Main listens this week have been for:

John Foxx - The Garden. Not quite the cool dystopia of his first solo album, but there's some great tunes on this, especially the closing title track.

Madness - Oui Oui Ja Ja Si Si Da Da. Taken me ages to get around to this one, which seemed a bit of an anti-climax when it came out, after the sprawling and often brilliant ...Norton Folgate set. But there's some winners here, particularly "Never Knew Your Name". In places it slips into the Old Man Ska of their Dangermen album, but it's an enjoyable listen throughout.

Otherwise:

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn

Josef K - Young and Stupid
The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (2 CD)
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
The Pop Group - We Are Time
Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" (Bobby 'O' original 12")
A-ha - Stay On These Roads
The Cure - "Love Song" CD single

A Certain Ratio - Four For The Floor EP
The All Seeing I - Jockey Slut EP

Nils Frahm - Unter/Uber
Section 25 - Retrofit
V/A - Return To The Dark Side Of The Moon
CTMF - "Punk Rock Enough For Me" 7" (contender for single of the year)
Helen Love - "Pogo Pogo" 7"
Map 71 - "Standing/Specimen" 7"
Interpol - El Pintor
Half Man Half Biscuit - Urge For Offal

Death Grips - Exmilitary/The Money Store
Hip hop how it should sound, brash, loud and in your face. Got nu neighbours who insist on revving their stupid small sports cars at all hours of day and night. Got fed up politely asking them to keep it down, only to be fobbed off with the usual "Yeah,Yeah bro" crap. So in a reverse Cope/Manilow scenario I stuck Guillotine and Tachion on the hifi at mind blistering volume for a very long time (which is how the tracks should be heard really :)
Been quieter past few days.
Guillotine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orlbo9WkZ2E
Tachion - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89F5fpvwPr0

Tricky - Adrian Thaws
Wonderful return to form for our favourite Bristolian toker.
Why Don't You - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIwNjyiQaOA
Tribal Drums - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzN7VwdC6U8

Holy Sons -Decline of The West / Grails - Burning off Impurities
Two favourite Emil Amos involed projects Had both on loop a few times this week. Satanic Androids -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBmd_iokLV4
Silk Road - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsP5XFnHohA
Bed Of Nails II - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo0Dop5ep1k

Pere Ubu - Pensylvania
Superb downbeat DT/PE affair. More akin to the DT and the Two Pale Boys stuff really. Outstanding. Perfume - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2fPHgcwTo8
Woolie Boolie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVRjfI2lFSw

PJ Harvey - To Bring You All My Love
Watched BBC goth night and enjoyed a surprising amount of it. (Had a mad teenage crush on most of the female performers on the show...Strawberry Switchblade, fer instance...not fussy me, either will do)
Haven't heard this superb album in too long. Guess she was under the post coital Cave influence and Bristolian triphop vibe. Arrgghh, Teclo....I've died and gone to heaven. Teclo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjBxSn_VB5c
Working For The Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vptS5eTjedE
Guess this is her Red Right Hand, and nowt wrong with that.

Liars - Mess
Started of liking this, then went off it, now back to liking.
Fickle tosser ain't I.
Vox Tuned To Dead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Y0S23gLok
Left Speaker Blown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4G3IH3S_ZE

Clinic - Visitations
This album and 'Do It' are my fav Clinic albums, but I can pretty much listen to any of their releases and enjoy it.
Children Of Kellogg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA5EB5vFFqw
The New Seeker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRuSqeVBQo
Tomorrow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu1HhwvKnDQ

Other stuff

Autoluminesence DVD - Stunning.

20 000 Days On Earth DVD

Kemper Norton - Loor. Really enjoyed his Supernormal performance and ahead of seeing him in Newcastle in a couple of weeks thought I'd pick up one of his albums. Psychogeographical electronic folk? [not trying to define a genre, trying to describe what it may sound like]

Kikagaku Moyo - s/t and Mammatus Clouds. Still lovely...

My favourite ice inspired electronic label Glacial Movements had a sale for customers - 5€ per cd. So ordered a batch. So far listened to these two (both hour long single piece albums):

Oophoi - An aerial view.
Francisco Lopez - Amarok. This is probably the most interesting on first listen... a good volume range from silence to loud electronic drone.

And that's it - parents visiting this weekend so my usual listening has been curtailed!

Buzzcocks - The Way
...latest album and very short too clocking in at just over 36 minutes - first listen was disappointing (mainly with the medium pace and production lacking the intensity of the Flat Pack Philosophy album). However on repeated listening, this album is taking good shape - good Diggle songs (People are Strange Machines, In the Back) and some belters from Shelley - notably It's Not You.
Outer sleeve is a bit daft - Banksy chic but nice inner sleeve - how many polka dot shirts and pairs of white jeans does Diggle own?

The Wire Tapper 36 - working through this so not discovered highlights yet. As always with these wire tappers, they take a lot of time and effort to digest but are often rewarding.

Bobby Womack - Facts of Life
Great album that I'd not heard until last week apart from the odd track. Nice simmering production on this album too.

Elton John - A Single Man.
Not sure why I return to this late 70s bad period Elton album occasionally. On paper it has no redeeming features (cover is Elton showing off his wealth, few tracks feature the Watford FC on backing vocals etc) and it has several tracks which pack more cheese than a cheese pie. However amongst the dung on offer, there are gems - Shooting Star and the mellotron, polymoog and string synth epic Song for Guy,

Chris Watson - In St Cuthberts Time
Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
....two Touch releases which offer polar opposites for the label.
Watson's release is a great listening experience for anyone familiar with the Northumberland coast. Ambarchi's is hypnotic, measured with a wide musical palet.

Robert Henke - Layering Buddha.
Not sure about this one. After repeated listens, I don't think it does much for the source material. One for 'file in archive - maybe listen next year'

Swans - To be Kind
My ears still don't feel right after the Brighton gig in June. Made mistake of getting pissed and thinking I could tolerate a location close to the speaker stack.
Still,... good album that gets better on repeated plays

Envane EP – Autechre

A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
Rubber Soul – The Beatles

Best Of Vol 2 – Bee Gees

Voice Of America – Cabaret Voltaire
Hypnotised 12" – Cabaret Voltaire

Our Love – Caribou

Saturday Love 12" – Cherrelle (Feat Alexander O’Neal)

Hangin’ 12" - Chic

Keep It On 12" – City Limits & the Mutant Rockers

Resistance 12" – Clock DVA

Sunburst & Snowblind EP – Cocteau Twins

Popular Problems - Leonard Cohen

My Bag 12" – Lloyd Cole & the Commotions

Greatness & Perfection (single) – Julian Cope
Beautiful Love (single remix) – Julian Cope
Black Sheep – Julian Cope

The Curse Of Love – The Coral

Two Seven’s Clash – Culture

Sophisticated Boom Boom – Dead Or Alive

The Contino Sessions – Death In Vegas

Automatic Eyes EP – Echoboy

Head first – Goldfrapp

The Hi Singles As And Bs – Al Green

Electric Head - The Grid

Sidewalking (single) - JAMC
Automatic - JAMC

Feeling Sad Tonight EP – Gregory Isaacs

Living Your Life – Grace Jones

What’s THIS For – Killing Joke
Absolute Dissent – Killing Joke

Vicious British Boyfriend EP – King Of The Slums

Imagine – John Lennon

Asylum Road – Perfect Disaster

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret – Soft Cell
Cruelty Without Beauty – Soft Cell

Mighty Real - Sylvester

Other singles...

Plan B – Dexys Midnight Runners

Totally Wired – The Fall

Walk On Gilded Splinters – Marsha Hunt

Autobahn – Kraftwerk

Sunny - Morrissey

TVOD/ Warm Leatherette – The Normal

Autobahn 66 – Primal Scream

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me – The Smiths