UK – Music 365

02/02/2021: “Age Of The Train” by International Teachers Of Pop

This is very much art school Synthpop. It’s classy, fairly tame, and tries hard to be groundbreaking. I don’t know how much it succeeds on…

This music is so thick it almost seems to have shape and colour of its own. Like an emerald green wave, crashing against the shores…

This song is very lush. It radiates dusky vocals. It drips with rich strings. No guitar hook is spared. It’s great. There’s plenty of fantastic…

When I first heard Martin Campbell, I assumed he was a product of 1970s Jamaica. The production is heavy roots, the singing militant dread. But…

There is an American version of this. Strictly speaking, the US song is the original, but I prefer this – by miles! Undoubtedly the beat…

Technically, the track I wanted to highlight was “If Only” – but the YouTube version is a great piece of art and smoothly integrates the…

The more refined among you may be aware that ‘Swan Lake’ was not originally composed by Madness. That honour goes to some bloke called Tchaikovsky,…

Jah Shaka is one of the U.K.’s most respected and successful dub sound system operators. In the dub scene he is regarded as one of…