I now have to restrain myself when writing posts that feature songs from Bad Panda Records, because they almost always end up featuring a sentence or three explaining bewilderment at how Bad Panda keeps finding so many good new songs, or a half-witticism on how I always query how Bad Panda keeps finding so many good new songs.
Browsing: Joe Sparrow
It’s not even worth pretending that ANBAD does not have a soft spot for Welsh music. Better to embrace these little weaknesses, right? Not that anyone could ever, in all honesty, find any negative connotations to anyone having a bias towards the music of a minority language? This becomes especially irrelevant when you realise that Welsh lends itself so beautifully to wistful, lilting songs like Osian Rhys‘ A Oes ‘Na Le (I Oeri Gwres Fy Nghalon).
One of life’s agonising truths is that sometimes, only minimal techno will scratch that aural itch inside your brain.
Life, eh? Just a few days ago I was making a song-and-dance about how there was almost no guitar music…
The laptop and associated technology has freed individuals from the social constraints of being in a band, constantly compromising individual ideals for the good of the group. Now anyone can make the exact music they want; as imagined by them, as controlled by them.