I used to be a metal kid. Well teenage metal. Grunge, Metallica, lots of stuff that I pretty much dropped when I first heard Orbital's Brown album when I was 15 or 16. I was always really picky about the vocals on some extreme music. This album by Sloath got me listening again. It sounds like part post rock, theres a definite hit of Rano Pano on 'The piece' and of course Sunn O)) who I still hadn't broken into at the time. There's blusier stuff on here but the opener wa

The Spinner album from Jah Wobble and Brian Eno has been a major listen recently. I think it was Jah Wobble adding to versions of a score that Eno had written for a Derek Jarman film called Glitterbug. It almost has the sound of The Orb (Orbus Terrarum period) without the samples. Very mid 90's in a fantastic way. There is one track that had this sound that really reminded me of an amazing track I heard a couple of years ago. Its on the second track Like Organza and its a b

This was at the end of Four Tets final Corsica studios set and to be honest wiped the floor with anything that Id hear in the previous couple of hours. Shazam to the rescue! It came back with this title which I then tried and was thoroughly un wowed. Hmmmm Then I saw that there was a live album and bam. The whole album is stunning. So much energy and they transform this track into a real moving creature. The one on the record seems so flat after this. Enjoy! And Also the

I'm still unsure how I've come to love Prefab Sprout so much. There is something so genuinley emotionally raw fromm their songs. There's usually a couple of tracks on an album that nearly bring me to tears. I think they've been in my life now for about 10 years and Jordan the comeback is only the Third that I own. First it was Swoon and the difficuly pop of Dont Sing and Cue Fanfare. Then on to Steve McQueen. I havent pushed it, I've almost let each album come to me when

Music played in a beautifully overwhelming unpolished psychedelic blast

Another film find. This came thumping out of the muscle masterpiece that was 'Live Lies Bleeding' Such a great sounding record - 1978!

I've been listening to a lot of Geordie Greep recently and then came across this track after deciding to a little dive into The Associates (trevor Horn book again). There definitley feels like there is some energy from this that has made its way through to him.

It was about two years ago that I first heard this album. Id of course heard buffalo girls when I was little but it was just there in my memory as a novelty. It was Double Dutch that brought me to it. I'd come back again after reading the Trevor Horn biogrophy. What an album. It sounds incredible still. From the serene opening of Obotala, there is so much varity and invention in 43 short minutes. Love those two tracks but there is something so beautiful about Soweto! Now

I think I first saw this guy in around 2019 somewhere in a grotty pub in Dalston and he did not dissapoint. 2025, he just played the...

Found this on the Boomkat best of 2010 compiltaion and this just stood out for me. Clocking in at just over a minute and a half I love...

Found this through a you tube video of George Prior shopping for records in Guildford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H54Pq7lIw2M Most of it wasnt for me but I checked out the Pekka release, heard some of it and bought the album. One week later a pretty decent copy arrived at my door. There were two other moments that I really loved, check out tyheend of track 2, Hands Straighten the Water! And at 53 seconds in the last track there is another gorgeous vocal peice that is al

2025 has finally enabled me to appreciate Melvins. Its been a long time coming. I definitely didnt get it when they released Houdini. ...

This came to me via the mighty Dave Clarke and his Saga series radio show. It was one of those tracks that I couldnt quite get my head...

Was fishing through bandcamp last weekand this popped up at the bottom of someones page. Never heard of either band before, but what a...

Now I was kind of aware that Steve Vai the virtuoso Rock Guitar guy of big haired 80's fame had played with Frank Zappa but I wasn't...

After Japanese Telecom I was reminded of this track by the incredible Hideki Matsutake (the 4th member of YMO). I first heard this on an...

Clocking in at just over a minute and a half and buried in and amongst some of the best electro Gerald Donald ever released, Pagoda of...

Tried and loved his album Elaenia in 2015 but found the second track Silhouettes (I, II, III) to be such a beautiful mix of electronics...

Hidden away on track 3 on the CD single of Why are People Grudgeful and which I bought for the very excellent version Lost in Music...

The madness of this Analog Africa release still puts a smile on my face. Came to this via watching a YouTube video of London Record shops...