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It's finally here! Green to Gold, the Antler's first album since 2014! Got my Hospice t-shirt on to mark the occasion 🤣 Check out my full review here: spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2021/03/23/the…
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The Antlers – Green to Gold (Album Review)
“Strawflower” is a beautiful track, instrumentally intricate and a really positive start to the record. I have listened to it on its own many times. So far, Hospice 0 – Green to G…
The Antlers – Green to Gold (Album Review) spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2021/03/23/the…
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The Antlers – Green to Gold (Album Review)
“Strawflower” is a beautiful track, instrumentally intricate and a really positive start to the record. I have listened to it on its own many times. So far, Hospice 0 – Green to G…
Conquering The Worst Journey in the World, my full review of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's beautiful account of Scott's ill-fated Terra-Nova Antarctic expedition. spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/con…
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Conquering The Worst Journey in the World
In 2019 I added The Worst Journey in the World to my “To Read” list … where books go to die. In 2021, I read it …
I read The Worst Journey in the World this Winter ... inspiring, daunting, dramatic ... just a few of the superlatives that come to mind. Have you read it? What did you think? Full review coming tomorrow
Check out my new blog: What Are The Most Disturbing Books, (and why you should read them)? spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2021/01/21/wha…
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What Are The Most Disturbing Books, (and why you should read them)
It’s this unpredictability that give The Disquiet of Evening, and others like Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen, Anna Burns’ Milkman, even Ian McGuire’s The North Water an almost drug-like addictiven…
"They are all excellent individually and come together to make an absolute masterpiece of an album, but BLANK stands ever so slightly above the others." But which Perfume Genius track topped my top ten songs of 2020? spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/top…
"There was a lot to hate about this year, but getting a new Future Islands album that smashed my expectations to pieces certainly brought me a lot of peace." Which Future Islands track from the majestic #ALAYA made it to number 2 on my top songs of 2020 spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/top…
"I loved a lot of tracks on Dreamland, but this has been a favourite before, during and long after the album's peak time in my life." Which @Glassanimals track is my third favourite song of 2020? Click to find out #Bestof2020 spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/top…
"After five or six listens it had become my favourite on the album. A few more and it was one of my favourite songs this year." Which Lanterns on the Lake (@Lanternstalk) track am I gushing about here? #2020music #Bestof2020 spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/top…
"Every aspect of the song, and the album it's taken from, are as close to perfect as a song can get." At least one Fiona Apple song was bound to make it into my top ten of the year, but which one am I gushing about here? spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/top…
Top Songs of 2020 – 6 – ‘Still Life’ by Henry Jamison spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/28/top…
'The rest of the song is so good that the issues at the beginning are totally forgiven, to the point that BLANK has taken up residence in my heart.' But which @kingcreosote track made it into my heart, and my top ten list, this year? spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/top…
"If any year needed an up-lifting sing-along song from Tom Rosenthal then it was 2020. And wow, he did not disappoint." But which of @tomrosenthal's songs this year made it into my 2020 top ten? spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/top…
"When BLANK came out in March it wouldn't let my ears listen to anything else for weeks." But which @BlancoWhiteBand track made it into this year's songs of the year? #2020music #Top10 #Bestof #SongsoftheYear spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/23/top…
"Imagine a song that could transport you to a cosy, fire-lit room in the company of good friends. That's where 'Rooftop Dancing' takes me." @SylvanEsso make their debut appearance in my Song of the Year lists, but which song from Free Love made it? spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/son…
2020 has been great for new music, here are my albums of the year! (featuring - @perfumegenius, @futureislands, Lanterns on the Lake (@lanternstalk ), Fiona Apple and @GlassAnimals ) What was your favourite album this year? spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/18/awa…
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Awards for the Busy – Album of the Year
Music has risen from the ashes of this awful year like a melodical phoenix, reminding us that of the restorative power art still holds. This year has left deep scars, but that is one glimmer of lig…
"It's the simplicity and rawness of sentiment that makes this lyric one of the best this year ... " Find out which @thekillers lyric & track from #ImplodingtheMirage made it into my #bestof2020 lyrics here: spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/lyr…
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Lyrics of the Year 2020
1 That fancy wine won’t put this fire out Fiona Apple – ‘Under the Table’ In ‘Under the Table’, Fiona Apple talks about being forced to attend a stuffy music social. The feisty track, an apeirogon …
"The fracturing hope described in this line is shattering in its bleakness." What @futureislands lyric, and from what track, do you think made it into my lyrics of the year? #2020music #ALAYA #Bestof #Top10 Check out my lyrics of the year here: spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/lyr…
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Lyrics of the Year 2020
1 That fancy wine won’t put this fire out Fiona Apple – ‘Under the Table’ In ‘Under the Table’, Fiona Apple talks about being forced to attend a stuffy music social. The feisty track, an apeirogon …
"A generation obsessed with their mobile phones is quickly and effectively dismissed." But which Lanterns on the Lake track and lyric am I talking about here? @lanternstalk #2020music #Bestof2020 Check out my lyrics of the year here: spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/lyr…
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Lyrics of the Year 2020
1 That fancy wine won’t put this fire out Fiona Apple – ‘Under the Table’ In ‘Under the Table’, Fiona Apple talks about being forced to attend a stuffy music social. The feisty track, an apeirogon …
"I think what makes this lyric so powerful is just how much is in there." But which Fiona Apple track and lyric am I talking about here? #FionaApple #2020music #Bestof2020 Check out my lyrics of the year here: spencerlawes.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/lyr…
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Lyrics of the Year 2020
1 That fancy wine won’t put this fire out Fiona Apple – ‘Under the Table’ In ‘Under the Table’, Fiona Apple talks about being forced to attend a stuffy music social. The feisty track, an apeirogon …
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