50 blog posts⌠I did it. I know there arenât many readers with regards to my an-album-a-week posts as compared to when I write about movies, but this particular blog means a lot to me. It saved my life. Last year, at about this time, I was in a really deep and dark funk. The […]
Read more "An Album a Week (50): 21 – Adele"I got into Sufjan Stevensâ music through Illinois (2005), a friendâs recommendation and then quickly forgot about him (Stevens, not my friend). Then came his seventh album in 2015, Carrie & Lowell. It was on so many criticsâ end-of-the-year best list so I picked it up on a wimp. I canât remember what other albums […]
Read more "An Album a Week (49): Carrie & Lowell – Sufjan Stevens"This was a recommendation by a friend and he knows my music taste to a T. If you are looking for an album for some love action in the bedroom, this is it. There is no need to make a mixed CD, this is it. From start to end, this is fucking it. I know […]
Read more "An Album a Week (48): Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex"I have always loved the guitar but I am lousy with playing it. However, I did manage to fulfil one of my life-long dreams – to play the guitar and perform a song in front of an audience of at least a hundred. The song was Jason Mrazâs âIâm Yoursâ, my guitar teacher was my […]
Read more "An Album a Week (47): First Mind – Nick Mulvey"When was the last time you heard a song about a girl who knows karate going toe to toe with evil machines (in this case, pink robots. Fricking PINK!) with early 80s cheesy sound effects and laser beams everywhere? If you did it has to be this one: It is such a perfect bubble of […]
Read more "An Album a Week (46): Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips"I have never heard of American synth-pop band Future Islands till news dropped that they would be performing at Laneway in 2015. Wondering whether I should go to the music festival, I checked out all the bands that would be performing. Only one band stood out for me and this was what I saw⌠Holy […]
Read more "An Album a Week (45): Singles – Future Islands"Grease is the word. I was first into Grease through its soundtrack and the perennial hits like âYouâre the One That I Wantâ and âGreaseâ were ruling the airwaves in 1978. It was much later in the following year when I finally saw Grease on VHS but by then I already knew the songs by […]
Read more "An Album a Week (44): Grease (Soundtrack) – Various Artistes"Do you have cherished albums that were happy accidents? Mat Kearneyâs third album City of Black & White is that one for me. I picked it out of a bargain bin at HMV and couldnât stop listening to it and two tracks even landed up on my wedding album that I played while all my […]
Read more "An Album a Week (43): City of Black & White – Mat Kearney"This is the last mandarin album I will feature and itâs a huge favourite of mine. Interestingly, the first time I heard it, I hated it. Just one listen and I felt crestfallen. Thinking back I am not sure why I hated it so much. Perhaps it was because Hebe moved well away from a […]
Read more "An Album a Week (42): My Love – Hebe Tien"Just 10 more posts to go. Before anyone goes thinking this series of blog posts are about the best albums through the years, itâs not. They are just my favourite albums that have accompanied me like bosom friends through time and place. As far as possible, I have geared my musings towards albums that have […]
Read more "An Album a Week (41): Floating into the Night – Julee Cruise"
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