A Month of Music – Day Two

It’s Friday which means Spotify will have playlisted a bunch of tracks that are new and new-ish from bands and artists that I follow. Let’s run through a few of them and see if they’re worth the trouble. Blossoms, “The Kardashians” That funky bassline, meow. Instantly I was lulled into believing this was a distillationContinue reading “A Month of Music – Day Two”

Entry #52 – What I’ve Been Listening To Lately: October 2025 (a.k.a A Musical Odyssey)

Strap in because I’ve had a very productive month and I’ve listened to a lot of music. It all started fairly innocuously as I accidentally ended up with a theme. Going into October there were three albums I wanted to check out, and they all had one thing in common: They were all released inContinue reading “Entry #52 – What I’ve Been Listening To Lately: October 2025 (a.k.a A Musical Odyssey)”

Entry #51 – What I’ve Been Listening To Lately: August and September 2025 (a.k.a Hold your nose, take the plunge…)

If you’re not aware, I work at a radio station called Spark Sunderland and have done for some years ever since I was in the middle of my undergrad in 2019. Right now, I do a show called Beautiful Ones, broadcasting an hour of Britpop every Saturday midday, but as of late I’ve also foundContinue reading “Entry #51 – What I’ve Been Listening To Lately: August and September 2025 (a.k.a Hold your nose, take the plunge…)”

Entry #48 – What I’ve Been Listening To Lately: May 2025 (a.k.a Sequelitis and Singles)

I wanted to try and establish a theme for this month. If you don’t know, Sequelitis is a term reserved for sequels to an artist’s magnum opus that don’t quite make the grade. Sometimes it’s because it went in a totally different direction and hit a wall, sometimes the artist in question just gave up,Continue reading “Entry #48 – What I’ve Been Listening To Lately: May 2025 (a.k.a Sequelitis and Singles)”