Influences

As I sit down to write this, the world has gone into hibernation. Spring has come in the east of Germany but the Corona Virus… Read More »Brandi Carlile- By the Way, I Forgive You

Its often said that a band is the sum of its member’s personalities and if that’s so, then System of a Down must be a… Read More »System of a Down- Toxicity

One of the most dramatic shifts in the music industry over the last decade has been how we access the music itself. Gone are the… Read More »Lord Huron- Strange Trails

In some ways music can be likened to an encyclopedia, not as a collection of useful information and facts, rather it documents the emotional zeitgeist… Read More »Ólafur Arnalds- re:member

Let’s just keep this simple, Grace is probably the finest collection of sounds ever compiled in the history of recorded music… It is genuinely difficult… Read More »Jeff Buckley- Grace

The Mars Volta, if you are less than familiar, is the most artistically extravagant progressive band this side of the millennium. Originating in El Paso,… Read More »The Mars Volta- Deloused in the Comatorium

Back to 1964, ‘Ain’t that good news’ is the thirteenth and final album from Sam Cooke before his untimely death at the age of just… Read More »Sam Cooke- Ain’t that good news

For those of us with a few more years behind us, we enjoy the benefit of greater wisdom, more life experience and an inflated sense… Read More »Damien Rice – O

The words Epic and Disco are not two words that would normally be associated in the same sentence but in 2013, Daftpunk singlehandedly brought the… Read More »Daft Punk- Random Access Memories

Give me a well-recorded Piano and more importantly, someone who know’s what they’re doing with it and I will quite happily sink into my chair… Read More »Chilly Gonzales- Solo Piano