The Beach Boys - Made In California (some absolutely stunning tracks among the 60 previously unreleased mixes and out-takes. Seems like they are still nowhere near the bottom of the barrel)

Forest - Forest
Forest - Full Circle

Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

The Kinks - Lola Vs Powerman & The Moneygoround
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
The Kinks - Everybody's In Showbiz

Elvis Presley - Elvis Sings Memphis Tennessee
Elvis Presley - Elvis Sings Guitar Man

Klaus Schulze - Black Dance

Muddy Suzuki - Stopgap (Scrapings From The Barrel 2001-2013)

Davy Jones/Micky Dolenz - You're A Lady (Jap mini LP featuring 4 songs each from 45s circa 1972-1973. Didn't realise what great singles Micky was putting out during this period, particularly this little cracker which featured input from Peter Tork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iag_JgPfrtM With 4 Nesmith songs added from the same period it would have made a decent early 1970s Monkees LP along the lines of 'The Monkees Present'.)

Michael Nesmith & The Second National Band - Tantamount To Treason Vol.1

Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.8

Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking

Albums

White Hills - So You Are... So You'll Be
Naam - Vow
White Orange - White Orange
Causa Sui - Free Ride
Causa Sui - Euporie Tide
Kandodo - K2O (recommended)
Black Tempest - Sticks and Bells and Ancient Spells (recommended)
VA - The Dawn of Psychedelia
Vivian Stanshall - Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead
London Grammar - If You Wait
Expo '70 / Plankton Wat - split LP
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 4, 5 and 6 (recommended)
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
WIKAN - Blackout EP (recommended)

Meg Baird - Dear Companion / Leaves from Off the Tree (with Helena Espvall & Sharron Kraus)
The Clash - S/T / Sandinista!
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Julian Cope - Fried / Rite / Revolutionary Suicide
Crass - Christ The Bootleg
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left / Bryter Layter / Pink Moon
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down In Broadway
The Glass Family - Electric Band
Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands (deluxe)
Jethro Tull - This Was
Lollipop Shoppe - Just Colour
Moon Duo - Circles
Mr Fox - Join Us In Our Game (S/T / The Gypsy)
Neu! - Neu! 2 / Neu! '75 / Neu! '86
Will Oldham - Viva Last Blues (Palace Brothers) / Joya
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Peppermint Trolley Company - Beautiful Sun
The Stranglers - La Folie
Strawbs - Dragonfly / Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios / From the Witchwood
Swans - White Light From The Mouth of Infinity / Love of Life
Vetiver - Thing of the Past
XTC - Skylarking
Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

V/A - The Free Design - The New Sound Redesigned
A Tribute to Roky Erickson - Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye

Nisennenmondai - Mirrorball
La Maison - Critical Situation
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
Doctor Mix and The Remix - Heat
Subzone - Tunnel Vision

Knifeworld - Dear Lord, No Deal E.P
I bought a few years back this after hearing Steve Davis play it on his radio show. Dug it out on hearing a new track yesterday. It's very dense, at times astonishing but ultimately the whole experience is a wee bit dull. That's Prog for you in the 21st century. The new video is quite good though and I like the atypical horn section very much. If the tunes ever stuck then this would be great progressive music. As it is it's "just" very clever.

Victor Jara - Canciones póstumas
This is admittedly something of a tokenistic listen for a non Spanish speaker. His vocal style would totally fit my definition of keening and some of the playing is quite brilliant. There are also some eccentric arrangement and production touches that make it that bit more than a slightly cobbled together epitaph. Six songs and a couple of tribute tracks do not a whole album make but as a testament to a great musician (whose actual talents sometimes get lost among the biographical horrors) it is unimprovable.

Miles Davis - Get Up With It and Circle In The Round
I should have bought those bloody On The Corner and Bitches Brew boxes when they were still readily available

Barbara Hannigan, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson - Britten: Iluminations
Barbara Hannigan is fast becoming my favourite non-pop singer. Everything I have heard her do in terms of new music has engaged me to the point of being overwhelming at times and she makes me listen to already familiar music with fresh ears. Her Lulu is a work of genius. As for this record, I flip-flop on some of Britten's more precious moments (frankly any settings of Rimbaud poems could probably fit that definition like a glove) but this record certainly makes a believer out of me.

Ampacity - Encounter One
SPACEROCK! This is a damn fine $4 worth.
https://ampacity.bandcamp.com/album/encounter-one

John Martyn - In Session at the BBC
Joy Division - Closer
Julian Cope - Revolutionary Suicide Disc 2
Cult of Dom Keller - S/T
The Pretty Things - Parachute
The Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T
Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World
Greenslade - Time and Tide
Ray Thomas - Hopes Wishes and Dreams

Justin Hayward - Songwriter
I'm strangely obsessed by the track One Lonely Room at the moment. Nostradamus is good too.

Mike Gangloff - Poplar Hollow
Really nice americana type thing from Pelt chap.
https://blackestrainbowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/poplar-hollow

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Oooh this is jolly good. Been meaning to get it for a while - glad I did. Ace!

Sun Araw - On Patrol, Off Duty
Not listened to these for a while, but they've soundtracked my weekend, pretty much on repeat. Wonderful.

The Bevis Frond - White Numbers
A candidate for my album of the year so far. Such brilliant songs.

White Hills - So You Are...So You'll Be
Love this, and the ltd 12" with it is stupendous, rock on legs. Got a ticket to see them at the Borderline in October and I can't wait.

Hills - Master Sleeps
Fantastic psych rock release from Rocket Recordings. Another scandinavian band deliver the goods in proper style. Powerful and full of fuzz. Love it.

Grumbling Fur - Glynaestra
My enjoyment of this hasn't waned yet. Gorgeous and lovely. Have to catch up on their earlier stuff.

Kraftwerk - 2
Kraftwerk - Ralf und Florian
Kevin Coyne - Politicz
Golden Palominos - Blast of Silence
Golden Palominos - A Dead Horse
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (Robert Quine in top form!)
George Benson - Body Talk
OST - 48 Hours (James Horner)

the Funk continues:

Parilament:
1980: Trombipulation
1979: Gloryhallastoopid
1978: Motor Booty Affair
1977: Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
1976: The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
1975: Mothership Connection
1975: Chocolate City
1974: Up for the Down Stroke
1970: Osmium

Funkadelic
2008: Toys
2007: By the Way of the Drum
1981: The Electric Spanking of War Babies
1980: Connections & Disconnections
1979: Uncle Jam Wants You
1978: One Nation Under a Groove
1976: Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
1976: Hardcore Jollies
1975: Let's Take It to the Stage
1974: Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
1973: Cosmic Slop
1972: America Eats Its Young
1971: Maggot Brain
1970: Free Your Mind ... and Your Ass Will Follow
1970: Funkadelic

Earth, Wind and Fire
1972 Last Days and Time
1973 Head To The Sky
1974 Open Your Eyes
•That's the Way of the World (1975)
•Gratitude (1976)
•Open Our Eyes (1974)
•That's the Way of the World (1975)
•Gratitude (1976)
•All 'N All (1977)
•I Am (1979)
•Raise! (1981)

Isley Brothers:
•It's Our Thing (1969)
•Brother, Brother, Brother (1972)
•3 + 3 (1973)
•Live It Up (1974)
•The Heat Is On (1975)
•Harvest For The World (1976)
•Go For Your Guns (1977)
•Showdown (1978)

Gorguts - Colored Sands
The Fall - Re-Mit
Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free
Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 2 (goddamn)
Ulver - Blood Inside
Ildjarn - Strength and Anger