About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
Releasing probably their most accessible material to date, SNUFF have unveiled an album of artistic splendor and wistful delicacy with Come On If You Think You’re Rachmaininov, released on their own 10 past 12 Records, on June 9th on CD,…
The Creation was formed in 1966 from beat combo The Mark Four, and was quickly signed to a production deal with Shel Talmy, The Who’s producer. The first release was the urgent “Making Time”, which featured guitarist Eddie Phillips playing…
It’s hard to fathom The Yardbirds have been around for 60 years. Their material from the 1960’s still sounds as fresh, progressive, and hard hitting as it did when originally released. Original copies of their 7” singles are often hard…
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Following a run of outstanding and acclaimed singles, on 26 May Sunday Best recordings will release Version Girl, Rhoda Dakar’s first album in five years. Version Girl’s title is derived from Dandy Livingstone’s ‘Version Girl’, a song partly used as…
blur will release their first album in 8 years, titled The Ballad of Darren and comprising 10 new tracks, on 21st July on Parlophone. First track ‘The Narcissist’ is out now, watch visualiser here: Produced by James Ford and recorded at Studio 13, London and Devon, The Ballad…
Corduroy Men of The Cloth New mini-album recorded to mark the 30th Anniversary of the band’s debut album out 14 July Recorded last year to mark the 30th Anniversary of their debut Dad Man Cat – and 1993’s follow up,…
The second instalment in dazzling vinyl reissues from Demon Music Group of Ocean Colour Scenes albums dating 1999-2003 see’s One From The Modern, Mechanical Wonder and North Atlantic Drift given a new lease of life. Each of the albums comes…
The Peter Pan of broadcasting, Gary Crowley, has a rich history of releasing sensational compilations featuring bands that have graced the tapestry of 40 odd years of being at the forefront of everything hip and happening whilst spinning vinyl to…
Pulling a couple of paragraphs from the dictionary concerning the word Magic; ‘the power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces’, ‘having or apparently having supernatural powers’, ‘wonderful; exciting’. With these fortune teller thoughts in mind the…