I’ve always been a bit of a trainspotter when it comes to Neue Deutsche Welle (German new wave). Lack of cynicism, new-romantic pretence and self-consciousness so rampant in English music …
SOFIA PORTANET – Freier Geist (2020 Duchess Box Records) Read More
Albums embodying, expressing or otherwise loosely interpreting fluctuations in mental health are certainly not unusual – Channeling brain turbulence through any form of art is a timeworn tradition, no doubt …
PETE JOHNSON – Screwball – CD (self released/not on label 2019) Read More
ABBA were somewhat of a super-group from inception – spawned from the Swedish folkpark circuit and consisting of names familiar in domestic music circles. They survived a short changing in …
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO POP, WE SALUTE YOU!!! – A subjective overview of the ABBA catalogue!! (originally published in THE DEVIL ON 45 issue 3 ) Read More