Another Cover to Cherish

Having posted our ten favourite covers of the year yesterday, we completely omitted this one, which would easily have gatecrashed the top three. It is Laura Marling’s wonderful cover of Neil Young’s The Needle And The Damage Done, which is the b-side to her latest, limited edition vinyl single produced by Jack White. Watch the excellent stop-motion animation video by Redman & Sasufi. Continue reading Another Cover to Cherish

Mad Mackerel’s Albums of the Year

So after much deliberation, head scratching, discussion, and more head scratching, we have MM’s favourite albums of 2010. And we choose our words very carefully here, because we would not presume them to be the best, only those that have given us the most pleasure and enjoyment, records that we have returned to again and again, and for whatever reason have captured a moment or … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Albums of the Year