That Was 2007 (#5)

F*** it. I’m sure I’ve written this post before but I can’t find it anywhere. Bollocks. Anyhow, here’s the final 5 tracks from my 2007 – hopefully finishing this off will lead to the traffic picking up a bit beyond terminal level. Aereogramme – Nightmares (from the one with the long name)[Buy or download it]…

That Was 2007 (# 4)

Another five tracks on my 2007: Saturation Point – Two Point Four (from ‘Two’) [Buy it] Not strictly speaking from last year at all, but who’s counting? As good a post-rock outfit as there is out there, Saturation Point are working on new material and, on the evidence of their 3 LPs to date, it…

That Was 2007 (#3)

Five more tracks from the last year (or so): Kristin Hersh – Winter (from ‘Learn To Sing Like A Star’) [Buy it] This was without question one of my favourite tracks of the year. You must know by now how much I rate its parent LP but Kristin’s latest material sounds like it could well…

That Was 2007 (#2)

Today’s five tracks from last year are: The Twilight Sad – That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy (from Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters) [Buy it] Probably the stand-out from the Twilight Sad’s excellent debut LP, be warned that this track features a rather naughty word. Micah P Hinson – The Day…

That Was 2007 (#1)

The next few posts will look back on some of my favourite tracks of last year. They’re not all from 2007 but I first heard them all last year. OK, here’s the first batch in no particular order – for a week only: The Phantom Band – Throwing Bones (7” single) [Buy it] In a…

2007 – Top 10 Albums – 5-1

5 The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters As far as I was concerned the Twilight Sad came out of nowhere. Yet they arrived fully formed with this sweeping epic of a record, even if it took a little while to properly lodge itself in my head. Whilst live their wash of guitars…