Alexis Petridis on random music finds

'The tape that made my daughter scream'Here's a sentence you don't read every day: last Sunday afternoon, our kitchen was brought to a standstill by the sound of a broken-down fairground ride with its calliope in a state of terrible disrepair wheezing out a wildly offkey version of Tom Jones's It's Not Unusual. The reactions among the Petridis family ranged from hilarity (me) to wild, howling terror (Agatha, aged one), both of which somehow seemed right: it was both uproariously funny and deeply...

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