#Nadine Shah Holiday Destination

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Video: The Film Noir-Like Visuals for Nadine Shah's Politically-Charged "Holiday Destination"

New Video: The Film Noir-Like Visuals for Nadine Shah’s Politically-Charged “Holiday Destination”

Born to Norwegian-English mother and a Pakistani immigrant father, Nadine Shah is a Whitburn, South Tyneside, UK-born, South Shields, UK-based singer/songwriter and pianist, who received attention nationally and elsewhere with her Ben Hillier-produced debut effort, Love Your Dum and Mad, an effort largely inspired by the suicides of…

[mmepastel]

Ce morceau déchire comme disent les jeunes.

[artfilmfan]

She is amazing! 

[afro-elf]

hi, just wanna say thank you to you and your anon today who mentioned nadine shah cuz it lead me to check out her music and wow she is phenomenal! pls tell me if you have any song or album recommendations from her cuz I've just been listening to her top songs on spotify

all of her work is good and kitchen sink is especially good, my first nadine song was holiday destination

[path-of-my-childhood]

What's this article about? Idk how to break a paywall, don't mind paying but it's just for an article 😂

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spotify-has-forced-pop-stars-to-lower-their-standards-so-taylor-swift-do-you-fancy-a-pint-hk2mv6w00

Ahahaha I know that article, I read it when it came out 😂 it’s basically just writer messing around... I’ll copy it below the cut if you wanna read it...

Spotify Has Forced Pop Stars to Lower Their Standards. So, Taylor Swift, Do You Fancy a Pint?

The Times // by Martin Hemming // November 29th 2020

“Hey hey, my my, rock and roll can never die,” sang the hairy Canadian Neil Young in 1979. With hindsight, he should have added: “My my, hey hey, unless an insane business model takes over, which allows you effectively to own almost all the popular music ever recorded for a tenner a month, and gets in the way” — which may not scan terribly well but just about rhymes, and makes a very good point.

Last week, some rock’n’roll stars went up in front of a government select committee to moan that Spotify and other music streaming services were ruining their livelihoods. This was a bit rich coming from the bloke from Radiohead, a band that once gave fans the chance to pay nothing for an album.

But it was rather upsetting to hear that the singer Nadine Shah, who — despite being nominated for a Mercury music prize and selling out the Roundhouse in London — was effectively skint. The satirical online newspaper The Onion recently ran the headline “Spotify celebrates 100th dollar given to artists” — which was so funny I bought a CD.

Also there was Guy Garvey, whose band Elbow at least started out in the era of people splurging £12.99 on compact discs. Indeed, I bought their first CD, in 2001, and thought it rather good. It contained no clue that they would go on to make overwrought, string-laden anthems destined to be soundtracks to Olympic closing ceremonies and episodes of DIY SOS, but there you go — I’m partly responsible. (Free interesting fact: Garvey is the late Dame Diana Rigg’s son-in-law.)

While Guy spent his record profits on elaborate string arrangements, other rock stars in the pre-Spotify era spent their money properly. By which I mean, hilariously irresponsibly.

I’m currently reading the memoir of a hip American beat combo called the Beastie Boys. You may remember them: the Daily Mirror put them on its front page in 1987, calling them the world’s nastiest pop group. One Beastie Boy became a Buddhist and campaigned for a free Tibet, which shows the power the tabloid press had back then.

When their debut album “blew up”, they did what any self-respecting rock stars should do. Which was drink, take drugs, chase women, rent a house with a pool in Los Angeles and buy impractical cars. Before the band’s first headline tour, their record company said they could have anything they wanted as stage props. They asked, quite reasonably, for a 15ft-high hydraulic penis. They got, without fuss, a 15ft-high hydraulic penis, which is perhaps what has been missing from Elbow’s most recent performances.

Cut to the end of a gig by one of today’s struggling fledgling rockers: “You’ve been wonderful, Milton Keynes, but, sorry, no encore tonight — I’ve got a Deliveroo shift and I still need to do my accounts before bed.”

It’s the rock star’s right, privilege and prerogative to be wild and obnoxious. If money is no longer being thrown at young wallies in bands, the rock memoir of the future is going to be a dull affair. I have no idea what Mojo magazine will write about.

Which brings me to Taylor Swift, a woman who, by virtue of her being very beautiful and very talented, could go out with any man in the world. She could pick a Californian fintech billionaire, an Italian duke or, indeed, a mysterious lead singer/drug addict from a noisy rock band. Instead, she goes out with a chap called Joe from Tunbridge Wells.

Joe, 29, was last week confirmed as a co-writer on some of the songs on Swift’s most recent album, Folklore, which is sweet. But more revealing is an earlier song she wrote in his honour, London Boy. In it she sings of going to Brixton and Shoreditch, and asks him to show her Hackney — presumably the bits with the overpriced small-plate restaurants rather than the, you know, stabby bits.

One line runs: “You can find me in the pub, we are watching rugby with his school friends.” Err, Joe? You’ve started dating Taylor Swift and you thought you’d impress her by... taking her down the boozer with Bodger and Smithy?

Another song on Folklore is called The Lakes, which you might assume would be a paean to some dramatic slice of American big country. Nope, it’s about the Lake District.

So, Taylor is partial to gentrified London boroughs, pubs with BT Sport and the walking holidays you went on when you were 12. How did ordinary Joe — OK, he’s a moderately successful actor — get the memo that pasty blokes from the home counties were within the Venn diagram set of “men Taylor Swift might go out with”?

I mean, I’m from an average London suburb (“He was from Sutton / I thought we should get it on...”). Plus, I own all the relevant Lake District Ordnance Survey maps (OS Explorer OL4 through OL7). I would happily have spent lockdown, fuelled by Kendal mint cake, working on an Alfred Wainwright concept album with you, Taylor. Look, I’ve already started on the track-listing: For Whom the Cat Bells Tolls, Helvellyn is a Place on Earth, I’ll Show You My Old Man of Coniston If You Show Me Yours...

Maybe the Spotify effect has lowered expectations. Rock stars used to want to date people with yachts and castles and inheritances. Or who were just really fit. Now, if Taylor’s anything to go by, they’re wowed by a Thermos and a National Trust membership card.

Suggesting people go out with you via the pages of a newspaper might not appear very rock’n’roll. But who knows any more? Look, I’m sure Joe’s lovely, and the banter with his rugger mates is riveting, but I’ll leave my invitation here anyway, Swifty. You can shake it off, shake it off, or, if you do ever find yourself, in Gore-Tex, wandering lonely as a cloud, I’ll meet you in Keswick. Have you been to its pencil museum?

[upthebrackets]

@jakeperaltu tagged me, love u Dani!! 💕

Rules: Put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs to play, then tag ten people!

Stories of the Street - Leonard Cohen

Forever - HAIM

Wrestling - Self Esteem

The Bourne Identity - The Last Shadow Puppets

Holiday Destination - Nadine Shah

Rings of Saturn - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Boy Looked at Johnny - The Libertines

Que no salga la luna - Rosalía

Jupiter 4 - Sharon Van Etten

Misbehaviour - The Vaccines

I tag @aquarelleskies @missoneminute @suchasinistergame @toast-gh0st @daenytheunburnt @westolethelight @crimsonclover-honey @11blocksfrommydoor if anyone needs a distraction like I did x

[naodigonada]

Holiday Destination. Out August 25.

[pileoflove]

u want some song recs??? here’s some songs i’ve been enjoying a lot lately 😌 will we talk - sam fender home - cavetown holiday destination - nadine shah angel please - ra ra riot incense - dom mcallister baby hotline - jack staubers micropop problems - mother mother

oh em gee these are all so good thank u!!

[jungleindierock]

Mercury Music Prize 2018 Shortlist

The Shortlist for this years Mercury Music Prize has just been published, the winner will be announced on 20th September 2018.

The list of the twelve albums chosen are below.

Lily Allen - No Shame

Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino

Everything Everything - A Fever Dream

Everything Is Recorded - Everything Is Recorded

Florence + the Machine - High as Hope

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Who Built the Moon?

King Krule - The Ooz

Novelist - Novelist Guy

Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination

Jorja Smith - Lost and Found

Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile

Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life

[jaceyourself]

End of Year Wrap-Up 24/12/2018

Happy Merry to all you readers!

I’ve had a great year but all us music fans have had an even better one! Streaming services mean that now more than ever we can experience the musical output from all corners of the globe (though overwhelmingly the English-speaking parts of it) to understand different points of view, learn of the goings on in other parts of the world and most importantly indulge ourselves in a bit of a boogie. All the moods, genres and feels you could think of are out there, so over the holiday period perhaps try and listen to something new. Who knows it might break the tension with that younger/older relative round the xmas table when you find they also happen to like k-pop/jazz-funk/grindcore or at the very least you can bicker about the tragedy of the current album charts (Greatest Showman: 21 weeks!). To aid you in your quest for knowledge/excitement/small-talk I have spent almost 30 minutes curating a best-of for both albums and singles in the year of 2018. 

(NB even with my album-a-day policy, there’s no way I can get through everything I want to within the 365, so if your fave appears ignored, let it be known that I probably haven’t heard it yet. The full list of everything I’ve listened to this year is at the bottom)

So in no particular order:

Albums 

Jinx Lennon- Grow A Pair!!!

The Beths- Future Me Hates Me

The Pistol Annies- Interstate Gospel

Travis Scott- ASTROWORLD

Mount Eerie- Now Only

Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy

The 1975- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

The Aces- When My Heart Felt Volcanic

Singles

Confidence Man- Out The Window

Cardi B- I Like It

Janelle Monae ft. Grimes- Pynk

Lori McKenna- People Get Old

SOPHIE- Immaterial

Marie Davidson- Work It

Car Seat Headrest- Stop Smoking (We Love You)

BLACKPINK- AS IF IT’S YOUR LAST

The 1975- It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)

https://open.spotify.com/user/jaceyourself/playlist/1kFex3QLVv0l3cCqjVC6dT?si=_GqTJXrOSoSXYaMC9ra_lg

Have a great festive period and I’ll see you in 2019 :D

2018 Albums what I listened to

Floating Points- Reflections – Mojave Desert

James Elkington- Wintres Woma

Miguel- War & Leisure

Ride- Weather Diaries

Sidney Gish- No Dogs Allowed

Emperor X- The Orlando Sentinel, Oversleepers International

Broken Social Scene- Hug of Thunder

MC5- Kick Out The Jams (Live)

Public Service Broadcasting- Every Valley

JJ Doom- Key to the Kuffs

HAIM- Something To Tell You

Camila Cabello- Camila

Sheer Mag- Need To Feel Your Love

Taylor Swift- reputation

Shabazz Palaces- Quazarz vs The Jealous Machines

This Is The Kit- Moonshine Freeze

Japanese Breakfast- Soft Sounds From Another Planet

Tune-Yards- I can feel you creep into my private life

Jupiter & Okwess- Kin Sonic

Various Artists- The Passion Of Charlie Parker

Waxahatchee- Out In The Storm, Great Thunder

Offa Rex- The Queen Of Hearts

Dizzee Rascal- Raskit

Alvvays- Antisocialites

Childhood- Universal High

Marmozets- Knowing What You Know Now

Declan McKenna- What Do You Think About the Car?

Paul Heaton- Crooked Calypso

Lana Del Rey- Lust For Life

Charles Lloyd New Quartet- Passin’ Thru (Live)

Rip Rig & Panic- Circa Rip Rig + Panic

Avey Tare- Eucalyptus

Justin Timberlake- Man Of The Woods

Rio Mira- Marimba del Pacifico

Oddisee- The Iceberg

Aimee Mann- Mental Illness

Katie Von Schleicher- Shitty Hits

Arcade Fire- Everything Now

Girl Ray- Earl Grey

Ezra Furman- Transangelic Exodus

Randy Newman- Dark Matter

Dead Cross- Dead Cross

Chronixx- Chronology

Mondo Cozmo- Plastic Soul

Kesha- Rainbow

Lal & Mike Waterson- Bright Phoebus

Steve Reich- Pulse / Quartet

Orchestra Baobab- Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng

Ratboy- SCUM

Prince- Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain, Parade, Sign ‘O’ The Times

Stanley Cowell- No Illusions

Oneohtrix Point Never- Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Downtown Boys- Cost Of Living

Screaming Females- All At Once

Rob Luft- Riser

Sibusile Xaba- Open Letter To Adoniah

Jen Cloher- Jen Cloher

Everything Everything- Fever Dream

Grizzly Bear- Painted Ruins

Bob’s Burgers- The Bob’s Burgers Music Album

Superorganism- Superorganism

Maren Morris- HERO

Courtney Marie Andrews- Honest Life, May Your Kindness Remain

Stefflon Don- Real Ting Mixtape

Ghostpoet- Dark Days + Canapés

Young Fathers- White Men Are Black Men Too, Cocoa Sugar

Queens Of The Stone Age- Songs For The Deaf

Thurst- Cut to the Chafe

John Moreland- Big Bad Luv

Aruan Ortiz- Cub(an)ism [Piano Solo]

Mount Eerie- Now Only

The War On Drugs- A Deeper Understanding

Various Artists- Pop Makossa

Liane Carroll- The Right to Love

Fickle Friends- You Are Someone Else

Nadine Shah- Holiday Destination

Various Artists- Howsla

George Ezra- Staying at Tamara’s

The Doors- The Doors

Filthy Friends- Invitation

Susanne Sundfør- Music For People In Trouble

LCD Soundsystem- LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver, American Dream

Mogwai- Every Country’s Sun

Kacey Musgraves- Golden Hour

The National- High Violet, Sleep Well Beast

The Klezmatics- Wonder Wheel

Hercules & Love Affair- Omnion

Mount Kimbie- Love What Survives

The Aces- When My Heart Felt Volcanic

Matthew Bourne- Isotach

Finished- Cum Inside Me Bro

Forced Into Femininity- I’m Making Progress

Heron Oblivion- Heron Oblivion

Hamell On Trial- TACKLE BOX

Confidence Man- Confident Music For Confident People

Swet Shop Boys- Cashmere

Princess Nokia- 1992 Deluxe, A Girl Cried Red

Steely Dan- The Royal Scam, Aja

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard- Nonagon Infinity

Sparks- Hippopotamus

J. Cole- KOD

Fat Tony- Macgregor Park

L’Orange and Jeremiah Jae- The Night Took Us In Like Family

Little Simz- Stillness In Wonderland

Lady Leshurr- Queen’s Speech

RAY BLK- Durt

Brand New- Science Fiction

Janelle Monae- Dirty Computer

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever- Talk Tight

Fred Thomas- Changer

Myra Davies- Sirens

Laraaji- Sun Gong

The Killers- Wonderful Wonderful

Descendents- Milo Goes To College

Frank Turner- Be More Kind

The Horrors- V

Moses Sumney- Aromanticism

Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People…, AM, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Oxbow- Thin Black Duke

Dee Byrne’s Entropi- Moment Frozen

Mike Stern- Trip

The Vampires- The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke

Gogol Bordello- Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, Super Taranta!, Seekers And Finders

Umphrey’s McGee- Zonkey

Hard Working Americans- We’re All in This Together

Courtney Barnett- Tell Me How You Really Feel

Jllin- Black Origami

Various Artists- Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa

Wolf Alice- Visions Of A Life

The Young’uns- Strangers

Fever Ray- Fever Ray, Plunge

CHVRCHES- Love Is Dead

Oumou Sangaré- Oumou, Mogoya

Charlotte Gainsbourg- Rest

Daniel Avery- Song For Alpha

Daphni- Joli Mai

Kanye West- ye

Cécile McLorin Salvant- Dreams and Daggers

Trio Da Kali, Kronos Quartet- Ladilikan

Kelela- Take Me Apart

Bob Dylan- The Times.., Another.., Bringing.., Highway.., Blond.., John.., Nashville.., New.., Blood..

Lily Allen- Alright(,) Still, It’s Not Me(,) It’s You, Sheezus, No Shame

Fanfare Ciocarlia- 20

Wolf Parade- Cry Cry Cry

SOPHIE- OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES

Zara McFarlane- Arise

St. Vincent- MASSEDUCTION

Margo Price- All American Made

Bebe Rexha- Expectations

Motörhead- Under Cöver

Orchestre Les Mangelepa- Last Band Standing

Drake- Scorpion

Various Artists- Gentle Giants: The Songs Of Don Williams

Noga Erez- Off The Radar

Baxter Dury- Prince of Tears

John Maus- Screen Memories

Lankum- Between the Earth and Sky

Shamir- Revelations

Years & Years- Palo Santo

Converge- The Dusk In Us

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino- Canzoniere

Fred Hersch- Open Book

A. Savage- Thawing Dawn

Big Thief- Capacity

Kelly Clarkson- Meaning Of Life

Dirty Projectors- Lamp Lit Prose

Robt Sarazin Blake- Recitative

Shed Seven- Instant Pleasures

Spinning Coin- Permo

Call Super- Arpo

Laura Perrudin- Poisons & antidotes

Ellen Andrea Wang- Blank Out

Lori McKenna- The Tree

Wu-Tang Clan- Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Lee Ronaldo- Electric Trim

Deer Tick- Vol. 2

The Paranoid Style- Underworld U.S.A.

Youssou N’Dour- Set, Joko- From Village To Town, Nothing’s In Vain, Seeni Valeurs

Gaika- BASIC VOLUME

Kasai Allstars- Around Felicite

Carly Rae Jepsen- Emotion

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds- Who Built The Moon?

Anna Ternheim- All the Way to Rio

U2- Songs of Experience

Mônica Vasconcelos- The São Paulo Tapes

Travis Scott- ASTROWORLD

Nabihah Iqbal- Weighing of the Heart

Van Morrison- Versatile

Jim James- Tribute to 2

Criolo- Espiral de Ilusão

Maciej Obara Quartet- Unloved

N.E.R.D- NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES

The Beths- Future Me Hates Me

Maryam Saleh- Lekhfa

Naomi Bedford- Songs My Ruiner Gave to Me

Jens Lekman- Night Over Kortedala

The Spirit of the Beehive- pleasure suck

Tom Rogerson- Finding Shore

Paul Jacobs- Pictures(,) Movies and Apartments

Ariana Grande- sweetener

Rina Sawayama- RINA

Marcel Khalife- Andalusia of Love

Gunter Hampel- Bounce (Live at Theater Gütersloh)

BAYNK- Someone’s EP

Omar Souleyman- To Syria(,) With Love

Blood Orange- Negro Swan

Open Mike Eagle- Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

First Aid Kit- Ruins

Shame- Songs of Praise

Homeboy Sandman- Veins

Playboi Carti- Playboi Carti

Eminem- Kamikaze

Troye Sivan- Blue Neighbourhood, BLOOM

Joey Bada$$- ALL AMERIKKKAN BADA$$

Priests- Nothing Feels Natural

Rhiannon Giddens- Freedom Highway

King Krule- The OOZ

Django Django- Marble Skies

Bon Iver- For Emma(,) Forever Ago

Calexico- The Thread That Keeps Us

Mary Gauthier- Rifles & Rosary Beads

Hookworms- Microshift

Aphex Twin- Collapse EP

Rae Morris- Someone Out There

Field Music- Open Here

Rhye- Blood

Shopping- The Official Body

MGMT- Little Dark Age

Christine and the Queens- Chris

Alela Diane- Cusp

Sonic Youth- Sister

Brigid Mae Power- The Two Worlds

Deafheaven- Sunbather

Various Artists- American Epic: The Collection Disc 1, 2, 3

Rich Krueger- Life Ain’t That Long

Lil Wayne- Tha Carter V

Modern Mal- The Misanthrope Family Album

Rejjie Snow- Dear Annie

U.S. Girls- In a Poem Unlimited

The Orielles- Silver Dollar Moment

Tal National- Tantabara

Marie Davidson- Working Class Woman

Superchunk- What a Time to Be Alive

Brandi Carlile- By The Way(,) I Forgive You

Car Seat Headrest- Twin Fantasy

Loma- Loma

Quavo- QUAVO HUNCHO

Marlon Williams- Make Way For Love

Nipsey Hussle- Victory Lap

Insecure Men- Insecure Men

Kendrick Lamar- Black Panther

Rapsody- Lalia’s Wisdom

Khalid- Suncity

Tracey Thorn- Record

Anna von Hausswolff- Dead Magic

Jinx Lennon- Grow a Pair!!!

Gwenno- Le Kov

Judas Priest- Stained Class, FIREPOWER

Robyn- Robyn, Body Talk, Honey

The Magic Gang- The Magic Gang

Essaie Pas- New Path

Bob Dylan and The Band- The Basement Tapes

The Decemberists- I’ll Be Your Girl

Pistol Annies- Interstate Gospel

BCUC- Emakhosini (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness)

Jack White- Boarding House Reach

Yo La Tengo- There’s A Riot Going On

Sidi Touré- Toubalbero

Lil Peep- Come Over When You’re Sober(,) Pt. 2

The Breeders- All Nerve

The Vaccines- Combat Sports

CZARFACE- Czarface Meets Metal Face

Laurence Pike- Distant Early Warning

Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band- Bone Reader

Leo Kalyan- The Edge

Hayley Kyoko- Expectations

Tristen- Sneaker Waves

Thelonious Monk- Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana- Mehliana: Taming The Dragon

Amy Rigby- Til The Wheels Fall Off, Little Fugitive, The Old Guys

BLACKPINK- BLACKPINK IN YOUR AREA

Rose Cousins- Natural Conclusion

Nora Jane Struthers- Champion

Lilly Hiatt- Trinity Lane

The Rolling Stones- The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones No. 2, Out of Our Heads, Aftermath

MAST- Thelonious Sphere Monk

The 1975- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

Jhene Aiko- Trip

Don Bryant- Don’t Give up on Love

EMA- Exile in the Outer Ring

Small Believer- Anna Tivel

Vera Sola- Shades

Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy

Darkthrone- A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers- Years

Goat Girl- Goat Girl

Vic Mensa- HOOLIGANS

Unknown Mortal Orchestra- Sex & Food

Alasdair Roberts, Amble Scuse & David McGuiness- What News

Kali Uchis- Isolation

Wye Oak- The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs

Migos- Culture II

Hinds- I Don’t Run

DRINKS- Hippo Lite

Alexis Taylor- Beautiful Thing

Jenny Wilson- EXORCISM

[darkside-music-blog]

Mercury Prize 2018 shortlist has been announced!

We are at that point in the year where we are finally given the shortlist for the Hyundai Mercury Prize. Selected by a panel of independent judges they have put together a list consisting of the 12 best albums released in the past year.

Albums on the shortlist are:

Arctic Monkeys – ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’ Everything Everything – ‘A Fever Dream’ Everything is Recorded – ‘Everything is Recorded’ Florence + The Machine – ‘High as Hope’ Jorja Smith – ‘Lost & Found’ King Krule – ‘The Ooz’ Lily Allen – ‘No Shame’ Nadine Shah – ‘Holiday Destination’ Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Who Built the Moon?’ Novelist – ‘Novelist Guy’ Sons of Kemet – ‘Your Queen is a Reptile’ Wolf Alice – ‘Visions of a Life’

Here is our guide to this years shortlist.

Our Favourite to Win - Wolf Alice - ‘Visions of a Life’

There was always a little bit of worry for Wolf Alice fans that the band would not produce an album as good as their critically acclaimed debut. But the band showed us really why we had no reason to be worried. The album shows off so many different styles and they nail all of them. The many different genres on the album was not to everyone's taste as they claimed it made the album sound messy and unorganised, however, the mix-up of all the different genres makes for an excellent listen and the album does flow from song to song. It is one of our favourite albums of the year, and as a whole offers a completely different sound. after making the shortlist back in 2015 for ‘My Love is Cool’ and not being chosen as the winner, they thoroughly deserve the prize this time around.

Controversial?  - Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino

Well, who would have predicted this album from Arctic Monkeys? A piano-driven album showing off a more mellow side of Alex Turner and Arctic Monkeys. It sounds like a soundtrack to a sci-fi thriller. After the success of AM, you can definitely see why they decided to take such a massive change in musical direction. It is a hard act to follow and fans and critics would have easily been disappointed with another same sounding album struggling to reach the quality of its older brother. Instead by creating something completely different, some fans will still be disappointed and dislike the new direction immediately. But the true Arctic Monkey fans will have given a listen and made an opinion without comparing it directly to their previous work. It is to be expected that it still wouldn't be everyone’s cup of tea, however, the album shows off Alex Turner’s diverse musical talent and over time even more people are growing to like it. It id Arctic Monkey’s 4th nomination and with 1 win already are they going to join PJ Harvey as only the second artist to have multiple wins?

Should have been included?

With only 12 albums able to make the shortlist, there are always going to be albums that deserve to be included that unfortunately miss the cut. With the likes of Young Fathers, Shame and The Wombats all missing out on the cut, I would not have liked to be on the judging panel and have to choose only 12 albums.

If there is one album that we feel deserved to be included it would be:

Shame - ‘Songs of Praise’

For us, ‘Songs of Praise’ was one of the most underrated albums of the year. There were so many people who loved it, but we also found that not enough people had even realised it existed. It lead to them performing on Jools Holland and several festival slots around Europe but still it felt like we were telling people how good it was, expecting them to have heard it when they hadn't. Lyrically they have produced a masterpiece and musically it shows off extreme levels of talent as well. This is our favourite debut album in the past year and we feel it definitely deserved a spot on the shortlist.

What albums do you feel deserved to be included on the shortlist. Tweet us @DarkSideMusic__ 

[artfilmfan]

Favorite music of 2017

1. Perfume Genius – No Shape 2. St. Vincent – Masseduction 3. Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun 4. Nadine Shah – Holiday Destination 5. Torres – Three Futures 6. Alexandra Savior – Belladonna of Sadness 7. Angel Olsen – Phases 8. Ibeyi – Ash 9. Scott Walker – The Childhood of a Leader Original Soundtrack 10. Emma Ruth Rundle – Marked for Death 11. Fever Ray – Plunge 12. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet 13. K. Flay – Every Where is Some Where 14. Aurora – All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend 15. Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps 16. Pixx – The Age of Anxiety 17. Queens of The Stone Age – Villains 18. Sneaks – It's a Myth 19. The Handmaiden Original Soundtrack 20. Zola Jesus - Okovi

[whoarethegirls]

you guys listened to holiday destination by nadine shah recently

[plattenabendonline]

Nadine Shah - Holiday destination

Agnes

[dstrachan]

‘VIEWS FROM THE EDGE’ - w/c 21st September 2020

apologies, due to technical issues the first airing of the week on Mad Wasp Radio was ‘slightly’ transposed with part 2 playing first and then the the first 20 minutes repeating before part 1 started :-(   can’t keep the gremlins away all the time.  Still managed to include all the Kate Pierson tracks ;-)

The Ramones 'Chop Suey'

Siouxsie & the Banshees 'Hong Kong Garden'

Ms. Dynamite 'Judgement Day'  

Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson 'Candy'

Nadine Shah 'Holiday Destination'

Prep 'Cheapest Flight'

Tat 'Taking It All' ELO 'All Over The World'

David Bowie 'China Girl'

Sasaki Saishin 'Silent Spring'

Emelie Autumn 'I Know Where You Sleep'

Cado Belle 'Stone's Throw From Nowhere'

Nina Simone 'See Line Woman'

Lil' Kim & Mya & Christina Aguilera & P!nk 'Lady Marmalade (Thunderpuss Radio Mix)'  not TD1

Lisbee Stainton 'The Archives'

Anna Renae 'Far From Sanity'

Georgia Cécile 'Always Be Right For Me'

Tizane 'He Took It All Back'

Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, and David Freiberg  'Across The Board'

Jefferson Starship 'It's About Time'

The Fugees 'A Change Is Gonna Come (BBC session)'

The Velvet Underground & Nico 'All Tomorrow's Parties'

REM 'Shiny Happy People'

The B52s 'Roam'

Various Artists 'We Are Family'

Sly & the Family Stone 'Family Affair'