It Starts With a Birthstone...

  Partly put on because I now own a Freddie & The Dreamers record bought largely because it was dirt cheap and I liked the cover. Record...

  A reminder, one should not be needed, that I should play my copy of Let's Get It On soon.

 

 

 

  During the Friday evening I've already written about on here , witnessing Holiday Ghosts fabulous performance at The Cumberland Arms, ...

  Friend Rock.  This is a curious album from Wisconsin Power trio NEWSKI. Not what it seems on the surface. Housed in a sleeve that looks di...

 

Bubblegum Perfume, Creation Records compilation of Felt moments is well worth knowing better. Book of Swords comes across as the theme music...

 

   Swedish noise guitar merchants FEWS always remind me of my late and still much missed mate Matt who I met and became firm friends with in...

 

 

  Now this is decidedly odd. A cast of 47 musicians, and that includes a gospel choir and 16 piece orchestra gather together to construct  T...

 

  The Tallest Man on Earth is a great name for a band, or in this case an artist. It sounds like the name of a film or a book around which a...

 

 

  The kind of band that used to be on 4AD. So I was pleased to find that Daughter are on 4AD. They have that hallowed religious sound the li...

  Or Why We Do this? a question that concerns me. I bought a ticket to see Brighton Indie Rockers Holiday Ghosts midweek last week on return...

 

 

 

  There are some things you could mortgage your house on. The sun coming up in the morning. Then going down at night. Politicians turning ou...

  Sometimes you experience incredible musical epiphanies. I experience them all the time frankly. Not only in music as a whole, (it's th...

        'The first thing you notice in looking at the sleeve and taking the record out to play is the attention to detail. These people ...

 

 This has just celebrated the 40th anniversary since its release, so I'll re-post this. The first thing I ever wrote on here.  Murmur wa...

 

 

  The world of Bandcamp and echoes of England in 1982 or '83. A band from Oakland, California who seem well versed in obscure Post Punk ...

  Yesterday, for reasons that need not be explained, (trust me, you don't need to have them explained) was Supertramp day in my world) T...

 

 

  A belated plug for Yonder, the latest record from one of my favourite bands, Georgia's Arbor Labour Union. They've featured on he...

  I was very taken by Emma Tricca's last album,  St Peter from 2018, (that seems like such a long time ago now). It was a haunting, lit...

  The sort of slightly uneasy female Indie voice that's become commonplace in recent years. Buzzy Lee, who is also Stephen Spielberg...

  Back in Toon.

 

 

 

  Diabetics be warned. This is sweet. But take your tablets and brace yourselves. It might be worth persevering. NYC via Seoul producer Kaej...

 

 

  Seeming to want to square the unlikely circle of Supertramp meets The Beach Boys, Albany, New York's Bruiser & Bicycle certainly h...