Now this has been a damn long time coming. Portishead [MySpace] were one of my favourite bands when I was at school, and those trip-hop grooves still sound as good now as they ever did. But finally, after a ten year hiatus we are getting something new. Rumours have been circulating about this album, title ‘Third’ for about the past three or four years but only now has it come to fruition. I wish I could post a couple of tracks from it, but none have yet been OK’d for …

The Snazzy compilations have been left a little unattended since October (that is 3 quick months), but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been collecting great tunes to put on this latest update. Here we’ve got some of the sweetest songs you can imagine from Noah and the Whale and Lykke Li, along with the best band to come out of Edinburgh for a long long time, namely Broken Records, and some more crackers that have been sitting in my ‘To Post’ pile for far too long. My dissertation is now …