Out of Mind
Shack | On the Corner of Miles and Gil
17 March 2022
Living in Asia in the mid-2000s, most of my music was consumed through a tinny, tiny old MP3 player, little bigger than a pen. Removed from the prevailing trends of the pigeon-holing UK music scene, my tastes ranged far and wide. Work at the time involved a lot of travelling. A lot. Taking two, sometimes three whole days overland to reach a destination was commonplace. Sleeper trains and long-distance buses were a second home. I read a lot and listened voraciously to any music I could get my hands on. Only to be bound by technological limitations.
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Maverick Jukebox
Young Fathers | Cocoa Sugar
10 March 2022
Edinburgh mavericks, Young Fathers formed after meeting at a hip-hop night while all three members were still in their teens. Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham ‘G’ Hastings went on to release the self-produced Tape 1 and Tape 2, yet it was with their first album proper, the 2014 Mercury Prize-winning Dead that they were bought to the wider public conscience. Despite the avalanche of critical acclaim that came their way, Young Fathers were far too awkward a proposition for the mainstream. By the release of their third studio album, 2018’s Cocoa Sugar, the band had already entrenched themselves as
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Wizards Dressed as Punks
Television | Marquee Moon
3 March 2022
Television sprung from the mid-70s CBGB scene with contemporaries such as Talking Heads, Blondie, The Ramones, Suicide and The Dead Boys. Even in this varied company, Television proved an outlier. When their audaciously ambitious debut album, Marquee Moon was released in 1977, their otherness was accentuated further. Impossible to define, Marquee Moon was defiantly out of step with the times. Reductively lumped in with the punk/new wave movements of the time, Television simply refused to fit in anywhere. Marquee Moon provided a step out of time. Quite simply, it redefined the parameters of what could be achieved in the
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