Mark J WrayGorton girls, Francis Benali, and the lost art of not knowing.It was not unusual, it has to be said, to spot graffiti in Manchester. Not something to make me stop and take notice, but one piece I saw…4 min read·May 6, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Album I Love — 2. The Raincoats : The RaincoatsEvery Album I Love is a series where I try to write about every album that I love, or die trying. Sometimes I’ll explain why I love them…4 min read·Mar 24, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 9. Courtney Barnett : DeprestonEvery Song I Love is a series where I try to write about every song that I love, or die trying. Sometimes I’ll explain why I love them…4 min read·Mar 23, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 8. Le Tigre : DeceptaconEvery Song I Love is a series where I try to write about every song that I love, or die trying. Sometimes I’ll explain why I love them…4 min read·Mar 17, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 7. Haley Heynderickx : Oom Sha La LaEvery good song is a series where I try to write about every song that I love, or die trying. Sometimes I’ll explain why I love them…4 min read·Mar 13, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Album I Love — 1. Nirvana — NevermindNot content with trying to write a blog about every song I love, I thought I would make the task doubly impossible by also trying to write…5 min read·Mar 3, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 6. DJ Mujava : Township FunkI’m not really sure why it took me quite so long to become a music blogger. Blogs really started to take off in the early 2000s, around…4 min read·Feb 19, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 5. Daphne & Celeste: You and I AloneIf you’d told me back in 2000, that I would one day be writing a blog series about every good song by anybody, and that one of my first…5 min read·Feb 16, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 4. Ella Fitzgerald : How High The Moon (Live in Berlin)I’m not, generally, a fan of live albums. They tend to lack of the sound quality of studio recordings, but also never really reproduce the…4 min read·Feb 12, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 3. Tracy Chapman: Fast CarMusic was the first thing in my life that made me comfortable expressing my emotions. At my dad’s funeral, it was the music that ultimate…3 min read·Feb 6, 2024----