50 Albums: Session #22

Let's dip straight in... I'll confess that this was the first time I'd gotten around to listening to You & Me (2008) by The Walkmen - a band that I'd been a little so-so about on other releases. I feel slightly bad (although not so bad as to not do this again - part of…

50 Albums: Session #20

Proof, if it were needed, that these selections are randomised - two Aretha albums in one group. I can't but think that that just isn't fair. Aside from that, I think this a tough group - there are no bad albums here. There are better and worse, of course, but there are none that I…

Ten Classic Albums from On-U Sound

On-U Sound is without doubt one of the most influential British independent labels, and one of the least well known. The label is surprisingly diverse, despite it's being ostensibly a reggae label. It both is and is not that. The label's founder, genius producer Adrian Sherwood, began the journey firmly within the dub tradition of…

O is for… On-U Sound

This is a post for another blog somewhere else, but I see no reason why it shouldn't be here too, marking, as it does, one of my first musical obsessions. O is for…. On-U Sound This is a fairly formal first posting, but this simply what I found myself writing when I wanted to convey why I…