Twenty Songs, 28 January 2007Bit of a late one this, a few obsticles over the course of last week made it harder to compile and then regurgitate on your unsuspecting selves. The songs as such aren't as delicately chosen as we'd hope. Luckily they are of a generally high standard so that kinda glosses over our lack of professionalism ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 15th October 2006A day late this week thanks to the new site. As we only include songs in the Twenty that we bought or had bought for us (or given to us, to be fair) and we don't include MySpace demos very little of the music that has populated this week is in here. However, even if it wasn't the bulk of what we were listening ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 4th June 2006A strange week off the pitch, what with break ins, lost keys and burnt hair, as well as the more tradition mix of weird friendships, money money money and shifts that last forever. The music was pretty fucking amazing though. Maybe this is what religion is like ( Read more... )

I've just written up the Pure Love for Jolly Music. I do love Jolly Music it's true. I'm now writing a review for Field Music's eponymous first album. Oh my word, the more I listen to it, the more I talk about it, this isn't a revie, it is a Pure Love piece. It's crazy, if you click the Field Music tag on this journal and read through the journey I ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 7th May 2006A good week this week. What makes Twenty Songs difficult is that we listen to loads of music but with a random playlist you might hear something you love then not hear it again all week. Which is why it's usually only new stuff that gets in. This week, though, our music listening has been pretty concentrated. A few bursts ( Read more... )

Brrr. Weird week this week. Haven't really done much work on No, Really. Haven't listened to a huge amount of music. Had a bit of a blitz of the regulars but only a couple of reviews, nothing substantial. The Twenty for this week if we even manage it will be another pretty skewed effort. Oh well. Here's to a better next week ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 16th April 2006

This has been much more like it. There are songs that didn't make it into this twenty which, at times, could've just been one album or another. A much better week for music.

Diving straight in, then, we kick off with The Rapture back on the list after a long absence in light of the news of a new single which might be ( Read more... )

Today, through my door ladies and gentlemen with open hearts and wide eyes we received most of the orders from this week. Thursday we got the Set Fire To Flames album, which is quite nice. Not as nice as the song we had for them already which was genuinely worrying but very good. Post rock is, though, isn't it. Hmm ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 26th February 2006It's pretty much a full turnaround from last week. Normally it's just a case of come Sunday sit down and try and remember what's been playing most the past week. The past couple of week'sIintroduced a proper system of monitoring throughout the week so it's pretty good. And it is a case of what was actually listened ( Read more... )

Field Music, then. I said a while ago I was gonna go through the anals of this journal and see how my opinion of them has changed but I don't think I did at the time. I have now, though. I first found out about them through the wonder Memphis Industries label, where they live. They spoke of a wide range of influence, including Curtis Mayfield and ( Read more... )