Music

  ABBA are a unique group in many ways. The first true supergroup to emerge from Sweden, back in the 1970s when Scandinavia generally wasn’t regarded as the sort of place you looked to for emerging music trends (as opposed to the present where it stands head and shoulders with Continue Reading

  You would think that at the end of a very busy year – to be fair is there really such a thing as a quiet uneventful year ever? – that music releases would be slowly to a stately crawl, winding down to the enjoyable lethargy of the southern hemisphere Continue Reading

  I love the modern age we live in. So much wonderful music from so many wonderful artists is available to us at the flick of a switch, so to speak, artists that we previously would never have come across unless we were possessed of infinite funds, time and indestructible Continue Reading

  Why don’t you ever hear politicians campaigning on a platform of ear candy for the masses? With all the amazing music everywhere these days, of which the following five songs are just a drop in the sonic ocean, surely they should be bringing in programs to ear worm each Continue Reading

  We’re all far too familiar with the novelty song, an insanely catchy song of often dubious artistic value that seems to come out of nowhere, usually from an artist no one has never heard of, and disappears almost as quickly as it comes. Theirs is usually a brief, bright, Continue Reading

  There is a haunting, almost confessional tone to Goldfrapp’s new album Tales of Us, as if you are dipping into an intimate, ongoing conversation between two old friends. Or perhaps that is, many old friends, acquaintances and ex-lovers, or those you might wander past on the street and wish Continue Reading