Year: 2002

Since this is one of my favourite groups and also an owner of one of the POPISM’s best albums of all times (the s/t debut from 1998), a certain dose of subjectivism must be tolerated […]

I’m not sure if it’s really the case here, but Tony Valenziano, the man behind the Smile label that makes us do exactly that, could make his A & R-ing pretty easy. The only thing […]

Scottish popsters Aerial burst onto the UK scene in 2000 playing a brand of pop that appealed to both indie kids and power pop fans. They released two four songs EPs on Fantastic Plastic, and […]

Even though it’s a re-release of a six-song EP from 1997, this album will surely find it’s place on many year lists, because of the whole bunch of bonuses, and even extra bonuses, adding a […]

Somewhere in a fairer world, or maybe more competent one, the name of Ken Stringfellow would be written in golden letters in some so called “R’n’R Hall of fame”, but as things are now, even […]

Joe Mannix is back after his Californian chase for the lost love. This time it’s a solo effort (with a little help from his friends, as it happens in such cases) tracing down the folk […]

Just as the band’s name partly suggests, RockFour is a fourpiece whose material can be easily placed into the “rock” genre but, what you can’t see from their name is a bunch of sound-digressions to […]

It rarely happens that some outtakes/demos/alternate-mixes collection can be equaled to the regular album release, and it’s exactly the case with this one. As Michael says himself, if he can’t make the song happen just […]