Track Reviews
by Tim Lee
Christmas is coming. The geese are getting fat. Thank you to The Daily Mail for pointing that out for us. Geese, white is definitely not your colour. Oh, and during the festive season do you…
by Tim Lee
Tracks, tracks, glorious tracks. Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. Although, just to clarify, should your blood be warmer than normal, or should you be experiencing any other symptoms, we do recommend seeing...
by Tim Lee
Oh, The Righteous Brothers were so wrong. Time doesn’t go by so slowly. Time speeds past with the velocity of a scalded cat on a buttered floor. A whole week has gone since we last...
by Tim Lee
As we bid farewell to another US Election campaign, with Obama back in the White House and Mitt Romney wandering back to Massachusetts with a binder full of women under his arm. Could Mitt have...
by Tim Lee
Well, that lovely feel-good glow we had during the Olympics soon disappeared didn’t it? Switching on the news these days is likely to plunge you into a state of depression. Hurricane destruction, myriad tales of...
by Tim Lee
This weeks tracks column, with Holy Ghost!, Christopher Owens and Jedward amongst those desperate for attention. TRACK OF THE WEEK: Holy Ghost! – It Gets Dark This new track from DFA signees Holy Ghost! was...
by Tim Lee
Let us just hope that Girls Aloud never form a demolition firm. “Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four… What? Oh. Really? Shit. Hmmm. Threetwoonego”. Oh well. While apparently we can add the thrill of...
by Tim Lee
October. It’s that time of year when the beer halls of Germany are invaded by large men with questionable taste in Lederhosen, drinking heroic quantities of ale and singing songs with a high degree of...
by Tim Lee
It’s all gone a bit gloomy, hasn’t it? There’s no Olympics to cheer any more, the skies have turned grey and cold, Saturday nights have returned to The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing equilibrium...
by Tim Lee
Is the knowing better than the not knowing? Or is the not knowing better because you don’t know what you don’t know and therefore you don’t know that you don’t know you know so you...
by Tim Lee
This week Muse turn down their ridiculous (to 10.5), Charlotte Church decides she wants to be Kate Bush and David Byrne shakes his ass in a miraculously dapper suit. Oh the sights (and sounds) you’re...
by Tim Lee
Things like this make us sad. If Andy Warhol was right and everyone is famous for fifteen minutes, imagine if your 900 seconds are mostly made up of getting pissed on at V Festival. Only...
by Tim Lee
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Unless you’re talking about Jessie J. So the, uh, ‘break’ this column took last week (due to some unfortunate confusion that meant we were forced to take refuge in...
by Tim Lee
Now that we’re all in total agreement that the Olympics is a good thing (except Morrissey, naturally), we assume that everyone will be keen on a series of metaphors that will almost imperceptibly link this...
by Tim Lee
You know all-you-can-eat buffets? Well, the trick with them is not to fill up with the cheap stuff. Maximize the value of your expenditure by just eating the nice things and disregarding the weighty, filling...
by Tim Lee
Welcome, dear denizen, to a special edition of the Tracks column that is in no way affiliated with the L****n O******s. We’ve cajoled the week’s singles into an orderly line, like the flustered coach of...
by Tim Lee
When over the weekend we heard a fragment of a headline that said someone had pulled the plug on Paul McCartney, we assumed that Heather Mills had managed to break into the nursing home. But...
by Tim Lee
This week’s tracks are brought to you by an anagram of some of their titles: “O, you don’t spear Fiat now, twee Tories. They kill, file, thrive.” Which, we think, illuminates something very telling about...
by Tim Lee
It’s been quite a weekend. The Stone Roses returned home to play a muddy field in Stockport for three nights. Lauryn Hill is going to jail for tax evasion. Adele announced she was pregnant. And...
by Tim Lee
Seven tracks. Seven artists. More than seven minutes of music. Go. Cat Power – RuinRuin is, believe it or not, Chan Marshall’s first brand new self-written material for six years. Following the rather flat cover...
by Tim Lee
People say schadenfreude like it’s a bad thing. But when Pendulum announce that they’re splitting up, you can prod the people and ask, really? Really? What about now? Then again, literally the same morning, you...
The Heavy @ Oslo Hackney, London
