Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our HolidaysThe trajectory that Fairport Convention took in the space of four albums and two years is one of the most remarkable in British popular music. These records contain some of the most storied names not just in British, but world music. From a bunch of school friends setting out to be 'the British Jefferson Airplane', over the course of their first quartet of releases, the group metamorphosed into the leading exponents of British folk rock. In the way

The Knife reached yet another pinnacle with ‘Silent Shout’

just as Covid and lockdown kicked in

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The process steadily teased out a language and Void employed a variety of tactics in the recording process including a methodical approach of collecting data at her home studio in a manner not dissimilar to keeping a diary

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“We had an album’s worth of songs that was some of our best material

fusing a pained attentive realism and radiant lightness about new love

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But this proved to be their strength

forming a comprehensive picture of the massive changes the planet has gone through over the eons

Without rocking some safety goggles and diving headfirst down a terminology rabbithole

Pressed on colour vinyl for the first time (green