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Song Of The Day: Sleeper – The Sun Also Rises

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Ricky’s Britpop tournament, which he posted to this site recently, acted not just as a fun way to pass the time while everyone’s staying inside, but also as a nice walk down memory lane to the heyday of ’90s Britpop. So we’ll use that an an excuse to check in on Sleeper, one of the acts in Ricky’s bracket who are still at it today. Releasing their debut Smart 25 years ago, the band went on to release their breakthrough …


Song Of The Day: Sleeper – More Than I Do

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  When Britpoppers Sleeper returned this year with a new album, it was a welcome return for fans of the band’s ’90s output. And in naming their first release in over 20 years The Modern Age, the band seemed to be acknowledging that this was the start of a new chapter in their career, albeit one that also picks up from where they left off in many ways. “More Than I Do”, the latest single off the new album, proves …


Ricky’s Favourite Songs of the Year

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I feel like this year my list should come up with an asterisk, as I pretty much stopped absorbing new music when I had to take a 2 month work+fun trip in September to various parts of the world. Still, up until then it was pretty good. Here are some songs I really enjoyed this year in no particular order. Karen O & Michael Kiwanuka – O My Saint This track was penned by Karen O for some Kenzo commercial, …


Retro Song of the Day/Show Preview: Gomez – Get Myself Arrested

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Photo credit: Brantley Gutierrez Gomez’s Bring It On might have been the first or only album I bought on the strength of an award. You see, Bring It On came out around the time I started paying serious attention to music. I had fallen in love with Pulp’s Different Class a few years prior and was pretty content just letting Columbia House/BMG and MuchMusic guide me through the Britpop landscape. It was actually pretty easy to familiarize myself with the …