Record Reconstructor

  Dashboard! It's been seventeen and a half years since my first date with my partner Catherine;  we met, as was the style at the time - before internet dating became an entirely different environment (as I understand, I myself have been out of the game for a while you see, but I hear horror stories) - on Match.com, exchanged a few messages, enough to arrange a meeting for coffee the week before Christmas at the Showroom Cinema Bar in Sheffield.  I told her much later on that during that first date, when I went to the bathroom, the fly zip on my jeans broke completely and I spent the second half of that date very subtly draping my jacket over my crotch area to prevent her from thinking I was either unable to dress myself or giving very inappropriate signals.  Our second date was a week after New Year, and the rest is history.   For two people who spend a lot of time listening to and discussing and sharing music, we somehow don't have 'a song'.  No firs...

Dashboard! If there was ever any evidence that there's no established plan, no constructed content distribution schedule to this blog, let it be this - because I did a last minute pivot and devoted an entire article to this week to just a single album, this week's wrap up has thirty different albums I need to scoop up into a single post.  So I apologise is this post is interminably long, or if I cover an album with just a passing glance before moving on.  I'm also up against a deadline to get this written and published before getting in the car and driving over to Manchester for my annual Superbowl party with my friend Tom and some of my other regular NFL fantasy friends/bitter rivals. Let's just crack on, shall we? God, I'm such a nerd.  Sometimes I just need a little inspiration for where to go inside my mental band rolodex and start picking stuff to listen to, and this occurred to me last week when I listened to Silversun Pickup's Carnavas .  Well, this week ...