The Music Box.
Entries about the music I like.
Thoughts on the Associates' Party Fears Two
On Party Fears Two, the Associates’ Billy Mackenzie makes 1 odd vocal choice after another; he takes chances that would be recommended by neither vocal coach nor armchair music nerd. But it’s because of these choices that when I try to describe the sound of the single, I think not to say early new wave, or minimally arranged proto-eighties, or melodic synth-based post-punk.
Punk music
At the start of the covid crisis, I started sharing happy dispatches including a few of my favourite things to make it easier to get through the crisis. This dispatch includes a playlist of punk music and its several offshoots: post-punk, pop-punk, hardcore, post-hardcore & new wave.