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My world is 5/5 for primo, 2.5 for OC.

The fact tainted love was not actually that great in its original form (arguably) but amazing when soft cell did it kind of justifies NS fans elitism/romanticism. Like, see, the songs are great, doesnt matter that they werent hits originally, they could, should have been, they were just as good...

which, was seen as great by virtue of its 'newness', or just the fact that something in that style existed which no one knew until the moment someone found that ultra rare copy, i.e. it wasnt second tier shit anymore, it was newly discovered gold, the type of thing no one was making anymore...

it is fetishisation of the unsuccessful, and the whole mythology around why they didnt make it (idk if this still happens? people are less romantic about failure in music now maybe, more merciless), but also just about rarities. the rarer, the more special. NS was always seemed to be about...

https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/retrospective-dubstep-allstars-vol-1-dj-hatcha/ In the early 2000s, dubstep was mutating in real time at the FWD>> club night at London’s Velvet Rooms and Plastic People. By 2003, it wasn’t good enough to buy new records in shops for a FWD>> set...

sympathy like a knife and everything is romantic are prob two of the best brat songs. girl so confusing has that kind of delivery i hoped had been left in the 00s. i find it odd that even a 'universal' pop banger like espresso has lines like 'I can't relate to desperation/My 'give-a-fucks' are...

back from the dead 2 is the best overall tape i have of his. genuinely brilliant really, just cos the beats are a bit wonky (but not in the quirky sense) and off kilter, like he found the perfect match for his flow. but i didnt bother investigating every single thing he did as there was too much...

i still buy albums/LPs. mainly just cos its better value for money. but the idea of sitting through an album which is not actually that great, which is most albums really, even the supposedly great ones, is more of a chore than one great single, where you dont have to take in a load of...

i bought the first three i think. no idea what the rest are like. glad the grime instrumental genre has continued to maintain a presence however.

there are some good sets you can find on iplayer obv (i half watched james blake, king krule, idles, corrinne bailey rae, justice, though i might listen on bbc sounds instead), but the choice of headliners was crap this year. dua lipa is very watchable but has no personality and all the 'glasto...

Green Border. Slightly too sweet just before the final scenes, but an incredible story of what its like to try and get into europe as an illegal migrant. no corny liberal pieties, no 'hard hitting' or 'bleak' tropes at play either.

this track is incredible. def the best thing on the brat album. brat reminds me of a lot of 00s sounds i loved at the time, but it also reminds me of trends from that period i hated (naif amateurism/mike skinner/kate nash-style spoken/rapped deliveries, club classics even has a section where it...

i dont get this album. i thought as it was produced by a pc music guy (no idea what danny harles other stuff is like but on this evidence, ag cook is more interesting) it might make me think of charli xcx but it sounds like a sincere update of bland 90s pop which idk if i need really. but i like...

every person that buys it reduces the countdown to when its available. not sure what to make of the PR that it was a protest against the devaluation/free distribution of music when they are selling it for a dollar....

shame the audio isnt better but this stuff was just the best at that point wasnt it. still got that garagey twitch to it, but also a bit techsteppy, similiar sort of vibe to plastician, tubby, geeneus, etc.

New loefah http://www.teklife57.com/releases/025-LOEFAH-JUMP-START/

Bad enough 2004 was 20 years back. Now even 2014 is a decade old. Surely this year will be grimes THIRD coming. More artistic and aesthetic inner city colloquial pithiness must be due soon. Thank you sw9 gangster for making me consider these important dates in the grime calendar.

Ive disliked everything from joanna hogg since archipelago Tbh. Found the souvenir enjoyable in various ways but also wildly indulgent like many directors films on their lives/careers (almodovars pain n glory for example) and couldnt bring myself to care, though i liked the period details...

this sounds like it could have been interesting... though manodrome sounds a bit crap as a title. unless it really does a 'videodrome for the 2020s' which it prob doesnt. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/manodrome-this-unedifying-portrait-toxic-masculinity-rings-hollow