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From August: Now here's something quite phenomenal. Deus E Mulher the latest album from a genuinely legendary figure, Brazilian E...

An album that could easily have landed up in my end of year Top 50, but it came to my attention too  late; Amy Rigby's The Old Guys...

New York, 1980.

From May. The most leftfield of my choices. I doubt it will be on any other list this year. Only available on cassette or digital format. Ne...

Mother of my Children , the splendid and very distinctive debut album from earlier on this year from Portland, Oregon based Katherine P...

A song from Damien Jurado's latest record for Marvin Kaplan, screenwriter, playwright and actor in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worl...

From September: The Goon Sax's album is not the only fine record that comes out today. There's also Double Negative, the tw...

South London five-piece.

£6.00. RPM Records, Newcastle. 18th December 2018. A long discontinued series. Largely because I haven't been buying records. But...

From October: Phosphorescent, (the stage name for Matthew Houck), originally from Huntsville, Alabama, is back with his ninth album C...

' Punked up country gunk ' from long running Chicago band State Champion's fourth album from earlier this year.

From August: Sometimes you find yourself in need of what music offers. Sometimes it can be a gift to share with and experience with o...

Gainesville, Florida based Parisians Pearl & the Oysters cook up a wonderfully kitsch pop concoction on their latest album,  Canned...

I put this on early Friday evening for a very good friend, one of the most important of my lifetime who had been cremated near Leiden, ...

A bit of breathy Birkin on the radio on a Sunday a couple of days after her 72nd birthday.

Another Advance Base song. This time from 2016's Nephew in the Wind. For Kitty Winn of The Exorcist and Panic in Needle Park.

From March: March sets off in splendid style with the cracking second album from Gwenno, Le Kov. A sparkling and highly original reco...

Hey, my new favourite artist Part blah, blah, blah.... Advance Base, essentially the one man project of Owen Ashworth, not a million mil...

Quite why Sam & Dave are getting this clarinet treatment is slightly beyond me but there you are.

Back at the end of 2015, I was very taken with West Kirby County Priory, Bill Ryder-Jones third album. It seemed to capture wonderfully...

From a wonderful record of tracks from Benin in the Seventies, African Scream Contest 2.

Elton John is big this Christmas, (if he isn't every Christmas), due to his appearance in the seasonal John Lewis Christmas advert. S...

From October: The story of Cat Power, (Chan Marshall),  is as remarkable one as any in modern Rock and Roll. An 'outsider' ...

Two rather beautiful, glowing objects from Chicago-based Gia Margaret's first album There's Always Glimmer, a lyric that turns ...

One of the more interesting projects coming up early in 2019 is Mercury Rev's loving recreation of Bobbie Gentry's classic 1968...

My Welsh isn't good enough to confirm that this is about Alexander. But I imagine it is.