To turn a public grief in to a private emotion. That time you met Lou Reed in a bar, when you and your now-spouse danced to Rock With You on your first date. When my Dad was 14 he played his first ever gig and opened with Rebel Rebel.
I don't have a David Bowie story.
I remember my Dad playing me Young Americans in the car to school when I was little. I remember spending days upon days learning the bassline to Sound and Vision when I was 15. I remember listening Adam and Joe's Bowie impressions stuck in London traffic. I remember dancing to Modern Love, Let's Dance and Changes at almost every Camden clubnight I've ever been to.
But I don't have a David Bowie story. Instead he's been a constant prescence throughout my life. Five Years so deeply ingrained in me.
When Lou Reed died I grieved. I listened to The Velvet Underground & Nico on repeat for a few days. This grief is different. Today I'm grieving future Bowie. Blackstar is an equally beautiful and heartbreaking goodbye. Perfect in it's being, but a desperate hint of what was still to come. I was genuinely excited to hear more of Bowie's new work, and maybe even see him perform live again. I'll miss what he never had a chance to become more than anything.
Monday, 11 January 2016
Saturday, 26 December 2015
Best Albums of 2015
1. Kendrick Lamar / To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Sufjan Stevens / Carrie & Lowell
3. Viet Cong / Viet Cong
4. Deerhunter / Fading Frontier
5. Laura Marling / Short Movie
6. Beach House / Depression Cherry
7. Tame Impala / Currents
8. Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Multi-Love
9. Kurt Vile / b'lieve i'm goin down...
10. Vince Staples / Summertime '06
11. Waxahatchee / Ivy Tripp
12. Carly Rae Jepsen / Emotion
13. Lower Dens / Escape From Evil
14. Ought / Sun Coming Down
15. Empress Of / Me
16. Julia Holter / Have You In My Wilderness
17. Joanna Newsom / Divers
18. Majical Cloudz / Are You Alone?
19. Gwenno / Y Dydd Olaf
20. Grimes / Art Angels
21. Deafheaven / New Bermuda
22. Goldlink / And After That, We Didn't Talk
23. Kilo Kish / Across
24. Jamie XX / In Colour
25. Protomartyr / The Agent Intellect
26. Kamasi Washington / The Epic
27. Archy Marshall / A New Place 2 Drown
28. Braids / Deep In The Iris
29. Torres / Sprinter
30. EZTV / Calling Out
31. Hop Along / Painted Shut
32. Juan Wauters / Who Me?
33. Mac Demarco / Another One
34. Ezra Furman / Perpetual Motion People
35. Courtney Barnett / Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
36. Songhoy Blues / Music In Exile
37. Bill Ryder Jones / West Kirby County Primary
38. Bully / Feels Like
39. Youth Lagoon / Savage Hills Ballroom
40. Lil B & Chance The Rapper / Based Freestyles Mixtape
41. Earl Sweatshirt / I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
42. Jenny Hval / Apocalypse, girl
43. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard / Quarters
44. Shamir / Ratchet
45. Beach Slang / The Things We Do To The People Who Feel Like Us
46. Petite Noir / La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful
47. Twerps / Range Anxiety
48. Tobias Jesso Jr. / Goon
49. Neon Indian / VEGA Intl. Night School
50. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die / Harmlessness
51. Kagoule / Urth
52. Sleater Kinney / No Cities To Love
53. Natalie Prass / Natalie Prass
54. Baio / The Names
55. Hooton Tennis Club / Highest Point In Cliff Town
56. U.S Girls / Half Free
57. Fred Thomas / All Are Saved
58. jennylee / right on!
59. Ryan Sambol / Now Ritual
60. Wolf Alice / My Love Is Cool
61. Alex G / Beach Music
62. Speedy Ortiz / Foil Deer
63. Ultimate Painting / Green Lanes
64. D.R.A.M / Gahdamn!
65. Dick Diver / Melbourne, Florida
66. Leon Bridges / Coming Home
67. C.Duncan / Architect
68. Destroyer / Poison Season
69. Beach House / Thank Your Lucky Stars
70. LA Priest / Inji
71. Soko / My Dreams Dictate My Reality
72. Panda Bear / Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
73. Girlpool / Before The World Was Big
74. The Tallest Man On Earth / Dark Bird Is Home
75. Will Butler / Policy
76. Toro Y Moi / What For?
77. Father John Misty / I Love You, Honeybear
78. Donny Trumpet & The Social Experiment / Surf
79. Dr. Dre / Compton
80. Metz / II
81. New Order / Music Complete
82. Desperacidos / Payola
83. Wavves / V
84. Gengahr / A Dream Outside
85. The Mothmen / Pay Attention!
86. The Mountain Goats / Beat The Champ
87. Haiku Salut / Etch and Etch Deep
88. Westkust / Last Forever
89. Ducktails / St. Catherine
90. EL VY / Return To The Moon
91. Micachu and the Shapes / Good Sad Happy Bad
92. Jazmine Sullivan / Reality Show
93. Albert Hammond, Jr. / Momentary Masters
94. Foals / What Went Down
95. Belle & Sebastian / Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
96. Battles / La Di Da Di
97. Mercury Rev / The Light In You
98. Sun Kil Moon / Universal Themes
99. Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Asunder, Sweet and Other Dreams
100. Kid Cudi / Speedin Bullet 2 Heaven
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Best Songs of 2015
1. Shutdown / Skepta
42. Landslide / Jimi Tents
43. All Of Me Wants All Of You / Sufjan Stevens
44. To Die In L.A / Lower Dens
45. California / Grimes
46. The Knock / Hop Along
47. On The Way / Kilo Kish
48. Dope Cloud / Protomartyr
49. Mabel (When It Gets Dark) / Beds In Parks
50. Lazarus / David Bowie
51. Sparks / Beach House
52. Fourth of July / Sufjan Stevens
53. Stwff / Gwenno
54. The Blacker The Berry / Kendrick Lamar
55. Sorry / Justin Bieber
56. Sprinter / Torres
57. Multi-Love / Unknown Mortal Orchestra
58. Just Tell Me / Nico Yaryan
59. Living My Life / Deerhunter
60. You Look Like A Sad Painting On Both Sides Of The Sky / Money
61. Gurdijeff's Daughter / Laura Marling
62. My Baby Don't Understand Me / Natalie Prass
63. Feelin' Lovely / Devonte Hynes & Connan Mockasin
64. Dust In The Sky / EZTV
65. Made of Concrete / Kagoule
66. No Sleeep / Janet Jackson
67. Dancing In The Dark / Hot Chip
68. Under A Rock / Waxahatchee
69. Jasper / Hooton Tennis Club
70. Every Song Sung To A Dog / Fred Thomas
71. Zero Triptych / Girls Names
71. Zero Triptych / Girls Names
72. Oino / LA Priest
73. Back One Day / Francis Lung
74. Another One / Mac Demarco
75. When Did Your Last Rose Go? / Hartheim
76. REALiTi (Demo) / Grimes
77. 'Cause I'm A Man / Tame Impala
78. Wild Imagination / Kurt Vile
79. Ratchet Commandments / Tink
80. Swell Content / Speedy Ortiz
81. Space Song / Beach House
82. Young / Frankie Cosmos
83. What Do You Mean? / Justin Bieber
84. Back To You / Twerps
85. January 10th, 2014 / The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
86. All Day / Kanye West ft. Theophilius London, Alan Kingdom & Paul McCartney
87. False Hope / Laura Marling
88. I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) / Jamie XX ft. Young Thug & Popcaan
89. Dragon / Blaenavon
90. Wrong Again / Theo Verney
91. Dream Lover / Destroyer
92. Boys Latin / Panda Bear
93. Shut Up / Stormzy
94. Endless Rhythm / Baio
95. No Cities To Love / Sleater Kinney
96. Spell It Out / Toro Y Moi
97. Take My Side / Will Butler
98. Woebegone Wanderers II / Wild Beasts
99. The Glitzy Hive / Neon Indian
100. Getting Young / Sunbeam Sound Machine
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