The 21st century’s commodification of everything means that cultural waypoints such as the birth of Acid House in 1988 – at the time described as the Second Summer of Love – have …

Released: 1963 In any organisation there is power, both hard and soft. It’s always concentrated in the hands of the very few and it’s always used to their advantage; that’s simply…

Released: 2023 James Holden's 2023 album Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities had some self admitted antecedents in The KLF's Chill Out and Future Sound of London's more psychedelic wibblings, but unashamedly was more of an idea than a finished work. "A song isn’t the recording that starts at 0:00 and finishes at 4:32 or whatever” he told Mixmag in interview on it's release, explaining that music's only limiting construct was that of perception itself.

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Released: 1995 Whilst Britpop generally made a virtue of it’s over reliance on The Beatles, Scott Walker and Bowie as inspirational mainstays, Elastica chose to take their abstractions from p…

Released: 1966 Sometimes your eyes and ears can be deceived. Over the course of time it’s become if not fashionable then accepted to offer up God Only Knows as The Beach Boys finest song, wit…

It seemed like an unlikely future for Idlewild when they burst onto the post-Britpop scene as the mid nineties became the late ones, but they've spent the last three decades since evolving with their audience. This doesn't mean that any of the emotional heft they've became renowned for has dissipated, but the band's later iteration is certainly more accessible than the earlier one, once colorfully described as like "The…