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Johnny Marr – The Age of Everything

by Raquel Pinheiro

The Age of Everything, Johnny Marr’s fifth solo studio album came out a week ago.

It’s the first album in a very long time I felt like writing about. Even more surprising, because it’s the first of Johnny’s solo albums I fully click and resonate with.

I danced to it from beginning to end. Sang along to it. Picked up the guitar and strummed something out of pure joy. Played air drums again.

The Age of Everything made me to want to write pop, catchy songs and have a band again.

I like everything on the album. The  music, the voice, the production, the mix, the lyrics, the backing vocals – they are absolutely stunning – the cover, the fact that if not all, many or most of the guitars Johnny plays were gone on his Christieā€™s auction held September 17.

I like that as Johnny put it “Sharp, fast and dynamic, filled with ideas and possibilities.” Particularly the full of possibilities part.

The songs on The Age Of Everything were written in London – you can feel the city bursting through them – developed on the road on tour on the East Coast of North America – there’s a certain East Coast flavour too – and recorded in Manchester at Crazy Face Factory – Johnny’s custom build studio and creative space.

The Age Of Everything is a fresh, danceable, guitar driven with great drums and bass, elegant,  pop album with a big sound. Not exactly a wall of sound, more of an expansive fell-good vibe of sound.

There are very audible guitar nudges and lines to Johnny’s trademark guitar playing in The Smiths. Particularly in It’s Time, Ophelia, In And Out of Love,  But they are layered with other guitars, and instruments transforming them into their own thing.

My favourite song from the album is the final one, All in a Life.

I deliberately wanted my words about The Age of Everything to be published after the official release. I wanted to let it wrap me, feel it, absorb it. Give it time. The Age of Everything is not an album for a day, or week, or a month. I suspect it’s an album I will be returning to often.

Which fits the idea behind the album, that in the age of everything is immediately available. Which can be overwhelming, and asking for an immediate response. There’s endless benefits of technology, but there’s also value in taking our time.

The Age of Everything
Tracklist:
1. Spin
2. Beyond the Rain
3. It’s Time
4. How Come
5. Ophelia
6. That Feeling
7. In and Out of Love
8. Just Once More
9. Fire with Fire
10. All in a Life

Personnel:
Johnny Marr: vocals, guitars, songwriting, production
James Doviak,: guitar, keyboards, co-writing, production
Iwan Gronow: bass
Jack Mitchell: drums
Meredith Sheldon: backing vocals
Nile Marr: backing vocals
Claudius Mittendorfer: mix
Frank Arkwright: mastering

Recorded at Crazy Face Factory, Manchester; and Mastered at Abbey Road Studios, London.

The Age of Everything is released by
New Voodoo Limited/BMG

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Coming Back To The Foundations of The Listening Room HQ

Harold Knight – The Reader c1910

Coming Back To The Foundations of The Listening Room HQ my new post on The Listening Room HQ, my men’s practice – and The Polymath sister site – is a return to its fundamentals. Stabilize and Deepen, in a somatic practice of attention rooted in neuroscience, intuition and lived experience that offers with Sessions for Men, and Maps & Readings for everyone. Coming Back To The Foundations of The Listening Room HQ can be read on the Listening Room HQ site.

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II by Raquel Pinheiro

Marianne Faithfully & Warren Ellis Ā© Rosie Matheson

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on edition #100 – The Poetry edition II is broadcasted Monday 05 & 12 October, 3-4pm (London time) on YĆ© YĆ© Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

I love poetry. Two recent birthday projects/presents by The Mild Ones. one for Brett Anderson’s birthday, the other for Richard Oakes’ birthday have me reading poetry. On the second instance The House Martin purpose written haiku by me for Richard.

There have been poems of mine put to music by among others, Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem/The June Carriers/Velho Homem) and JoĆ£o Diogo Zagalo (Silver & Scout, Vox Mambo, Dead Violets, The Lone Ranger) and my Poem #80 turned into the song Lucid One by Francisco Silva.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II has my own poetry sang by others, said/read my me, changed into a song

The Latin word for poem is carmen, hence Bizet’s Carmen in the voice of Maria Callas.

William Blake serves the lyrics of The Doors’ End of the Night, is named in The The’s Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake, and the inspiration subject of Patti Smith’s My Blakean Year.

Lorca comes in Leonard Cohen’s adaptation of Lorca’s PequeƱo vals vienĆ©s, Take This Waltz. One of my favourite poems T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is on
Sibylle Baier’s Says Elliott.

Eminem’s Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido, and Rowland S Howard’s Autoluminescent gives another dimension of poetry and sounds.

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau singing Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree) from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Winter Journey) a dark folk song by Wilhelm MĆ¼ller arranged by Friedrich Silche, takes us back to the classical world.

Johnny Marr’s All in a Life from his new album The Age of Everything mixes dark, sharp, mystical, upbeat, with soaring haunting backing vocals by Meredith Sheldon. Both Johnny and Meredith have a song each on Amazing Songs Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition.https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2026/09/19/amazing-songs-other-delights-99-the-luminous-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-on-ye-ye-radio-monday-21-28-september/

The House Martin, and haiku for Richard Oakes by Raquel Pinheiro

In the cliff and the cave
The House Martin nested
Then, to the city it moved to

Tracklist:
01: Raquel Pinheiro – Autopsicografia (Fernando Pessoa)
02: Maria Callas – Carmen live (from Bizet’s Carmen)
03: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – Ozymandias (an adaptation of Shelley’s poem)
04: The Doors – End of the Night (lyrics from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence)
05: Suede – Heroine (Byron’s She Walks in Beauty 1st lines)
06: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
07: Eminem – Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido
08: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43
09: The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake
10: Patti Smith – My Blakean Year
11: Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (an adaptation of Lorca’s PequeƱo vals vienĆ©s)
12: Rowland S Howard – Autoluminescent
13: JoĆ£o Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51
14: Sibylle Baier – Says Elliott (lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock)
15: Dietrich Fischer Dieskau sings Der Lindenbaum from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Wilhelm MĆ¼ller arranged by Friedrich Silche)
16: Johnny Marr – All in a Life
17: Raquel Pinheiro – The House Martin, an haiku for Richard Oakes

You can read about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #05 The Poetry edition
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/23/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition/ and listen to it here:
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/28/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-ye-ye-radios-mixcloud/

All previous shows on mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

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Birds a Birthday Project/Present for Richard Oakes (of Suede) 50th Birthday

Melissa Waterfield, one of The Mild Ones moderators had a challenge. A birthday project/present for Richard Oakes, Suede’s guitarist.

Part of what Melissa wrote on the Mild Ones Facebook: “Raquel Pinheiro and I were inspired by hearing of Richardā€™s appreciation for birds, an appreciation that we share, and decided upon this collaboration of field recordings, a Haiku, and her original piece to commemorate his 50th yearšŸŽ‚”

My original piece is called Richard’s Theme, and the Haiku, written on purpose for Richard, The House Martin.

The House Martin

In the cliff and the cave
The House Martin nested
Then, to the city it moved to

Birds project/birthday project team:
video front photo: Richard with Lake Placid Blue Fender Jaguar Ā© Devin Baty
poem, reading, compositon, guitar, field recordings: Raquel Pinheiro
birds footage and field recordings at Beaver Marsh, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio, United States: Melissa Waterfield
project/present assemblage: Melissa Waterfield

The Mild Ones are a wonderful, open, caring Suede fan group and community I’m part of that goes well beyond Suede. You can read our interview with its administrators Jose Duarte and Sara Bona here: https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2026/02/05/in-conversation-with-jose-sara-of-the-mild-ones/

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International Music Day 2026 – For Choices For … and International Music Day 2026 at The Polymath

A page of medieval manuscript featuring ornate calligraphy and red ink embellishments, containing Latin text with musical notations.
Hildegard von Bingen – Riesencodex c. 1180ā€“1190

Carlos Paredes – Verdes Anos. From Paulo Rocha’s 1963 film. Verdes Anos. An instrumental piece in which the Mestre and his Portuguese guitar carry the atmosphere without needing words.

Paradise Lost – The Last Time
From by beloved album of theirs Draconian Times. Heavy, dark and beautifully atmospheric, with that particular sense of weight and beat that Paradise Lost can create.

Ethel Ennis – Dreamer Dreamer
From the album Lullabies for Losers. A voice carrying longing and vulnerability with extraordinary warmth upon an arrowing musical background.

Hildegard von Bingen – Ave GenerosaMusic from the twelfth century, luminous and otherworldly. Hildegard is also one of my main inspirations and central to The Polymath

Happy International Music Day. āœØ

You can read more about HildegardĀ  and Ave Generosa, and the thread connecting music, curiosity and The Polymath, over at The Polymath: Hildegard von Bingen as a Source of Continuous Inspiration

International Music Day at Mondo Bizarre Magazine:

International Music Day 2025 ā€“ My Song Choices

International Music Day 2025 – My Song Choices

International Music Day at The Polymath:

2025

2026 – Four Songs, One Thread

Hildegard von Bingen receiving a vision and dictating to Volmar ā€” illumination from the Scivias, c. 1151ā€“1152