Try and Turn Off

Merry Christmas, everyone. Well it might as well be. The telly ads have lazy jingle bells all over them, the supermarkets are stacked to the rafters with twiglets and the only albums to get released from now till the end of the year are greatest hits and compilations.
Of the few sneaking exceptions to the rule is the Hidden Camera's
Origin:Orphan. An album I, unusually, found myself listening to the whole way through. And when was the last time you listened to an album the whole way through? And I don't mean left on in the background or left on your iPod and fell asleep to on the train. I mean listened to. The Hidden Camera album is impossible to turn off. From Ratify The New to the closing Silence Can Be A Headline, you'll be hooked. Try it on Spotify now, I guarantee or your money back.*

*Doesn't include Spotify Premium listeners. Or any guarantee at all really, it's only writting, isn't it.

Try and Turn Off

October 2009

While half the nation goes looped-upside down mental for the karaoke vote-off joke factor, music valiantly battles on with a wonderfully eclectic month’s worth of ‘200% yes.’

If you’re time-troubled be sure you at least check out The XX, Sway, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Boys Noise, Death Cab For Cutie and Girls. Oh, and Fanfarlo. The Vitalic track is not to be missed either. And Imogen Heap too. What’s more, you have to listen to Thom Yorke, because it’s Thom Yorke. The same goes for Massive Attack. Ah, just listen.

You can get the full track listing at the wonderful sharemyplaylists.com.

October 2009