Twenty Songs, 1st October 2006We're coming up to the end of our first year of Twenties, which, as the longest running part of the site, means we're coming up to the end of our entire first year. How damn well exciting is that. There have been ups and downs and admittedly we're not quite the global force we expected to be by this point but these are ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 12th February 2006Ha. Twenty Songs for this week was just INVADED by Grime. Sorry. I'd love to be all moody and square rimmed spectacles and big up Battles and the new Calla album, all cardigans and Belle & Sebastian but frankly nothing hits the spot like Grime. The Calla album's been growing on me all week and those Battles songs ( Read more... )

It's not lines like you couldn't stand to be corrected, even to this day specifically that make me love Calla. It's the fact that the wonderfully named Aurelio Valle can lace his hushed tones across them with such rhythm and poise. That's what a lot of my favourite bands have in common. Not the words themselves, but the sound of the words, the way ( Read more... )

I think I'm gonna bite the bullet and set up a wishlist because I utterly cannot afford music any more and every time I stop buying it I stop doing anything else as well. Well, kinda. But writing in my journal and recording old episodes of Coupling from UK Gold +1 hardly counts as accomplishment ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt McFly did a cover of Calla's Strangler. I was absolutely mortified.