I just knocked it off my backlog during this start of year quiet time. I enjoyed it generally. Better that Kid A. The difference is the strings and the drama compliment her voice. Bold, but in a logical way.

Happy New Year Tom

Doctor Nah

Is jelcore one of them?

I feel like i have now seen the best bits of Le Professionnel this week after playing the kids the clip for Chai Mai. Action all the way.

No one can fix my mum's. Joseph ran off several years ago.

I remember being surprised Bjork topped that list (despite me liking Vespertine.) Seeing Matmos and Bodily Functions on the list reminds me micro-samples to the point of being unrecognisable from the source was a thing I never quite understood. Needing to be told it was a crayfish synapse etc.

I just got up to that chapter in your book (again). I pick it up every December, read from where the bookmark is, go to the start if i get to the end, and put it away if fully read or on Christmas day. It is the perfect piece of fun calm among the pre-Christmas runaround.

I assume one got a C on their Shakespeare essay.

Never heard this. Huge thanks for posting it. (Bytes had a big influence on my tastes.)

I have been informed by a yoof the absence of Laufey is a travesty.

I did not even nom my fave track of the year despite it being an actual song and not some drone or drum n bass or something.

Of previous PPP poll regulars, Baxter Dury, Tune-Yards and Sparks.