21. alt-J – This Is All Yours
“It’s the contradictions, stupid” I’m always surprised by how commercially successful alt-J are. It’s not exactly easy listening. I’m not even sure they are really songs, at least not in the conventional sense. Released in late summer 2014, This Is All Yours was the eagerly anticipated follow up to Mercury Prize winning, unit shifting An […]
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Soundtrack of the decade
Christmas is coming and you know what that brings – right? Yup, advent calendars. But this is no ordinary pound shop flimsy effort with cheap chocolate. No, this is a musical advent and behind each window is an album. Ordinarily these cover off the best 24 albums of the year, but the fact that we […]
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Welcome to The Dark Flux. I’m Gordon Rutherford and for a few years now I have filled my spare time doing bits of writing – some little bits, some big bits – making music and taking photos. There’s no music here yet. It might come later, it might not. You can read stuff at ‘words’. […]
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