David Bennun (born 1968) is an English writer, journalist and music critic. Bennun started his career in music journalism in the 1990s. Notable publications...

first rap groups in the subgenre horrorcore, which The Quietus writer David Bennun described as "a then novel means of addressing black life at street level...

constructed on the framework of the Jackson 5’s bubble-gum soul classic". David Bennun from Melody Maker called it "a genitally-fixated rap on the joys of infidelity"...

Johnson's first. In a retrospective review by The Quietus, reviewer David Bennun credits Brushfire Fairytales with helping to popularize a strain of "sensitive...

Inquirer. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2013. Dr Robert White, profile by David Bennun in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 2000...

hit which may well have been a better choice for a Christmas single." David Bennun from Melody Maker complimented its "all puppyish enthusiasm and Northern...

utterly distinct from both its contemporaries and historic predecessors." David Bennun of Melody Maker called In Sides "a very approachable record" and awarded...

want to turn the radio up as loud as possible whenever you hear it." David Bennun from Melody Maker praised it as "that delicious, jaunty paean to innocent...

(1973), and praised Buckingham's "hornet-in-your-earhole fuzz solo". David Bennun of The Quietus wrote that "Not That Funny" resembles the music of Devo...

slots with the first ten seasons (though not in chronological order). David Bennun of The Guardian wrote, "The running joke about how [the show is] not...

of beyond-MOR (Spector, Webb, Bacharach/David), the power and exuberance of gospel." —Music critic David Bennun on the album's championing of country rock...

the song "boasted a fantastic chorus". Another Melody Maker editor, David Bennun, named it "one of Nineties pop's most exalted moments, and the only song...

Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. "Tricky (c)1995, 1997 David Bennun". Homepage.ntlworld.com. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014....

as the third single from the album, a month before the album release. David Bennun from The Quietus later called his version "a thick, unquiet fever dream...

head-melting music than any sane person would know what to do with. — David Bennun Acid Mothers Temple (Tsuyama Atsushi, Shimura Koji, Kawabata Makoto,...

Chronicle & Echo add that the concert in Northampton sold out in six hours. David Bennun of Metro gave the concert at Hove, County Cricket Ground, four out of...

which draws you to its cold bosom again and again." In Melody Maker David Bennun observed that it was "a remarkably straightforward album" for Johnson...

a "rap rhapsody", naming it one of The 50 Best Pop Singles of 1995. David Bennun from Melody Maker wrote, "That single. F*** me, it's good. The slow pulse...

so deftly layered that the sampling-is-stealing argument falls flat". David Bennun from The Guardian said the record was "not only one of the most daring...

track - from the jangly jazz riffs to the crunch of the power chords." David Bennun from Melody Maker said that "She Drives Me Crazy" "clattered and chugged...

April 2016. Browne, David (22 November 1996). "Pre-millennium Tension". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 5 April 2016. Bennun, David (8 November 1996)....

being radio-friendly, but criticising the album's use of the didgeridoo. David Bennun of Muzik considered it "tepid funk" in an unfavorable review. The album's...

single are "equally sublime" and "particularly the gripping" "Man-Size". David Bennun of Melody Maker considered it "pretty good, in a weird frenetic steel-tipped...

vibrant pop tunes co-exist with rich, strange and complex conceits." David Bennun of Melody Maker noted that, after the "muted" and "distressingly grown...

one of Pulp's best songs. At the time of the song's release, reviewer David Bennun called the track, "budget magnificence... a blueprint for an epic to...

Ride", a remix of "Afro-Left", was used in the 1995 game wipE'out". David Bennun from Melody Maker found that "Afro-Left" "turns a spoken African vocal...

Editions. (subscription required) Bennun, David (4 February 1995). "Tricky: Maxinquaye". Melody Maker. London. Bennun, David (20 February 2015). "20 Years...

art-glam wing also - interviewing Plastic Fantastic, Melody Maker's David Bennun suggested that the band's preferred mix of Plastic World (by dance producer...

tango advert — equal parts irritant/wonderful pop song." The magazine's David Bennun commented, "The result is ridiculously, naggingly, excruciatingly simple...

"achievement" for "the pinnacle of lyricism that Lupe continues to reach". David Bennun of The Quietus called it "an exhilarating, uneven, thought-provoking...