Nite Songs

  Welcome to the July edition of the Singles Bar. The weather outside's a bit scorching so come on in and we'll fix you up with a cold one. Please peruse at your leisure... *** Well I guess the big news this month is a new single from The Cult , their first in three years no less. Pleased to report that Give Me Mercy  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑) is a strong comeback from Astbury and Duffy with its swooping riff and haunting vocals harking back to the group's classic Love  album. New album due in September and hopefully this is a good omen for it. *** Another exciting development is news of a collaboration between Hi-Fi Sean  (aka Sean Dickson, formerly of the Soup Dragons and Nite Songs faves the High Fidelity) and David McAlmont  who have a new album out later in the year. Maybe  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑) is a good first salvo from it too with Dickson's chilled out electronica and McAlmont's trademark sublime vocals combining to make something good. Recommended. Bandcamp link here ...

PREVIOUSLY IN THIS COLUMN:   Intro  •  Part 1 (50-41)  • Part 2 (40-31) And so we enter Nite Songs' Top 30 worst albums ever. From veteran rockers losing the plot to bands who arguably never had said plot in the first place, it's a truly grim selection of musical atrociousness we've got for you today. Shall we begin?... 30. SUEDE - "A New Morning" (2001) Probably one of the most disappointing swansong albums of the post-Britpop era. We've already covered Suede in the  Garbage Days Revisited  section of this blog and I was a huge fan of theirs growing up. Unfortunately,  A New Morning  was the sound of a band who had pretty much run out of road and it wasn't a big surprise that it turned out to be their last release for a decade. Following Brett Anderson's decision to get clean following his drugs issues during the recording of the band's previous effort  Head Music , Suede were promising that their next album would see them moving into more u...