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These are the reissues, compilation, mixes and all-important "etc" that we have been getting most pleasure from this year. This chart was compiled by John Doran out of polls from Patrick Clarke, Christian Eede, Luke Turner, Anna Wood & himself based on their favourites of the year since January 1.
These are the reissues, compilation, mixes and all-important "etc" that we have been getting most pleasure from this year. This chart was compiled by John Doran out of polls from Patrick Clarke, Christian Eede, Luke Turner, Anna Wood & himself based on their favourites of the year since January 1.
At one of the world’s greatest festivals - Unsound in Krakow - John Doran can’t see the wood for the trees. Luckily Arturas Bumšteinas’ baroque weather machinery, the writing of Mark Fisher, GAS, Zimpel/Ziolek, a guide to the primeval forest of Europe and the unexpected arrival of some eco-protestors are all on hand to help him
At one of the world’s greatest festivals - Unsound in Krakow - John Doran can’t see the wood for the trees. Luckily Arturas Bumšteinas’ baroque weather machinery, the writing of Mark Fisher, GAS, Zimpel/Ziolek, a guide to the primeval forest of Europe and the unexpected arrival of some eco-protestors are all on hand to help him
So you think 'England Lost' featuring Skepta is an appalling single and you'd sooner push your own head into a food processor than listen to it again? Well, John Doran has got bad news for you - it doesn’t even feature in the top five worst cultural things the Rolling Stones frontman has ever done
So you think 'England Lost' featuring Skepta is an appalling single and you'd sooner push your own head into a food processor than listen to it again? Well, John Doran has got bad news for you - it doesn’t even feature in the top five worst cultural things the Rolling Stones frontman has ever done
A halo of coffee mugs? An impassable wall made from Kraftwerk box sets? The OST so frightening it can't be listened to in the dark? It can only be the return of Vinyl Staircase - John Doran's melancholy death march through this month's black wax
A halo of coffee mugs? An impassable wall made from Kraftwerk box sets? The OST so frightening it can't be listened to in the dark? It can only be the return of Vinyl Staircase - John Doran's melancholy death march through this month's black wax
In 1982 when nuclear war seemed inevitable, the charts were teeming with songs about the apocalypse but now that we're living in the shadow of the bomb once more, end of the world music is nowhere to be seen. John Doran looks at several outliers in the field of end times pop and rock
In 1982 when nuclear war seemed inevitable, the charts were teeming with songs about the apocalypse but now that we're living in the shadow of the bomb once more, end of the world music is nowhere to be seen. John Doran looks at several outliers in the field of end times pop and rock
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