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The Big Success of ‘Big Calm’.

Morcheeba’s first studio album was the Trippy sounding, ‘Who Can You Trust’ in 1996. It did not fair particularly well in the charts but it certainly brought them a much larger following. Several of the tracks got quite a bit of airplay and Skye Edwards was noted by critics for her dreamy voice. However, their finest moment came in 1997 when they followed up their debut with ‘Big Calm’.

This time Morcheeba went into the studio with far more experience. More

A Street Legal Named Desire.

I can remember the very first time that I heard ‘Desire’ by Bob Dylan. I had been going through a period of looking into his music and I was becoming very familiar with his classic songs like; ‘Don’t Think Twice’, ‘The Mighty Quinn’, ‘I Shall Be Released’ and ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’. However, nothing had prepared me for what I was about to hear… Dylan had always been famed for his protest songs but this album tackled them from a More

Classic Albums - Songs of Love And Hate.

Leonard Cohen has written some cracking songs over the forty-three years that he has been in the music business. There are probably at least three of his albums that could be described as ‘classics’ but, for me, his greatest work has to be; ‘Songs of Love and Hate’.

A lot of people think of Cohen’s music as being depressing and I suppose that some of it is. Unfortunately, I have probably chosen the gloomiest album from his whole career… Saying More