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Retro Records: The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” "Pet Sounds" manages to expertly blend popular music with experimentation, combining the tight harmonies of ‘doo-wop’ with some of the most innovative arrangement and composition in modern music.

Ranking the best albums of the twentieth century, Rolling Stone placed Pet Sounds, the 1966 album by The Beach Boys, second only to The Beatles’ Sgt Peppers’ Lonely Hearts Club Band. In the case of ‘best’ films, albums or books there … Continue reading Retro Records: The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” “Pet Sounds” manages to expertly blend popular music with experimentation, combining the tight harmonies of ‘doo-wop’ with some of the most innovative arrangement and composition in modern music.

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Retro Records: Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Lion and the Cobra’ In Tn2's most recent instalment of Retro Records, Caoimhe White looks back at an album that launched Sinéad O'Connor to stardom.

To dedicate a Retro Records slot to an album encountered just over a week ago may seem counter-intuitive. However, the transcendental qualities of Sinéad O’Connor’s thirty-year-old debut, Lion and the Cobra, are such that the listener is immediately entranced, yearning … Continue reading Retro Records: Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Lion and the Cobra’ In Tn2’s most recent instalment of Retro Records, Caoimhe White looks back at an album that launched Sinéad O’Connor to stardom.