Nite Songs

  So here we go then, our favourite ten albums of 2020. Big thanks once again to everyone who's given this site a read over the last six months since we set it up and taken an interest in the demented gibberings within. And quite frankly, I think we can all agree, good bloody riddance to this awful year. We'll be back in 2021 with the usual mix of reviews and features but we're going to take a few days off to recuperate after how insanely busy December has been here. We're just about caught up with our review backlog now so we figure we deserve a bit of a break! Have a great New Year whatever you do folks and we'll see you on the other side... *** 10. BEANS ON TOAST - "Knee Deep In Nostalgia" ( Bandcamp ) ( Review )/"The Unforeseeable Future" ( Bandcamp ) ( Review ) Released on the same day, these two albums show the two different sides of Beans on Toast. While Knee Deep In Nostalgia , produced by Frank Turner, was a warm and gentle full studio a...

  As the name suggests, the Sensible Gray Cells are a collaboration between the Damned duo of Captain Sensible and Paul Gray. The group first came to our attention with 2013's rather good A Postcard From Britain  album, a searing but humorous look at the state of the nation. With Gray having rejoined the Damned since then, it looked as though SGC would be taking a bit of a back seat but with the group currently taking a quick breather, the pair have got together to record a follow-up. Essentially this is the sound of the more psychedelic end of the Damned's catalogue. While the straightforward opener Sell Her Spark (an ode to Cap's beloved Crystal Palace) is fairly standard fare, the title track sounds like a more psychedelic version of Madness and desperately urges the people of the world to get off their phones and look at what's going on around them. The cautionary tale of middle age Don't Say I Didn't Warn Ya meanwhile sounds like a halfway bridge between ...