Pearl’s Cab Ride – Beat Routes While the title of Beat Routes is enough to raise a wry smile, I have to confess to being mostly underwhelmed by everything else about this album. It opens with The Only One, which … Continue reading
This project has gradually tumbled out of its structure like a thin paper bag full of vomit. The rules have been flexed and then broken, a once-beautiful thing crazed and weatherbeaten into something that we barely recognise any more, something … Continue reading
The cat balances on a box A slightly too-small box On top of another box. The cat shifts a hip To the other corner of the box, Twists into an @ Extends a paw Points her whiskers the other way … Continue reading
If you like, you can consider this as a sort of bonus episode of the birthday albums project. Or, if you’d rather not, then don’t. Last week I was listening mostly to the new Shed Seven album, Instant Pleasures. Now … Continue reading
Inspired by a talk given by Rebecca Earl, on history and cookbooks, at the Also Festival 2017 In a time when self-expression Was restricted to the kitchen Emily was known for her coconut pie. Hard-won daughterly love Dutifully mixed into … Continue reading
Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi Of my birthday albums, I’ve saved this one for last, because honestly I don’t think that Death Cab For Cutie can possibly disappoint. While the breadth of my Death Cab For Cutie listening experience … Continue reading
Written on the summer solstice, and saved for a gloomy day in autumn. It is the hottest June day since 1976. I am staying very still, indoors, So that the neat does not notice me. The heat creeps around the … Continue reading
Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins Hang on, didn’t you say last week that it would be “Shields”? Yeah, funny story… Oh there’s always a funny story with you, you imbecile. Now now, just because you have no real identity and … Continue reading