Bristol-based author, poet and cyclist
This, James’s second full album since their reunion, is among their very best. The days of Sit Down and Laid are long, long gone, but James’ fire certainly has not gone out. Indeed it burns brighter here than on any of their albums since, arguably, Whiplash. This is a joyous, life-affirming, uplifting album with dark undertones; […]
Read More James: La Petite MortThe departure of guitarist Chris Urbanowicz, however much Editors have made the best of it in interviews, has left a huge hole in the band’s sound. As a consequence, there is a lot of space in The Weight Of Your Love, filled either with Tom Smith’s fantastic vocals, or worryingly MOR string sections. On first […]
Read More Editors: The Weight Of Your LoveTherapy? are best known for their 1994 album Troublegum which contained such hits as Screamager, Nowhere and Trigger Inside. Since then they have receded from the public and critical consciousness to the extent that I could find no reviews of this album in the mainstream press (plenty of metal and specialist music sites have reviewed […]
Read More THERAPY?: A Brief Crack of Light
Nick Walters 