Can I Believe You 

So “Shore” came out of a clear blue sky last week and is outstanding. This is not even my favourite track but it comes with this excellent video.

Holy Show 

Out of the blue two exceptional albums arrived this week; the glorious “Shore” by Fleet Foxes and “In Waiting” the stunning debut from Pillow Queens. Given the latter more need the career defining boost gifted to a JRS Friday Song here they are.

Solid Ground 

This is a fantastic version and video from a very deserved Mercury Music prize winner. We should have seen him in Vienna this year but I don’t know if you’ve heard about this Covid thing which is going around?

Burn Too Bright 

Laura Veirs gave us our gig of the year, at the Cluny, in 2018. The background to the new album is here and this is the first release. Great as ever.

Black Dog 

This is enchanting.

The Autorecbots Never Went Away 

We first coined the term “Autorecbots” in 2007 in this post. Since then we have had many, many skirmishes with them including some recent activity. Their task, the attempted reconciliation of contracts, with resultant reductions in SMP, is obviously of major importance to many firms right now. One of the many problems firms face is […]

Overlord 

This is lovely, that’s it.

Magnificent (She Says) 

The Elbowrooms series is one of the many wonderful things conceived under lockdown. This song has always been special to us and as described in the title.

Black 

Kyoto 

The brilliant Phoebe Bridgers has a new album due in a couple of weeks this is the pre-release.