Graeme Tait

artwork for The Sarandons album "Sightlines"

The Sarandons “Sightlines”

February 14, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

Toronto stalwarts deliver a debut studio album full of radio-friendly indie rock. The Sarandons hail from Ontario’s capital city and are made up of Dave Suchon on lead vocals and guitar, Damian Coleman bass and backing […]

artwork for Peach & Quiet album "Beautiful Thing"

Peach & Quiet “Beautiful Thing”

February 1, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

Canadian duo build on promise of debut album with this stunning sophomore offering. Barely three weeks into the new year and I find myself with the good fortune to be listening to an album that will […]

Classic Americana Album: Kris Kristofferson “Kristofferson”

January 25, 2023 Graeme Tait 3

As the swinging sixties with its mantra of peace and love disintegrated into the splintered seventies of disillusion, suspicion, and violence, an ex U.S. Army Captain would become the most unlikely of saviours with the songs […]

artwork for Belle & Sebastian album "Late Developer"

Belle & Sebastian “Late Developers”

January 25, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

Glasgow mavericks deliver a second dose of feel-good factor pop music within nine months, still imbued with their usual lyrical sobriety. Barely nine months since the release of their last album ‘A Bit Of Previous’ and […]

artwork for Barclay James Harvest album, Everyone Is Everybody Else

The First Time: Graeme Tait – Barclay James Harvest, Sheffield City Hall, 28th September 1977

January 10, 2023 Graeme Tait 4

The past is a puzzling acquaintance, sharing as it does all of the most momentous experiences of life’s journey whilst forever travelling in the opposite direction, each day carrying our memories just a little further from […]