It Starts With a Birthstone - 200 Albums for 2026 # 110 Charlie Ivan Band

 

A band from a town called Alice. Alice Springs, Australia. A mythical place. And here's a mythical record from there .Of Nothing from the Charlie Ivan Band. No lack of dread, mystery, pathos  and  and the sense of tumbleweed making its way down Main Street while the locals make their way to and from their local.A good record can plumb the same emotional depths as a great novel and Of Nothing is a good exmaple of these processes detonating and falling back into space. A stunning and quietly stunned record.

* Thanks as so often to Darren Jones for directing me here. That's classy Darren.