Archive - Necessary Genius

Pulp - Spike Island & Got to Have Love (2025) CC

Got to Have Love features footage from 50 years ago. At a place called Wigan Casino. Or so they tell us.

Aug 1 •

July 2025

Nobody Loves You More - Kim Deal (2024)

Latest Tracks hangs out with one of the Deal sisters and feels a bit melancholy

Jul 31 •

Christine and the Queens & Cerrone - Catching feelings (2025) CC

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Jul 25

Fly - Nick Drake (1970)

Blast from the Past sits on the fence in the sun

Jul 24 •

Dust on the Wind - The Velvet Sundown (2025) CC

Critic's Corner

Jul 18 •

David Byrne - Everybody Laughs (2025) CC

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Jul 18 •

Nice Town - Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam (2024)

Wait! Nice Town or NYC town. Whatever you prefer...

Jul 17 •

Beautiful - Gordon Lightfoot (1972)

You're beautiful tonight

Jul 10 •

David Byrne - Everybody Laughs (2025) CC

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Jul 4 •

I'm So Sorry - Kitty, Daisy & Lewis (2011)

Going ska for latest tracks this time around

Jul 3 •

June 2025

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Jun 27 •

Complainte pour Ste-Cathérine - Kate & Anna McGarrigle (1976)

Blast from the past joins Kate and Anna (and First Aid Kit) in Montreal, Canada, walking down Ste-Cathérine, where you don't look at yourself in windows…

Jun 26 •

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