2015 END OF YEAR – MAX PILLEY

ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly The album that the modern world has been waiting for. The major records to have captured the public consciousness in recent years have been either self-important ego riots (hello Kanye) or tepid retro-pop (Adele, Taylor Swift). Kendrick is interested in being heard by as many as possible, […]

ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly These Walls Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross Beach house – Depression Cherry Space Song Bjork – Vulnicura Lionsong Grimes – Art Angels Realiti Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys Evil Eyes Hot Chip – Why Make Sense Huarache Lights Courtney Barnett […]

2015 END OF YEAR – PADDY KINSELLA

VIDEO: BJORK – ‘DECLARE INDEPENDENCE’ DEDICATED TO PUSSY RIOT

Bjork statement: ‘dear folks here comes a statement in defense of pussy riot : as a musician and a mother i would like to express i fiercely dont agree with them being put to jail because of their peaceful protest performance . they are currently standing trial and facing seven years in prison for this […]

I’m watching Jools Holland, and goodness me, it really will be a blast from the past, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Noel Gallagher and Bjork all appearing. So what’s in store? Perhaps an lot of pallid playing from past-it performers – or perhaps some real quality from the old pros. So how does it […]

REVIEW OF LATER WITH JOOLS HOLLAND (22/11/2011)

NEWS: BJORK ‘CRYSTALINE’ VIDEO

The video for the lead single from her forthcoming album ‘Biophilia’ has been directed by movie maker Michel Gondry (External Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep). This is their eighth collaboration, firstly in 1993 with ‘Human Behaviour’ and most recently ‘Declare Independence’ in 2007. Gondry provides another trademark inventive storyboard, blending various […]

Eccentric Icelandic songstress Björk has recorded a song for the upcoming Moomins film. Though The Moomins is a distinctly Scandinavian film, with the scattered percussion and flickering panpipes, ‘Comet Song’ sounds like it would go better with a Studio Ghibli animated, native South American scene set in dense rainforest as opposed to the barren wastelands […]