Foxtales - Spider ep
The last ten years of poshstock oriented folk pop-rock for young glampers has been a fairly miserable listening experience for the most part but this is an excellent steer from Mooncat. A folkier stompier slightly trad-ier and much less vocally polite Landshapes armed with mandolins rather than electric ukes and a rhythm section more appropriate to C81 and The Cramps or Crime and the City Solution than the Folk Show. One for my go-see-when-next-in-town-list.

Dylan - Shot of Love
Alice Coltrane - Transfiguration
Van - Hard Nose to the Highway
Barbara Hannigan, Andris Nelsons & Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Abrahamsen: Let Me Tell You
Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)
Todd Rundgren, Emil Nikolaisen & Hans-Peter Lindstrøm - Rundans
Grace Jones - Disco / Nightclubbing / Warm Leatherette deluxe editions
Simple Minds- Radio Sessions 1979 - 1982
AWB - Feel No Fret
Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros (an improbable Prog lite album from the gravel meister in collaboration with guitar bloke from My Morning Jacket - sounds like If Only I could Remember My Name mixed with Dark Side Of The Moon)
UK Subs - Another Kind of Blues
Teenage Head - s/t
Soft Machine - Volume 2
Fugazi - various live recordings
Current 93 - The Moons at Your Door
Miles - "Four" & More (Recorded Live In Concert)
Miles - Sorcerer
Barbara Hannigan with Goteborg Symfoniker - Nono & Haydn: Djamila Boupacha & Symphony #49 La Passione
Tapiloa Chamber Choir, Key Ensemble - Salonen: Karawane

Jethro Tull 'Carnegie Hall, New York City 1970'
Tom Verlaine 'Cover'
Caravan 'The Album'
Richard Sinclair 'Caravan of Dreams'
The Julie Ruin 'Run Fast'
PiL 'First Issue'
Santana 'IV'
Paice, Ashton & Lord 'Malice in Wonderland'
Widowmaker 'Widowmaker'
Brinsley Schwarz 'Despite It All'
Man 'Back Into The Future'
Mott the Hoople 'Wildlife'
Peter Hammill 'The Future Now'
Martin Carthy 'Crown of Horn'
Charley Pride 'The Best of Charley Pride'
Paul Bley 'Ballads'
Helge Lien Trio 'Natsukashii'
Jan Garbarek Group 'Photo with Blue Sky, White Cloud, Wires, Windows and a Red Roof'
Mozart: Piano Concerto no.12, K414 (Aldeburgh Festival Orch/Benjamin Britten)
Brahms: Symphony no.4 (Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnanyi)
Beethoven: Symphony no.2 (Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil)
Tchaikovsky 'Francesca da Rimini' (Boston SO/Charles Munch)

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Past Lives

Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP

Caina - Christ Clad in White Phosphorus

Caina - MMIX

Bob Dylan - World Gone Wrong

Bob Dylan - Good As I Been To You

Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind

Klaus Schultz - Contemporary Works - Disc 5 - Docking

Klaus Schultz - Body Love OST

Klasu Schultz - Dune

Boris - Amplifier Worship

Bong - Live @ Bristol Crypt 31/01/14

Bong - Live at the Cluny 2015-05-08

Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars

Dead Sea Apes - Thermionic Emissions vol. 2

KLF - Chill Out

Sunn O)) & Ulver - Terrestrials

Sunn O)) - LA REH 012

Vesuvio - Vesuvio

Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life

Earth - Live Europe 2006

Orthodox - Gran Poder

Malcolm Middleton - 5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine

Malcolm Middleton - Malcolm Middleton With Band Live in Zurich

Malcolm Middleton - Live at The Bush Hall

Harmonia - Harmonia Live 1974

Prana Crafter - Old Growth Fortress

CDs

Budgie 'In For The Kill'
'Zoom Club'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG7e3-jm3UU

Budgie 'Budgie'
'Guts'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H6GSYOByZs

Caravan 'Caravan'
'Grandma's Lawn'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t1dXUAQcoQ

Caravan "If I Could Do It All Over Again. I'd Do It All Over You'
'Hello Hello'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3qgJ883hss

Tamam Shud 'Goolutionites and The Real People'
'Heaven Is Closed' I love this so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxiBSv70hE

Oliver 'Standing Stone'
'Trance'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r9FOgUrmSY

Michael Yonkers Band 'Microminiature Love'
'Puppeting'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjU_AqkpfXI

Bonzo Dog Band 'The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse'
'Humanoid Boogie' :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK88UMq-hvM
'We Are Normal'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZXI9RJSgok

Groundhogs 'Thank Christ For The Bomb'
'Eccentric Man'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq1lqTrEP8w

Robert Wyatt 'Rock Bottom' Top to toe tingles!
'Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2TUb51oukc

Youtube

Andy Irvine, Paul Brady & Donal Lunny, live 1976. Breathtakingly beautiful, incorporating eastern European influences after Andy's travels there in the late 60s.
'Baneasa's Green Glade'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2L05TsbciE

Same trio, same concert, back to Irish -
'As I Roved Out'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06ozEXOSaY

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady live 1977
'The Plains of Kildare'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1l8hSBqS3E

Paul Brady live 1977
'Wearin' The Britches'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVM1xAO2xIk

Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green World, Apollo, Discreet Music. AGW edged it this time. Faultless creative and inventive production.

Follakzoid III. Splendid

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest. Nearly deleted it, but it just survived my recent purge even though it is probably their worst album. Wire - Send didn't, nor did Circulatory System - Signal Morning or King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - I'm in Your Mind Fuzz

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the sky away

Cranium Pie - Mechanisms Part 1

The Magic Band - Owed T'Alex - Live in London 2013 (simply magnificent)

Oh, You Engineer - Judy Henske

The Allman Brothers - Mountain Jam - Live at Ludlow Garage

Amber Arcades - Fading Lines (did a sesh for Cerys on 6 this morning, great guitar)

The Woodentops - In A Dream - Live at Glastonbury

Nick Harper - Knuckledaggers

A House - Everything's Wrong - from Access All Areas - (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyyGehN-30) - very apposite!

Kevin Ayers - whatevershebringswesing - Live Hampstead Theatre Club '72

Mike Heron & Trembling Bells - Log Cabin Home In The Sky - live Ratcliffe sesh

Been on holiday, so not much…

Russian Circles – Guidance. Militant post-rock, like Mogwai/ GYBE, but with added crunch, very good: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWoJs4QkvwE

VA – I’m A Freak Baby. Been banging on to all and sundry about this excellent 3 CD comp of UK heavy psych/proto-metal from the late 60s/early 70s, but it really is very good – even The Guardian agrees with me ;-) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/21/im-a-freak-baby-a-journey-through-the-british-heavy-psych-and-hard-rock-underground-scene-1968-1972-review-grey-grim-and-glorious Obsessives of this period will know a lot of this stuff, but there’s enough new, and more importantly, good stuff here to justify investigation. A few highlights:
Iron Claw: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eSRZz13YiqI (allegedly threatened with legal action by Sabbath ;-))
Egor: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VloBI0OUT6c
Velvet Frogs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OojTWyd5zD0

Apart from following/listening to the songs on the SydArthur festy site, this has been my week, mostly...

Acid Mothers Temple - IAO Chant
AMT Gong trib - Apparently there's another version of this by the post AMT group 'Cosmic Inferno', dunno if it's much different, but I'll check it out on youtube later.
AMT - IAO pt1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxfJYrLGuA
AMT - IAO pt2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1QfIUONZZw
Cosmic Inferno - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSJnhpmuuhc

Loads of Orbital
Insides - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xc2eNFFvzs&list=PLFVS1BgWLEPM-VJ_0JoGPVJHmRy
Lush single - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FT-1bCoS6c
Brown Album - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp49snF3KmE&list=PLjIuADMrDKIZTy6f8KLsJSb04ul7WNBiS

Picked up the Altogether on Ammo marketplace for 1p. I'd given up on em' after the so so 'Middle Of Nowhere' record, but this is a great album, esp love the Trashmen/Lux? Sample of first track, the amazing Dr Who revamp, and the one with the Blockheads sample.
Tension - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6LnlfCFhA
Doctor? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H_o6ncUz3g

Stranglers - Live X Cert
In do love the Stranglers, but never got why this was supposed to be such a good live album, doesn't contain half the great Stranglers tracks you know and love, and it has the excruciating 'I Feel Like A Wog' (what were they thinking, I know what they were trying to say, but really!!! like this? - mind you, read Hugh Cornwells Biog a few years ago, was hard going I can tell ya. If you though Bill Wyman was dull, think again, Hugh REALLY takes the biscuit in the boring stakes).

FSOL - Lifeforms/ Accelerator/ ISDN
Is there anyone better at 'beaty' ambience than FSOl? They pretty much had it nailed from Papua New Guinea onwards, and Lifeforms the album is 90 odd mins of immersive chillage. Hell, even the single version clocks in at 32 odd mins, epic. Maaan, I bet a 5.1 mix of this would blow your head off. Lifeforms full - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcsdkk_ON1c

Young Knives - Voices Of Animals And Men
Do love this record and don't play it nearly enough. Some great lyrics/ melodies and humour on this, and the vids are entertaining too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkeAOwBKNL4&list=PLMAMCQPLZoRRym-jJsetVYKve9gFlAEKp

Gainsborg - L'Homme Attente De Chou
Serge' prog exodus. No idea what he's singing, don't speak the lingo, but love it non the less. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DEstQqgglk&list=PLhrglt2nmIGiw7Yx0s6V53i_0Qk5Ts_w3

Simple Minds - New Gold Dream 81,82,83,84
Strutted about in me baggies and Bundeswehr vest, whilst sipping pimms and relaxing on me yacht whilst balancing a couple of models on each knee, and sandwiched between two huge columns of flame, (tastefully back lit) whilst these beautific summery tunes caressed me lug holes, loverly!
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=new+gold+dream+full+album

Various - Beats To Freedom
Great 2CD comp of cold war Polish rock/pop and punk groups. DVD is interesting as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3lzJEoN4sg
http://culture.pl/en/work/beats-of-freedom-leszek-gnoinski

Various - Soul Jazz Presents - Venuzuala 70
Loads of cool Santana-esque wig outs from bands I've never heard of.
https://boomkat.com/products/soul-jazz-records-presents-venezuela-70-cosmic-visions-of-a-latin-american-earth-venezuelan-experimental-rock-in-the-1970s

Various - Chains and Black Exhaust.
Ahhh Iron Knowledge and a whole host of (once) unknown acts funk rock it to the max, as CD contains no tracklisting......source of much guessage back in the day...http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/chains-and-black-exhaust
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1911-chains-and-black-exhaust/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dxk3gfLm7k&list=PL98971D9A04DDC2E7

Stones - Let It Bleed
Possibly my fav Stones album fer relaxing on hot summer knights, esp Midnight Rambler. Our local boozer used to have a killer live version of Midnight Rambler on the jukebox back in the day, never did find out what/where it was from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzmXp43tJ2U&list=PLtmpInMQXo-uCYmS0o0m1hYVXHUGMdCWt

That be about it fer this week, keep well y'all!

Moon Safari – Air

London Calling (45) – The Clash

Distance Inbetween – The Coral

I Just Can't Be Happy Today (45) – The Damned

Transmission – Death In Vegas

Waiting For A Sign - Githead

Second Hand Daylight – Magazine

Magnetic Seasons - Mugstar

Super – Pet Shop Boys
The Pop Kids (CDS) – Pet Shop Boys

Slowdive (45) - Siouxsie & The Banshees

A Way Of Life – Suicide
Why Be Blue – Suicide
Deuce Avenue – Alan Vega

Metal Guru (45) – T.Rex

Granular Tales – The Woodentops