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A friend sent me this article following the passing of Brian Wilson. https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/14/brian-wilson-was-a-musical-genius-are-there-any-left It got me thinking again about something that crosses my mind on the odd occasion – Do we have any musical geniuses active today. It is something brought to keen focus after 2016 took both David Bowie and Prince…

Long time no see, blogosphere. Between burn out, job changes, eviction followed by property buying, and general life, it hasn’t left much bandwidth to be indulging in considered musical analysis. My music diet is nothing compared to 2020 either so even if I did write often, the quality would likely suffer. So apologies for the radio silence but I will be committing to produce at least an annual…

Long time no see...

Subtitle: I finally got Covid Live music has had a torrid time through the pandemic years. An entire year cancelled and another where any gigs scheduled outside of festival season became subject to inevitable rescheduling or reduced audience numbers by design or reaction. We are entering year three of this plague and live music is returning to some vision of its former self. Unless I am…

Friday Five – March 2021

This Week Month at Musikigai Welcome back to Friday Five. It’s been a minute! Apologies to regular readers who value the weekly dose of top tier tunes. This post has been drafted at least three times now (including losing a competed draft entirely!). Unfortunately March was repeatedly unkind towards the blog as my day job would kick up on Thursdays and Fridays – which of course are the writing…

Friday Five - 26 February 2021. Featuring Mogwai, Wolf Alice, Chet Faker, St Panther and KASSEO with album of the week from Mogwai.

This Week at Musikigai I took a long weekend after the shenanigans that led to two late posts and a bit of burn out and I’ve had too engage a little self care and down time in the days since but bouncing back just as strong. We all have dips and need time out and it’s important to acknowledge and actually give yourself that time. My main vice at the moment is my phone but a good book and some…

Friday Five – 19 February 2021

This Week at Musikigai What a a hectic week. I’m posting two posts today to catch up on Friday Five. My mantra for ‘never miss a Friday’ has been missed not once but twice but life will take over sometimes (in this case work kicking off and a bit of insomnia) so we just get back on the road with a catch up edition. Who doesn’t want double music? Let’s have double music! (Both posts posted as…

Friday Five – 12 February 2021

This Week at Musikigai This week on Friday Five things are not as they seem. I mean we still have 5 tracks and an album of the week and your intrepid curator is still here wittering nonsense. However the tracks themselves this week all could have the impression of one thing but are of such finesse, quality or subtle idiosyncrasy that they avoid the boxes they could otherwise fit into. Or thats…

Friday Five - 4 February 2021 featuring Nervous Dater, Cassandra Jenkins, Dub Pistols, Arlo Parks and Soulwax remixing Fontaines D.C. and album of the week from Foo Fighters.

This Week at Musikigai Another week goes by and everything and nothing happens. A vaccination for your curator last weekend went with only the minor hitch of my phone dying on the way there and so getting mildly lost. Already needing two charges a day when at home I was straight online to take the plunge on a new phone (arriving next week). Well it has been 6 years, so that’s pretty good going.…

Friday Five – 29 January 2021

This Week at Musikigai It was the closest I have ever come to enjoying r/wallstreetbets but ‘sweet tendies’ still eludes me. Hilarious memes and chaotic justice abound this week as the people take on the hedge funds and they don’t know how to respond other than exposing how rigged the game really is. This has nothing to do with music, it was just the only entertaining thing to happen this week.…

Friday Five – 22 January 2021

This Week at Musikigai Last weekend the lockdown and all this Covid bullshit finally got to me after 10 months of stoicism and introverted relief. Not in a depressed way or a frustrated way but more of a defeated way where everything felt a bit numb. From the ashes flies a phoenix though and this week in work has been awesome. I have a new productivity method hitting its stride (basically to-do…

Friday Five - 15 January 2021. We're back with fresh tunes every Friday. This week #foofighters #burial #viagraboys #kingsofleon #porridgeradio

This Week at Musikigai Here we go again folks! Same rubbish, different year but some new tasty tunes to soundtrack it all. Christmas and New Year was a welcome break for your curator filled with fine dining, moderate drinking and late nights filled with movies and video games. The lack of travelling around the country due to our microbial friends was a welcome change of pace from the normal…

Albums of the Year 2020

2020 is a year for the history books. When I started this blog, Covid-19 was a flu bug in China making bottom billing on international news. Now as I write up my end of year lists it has dominated and changed our lives in ways only dystopian fiction could have previously imagined. I sit in a freshly locked down London as many friends are facing Christmas on their own, having been cut off from…

Friday Five - Christmas Edition (11 December 2020) featuring Sia, Skinny Lister with Beans on toast, Frank Turner, Coldplay, Wolf ALice and Phoebe Bridgers

This Week at Musikigai Your intrepid curator has hit the wall for this year. It’s the end of term feeling dominating these parts this week. The day job is packed in until the new year today and I’m looking to take 3 weeks to myself to restore and recover from a bit of burn out across multiple areas of life. As such, there will be no Friday Five for the rest of the year. Music releases are thin…

Friday Five - 4 December featuring Lecrae, Phoebe Bridgers, Matt Berninger, Fiona Apple and Vintage Trouble

This Week at Musikigai You know the end of the year is near when Spotify Unwrapped appears. Yes Wednesday this week was awash with everyone sharing their top listens, boasting on their listened minutes and new artist counts. Since you didn’t ask, 520 new artists from 1667 total, 37k minutes listened and Caribou got top artist and 3 songs on the top 5. It feels wrong though – I must have really…

Friday Five – 27 November

This Week at Musikigai

Happy Thanksgiving to Amerifriends and Bon Chance in Black Friday for getting those deals whether game console, TV or records in RSD BF edition.

Get ready for Spotify unwrapped – I expect weird and wonderful things from mine this year given the launch of this project and the extra usage it has had as a result. Let me know how you get on when it lands – I’ll be posting…

Friday Five - 30 November 2020. This week with Bonobo, Vintage Trouble, Django Django, Beans on Toast and Pink Floyd

This week at Musikigai was a rough week medically but a great week technology-y. PS5 arrived in good time and order and has been phenomenal. Your musical curator here got the platinum trophy on Astro’s Playroom (the tech demo platform game for the new Dualsense controller) within hours of it’s arrival and is now enjoying Miles Morales – a much more refined and slick edition from the same stock as…

Friday Five – 13 November 2020

Congratulations America! Since I wrote last week it is confirmed that Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States and the world, my homeland of Britain included sighs in relief while you party.

To more musical matters the Fatboy Slim Back to Mine compilation has been in high rotation for me this week but not much music listening happened due to the excitement of new consoles…