Diamond geezer

Whether you agree with him or not, few music writers are as entertaining as JR Moores when he's got a bee in his proverbial bonnet about something. Recently, it's Andrew Watt's production on the new Rolling Stones record Hackney Diamonds, which has led him to concoct an inspired conspiracy theory based on old rivalries dying hard. Along the way, he refers to Mick Jagger's "concupiscent hooting", declares the consequences of the production "loudness war" as albums that were "less easy on the ear than Mr Blonde from Reservoir Dogs" and serves up some shoe pie for Red Hot Chili Peppers' "diminishingly returning letch funk". (Leave off Jane's Addiction's Strays, though, OK?)