In the early-'80s, British dance music purists listened, almost exclusively, to black American records. Not many people were into funk forged in, say, Sheffield....
The Beach Boys - everybody's pet sounds. Everybody, that is, cruelly stricken with a debilitating strain of doe-eyed, |ber-romanticism.
And here, 24 such...
With this incredible album popular culture has reached Godzilla-sized maturity. Goodbye, Soho, boho art-house pretension. So long, gritty, lefty realism. Be seeing you, irony,...
"Hallelujah for sleeping pills and amen for a good stiff drink" - forget airbrushed posters of leaping dolphins and aspirational homilies about mountains, in...
A crucible of all things avant-garde, The Leaf Label is, typically, fond of The Big Idea. Yet, volume three of, 'Invisible Soundtracks', exclusively commissioned...