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They’re doing a few more final U.S. dates and then calling it a day it seems.
End of era.

Leicester’s Fabulous Foxes return with this longer collection. As usual, it’s main-man Bob Cluley singing and playing guitar, accompanied by various folk on guitar, violin, sax and drums. Some of these songs surfaced on a demo a while back, and it’s a mark of their quality that songs like the triumphant Don’t Give Up and […]

This is an extract from a letter written to a friend, basically me freaking out about Henry Thomas. The dude who lent me his stuff also lent me the ENTIRE Charley Patton Revenant box set, Vol. 4 of Harry Smith’s epoch-ending/beginning Anthology of American Folk Music, Fred McDowell, Bukka White, Blind Willie Johnson. Noel, I […]

Yes, sorry, I have a brand new Nintendo DS Lite and I haven’t been doing much other than settle into my new Animal Crossing town, capture literally millions of escaped animals in Zoo Keeper (oh, the wasted hours) and do maths and sudoku under the kindly tutorings of Dr Kawashima. Thanks to the wonders of […]

So, what do we reckon to the new Sonic Youth album? I’m finding it lacking…..something. It seems to have gone straight to ‘comfortable’ after 2 or 3 listens without either the immediacy that has you obsessed for a week or the difficult, growing to like it period. It’s like I already know it well and […]

Having been seduced by nice packaging, the breathless recommendation of the record-store staff, and the loose purse-strings that payday always brings, however briefly, I took this album home wondering if I’d made a wise purchase. Having seen Haino perform at Glasgow’s Instal festival a couple of years ago, I knew that it would be […]

It really is summer now and diskant is being neglected in quite a horrifying manner for which I can only apologise. But, you know, get off the internet and go and enjoy the sun. We are still plugging away at the overflowing Review Box and will hopefully bring it down a little once I stop […]

Anyone watching the new series of Doctor Who, then? If so, then maybe you’ve been tempted on more than one occasion to just mute the TV and turn on the subtitles, so you can make out what’s going on without being deafened by Murray Gold’s incidental music. I know I have. It […]

It is a curious thing that after three decades during which much of popular music has aspired to a posture of perfect cynicism, be it sneering (70s), aloof (80s), or bored (90s), that now in the mid-noughties (someone thyink of a better name for the decade, please!) a new breed of bands are making music […]