<p>In which Fatboy Slim attempts to convert indie kids to big beat, we rank the week’s albums by their 1997-ness, discover the limits of Seahorses discourse, celebrate The Wannadies, encounter Penthouse’s glorious filth, and crown Sukia’s porn-noir lounge-pop as the most 1997 record of them all</p>

12th March 1994 Part 1 - Aphex Twin, Smashing Pumpkins

Analogue Slop is where two music industry lifers revisit the music press of their youth, which in our case is the nineties, and for Season 1 is the NME and Melody Maker.. Every week we explore artists we discovered as wide-eyed teenagers only to disown as sneering twenty somethings. Now, unshackled from hipster baggage, we dive deep into how music and the people who make it were served up before anyone knew what an attention economy was.