songs go, Child Psychology is even darker.
There was a time in the mid-Nineties when The Auteurs and their main man Luke Haines seemed like becoming the next big thing.
Beth Orton teams up with Terry Callier to perform a duet of the classic song Dolphins, written by Fred Neil and popularised by Tim Buckley.
R.E.M. broke through to the big time in 1991 after a decade as indie darlings, with what would soon become their signature song.
I have to confess I never really paid much attention to the rise of D’Angelo, wrongly filing him away as a smooth R&B crooner of bedroom ballads.
Dublin trio JJ72 were going to be the Next Big Thing after two successful singles and a lot of hype around the turn of the millennium.
The Geraldine Fibbers blended experimental noise and rock guitars with gentle country-tinged melodies on their 1995 debut.
Andrew Weatherall reimagines Saint Etienne’s cover of Neil Young’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart with his dubwise Mix Of Two Halves.
The first time I heard (of) Water From Your Eyes was in 2024 when they recorded this cover of Warm Storm, a song by Howe Gelb of the band Giant Sand.
I was in Marseille over the weekend and that’s where I first heard La Fonky Family for the first time late one evening in a bar du vin.
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