2012 According to … Hookers for Jesus

  Your Music Your own musical highlight of the year? A: Finishing the debut E.P. Playing again as The Candy Store Prophets, an event, which, as Graeme points out, no-one saw coming. Including myself though I had thought about it a few times. A fantasy turned into a reality. G: None spring to mind as…

2012 LPs – 1-10

Whilst 2012 has been a better year for good LPs than last year, I confess that I feel that are far fewer great LPs than in previous years. Maybe I was just looking in the wrong places. Anyhow without further ado here are my favourite 10 albums of the year: 10. The Twilight Sad –…

2012 LPs – 11-25

As 2012 draws to a close, I feel obliged to draw a line under my consideration of albums from this year although, as ever, I’m still listening to new stuff, some of which will undoubtedly be critical omissions from this list several weeks hence. But enough. As happened last year, I’ve stretched beyond my intention…

2012 Live

The Bad Books – MPT Live Band of the Year It’s been another great year for live shows. So doing it differently from last year, here’s the top 10 performances (rather than shows) I’ve witnessed in chronological order: 25/2/12                Human Don’t Be Angry, The Arches, Glasgow (review) 15/5/12                The Big Sleep, Nice’n’Sleazy’s, Glasgow (review) 1/6/12                  …

2012 – Mini-LPs

Not sure if I’m splitting hairs here, or creating a category for things that don’t quite fit in elsewhere, but here’s a look back at the best mini-LPs of 2012. You may ask – what’s a mini-LP? For me it’s a combination of number of tracks and length if time. So they’re longer than EPs…

2012 – Singles / E.P.s

1. Paid to see a Trainwreck – The Paranoid Style Probably more of a sampler for the (hopefully) forthcoming LP rather  than an EP in its own right, but the contents of ‘Paid To See A Trainwreck’, modern Americana combined with irresistible melodies, mean that the album is probably THE most anticipated release of 2013…