The Voice Of Unreason

There’s something for most outsiders, non-conformists and lovers of the past in The Lemon Twigs. Brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario have been weaving an increasingly retro pop spell since 2023’s Everything Harmony and continued...

There’s no such thing as an album that’s a perfect 10 – but there those that are one notch below. The 9’s is an occasional series which explores some of those records.

Released: 2001

It’s an odd paradox, but in retrospect the era before the age of internet absolutism was the last in which the human race would experience true freedom. As a case in ...

If there’s one certain thing in these uncertain times, it’s that that the grieving process is an entirely non-linear and subjective one. For Dan Auerbach news of his father’s cancer diagnosis took him away from the sometimes banality of the write-record-tour cycle that is the professional musician’s to wear; instinctively his longstanding creative partner in The Black Keys Pa...

Looking back on pieces written during the pandemic – particularly those published in the first weeks of global doubt and uncertainty – it now seems like an era which is utterly forgotten. Barely half a decade has passed since hundreds of millions of people were confined to their homes, millions more died and the bargain with modern science that it can cure anything appeared b...

May good music be with you, in this case tunes from amongst others Self Esteem,