Tag Archives: music

a warm sense of insignificance

Posted on March 28, 2012 by rustichello

There’s a moment, sometime each week, where I’ll be standing in the kitchen and the music is coming through my big speakers (lovely speakers, old and solid, barely using an eighth of their capacity), the sea breeze is coming through … Continue reading →

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ain’t gonna study war no more

Posted on June 21, 2011 by rustichello

For a long time the whole ‘music is the soundtrack to our lives’ schtick has bugged me. For me that makes music far too passive a thing, just an accessory, like a handbag or a jacket. That doesn’t work for … Continue reading →

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big star dreaming

Posted on August 9, 2010 by rustichello

Big Star’s#1 Record and Radio City are as good as any in the list of holiest of holies. I must admit that I’d never bothered to listen to Big Star before I read a review of the Keep an eye … Continue reading →

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bliss release

Posted on August 9, 2010 by rustichello

Cloud Control have also got a fair bit of my attention recently with Bliss Release. It is less of a tonal affair than Innerspeaker or Buy The Ticket and has some songs that are pieces in themselves. There’s something of … Continue reading →

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buy the ticket, take the ride

Posted on August 5, 2010 by rustichello

Another good little album that tickled my fancy recently was The Black Ryder’s Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride. It is considerably weirder than InnerSpeaker and much less aimed at building a consistent tone through out the work, more toward … Continue reading →

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Innerspeaker

Posted on August 3, 2010 by rustichello

I’ve listened a fair bit to Tame Impala’s album and I can recommend it. It is a curious mixture of Revolver era Beatles, the dirty mixing of the Velvets, the thunderously overstated bass and drums of Led Zep and the … Continue reading →

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the last party

Posted on August 2, 2010 by rustichello

John Harris, British music journalist for NME and Mojo, grew up in the pall cast by Margaret Thatcher and Morrissey – an unforgiving world of gloom. But by the nineties Thatcher had been deposed and Morrissey had lost the harmonies … Continue reading →

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