The National, deep dive (part II)
Continued from part I. Sleep Well Beast (2017)Boxer, High Violet and Trouble Will Find Me appeared within a six-year period […]
Continued from part I. Sleep Well Beast (2017)Boxer, High Violet and Trouble Will Find Me appeared within a six-year period […]
Understated ‘sad dad rock’ for depressed, middle-aged, middle-class, unhappily married men, is how a cynic might characterise the National’s music.
Alice in Chains made no impression on me as a teenager. I grew up in the UK, where grunge in
As already elaborated in other reviews on this blog, I don’t care much for the 1960s, I have no special
“That’s a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It’s apocalypse; the whole record’s like that. It’s a very rough, very violent
I came of age in the Northwest of England during the era of Britpop, so it is sobering indeed to
Why is there a big banana on the cover of this album? Would a psychoanalytic interpretation be too obvious? If
I come from a small town in the north-west of England where people are more spectacularly and disturbingly saturnalian than
Apparently, the emergence of punk during the 1970s represented a caesura in the history of modern popular music because it
When I were a lad, growing up in the 90s, Revolver was routinely picked by music critics as “the greatest