Monthly Archives: November 2025

              Nostalgia Deathstar : They Kill The Flame (State Of Bass) CD | LP | Bandcamp Our Score Nostalgia are a beautiful contradiction very much on their own terms. Their album of hypnotic electronic music embraces a future that they critique with a steely narrative that deconstructs the Trump era kaos with a nostalgia for an age yet to come. You can also dance to its melancholic Bladerunner beats.  Sean Albiez and…

Ultravox: The Collection (Deluxe Edition) (Chrysalis Records) Released 5 December 2025 CD + Blu-ray | Vinyl | DL | Streaming Our Score   Synth-pop stalwarts Ultravox continue to revamp their back catalogue with this expanded multi-format reissue of their biggest-selling greatest hits album. It now stretches across four CDs, with two Blu-ray discs of videos. It certainly means something to Robert Plummer. Every now and again in pop, the experimental suddenly becomes conventional. As the 1970s turned into…

Hard-working Manchester post-grunge band The Empty Page have added an atmospheric dimension to their music that gives their new single, When We Gonna Run, a haunting, almost shoegaze backdrop to its glorious wall of sound of sound. With the melodic melancholia of Smashing Pumpkins jousting with the twisted pop/noise of  Sonic Youth, The Smiths, and even the atmospheric end of Killing Joke at their apocalyptic balladeering period, it’s an emotive and haunting slice of power. Set in a pre-apocalyptic…

              Where’s the Money Gone?: The Battle for the Soul of English Football  Adrian Goldberg An enthralling read about the death of the beautiful game and how the lack of governance is allowing football club ownership structures to milk the game to death at the expense of the fans. Like some sort of mirror reflection of the rampant capitalism that is wrecking the planet, football is running on empty whilst the owners…