Category: Album for the day

Album for the day 27/06/21: Pet Shop Boys, “Yes”

By Susanna on June 27, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

You can always count on the Pet Shop Boys for pop that engages the brain, heart and dancing feet.

Album for the day 24/06/21: Lady Gaga, “The Fame”

By Susanna on June 24, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Speaking of girl power, here’s a Lady Gaga review I wrote in 2009, during yet another of my myriad attempts at being a music writer. Enjoy!

Album for the day 20/06/20: Liam Gallagher, “MTV Unplugged (Live At Hull City Hall)”

By Susanna on June 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“LEEE-UUHM! LEE-UUHM!” hollers the distinctively male-voiced crowd in between songs on this album, recorded live in Hull back in August 2019. It’s uncomfortably reminiscent of football chants, with all their implicit macho aggression.

Album for the day 03/05/19: 20 years of “Head Music”

By Susanna on May 3, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

On this day in 1999, Suede released their fourth album “Head Music”. Here are my rather excitable scribblings about that day, written in my diary exactly 20 years ago.

Album for the day 01/03/18: Rae Morris, “Someone Out There”

By Susanna on March 1, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

In this world of bland, unchallenging chart pop, where a small pool of blankly pretty boys and girls mumble a few words over each others’ tracks to the same sanitised, autotuned backing, we need pop stars like Rae Morris. Pop stars who sing lyrics like “I don’t want […]