“You’re thinking about this music all the time as opposed to just simply listening to it – enjoying it or not enjoying it.”
Tag: 4ad
My favourite albums of 2021
“If asked, “What are your favourite records this year?” I hum and ha. Yet, ask me my favourite records of 1981 and I could write you a (small) book. “
Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive) interview
“First question and I’m ready to walk into the ocean, thanks for the hardest interview ever. Let’s see who survives.”
Piano Magic Diaries : Writers Without Homes
“Take the head of a duck, the body of a goat, the legs of a rhino, the tail of a cat, stitch them altogether and see what you have. It may not be beautiful but it’s certainly interesting.”
Cocteau Twins, 4AD, The Mary Chain & Other Stories – An Interview with Colin Wallace
“I was talking to Ivo recently and he said if Vaughan (Oliver) was still alive, he would’ve designed a mask with a big vagina on it!”
Arcane Delights, Radio Show 5, 4AD Special (CAMP Radio 28/11/20)
Music In The Margins
If only I could get up before 9am…(My Record Store 2020 picks for August 29th)
“Re-issue, re-package, please the press in Belgium?”
The Wolfgang Press – ‘Queer’ (4AD/Time Warner, 1991/1992)
“The city is weird now, like all cities are weird now—but Queer still thrills; it still makes me want to move.”
A.R.Kane – ‘Lollita’ (4AD, 1987)
“Our music was like Hendrix and the Pistols. Jesus, we were nasty, we didn’t give a shit, we were totally self-indulgent.”
Insides – ‘Euphoria’ (Guernica, 1993)
“We’re not interested in being experimental or difficult. I see ‘Euphoria’ as this Astrid Gilberto thing, or even like the Bjork album: something pleasant, something nice.”
Arcane Delights 