See, I do listen to new music I’m not just an old dinosaur! Love this track, especially Florence Shaw’s laconic spoken vocal delivery and the wonderfully inventive guitar lines. For some reason the ...

Never thought I’d actually get to see The Magnetic Fields but they turned up at the End of the Road festival this week. Their 1999 masterpiece 69 Love Songs is full of short, ...

A beautifully crafted song this (basically wish I’d written it). It seems to be about some dissociative personality disorder, wondering who the man is in the mirror blocking the bathroom sink. It’s a ...

My musical tastes have developed away from huge commercial hit albums these days, but back in the day I was enjoying ‘So’ along with most other people. Sledgehammer, Don’t Give Up (with Kate ...

This was permanently on the cd player in my Seat Ibiza, windows down, as I drove to work at Carpetright in the year 2000 – it felt like the start of a glorious ...