My 25 Favourite Songs of 2010

My 20 Favourite Songs of 2010 Here I give to you my own personal selection of the 25 songs I enjoyed most in the last twelve months in no particular order other than the order I think they sound best in. I tried to keep it down to 20 songs, I tried really hard. Then I realised that I did 25 last year so there’s a legal precadent here. I’ve mostly steered clear of those “that was released last year” debatable tracks, although... Read More

My 20 Favourite Albums of 2010

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 1. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy I love Kanye. I love his arrogance and unpredictability. I love his cartoon fun-fair hip-hop on his early albums. I love the sparse honesty of 808s & Heartbreaks. His habit of pissing people off is a testament to his insistence on telling it how he sees it. Whether he’s right or wrong, he’s a breath of crazy, fresh air in an industry... Read More

2009 – Songs In A Can

Songs in a jar? This is always a lot harder to do than the albums. For one thing, the line a song crosses where it can be described as released is increasingly blurred. There can be plenty of arguments about many of this year’s best songs as they were floating around in one form or another late last year. One of my favourites (and many others’ too) is The Middle East‘s stunning “Blood”. I’ve seen it pop up on a... Read More

2009 – Albums In A Can

So, 2009 is just about over and we’ve managed to give our topsy-turvy, high-speed decade a suitably bizarre final 12 months. In terms of music, the mainstream media’s MGMT-fuelled obsession with synths continued while someone clever thought that all the solo females should be judged as a single entity to save time, thus shackling Florence and Marina with the disappointing pop of Little Boots and whatever the hell La Roux is supposed to... Read More