Thirty Days of Music, Day Twenty Eight

This is where I’ve realised I’ve backed myself into a corner with my only-use-an-artist-once policy I’ve had for this series; loads of them have tremendous voices that I love. So who’ve I got left? Day 28: A song by an artist whose voice you love 2020: “Perfect Day”, Lou Reed That voice crack in theContinue reading “Thirty Days of Music, Day Twenty Eight”

Entry #35 – A New Morning (a.k.a A False Dawn)

A New Morning is precisely no Suede fan’s favourite album. Upon release in 2002 it quickly developed a reputation for being lightweight, blasé, dull, same-old same-old, all the derogatory terms magazines like the NME and Q Magazine could pull from the dictionary to describe a band running on fumes. So why am I bothering toContinue reading “Entry #35 – A New Morning (a.k.a A False Dawn)”

Entry #7 – Head Music (a.k.a Suede’s Be Here Now?)

This is an album I’ve been wanting to delve into for a while. See, I loved Coming Up, it’s my go to Suede album and one that commercially took the band to the top during the latter days of the Britpop era. With Blur fading into the background in the aftermath of The Great Escape’sContinue reading “Entry #7 – Head Music (a.k.a Suede’s Be Here Now?)”