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Shuffle: The joy of repetition
As you should know by now if you have been following this column, whatever I write is inspired by whatever comes up on my iPod in shuffle mode. This week I was minded to interrupt the […]
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Shuffle: Is Robert Pollard is rock music’s Picasso?
After visiting a Picasso exhibition my friend said ‘I didn’t realise he could actually draw’. What she meant by this was that, to her, drawing and painting is a naturalistic representation of the world; she mistook […]
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Shuffle: When the Gods of music smile on me
Serendipity plays a large part in the construction of this column; indeed the whole idea behind it is predicated on what happens whilst I am listening to my iPod on shuffle. My usual routine is to […]
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Shuffle: Bluegaze (could have been worse, try Shoegrass)
A lot of the music that I listen to would not make it into even the loosest definition of Americana and as the purists would have it, I have already spent an awfully long time eulogising […]
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Shuffle: The advantages of taking it slowly
Whilst walking one morning this week ‘Pea’ by Codeine came on and it got me thinking about the whole slowcore movement and set me on a task to rediscover any examples in Americana. Outside of Americana, […]