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Pulp - ‘More’
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Fitting in a listen before going to see them in Glasgow tonight. Pretty good, sounds like Pulp.
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June 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Roots Manuva - “Dreamy Days” 12”
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Lovely stuff. The Super Furry Animals remix is good too, though that one’s on the CD single.
From the record fair at the weekend, left a load of other Roots Manuva twelves for my pal Alan to raid.
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June 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Mice Parade - ‘Mokoondi’
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Long-overdue filling of a gap in my Mice Parade collection.
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June 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Plone - ‘For Beginner Piano’
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A wonderful record. Somewhere between the Radiophonic Orchestra, Broadcast and Boards of Canada. Not too much it was released by Warp and they later recorded for Ghost Box.
I’m sure there was mention of the unreleased second Warp album maybe seeing the light of day.
June 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Rachel’s - ‘Handwriting’
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Good listening on an intermittently rainy Sunday evening.
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June 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Nina Nastasia - ‘Dogs’
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An excellent album beautifully performed and recorded.
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June 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Shed Seven - ‘Change Giver’
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Already have the reissue but now I also have an original.
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June 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Björk - ‘Big Time Sensuality’ 12”
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Remixes from David Morales, Fluke, Justin Robertson and Dom T. Record fair pick-up.
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June 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Dianogah - ‘Millions of Brazilians’
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An excellent album, lovely bass-lead instrumental fun.
Ordered this from Discogs a week or so ago then discovered today that the Dianogah box set I’d had my fingers crossed for went up for pre-order at tue start of the month.
May 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Luke Slater - ‘Alright on Top’
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This is the only Luke Slater album I have, and I gather it’s a bit of an outlier in his catalogue. Slater teamed up here with Ricky Barrow of the Aloof for a set of fairly thumping electropop.
May 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Smog - ‘Rain on Lens’
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I have this on CD but the CD stopped playing. Always had it in my head that it was quite a bleak record, probably because of the artwork, but it’s not all that bleak.
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May 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Lou Barlow / Rudy Trouvé - ‘Lou Barlow / Rudy Trouvé’
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Split album, Lou “Dinosaur Jr/Sebadoh/Folk Implosion/solo/etc” on one side, Rudy “dEUS” Trouvé on the other.
All instrumental, probably quite improvised. Works very well, quite an enjoyable low-stakes listen.
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May 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
These New Puritans - ‘Crooked Wing’
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Maybe the best album of the year so far. Really beautiful, leans into the airy Talk Talk/Blue Nile/Bark Psychosis/Steve Reich side of what they do. Great stuff.
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May 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Gumball - ‘Special Kiss’
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Gumball’s singer/guitarist Don Fleming also produced Teenage Fanclub’s ‘Bandwagonesque’. The Fannies guest on a track here, as does Thurston Moore.
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May 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Dolly Mixture - ‘Remember This: The Singles Collection 1980-1984’
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Been meaning to check out Dolly Mixture for ages - more familiar with Debsey’s wonderful work as part of Birdie and with Saint Etienne. Enjoying it.
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May 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Get Up Kids - ‘Live! @ the Granada Theater’
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Not normally that bothered for live albums but this was £5 and is quite enjoyable.
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May 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Stereolab - ‘Instant Holograms on Metal Film’
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I posted Laetitia Sadier’s most recent solo LP a few months back and mused that I was quite content with her solo work and Cavern of Anti-Matter…then The Groop announced this!
Just one listen in and it’s pretty good.
May 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Braids - ‘In Kind // Amends’ 12”
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Plural, not singular.
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May 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Barbican Estate - ‘Barbican City of Tokyo’
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Picked up as a little bonus to go with the Lake Ruth LP. Very enjoyable, bits of kosmische, drone, psych I suppose.
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May 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Shudder to Think - ‘Music From the Motion Picture ‘First Love, Last Rites’’
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Where our heroes enlist a range of guest vocalists (Jeff Buckley! Liz Phair! Billy Corgan! Nina Persson! Alan and Mimi from Low! Others!) to sing on a range of quite lovely soulful bar-band sixties pop songs.
May 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Lake Ruth - ‘Hawking Radiation’
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Was wondering if we’d ever get a new Lake Ruth album and then I got the Feral Child mailout about it during the week!
Very nice it is too.
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May 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The Go! Team - ‘Proof of Youth’
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Always fun.
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May 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Buffalo Tom - ‘Buffalo Tom’
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Famously co-produced by J Mascis. A wee bit rougher than the later records but the Buffalo Tom blueprint is there.
Nice early pressing.
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May 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Tunng - ‘And Then We Saw Land’
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A fine album. Listened to “Hustle” loads when it came out. Quite jaunty by my standards.
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May 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Scrawl - ‘He’s Drunk’
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Slowly checking out the Scrawl albums after 25 years or more of Afghan Whigs fandom - for Scrawl’s Marcy Mays is the protagonist of the Whigs’ “My Curse”. Pretty good.
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May 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM