Music

What makes a song—like Aphex Twin’s Avril 14th—instantly recognisable as special? Alright, yeah — it’s subjective. But you’d be hard-pressed not to find something special in the piece embedded below….

The highlight from a great album, ‘The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety’ from Japanese band Toe. A song that achieves the quality of being introspective, without…

I think that there’s something universal, something shared, in the way you feel when a song lyric directly comments on what you’re doing the moment you hear it. You stop,…