Virginia Astley: A Summer Long Since Passed (1983)
Here’s to another unheralded and quite forgotten one. In the summer of 1983, a humble, charming bit of pastoral neo-folk music was…
February 6, 2015
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Richard and Linda Thompson: Wall of Death (1982)
Richard and Linda Thompson – 1980 In the same year as Kate Bush was heralding a new apex for neo-folk music, one…
February 4, 2015
(Album of the Month) January 2015: Kate Bush – The Dreaming (1982)
Kate Bush – 1982 You know January, a month so long, a month that appears so taxing at first, whether temporal or…
January 30, 2015
Public Image Limited: Flowers of Romance (1981)
John Lydon – 1981 Pretend you never heard of a band called The Sex Pistols. Pretend you’ve never heard of a man…
January 28, 2015
Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Air á Danser (1981)
Now, this is the right time to bring Simon Jeffes’s Penguin Cafe Orchestra back again. Back in 1976, no one was quite…
January 26, 2015
The Durutti Column: Never Known (1981)
The Durutti Column – 1980 Now we’re rounding out to the present. We’re heading into the realm where English folk music goes…
January 23, 2015
Kate Bush: Breathing (1980)
Kate Bush with her Fairlight CMI Sampler. The 80’s presented a perfect turning point for neo-folk music. More so, it signalled a…
January 21, 2015
Steve Hillage: Garden of Paradise (1979)
Miquette Giraudy and Steve Hillage Soundtracking a true visual experience of sorts, “Garden of Paradise” from Steve Hillage’s Rainbow Dome Musick stirred many…
January 19, 2015
Bert Jansch: Avocet (1979)
There’s a struggle whenever you try to invoke something. How exactly do you communicate to someone something they have to imagine? There…
January 16, 2015
Sally Oldfield: The Sun in My Eyes (1979)
Sally Oldfield – 1979 Something that struck me the first time I encountered Sally Oldfield’s Water Bearer was its brilliant album cover.…
January 14, 2015
(Album of the Month) December 2014: Kate Bush – The Kick Inside (1978)
Kate Bush – 1978 Its taking me a while to suss out how I was going to give due diligence to an…
January 12, 2015
Paul McCartney: Mull of Kintyre (1977)
Paul McCartney at Mull of Kintyre Let me set the stage for you. Sometime in 1977, EMI and a young 19-year old…
January 10, 2015