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ccru fan at my local library?

Ska has had a couple of go-rounds since the original ska / rocksteady moment. Sixties garage punk has had several go-rounds I think. Not sure about garage punk, but with the 3rd iteration of ska - the No Doubt, Mighty Bosstones wave - I think they were responding more to the Specials /...

Shawn Reynaldo's latest newsletter asks what are the defining sounds of the first half of 2020s and also talks about how the current scene is dominated by revivalism: Yet even as dancefloors have warmed to a wider range of tempos and drum patterns, they’ve also remained stubbornly in thrall to...

I feel like almost all academic electronic composition starts to have this quality once it leaves behind analog for digital means - wispy, ear-tickling either that or a sort of glassy, crinkly sort of palette they all seem to get hung up on high-end sounds and tiny almost imperceptible details...

before it was called Northern Soul (a term made up by a record shop owner / music journalist down South) it was known as rare soul. Rare necessarily means not many copies in the world - and if there aren't many copies in the world that's because it never sold enough that there would be...

yeah but I suppose my real point is that IF it had been a hit for Gloria Jones, the Northern Soulies would have dropped it like a hot potato, INSTANTLY

Nice tribute to When Belgium Ruled the World Era here from Justice The Belgian Touch you could call it Except the track abruptly wusses out about half way through and turns into filmic E-Z listening Still the first half has the doom-blare fanfares Even the title "Generator" is a perfect...

it's a cult of the second-rate and the third-rate they rejected Motown's greatest songs on the grounds that they were "commercial" meaning that ordinary people knew about them and loved them - fetishised instead the imitation-Motown labels and acts that would so loved to have had exactly the...

This could be a Boards of Canada album cover.

Also known as horse chestnuts Conkers is a traditional English schoolchild game - you toughen the chestnuts by soaking in vinegar, put a string through the center of one, knotted at the bottom, and then you and an opponent take turns swiping at each other's conker. The winner is the one that...

Wow, that's a great example - Foundation Pit. Never heard of it.

I've got that Chesterston book - never actually read it. The temperance movement allying with Islam is like an early version of that argument that the left are puritanical. On mass immigration, there's Fugue For a Darkening Island by Christopher Priest, published in 1972. Civil war in the UK...

That's probably a mini-genre in its own right - I can imagine similar sort of articles in right-wing or curmudgeon-slanted publications, like The Spectactor or Punch, about other Labour leaders. Dire imaginings of what Clement Atlee's regime would be like. (Churchill said that the...

WeWorks (as televised in WeCrashed) is kind of a touchy-feely capitalist utopia-dystopia - self-optimization, positivity, shared workspace, vibes.... The company's employee rally-call “Thank God it’s Monday” has a Ministry of Truth / 1984 quality - common sense turned inside out. WE HAVE...

would have thought so!

Glad you enjoyed it! One of those "little effort at decor / atmosphere" places where the food is great and reasonably priced.

I suppose Brave New World might count since it's a society where everything is planned - from before birth. Then again, it's a critique of a society oriented around pleasure and distraction, which correlates with a more Leftist-Brit critique of 'admass' society, American consumer capitalism...