Wednesday 8 February 2023

2022: Music, Books, Films and Television


Music: Albums

  • Beach House: Once Twice Melody (****)
  • Brian Eno: FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (***)
  • David Bowie: Moonage Daydream - A Film By Brett Morgen (****)
  • Debit: The Long Count (***)
  • Katia Krow: The Observer Of The Idle Spectacle (***)
  • Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island (***)
  • Oliver Coates: The Stranger (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (****)
  • Porcupine Tree: Closure/ Continuation (*****)
  • Russian Circles: Gnosis (****)
  • Zguba: Znój (****)

 

Music: Concerts

  • Jeff Beck: The Sage, Gateshead, 02/06/2022 (****)
  • Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets: O2 City Hall, Newcastle, 03/05/2022 (****)
  • Nine Inch Nails: O2 Apollo, Manchester, 20/06/2022 (*****)
  • Porcupine Tree: OVO Arena Wembley, London, 11/11/2022 (****)
  • Sigur Rós: O2 Academy Brixton, London, 10/11/2022 (*****)

 

Books

  • Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim (****)
  • David Byrne: How Music Works (*****)
  • Maureen Callahan: American Predator (****)
  • Helen Cresswell: Moondial (***)
  • John Grisham: A Time to Kill (***)
  • John Grisham: The Chamber (****)
  • Guesdon & Margotin: Pink Floyd: All the Songs (****)
  • Dara Horn: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (***)
  • Anne Kavan: Ice (**)
  • Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner: Heat 2 (***)
  • Daphne du Maurier: The Doll: Short Stories (****)
  • Daphne du Maurier: Echoes from the Macabre (****)
  • Daphne du Maurier: Frenchman’s Creek (***)
  • Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn (***)
  • Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (****)
  • Haruki Murakami: After Dark (***)
  • Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart (****)
  • Nicholas Pileggi: Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (***)
  • Michael Pollan: How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (*****)
  • Chil Rajchman: The Last Jew Of Treblinka (second reading) (*****)
  • Richard Rashke: Escape From Sobibor (***)
  • Elie Wiesel: Night (second reading) (****)
  • Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (****)
  • Oscar Wilde: A House of Pomegranates (***)
  • Rosalind Wiseman: Queen Bees & Wannabes (***)
  • Stefan Zweig: Beware of Pity (second reading) (*****)
  • Stefan Zweig: Memoirs of a European (****)

 

Films

  • The Banshees of Inisherin (***)
  • Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (****)
  • Drive My Car (***)
  • In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 (****)
  • Licorice Pizza (***)
  • Moonage Daydream (*****)
  • Operation Mincemeat (***)
  • The Stranger (****) 
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (***)
  • White Noise (***)

 

Television

  • Better Call Saul, Season 6 (****)
  • Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (***)
  • How to Change Your Mind (***)
  • Louis Theroux: Forbidden America (****)
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth (***)
  • Meltdown: Three Mile Island (****)
  • The Midwich Cuckoos (***)
  • Once Upon a Time in Londongrad (****)
  • Star Wars: Andor (****)
  • Stranger Things, Season 4 (***)