Music

  I am a huge fan of Grizzly Bear. So when I found an article on Entertainment Weekly where the band’s Ed Droste talked about his favourite current music, I knew there was a better than even chance I’d love a lot of what he picked. And lo, I was Continue Reading

  Harmonies. Attitude. Intensity. Euphoric escape. They may not seem to have much in common but all of them talk of life, of distilling the part of it that you are at that moment in time and living it, breathing it, being it. In other words, having a pulse. All Continue Reading

  Life is relentless. It has a momentum that is fierce and uncompromising, racing hand in hand to a future only it seems to know, leaving us hanging on for dear life. Or maybe that’s simply how it often feels. The truth is we do have the power to call Continue Reading

  Songs, like smells, have the ability to instantly take us to places and times that played a formative, or in some cases, memorably incidental, role in our lives. It can take only a bar or two and suddenly the memories are flooding back, immersing us once again in that Continue Reading

  Who wants a beige life? No one in their right mind that’s who, which is why you need to listen to artists like the ones following who chart their own course, put real thought into their artistic expression and pour it into songs so unique and vividly listenable that Continue Reading

  Let’s face it – life can be absolutely brilliant and gorgeous, unstoppably, fantastically wonderful with cherries on top; but it also be beigely uniform and onerously frantic, a thousand demands piled one on top of the other until you feel like you’re about to break. Before you reach that Continue Reading

  Life got you down? Dragging your feet everywhere you go? Need some pep in your step? More than though, do you want to groove away to music that actually means something from artists who have actually stopped and thought about life a little or, I suspect in the case Continue Reading

  Ever since ABBA seduced me with their wholesome catchy pop back in the mid-’70s, I have had a thing for the inestimable pleasures of Scandinavianpop music, often referred to as Scandipop. It’s not hard to see why it’s so catchy for me and many other people – it’s usually Continue Reading