In Breakout Belter, Bryget Chrisfield explores a favourite record which spelled the lift-off to cultural stardom for an important act. This time we’re taking a squizzle at Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love (1985). After a pivotal...
“You don’t get to choose/ Some you win, some you lose…“ Complex but never alienating, Arcade Fire’s sixth album – on which Win and Régine’s nine-year-old son Edwin features (ouch, my heart!) – is...
“I think it’s time I let you go/ Gotta cut the rope, ‘cause you’re tied to someone new…” – Undone’s opener Lovers to Strangers aches with regret, self-blame and feeling erased by the former love of your life. Collins...
This celebrated Scandinavian electro-pop duo – composed of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland – make distinctive, expansive, all-knowing music that also references their homeland’s tendency towards darkness and melancholia. A...
In Album Tales, Bryget Chrisfield hits you with some juicy nuggets of wisdom surrounding classic records. This month it’s the utterly miserable charm of Portishead’s debut album Dummy. Portishead’s multi-Platinum-selling,...