Tracks - page 40

Compare the indecent haste with which Morrissey put himself back together again and released his solo debut Viva Hate (about 6 months) with the leisurely careering (or otherwise) of Johnny Marr. Via stints and albums...

Rachel Goswell was a bandmate of Neil Halstead’s in Slowdive and Mojave 3 before embarking on her own solo career with 2004’s Waves are Universal. Like Halstead,...

In which the former Slowdive and Mojave 3 man completes his mutation from shoegaze drone through country/folk, to full on Nick Drake acoustist. Blues they may run the game he sings, referencing a Jackson C....

No musical differences, no studio tantrums, no Yokos. Just a band that came to a natural end. Once were Gene, then were Gone.

You could easily mistake some New Pornographers material for Neko Case solo work, such is the central command of her vocals, not to mention the cross-over between the two of other performers. As a general...

Chills. It’s the voice that does it, and the “Stop it / stop it / stop it” call and response. It’s magical, and beautiful, and all vocal warblers and trillers should pay close attention: this...

Confession: I was going to finish this playlist with another Pulp song, Bar Italia, but as evocative as that song is, it’s messy and in the gutter. And if not in the gutter, then a...

Aztec Camera plus Mick Jones, formerly of The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite: an above average combination.

Take me back to dear old blighty...

Since her 1992 debut, Dry, PJ Harvey has variously been raw and angry, scratchy and angry, a lover scorned by Nick Cave on their duet Henry Lee (they also fell in love while recording the...

Like The Eton Rifles, Sleep Well Tonight is a tale of dust-ups and differences; this time it's not class warfare as such, more the small-town mindset versus anything that dares to act different, think different,...

Hello, hooray, what a nice day!

Hello Basingstoke, hello HMV, hello listening post.

Some stirring Sunday nostalgia to savour courtesy of Public Service Broadcasting. Raiding the national archive for their War Room EP, here they rework a Ministry of Information and Ministry of Agriculture film encouraging the nation...

A beautiful live version of one of I Am Kloot’s many finely crafted vignettes.

2 for one Tuesday: today’s deal is on sumptuous Scottish indiepop 🙂

Something a little bit wonderful: the secret life of the shopping trolley, as brought to you by the video for Camera Obscura’s new single, “Break It To You Gently”.

Southampton’s finest?

The Buttercross, The Railway, Jewry Street... who'd have thought such locations as these would be immortalised in song? I mean, really. This is Winchester. Nothing much happens here apart from the Hat Fair and a...

And as a Friday Doves bonus, here they are at the electric proms performing Snowden and Winter Hill. I used to live near Winter Hill; it was a lovely place for a walk (not that...