The Lilac Time : Astronauts Badly Drawn Boy Nice Work If You Can

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Carmen McRae

Simultaneously looking back and forward in his music development

The Beachland Ballroom - IDLES

and Fucking Pigs - Anaal Nathrakh

The Lilac Time : Astronauts Badly Drawn Boy Nice Work If You CanWith the shoegaze and baggy movements at their zenith, The Lilac Time's fourth album was released at a moment when the left field music zeitgeist was shaped by the nascent shoegaze, baggy and grunge movements. Whilst Astronauts conformed to none of those trends, neither was it the record Stephen had in his head when he finally finished working on it. We'll never know how that record would have sounded, but it's hard to imagine a better version of the