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Cotton’s album renders traditional music in uncanny colours with influences from her native north-east England

Jennifer Lucy Allan , March 9th, 2021 08:43 Jennifer Lucy Allan interviews the Sunderland-born viola player about where her music takes her, sharing a history with British Sea Power, and what pushed her to begin making solo music Alison Cotton tintype portrait by Andy Martin When people talk of music ‘transporting’ them somewhere, more often than not they are describing a vague escape from an immediate (probably domestic) reality – an experience of music that for a few sacred moments make...

Hi folks! Since I have now completed my two countdown radio shows for the Top 50 albums of 2020—see the big takeover “radio” button above to hear one song from each!—here is my complete list of the 180 best albums, 100 best archive/retrospective/reissue releases, and 100 best stand-alone singles and EPs of this previous year—my best bets on another great year for music, old and new. And in one of the worst years of our lifetimes, here’s a small tip of my well-worn ballcap in profoun...

The only stand-out album for me this year is Point of No Return by Those Damn Crows. Great band who are brilliant live and managed to put out an album of absolute cracking tracks. Pity they didnt get to tour the album this year, but did manage to catch them in Bristol in February a couple of days after they released it and again at Planet Rocks Winters End which turned out to be the last gig we went to prior to lockdown. Have to be honest, Im not a fan of tdc at all, but thats the joy of mu...

Zener 08 live set and the haunting Only Darkness Now, while the band’s 2019 live album, A Place To Hide finally became an artefact for those with a penchant for vinyl. And that’s before we stop to consider the vinyl retrospective of their alma mater, The Eighteenth Day Of May. Now comes the band’s fifth studio album, Are You Sure I Was There?. Using only the finest ingredients, including psychedelia, folk, freakbeat and ethereal drones, The Left Outsides have created a seamless and co...