December 2023 – Page 3

James Jonathan Clancy “Sprecato”

December 21, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Out there experimentalism from ‘Alien Cowboy’… it’s a trip. This is way out there. A cosmic, lo-fi postcard from the edge perhaps. What edge is probably the question? We never find out. There’s strummed guitars, echoey […]

I am Night Witch: Swooping over the devastation just one more time – Jon Aird’s Review of 2023

December 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Surely this is it, no? After 13…soon to be 14…years of doing nothing this must be the last Christmas for a decade at least in which we’ll have to suffer the ineptitude of a government that […]

Oliver James Brooks “In A Little Long While”

December 21, 2023 Andrew Raw 0

Lo-fi alternative folk on Canadian songwriter’s fourth album. This is Toronto-based Oliver James Brooks’ fourth studio album. Two years in the making, the recording was done with friends in Oliver’s living room using seventies gear for […]

Solstice Songs Thursday – Let us to the darkened woods

December 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, this really is it – the final batch of seasonal songs for the year. Apologies to all those we couldn’t fit in, we’ve really done out best. And what have we today? Darkened woods, the […]

Artwork for Lesley Gore album "Ever Since [Deluxe Edition]"

Re-release Review: Lesley Gore “Ever Since [Deluxe Edition]”

December 21, 2023 Peter Thompson 1

Reissue of mature, sophisticated 2005 release given Deluxe Edition tag with inclusion of a previously unheard recording. Lesley Gore shot to prominence in 1963 with the #1 (US) hit ‘It’s My Party‘ which she recorded when […]