Why Does Aphex Twin’s Avril 14th Sound So Distinctive?
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. There’s…
All I Understand Is That I Don’t Understand – Toe
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…
A Short Piece on Laos and ‘Calm’, by Frankie Stew & Harvey Gunn
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,…