For the love of music
Missing, presumed cruelly lost in obscurity, after 2005’s still sublime demos/outtakes collection Home Demons Vol.1, cloistered Chicago-dweller Kevin Tihista has spent over half a decade mired in personal, financial and US record label tribulations. However, thanks to the considerate coaxing and support of small Manchester label Broken Horse, … [Read more...]
Intimacy is a trait that comes in many different forms in musical realms. Although it too often simply conjures up images of one person and an acoustic guitar, spooling themselves into lo-tech kit or sitting solitarily on a small club stage, intimacy is more about feeling and delivery than pure environmental settings. It can find itself … [Read more...]
It’s somewhat of a double-edged sword for anyone brave enough to be romantically entangled with Roger Quigley (who trades solo as At Swim Two Birds and also under a band umbrella as one of The Montgolfier Brothers). On the one hand, a Quigley relationship is pre-destined to end in an emotional cataclysm, to be deconstructed in painful detail … [Read more...]
It's not hard to understand why the world of reissues stirs up such confusion and cynicism, given the multiple lines of attack followed by artists and labels alike to keep back catalogues alive or resuscitate them from near-death. So, for every long-awaited first CD reissue of a lost vinyl relic (anything by Lee Hazlewood for instance) and … [Read more...]