Music today was Love and Rockets‘ fourth, self-titled, album (1989) which after Earth, Sun, Moon (1987) was rather too noisy for me, I thought that they were great when they were organic, softer more considered and only peppered with the raucous guitars here and there. It wasn’t musical enough for me, melodic enough, it wasn’t […]
Music today has been my favourite Love and Rockets album Earth, Sun, Moon (1987). I just liked the songs a lot. No New Tale To Tell was what drew me to the album and had me listening multiple times. Mirror People onwards there’s grinding guitar sounds, the feedback/EBow on The Light and as usual the […]
Music today was the second Love and Rockets album Express (1986), continuing with some kind of acoustic/fuzz blend with catchy melodies. You could almost imagine it all a creation of a more lucid Syd Barrett. Or perhaps, not exactly in sound but in attitude how The Cure went from misery to playful and jumped backwards […]
Music today has been Love and Rockets‘ Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven (1985). Oddly left of centre and immediately accessible. Nursery rhyme melodies and angular guitars and acoustics, fuzz and fluffy hair, sing-along verses and choruses as if the local boat club had started their own group with the boy scouts chanting irreverent singalongs. A […]
Music today has been the debut album by Marta Del Grandi, Until We Fossilize, which I discovered a few weeks ago and went back to today. Originally a jazz vocalist born in Italy she now has a more arty feel. Strange sounds, sweet melodies, odd and simple, I’m hesitant to compare her to anybody else, […]
Music today has been the last Siouxsie and the Banshees studio album, their tenth, The Rapture (1995), and starting with that rather lightweight single O Baby. With grunge in full swing, a potential new audience wasn’t looking here for music. This rebellion was 17 years old and if you were 17 in 1995 you were […]