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It’s been a while since I posted anything (don’t worry, there’s a flood of Lost Gloves on the way), so here’s a quickie just to get back into the swing of things.
Courtesy of UK European champion chair dancer Jo Wiggins comes Compass, the new track from Jamie Lidell. As with all of his best work [...]

On Friday Absolute Radio announced the result of its song of the decade vote: shockingly the top 10 doesn’t include the Arctic Monkeys, Strokes or White Stripes but does include two songs each by The Killers & Snow Patrol, a sign that whilst the station may be excellent, the average Absolute Radio listener gets most [...]

Though I said in my post on the best songs of the Noughties that I was not going to try to include all of them, since I wrote I keep thinking of songs that really are too good to miss out. So, for what it’s worth, here’s Now, That’s What Ciarán Calls The Noughties, Vol. [...]

I was going to call this post the best singles of 2008 but living as we do in the age of iTunes, I’m just not sure how relevant singles are these days. That said, I’ve tried to restrict my choices for the Best Songs of 2008 to tracks that weren’t only released on albums. However, [...]

Not that long ago I put out a call for help to find more new music so that I could write a Best Of post for 2008.
I felt like I hadn’t really listened to, or bought, that much new stuff. Quite a few people came up with suggestions and after downloading and listening to quite [...]

I’ve been playing around online tonight whilst half-watching crime documentary Mr Untouchable (a pile of shite that glamourises murderers if you want my considered opinion) and decided to check out my last.fm profile.
Whilst on their I noticed a new widget (which I’ve now added to the right-hand column) which lists the songs I’ve listened to [...]

Well, where the hell did that go? Yep, somehow it’s the middle of November and 2008 only has about 6 weeks left to go. With that in mind I’ve been thinking about putting together a Best of 2008 list but because I’ve spent so much of this year buying & listening to records that came [...]

I know that I said that I should be outside rather than blogging, so I am - outside, blogging (ahh, the joys of wifi). Anyway, whilst I was preparing my lunch I was listening to Liz Kershaw on 6Music and she paid this rather wonderful slice of post-punk style indie pop. It’s called Hummingbird, is [...]

Jamie Lidell is the sort of artist who could confuse you. He’s white, British, painfully trendy, and signed to Warp so one’s immediate assumption would probably be that he makes achingly cool electro, or ragged Hoxton rock. In fact he creates 21st Century (blue-eyed) soul of the finest variety.
His new album, which is called, in [...]

I’ve been reading quite a lot about Sam Sparro recently but couldn’t decide whether to invest in any of his stuff. But having been pointed in the direction of this cover version of Estelle’s American Boy that  he recorded for Radio 1’s Live Lounge, I may have to do just that.
It doesn’t differ hugely [...]