Brief chronicles of the albums getting us through lockdown
Author Archives: Dancing to architecture
Mac Miller: Circles
A delayed look at the sleepy melancholy of Mac Miller’s posthumous Circles.
Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters
The first masterpiece of the decade?
The Strokes: The New Abnormal
At its best The Strokes’ new album allows them to be present in a way they never previously have.
Bookmarks April 2020
A monthly series of recommendations, recent addictions and subjects for further study. This week – Dua Lipa, Childish Gambino, John Prine (of course) and many many more.
Bill Withers
Vale Bill Withers, the most personable and true of the soul men.
John Prine
And I always will remember these words my daddy saidHe said, ‘Buddy, when you’re dead, you’re a dead pecker-head’. I hope to prove him wrong. John Prine When I get to Heaven There was something nastily appropriate about it. The day after my worried observation that in the age of coronavirus, Bob Dylan and his …
Nostalgia, crises and ‘Murder Most Foul’
As the man himself says: beyond here lies nothing.
Bookmarks — March 2020
I started this back in January, before a couple of personal traumas — motes of dust compared the coming sandstorm, as it turned out — delayed proceedings. Now it’s March, and just look at us. No commentary on this one. Takes are the one supply chain completely uninterrupted by the virus, you don’t need any …
Future Echoes: Apache
The many lives of the slice of problematic kitsch that changed popular music forever.
Dancing to Architecture 