If the truth be known, and no disrespect intended, it’s always struck me as a little odd to start a list of ‘Top 10… whatever’ by emphasising the purely personal nature of the choices and […]
A record which singlehandedly destroys the cliché of the ‘difficult third album’, possibly forever. “Oh I just don’t know where to begin,” Elvis Costello once sang in the opening line of his classic New Wave […]
Hard hitting, big hearted, dynamic Southern-esque rock of the kind that never dates. One thing that strikes you instantly about Ryan Law and the Shelter’s second, eponymous, album is that they certainly know how to […]
Teal ducks aren’t just familiar to ornithologists and AUK Chain Gang readers since last week’s inclusion of Joan Shelley’s ‘Teal’ in the series by Darren Lumbroso. “For a big chunk of the year, the blue-winged […]
A compelling, accomplished addition to uncompromising musical activism. It’s fair to say that some albums or bands which proudly wear a beating heart of activism on their sleeves like Diane Patterson’s ‘Satchel of Songs‘ sometimes […]
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