A Year In Music: 23rd February

Flowers, Sweet Female Attitude (2000)

After the sunshine – slight, bright signs from the sky suggesting a new season – came, again, the rain. But so did the flowers.

I love this song - but it isn’t a rural song. It’s a song of my old urban life, my early years in London, of the new-century super-speed blossomings of UK garage. To me, it still sounds as fresh, beautiful and young as the look …