The Book Of Coincidences

"I knew next to nothing about these guys The Radio Dept. A three piece originally from Lund, Sweden – who named themselves after a pe...

"In the booklet accompanying the 2001 reissue of Very, Neil notes that "Hey, Headmaster" is one of those occasional PSB son...

"Crazy for You and its sound, "simple and pungent songs […] toying with 1950s and ’60s melodic structures," had become some...

"I am going to try and limit my post (there's just too many bands I want to talk about!). I've started a Morrissey Vox Group....

"Innocence Mission, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, Autumn’s Grey Solace, The Postmarks... I think all of these groups are f...

"A few years back, thanks to SiriusXM’s Coffeehouse channel, I discovered a delightful song called “Side Streets” from a band aptly n...

"The infectious beat and bassline are present from the start of the track, setting the perfect backdrop for frontwoman Juliette Jacks...

"Independently of its actual nature, dark energy would need to have a strong negative pressure to explain the observed acceleration of ...

"Dewey Bunnell, the song's vocalist and writer, has said that the lyric "alligator lizards in the air" in the song is a...

"It’s fair to say that Allo Darlin’ succeed by building a world in their songs that’s different to the one we see everyday – people s...

"Whimper, whimper. This week's 90th moody, tremulous ballad with lashings of tearful vibrato and acoustic twelve-strings. A recor...

"Four years is smoothed into nothing with opener ‘Domestic Scene’, which picks up where they left off, all low-key shoegazey textures...

"Poor Man's Moody Blues" was written after a journalist angered the band by referring to Barclay James Harvest as a "po...

"I don't even remember where I first heard the Postmarks. It was on some college radio station driving through somewhere, I would...

“I was born the year this record came out and I’m here because you’re my favourite band.”

"The song was first recorded by Richard Chamberlain and released as a single in 1963 as "They Long to Be Close to You" (wit...

"Mostly though “Change Everything” is just choc full of wonderful songs, like “Behind The Fool” – they nail not letting your guard do...

"one of the saddest, most melancholy tunes of the 'naughties'. Taken from their 2005 album Tales from Turnpike House containe...

"a superb job of conveying the almost ineffable sorrow of lost love, all the more sorrowful on account of the joy it brought before i...

"Keats were a short-lived British rock band, which produced one eponymous album in 1984. It was an Alan Parsons Project offshoot. Its...