You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!
Last week, I put forward an early contender for my album of the year, thinking it might be looking like a bit of a quiet one. Then all hell broke lose, firstly with the announcement of a new Pulp album, their first in 24 years...
And hot on their heels, Neil Hannon decided to get out of bed again...
Meanwhile, as he eases slowly into his retirement, some old geezer from New Jersey found SEVEN albums lying around in his attic that have never been released before and decided to put them together as a new box set, Tracks II...
2025, you spoil me.
Particularly excited about news from the Divine Comedy. Quite taken with the new song. - Brian
ReplyDeleteThe grumpy old man in me is all a bit 'meh' about Pulp and The Divine Comedy 'comebacks'.
ReplyDeleteI dread to think that this grumpiness is a sign that I'm increasingly getting disengaged with any sort of new music, and that the dressing gown and slippers in front of a cosy fire, while tuning in permanently into the indie-equivalent of Smooth Radio, is my awful future.