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The Totality Of Now? Beth Gibbons’ Floating On A Moment

Sometimes a song can catch you in a moment, striking a deep chord, as if speaking to you from the most profound truth or reality that you could encounter in that moment. So it has been for me recently with this stunning composition from Beth Gibbons (Floating On A Moment – below) which was released […]

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Audience Of The Unreal – Slint (w/ Carax’s Holy Motors)

Recently came across this excellent recording from 2005 of Slint playing their song Don, Aman live (video below). I’ve written before about Slint and the 2014 documentary Breadcrumb Trail by Lance Bangs that charts their formation and the production of their stunning 1991 album Spiderland, following which they (mostly) disbanded. After finishing that piece I […]

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‘Eternity is in love…’ (Blake, Sparklehorse, The Verve)

London The Song, London The Poem I ended up getting more than bargained for recently while revisiting this special song ‘London’ (Above) by Sparklehorse. Introduced to me in 1995 by a friend at University when it was released as a b-side. I’ve kind of orbited Sparklehorse in the intervening years, hearing some delights but for whatever […]