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                                                       Temptation still has a cold, minimal, unclad beauty. 

  Monday afternoon. A good time for a Marathon. The latest album from Maria BC. Threadbare folk songs from Oakland, California; exhaustion,...

  An hour in Sufjan's company is an invitation to a marmite feast. Personally I'm highly prone to marmite.. He's an artist highl...

  As for many people I imagine Cat Stevens is a portal back to childhood. Older sister's record collections..

  Kid Creole & The Coconuts broke through big in 1982 with Tropical Gangsters and they were greay to see. A fully fleshed out, lurid tec...

 The much heralded  Honora , the debut album by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea is here. It's a cool platter versed in Blue Note Jazz...

  Listening to this record for at least the thousandth time it strikes me as a misshapen but utterly sincere Act of Love. A marriage that ma...

 

 

  Ten New Leonard Cohen sings, Frim 2001. I sat down and listened. It's one for the ages. Conflicted. Resigned. Secretive. Resigned. Cau...

  One spot above Siouxsie & The Banshees, their younger Scottish cousins. Gorging themselves on pop and cake and jellybeans and squirtin...

  Slow wins the race. April is almost here. Ricochet , the third album by Ellicott City, Maryland's finest Snail Mail is on the doormat...

  Came out on Flying Dutchman in 1971. Captures a seeker. And a moment of phenomenal flux and pressures of activism and resistance. It quest...

  A 22 track album from 2002. The Mitchell voice doesn't sound like what it was, Lyrically she's still sharp. This is incredibly ric...

  I remember this time. Fireworks and Back of Love were in the charts together and Siouxsie & The Banshees and the Bunnymen filled my im...

  'Put on my favourite t shirt...Please be patient....'  I've been stood up on Friday morning. I've just sat outside a virtu...

 

 

  'Out went the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels...' Gram Parsons is one of those people you're probably going to ...

  That's a Rock & Roll band name if they ever was one. And this is a Modern Rock & Roll band. Not one I was familiar with before...

  Sheila Chandra from Monsoon was in Grange Hill. Ever So Lonely stayed in the charts for nine weeks following a re-release. It was also big...

  True Green's Hail Disaster  is true gold for true believers in an ancient faith. Guitars in harmony with The Turtles and The Byrds Mr ...

  The model apparently for Llewyn Davis. An incredibly evocative and magical record. 

  There's a rare pained poetic  beauty in the music of Vic Chesnutt. This is gnarled and tortured but claws at the light, This is the ki...

  Originally a hit in 1974. A take on Neil Young's rare and special song from the album of the same name. A song of rare wonder. 

   Dagmar Zuniga's In Filth Your Mystery is Kingdom/ Far Smile Peasant in Yellow Music is rare poetry. Weird Outsider Folk which origina...

  I found this rather beautiful. Engineers meet The Clientele on Gideon Coe's show, And the consequence was; Indie Bliss,

  U by Underscores is a hip as can be record that I can get along with without me feeling I need to get the t shirt. For a better informed r...

  That childhood sensation of getting to the bottom of a slide and wanting to go straight back up and experience the thrill and exhilaration...

  Today I've taught three online classes. Charming, intelligent people. I've tried to help them as best I can with the present perfe...

  I was out of the UK when this came out so its significance rather passed me by. Listening to me now it has a certain Brummie street magnif...

  A brilliant album title and way of looking at existence. Byrne and Eno did some quite wonderful work together, Not least here.

  I'm going to start another one of these tomorrow. There are plenty of charts to run down. Plenty of memories to harvest. In 1979  I wa...

  I've got all my eggs in one basket peeps. But never fret. Because I've got a toght grip on the handle and I'm heading into the...

 

  Freedom is a much striven for and discussed goal. Sat power's freedom seems to involve creating her own space. There's no one like...

  I had a very good friend who was crazy mad for Elvis Costello. He was also very keen on Spoon. This seems to be logical listening to  Ga G...

   I've been keeping this in reserve for a few weeks. Planning to post it on a Sunday. Now is the time. It's no longer Sunday Mornin...

  I bailed from Lightning Bolt after a few songs and switched to  The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion and it was rater more famili...

  Lightning Bolt are a Rock & Roll duo from Providence, New York. They met and formed in 1994. Ride The Skies is their second album. The...

  Saturday morning and I'm up early. If not with the early bords, at least wuth the wormd. And my listening fare. Huw Marc Bennett's...

  Listening to Wayne Shorter albums you haven't heard before feels like an on going education.

  An update of the Sweet Dreams are Made of this perspective for the New Millennium. With added interiority, A duo from Gothenburg. . .

  Kim Gordon's Play Me is a textbook 'how to' guide on growing older on your own terms and thereby staying young. It' came o...

  Certain bands are just an acquired taste that you will never entirely acquire the taste for because you lack the endurance to make the req...

       Blondie had an Imperial Phase that was impossibly and gloriously prolonged. This has songs and                                       ...

  Positive vibes. You can't fault it. Smooth as silk.

  We've been quiet for a couple of days on here but let's pick things up a bit. We're coming up to the weekend . With that in mi...

  Notwist hail from Weilheim near Munich and have been releasing albums since 1990. Their latest album News From Planet Zombie carves out n...

  I was in love with Regina Spektor for a while. She's a very specific talent. There's nobody quite like her..