45 at 45(ish): Adam Ant is The Human League’s Mirror Man
In a different post, I did a bit of a switchback Sunday rewind and revisited some of the first slabs of vinyl I bought that expressly weren’t by Adam and his army of Ants. Number…
We shall overcome? Why Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is more relevant than ever
Racism, police brutality, riots, war, unemployment, disasters, environmental crisis: you could be forgiven for thinking What’s Going On is a record of our times in the 2020s. But no, it’s a…
There ain’t nothing like a Dane: Appreciating Agnes Obel
With her hushed and wistful grace, classically trained Danish singer-songwriter/composer Agnes Obel writes serene, sombre works of art surrounded by intimate concepts of the reflective self.…
