Reviewing your parents' music collection
In 2018 Australian songwriter Stella Donnelly broke my heart with Boys Will Be Boys, the second song on her magnificent debut EP Thrush Metal. She simply cracked it right open, split it down the middle until silent tears streamed down my cheeks and dripped from my chin. In 2019 she had me crying again by… Continue reading Remembering 2019: Australia’s Finest – Stella Donnelly’s “Beware of the Dogs”
A blue Peugeot 407. The seats are black if I remember correctly. I'm sitting in the backseat, on the right side because I'm the youngest. I love this car, it feels so cool, so grown-up. I believe it can go faster than any other car on the planet. It feels incredibly big, like it could… Continue reading This Land Must Change or Land Must Burn – Midnight Oil Re-Invent the Political Rock Album with “Diesel and Dust”
I feel like I am expanding my collection of weirdly titled albums with this next choice of 'albums that shaped my 2019', including a record I discovered in April on another late night google spree. Deus Sex Machina: Or, Moving Slowly Beyond Nikola Tesla by Sons of an Illustrious Father is a rare beauty, synthesising… Continue reading Remembering 2019: A 21st Century Masterpiece – Sons of an Illustrious Father’s “Deus Sex Machina: Or, Moving Slowly Beyond Nikola Tesla”
In the summer of 2016 I started a spotify playlist to collect all of the best-worst songs ever recorded, most of them in German. Over the years (and with the help of Captain Cool and some other friends with the same wonderful knack for terrible music) this playlist now contains an astonishing 114 songs and… Continue reading Why Am I Doing This To Myself? – Captain Cool Presents: Cristian Steiffen’s “Arbeiter der Liebe”
I have different ways of finding new music. Next to recommendations - either from friends and family or from the sometimes scarily accurate spotify algorithm - I have the tendency to either just type in names or words I find interesting into the search bar to see what music comes up. Or I go on… Continue reading Remembering 2019: A Study in Album Names – AJJ’s “People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World”
The Dad Anthology 