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They are not coming back. Sooner or later, anyone who’s been through a relationship’s end must come to grips with that simple fact. Electronic was a generically-named supergroup comprised of Bernard Sumner (Joy Division/New Order) and Johnny Marr (The Smiths, … Continue reading Song Spotlight: Breakup Songs

The Go-Betweens’ “Cattle and Cane” is an atmospheric reverie composed on a comatose Nick Cave’s guitar and filled with fragments of evocative imagery (I really like “his father’s watch, he left it in the showers”) from songwriter Grant McLennan’s youth … Continue reading Song Spotlight: Go-Betweens, “Cattle and Cane”