David Sylvian: Upon This Earth (1986) and Talk Talk: April 5th (1986)
David Sylvian – 1986 Sometimes meaningful excursions can lead to so much. Let’s take one, and follow the lead of two budding…
February 25, 2015
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Kate Bush: The Ninth Wave (1985)
Kate Bush Now, this, this is what you call an end to a magnificent run. Releasing an album, Hounds of Love, in…
February 20, 2015
Big Country: In A Big Country (1983)
Big Country I’ll ask for forgiveness on this account. Sometimes in the journey to get somewhere, you lose track of time. In…
February 16, 2015
The Waterboys: This is the Sea (1985)
Mike Scott and the Waterboys Have you heard the Big Music? You probably already have. Its the music seemingly heard everywhere now,…
February 12, 2015
Cocteau Twins: Donimo (1984)
The Cocteau Twins I’m going to introduce you to a word you’ve probably never heard before: glossolalia. This word means speaking in…
February 10, 2015
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
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