LP’s

KISS MY SWEET APOCALYPSE (CD) / UNRULY IMAGINATION – Black Sheep
I've finally give the Christophe F cd a rest and gone back to these. Patchy I guess, but both have some great tracks all the same.

BLACK CHERRY / SUPERNATURE – Goldfrapp
I love Black Cherry. Enough to have put it in my top 25 of the noughties here, in fact. Supernature always sounded like an inferior Black Cherry Pt II, but listening to it again...well that may still be the case but it’s much better than I remember.

SWEETHEART – The Klaxons
Latest in the Alan Vega series of 10” 45’s. TBH The Klaxonx don’t really do a lot different to the original, but it’s pleasing on the ears all the same.

SWORDS – Morrissey
A recent collection of b-sides from the last few years. There’s not too much here that’s likely to convert the non-Moz fan, but Never Played Symphonies is a really good b-side and his take on Drive-In Saturday is interesting if only from the point of view that he does so little different with it and yet it sounds so typically Moz. Perhaps the Bowie influence is more prevalent than you think (and yes I know Bowie didn’t have to do much with Moz I Know It’s Gonna Happen to make it sound typically Bowie all those years ago!). Highlight though is undoubtedly the awesome Ganglord which is probably fit to compare with anything he’s done. “There’s a clock on the wall, makes fun of us all” he sings rather beautifully over a really powerfully backdrop. Great organ fade-out, too. The limited edition live set that accompanies it is pretty run-of-the-mill though.

OTHERS...
A GENTLE CYCLE REVOLUTION EP / TIME & SPACE EP – Appliance
CLOSE TO ME – The Carpenters
HARD TIMES ON THE WAY – Black Daniel
MIRACLE KICKER – Dark Captain Light Captain
S/T – Franz Ferdinand
STREET HORSSING – Fuck Buttons
1974 – Harmonia
AUTOBAHN – Kraftwerk
BLESS THE WEATHER – John Martyn
KICK OUT THE JAMS –MC5
YES / ETC – Pet Shop Boys
PRELIMINAIRES – Iggy Pop
VOL 1 – Wooden Shjips

Phantom Smasher - s/t
Spaceship – s/t
NIN – The Fragile
Jeff Buckley – Mystery White Boy
Sabbath – Never Say Die, Master of Reality
Grant Hart – Ecce Homo
Carmina Burana – Carl Orff
Lynyrd Skynyrd – The Movie
Savoy Brown – Hellbound Train
The Underneath – Lunatic Dawn Of The Dismantler
Shockheaded Peters – various 12” singles
Fauna – Rain
Echtra – Burn It All Away,A War With Wonder
Pink Floyd – DSOTM
Soft Cell – Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
Black Grape – Stupid Stupid Stupid
Mortiis – Smell of Rain
Them Crooked Vultures – s/t
SunnO))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
Supertramp – Crime of the Century
And lots of festive carols for tis the time of the season etc

John Abercrombie - Night (w/Jan Hammer)
What early ELP would have sounded like if they had substituted a jazz influence for the classical

Julie London -Sings Cole Porter & In Person
Not her best record by a long chalk but "In Person" includes a fantastic bass/vocal duo version of Bye Bye Blackbird, check the clip out on You Tube. "Sings Cole Porter" is worth having as a companion to the Ella "Songbook" set. London tackles Porter's classics from the end of the bar around last orders.

E&TB - Crocodiles
Sounded like nothing else on earth at the time. The bass sound on this album, on "Discipline" and on "Remain In Light" define an era for me with rock bass players and drummers listening to African music and finding new ways to go.

Uriah Heep - Salisbury
KC - Absent Lovers
KC - Discipline
Kiss - Sonic Boom
Alice - Billion Dollar Babies

Vernon Handley & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade To Music (chorale version)

Bryden Thomson LSO & LPO - Ralph Vaughan Williams Norfolk Rhpasody etc

Gorgeous records both, especially if you have a taste for the late Romantic movement as it melded with the 20th century.

Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
v/a - dread Broadcasting Corp: Rebel Radio
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions - Through the Devil Softly
Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle & Bop
The Ramones - Weird Tales of...
Miracle Legion - Surprise Surprise Surprise
Baxter Dury - Len Parrot's Memorial Lift
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Boom Bip - Seed to Sun
Flop - & the Fall of the Mop Squeezer
Japan - Quiet Life
American Music Club - United Kingdom/California
Animal Collective - Danse Manatee/Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished
Yes - Fragile/Close to the Edge
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
J D Blackfoot - The Ultimate Prophecy
The Band - The Last Waltz
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue/Bambu
Mercury Rev - Boces
Sun Araw - The Phynx
v/a - Victrola Favourites

The Unthanks - Lucky Gilchrist tour EP (saw them last Tuesday, gig of the year for me, bought this for their version of Tar Barrel In Dale that they did in session for Mark Radcliffe last year)

The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming (more of a grower for me after my instant love for The Bairns, damn good it is though)

Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell - North Farm Sessions (supporting The Unthanks on Tuesday, sweet dreamy folk music, although they were even better live, good stuff)

Martha Wainright - Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, à Paris

Scott Walker/Walker Brothers Best of Comp

Jefferson Airplane Best of Comp

John Lennon - Working Class Hero, Best of Comp

Pekko Käppi - Bubnit Sebje Pod Nos

230 Divisadero - A Vision of Lost Unity

Nick Grey - Les Eaux Territoriales

Book of Shadows - Mantis

Trees Community - The Christ Tree

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Free For All (especially the title track over and over again)
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid
Miles Davis - Black Beauty, In A Silent Way, Dark Magus
Ornette Coleman - Shape Of Jazz To Come
Neil Young - Live At The Fillmore East
Nina Simone - Black Gold and It Is Finished
The Drums - Summertime
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live At The Star Club
Howlin' Wolf - The London Sessions

(pretty much jazz city round my way at the mo)