Welcome to the twelfth edition of the annual “The Acoustic Egg Box Review Of The Year”. Yes, it’s late again. No, it’s no less rambling. And it certainly doesn’t get any easier to compile, that’s for sure. I started the review this year with 101 albums, which I somehow managed to whittle down to a
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By not publishing my review of 2024 until the end of February 2025, it means that it hasn’t been lost amongst all the other reviews of 2024. Anyway, that’s my excuse, and I’m standing by it. Despite what some people have claimed, it was yet another phenomenally good year for new music releases. Maybe the
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As fashionably late as always, here’s the world-renowned and long-awaited (who are you kidding mister) The Acoustic Egg Box review for the year of our lord twenty twenty-three. This has been the most time-consuming and challenging one to compile yet. Not least because the quality of music released has been higher than ever, and reducing
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“Don’t use cliches”, they say in the “how-to-write-better” manuals, however, hasn’t the year flown by: you’re looking well: haven’t you grown! They say time accelerates as you get older and, worryingly, as I’m about to enter a “milestone” birthday year, it appears that Lewis Hamilton has jumped into my personal cockpit and is now hurtling
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THE OBLIGATORY INTRODUCTION A warm welcome to readers old, new and indifferent to the annual Acoustic Egg Box Top 30 Albums Of The Year. Yes, it’s late as always (my blog, my deadlines…) and I’d dearly love to say “better late than never”, but unfortunately it’s as ramshackle, inaccurate, and subject to ridicule as ever.
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It’s November already! How the hell did that creep up on us so soon… Around about now, us country folk start foraging in the hedgerows for nuts, berries and roadkill to see us through the winter. It’s also the time when my thoughts turn to compiling The Acoustic Egg Box Top 30 Albums Of The
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As I’m a big fan of Stone Foundation and have followed their progress since they released “Small Town Soul” back in 2008, I’m going to start this review with a personal observation… Although Paul Weller produced, wrote for and sang on Stone Foundation’s 2016 album “Street Rituals”, and has been involved to varying degrees with
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So, here we are again with the annual rambling bollocks of a man barely in touch with reality, let alone the ability to string a coherent sentence together. You may have noticed that the rampant success of COVID19 in 2020 has been a bit of a pisser on so many levels, not least the fact
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In an annual tradition that’s rapidly taking on as much importance as the Queen’s Christmas Message, remembering to remove the plastic bag containing the turkey giblets, and avoiding Mrs Brown and her Boys until they’ve all been imprisoned on a remote Scottish island without any form of communication, I bring you the first instalment of
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So here we are then, the ten best albums of 2017 as decided by the sole judging panel that is The Acoustic Egg Box. It was great to see new acts like Bette Smith and Childhood releasing music that bodes well for their future success, an outfit as hard-working and talented as Stone Foundation FINALLY
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