Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 80s and 90s. A genuine working class rock mag, written and edited by "the lads" in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, it was just too R n’R for its own good, falling behind more trainspotterly publications like Q, Kerrang, and Mojo. This website is an archive and kind of shrine to the writing of its greatest "hacks," most of whom have faded in embarrassing middle age, with at least one of them having a Smule account.
Wow, a collaborative album between two dissimilar musicians that's actually worth listening to! And here I didn't think it was possible (*cough cough* Loutallica *cough cough*). Love This Giant seems pretty strange on paper with its brass arrangements, but it gels far better than you think, with St. Vincent and Byrne providing alternating whimsical and aristocratic vocals over a cacophony of booming sax and trombone lines. The album takes a ding for a marked absence of guitars and the blatantly artificial drum programming, but Love This Giant is otherwise far better than an album like it deserves to be.
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