Squarepusher, "Iambic 5 Poetry" Budakhan Mindphone is an EP that was released just a few months after Music Is Rotted One Note, where Tom Jenkinson broke free of the gravity of drum'n'bass and moved into really doing his own thing. The lever that broke him...
Nitzer Ebb, "Control I'm Here" That Total Age was more towards the industrial end of industrial dance, with more clanking machines in the sound, and Showtime found them pushing a little more melody in things and varying their arrangements more. This comes from the album...
Dis, "I'm Not Sagan" The Historically Troubled Third Album is a really fantastic album name. Aretha Franklin, "Save Me" I'm often at a loss for words when we have some of the all-time greats come up on here, particularly folks like the great soul artists....
White Stripes, "We're Going To Be Friends" Every now and again, a record breaks through into mainstream attention that surprises me. I would not have bet on the ascetic blues rock revivalists the White Stripes being anybody who would get mainstream attention, but somehow they...
Shenandoah Davis, "Seventeen" Kind of remember the last time Davis came up saying that I didn't know anything about her. Still don't! We don't do any research around here! That would be against the Five Songs ethos, where we put the "ass" in "half-assed". Dis,...
