“Look around you, you’re surrounded.”
This is the blog of Sachin Patel, who writes about music in a semi-coherent way. Here, you will find musings on new music, albums reviews, post-gig comedowns, and assorted ramblings about the sounds he loves. He also writes about education policy here, and he tweets too.
You can find out more about him, and this blog, here.
From Sharon Van Etten to Bat For Lashes, via Dirty Projectors, here are thirteen albums I enjoyed this year. Continue reading
Pulp, at their apotheosis, tangled small-town social commentary with cheap-sounding keyboards, to capture the state of a nation. But six years on from Different Class, Jarvis Cocker wanted to tell stories more epic in scope, and the music behind his … Continue reading
Concerning Tame Impala’s rightly attractive Lonerism and The Horrors’ under-appreciated Skying. Continue reading
The vision of London dreamt up by Blur has always resembled to me that of Martin Amis’s invention. To both these artists, London is not just the locus of worthwhile stories, but also the point of departure for stranger places. … Continue reading
I was going to suggest I write about Shut Up And Play The Hits, the documentary chronicling LCD Soundsystem‘s final days of existence, from a dispassionate perspective. Then, I realised that was an impossible task. Then, I realised that was … Continue reading
When Hot Chip performed in Manchester on their joint-header tour with LCD Soundsystem, the two bands joined forces at the end of the show for a cover of the Alessi Brothers’ breezy, soft-rock gem, “Seabird”. A couple of years later, a British trio called Vondelpark, with a vocalist whose brotherly mumble resembles that of Joe Goddard, have released their debut album, Seabed, which evokes a rather similar mood. Continue reading
