Daily Vault debut

Posted: Monday, November 10th, 2008

As someone who is a complete music addict and gigaholic, I figured I may as well start honing my album reviewing skills - preferably for an audience of someone other than myself. I haven’t quite mastered the staged snobbery required for some sites, so have instead joined the writing team over at The Daily Vault. Unfortunately they’ve already reviewed much of Ben Folds’ discography, which rules out half of my CD collection.

Today, my review of Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (one of my favourite albums of 2008) has been posted.

Who Killed Amanda Palmer? is nothing short of a masterpiece. This disc manages to transcend genres from track to track and still seem like doing so is the most natural thing in the world. It simultaneously builds on her past works and signals a new era of creative output. For our sake, let’s hope it’s a long one.

And jeez, she wasn’t kidding about the video for the latest single Oasis being designed to offend the religious right (but try getting it out of your head):

I’ve also reviewed the new Snow Patrol (which, astoundingly, achieved a remarkably generous Pitchfork rating of 4.9).

In other semi-music-related news, I’m off to a Never Mind the Buzzcocks taping tomorrow night. Hopefully this time we’ll get in…