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Massive Attack - Heligoland

Massive Attack are back! With their first proper album in seven years, this Bristol outfit have made a major return to form. 2003's 100th Window had few interesting moments and left many fans disappointed, but the quality of Heligoland should rectify Read More...

Posted Monday, March 08, 2010 3:56 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Reviews, TV on the Radio, Damon Albarn, Portishead, Martina Topley-Bird, Massive Attack, Horace Andy, Mazzy Star

Mocking World Music: Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam are making a mockery of the term "world music". Not content to be the king and queen of Malian tunes, their new album, Welcome to Mali , announces their intentions to be players at the top of the globe's music charts. And with an album Read More...

Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 12:33 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Damon Albarn, Mali, Amadou & Mariam, Keziah Jones, Booker T & the MGs

Marianne Faithfull records new Covers album

When she is not acting in Sophia Copolla movies, Marianne Faithfull has recorded some rather fantastic albums in the last few years. 2004's Before the poison was a cracker of an album featuring Nick Cave and PJ Harvey as guests, while 2002's Kissin Time Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:57 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Nick Cave, Damon Albarn, Rufus Wainwright, Marianne Faithfull, Cat Power, Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno, Antony & the Johnsons, Morrisey

Monkey Magic

In a mythical time on the Mountain of Flower and Fruit, Monkey was hatched from a stone egg. So begins the tale of the Monkey King, our headstrong and self-important hero." One of the most surprising developments of 2008 is Monkey: Journey to the West Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:18 PM by Lloyd | 3 Comments

Filed under: CD, Reviews, The Clash, Tony Allen, Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabaté, Afel Bocoum

The Bristol sound is back!

This was a piece that I wrote to accompany an interview with Tricky from the Guardian that was run in the M&G. You can read the interview here . In the mid-Nineties it used to be flippantly said that Massive Attack invented trip-hop, Tricky perfected Read More...

Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 2:34 PM by Lloyd | 2 Comments

Filed under: Tom Waits, TV on the Radio, Tricky, Damon Albarn, Portishead, Flying Lotus, Danger Mouse, Martina Topley-Bird, Massive Attack

The Good, the Bad and the Queen

In 1977 gonzo music critic Lester Bangs, writing about London punk band The Clash, attributed their righteousness to the “persistent humanism” that lurks beneath their “wired, harsh soundscape”. Fitting, then, that when Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Read More...

Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 12:56 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Interview, The Clash, Feature, Tony Allen, GBQ, Damon Albarn