Month: May 2008

It always seemed a flawed argument, but childhood still tended to come crowded with advice nuggets such as “you can have too much fun you know!”. That particular line seemed at direct loggerheads with the very essence of fun as it had been taught up to that point and was presumed (reasonably correctly) to be an outright lie and part of some larger adult conspiracy. But perhaps here, with Peter Moran’s debut solo album, away from the carefree flippancy of Continue Reading

They’re really the archetypal cult band, dEUS – talk of breakthrough with each passing release, since their mid-90s post-grunge inception, has always been and will always be far-fetched. They do just enough, actually they do plenty, to stay interesting, but only ever skirt unassumingly around the cusp of general accessibility. And if they have a problem, that is it. Always mid-way between interesting and accessible, rarely letting one or the other go the distance, they’re both reassuringly and frustratingly consistent. Continue Reading