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Another one I’ve been enjoying at home.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you just can’t use the word obscure when it comes to music anymore. Yeah there’s Radio 1 playing gawd knows what and that’s obviously going to be the most popular music, but the Internet is just full of music you won’t hear anywhere else. It’s not obscure cos it’s out there, but you gotta go look for it (unless you’re not interested enough).
I get emails from junodownload with new releases every week, and I’ve heard of a tiny percentage of what they list.

Hopefully Dr Hook live 2017.

Almost forgot – 22 years after Pygmalion: the new album by Slowdive is very good.

Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett’s new album is lovely.

I’ve just been recommended Electric Octopus – Driving under the influence of jams.

15 minutes in and its only half way through the first song. The whole album is nearly 4 hours long!

So far so good though, definitely what i need whilst lying on the sofa with manflu.

For nostalgia’s sake…

The Defiant. The Men They Couldn’t Hang.
Weather Diaries. Ride.

And just because they’re great…

Big Machine. Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band.
I See You. The XX.
Spark. Enter Shikari.

I’ll happily include Elbow’s latest, the polar opposite to Ed Sheeran and Coldplay, and 90% of Radio One’s playlist, which I do consider to be aural wallpaper, the new version of Kindling (Fickle Flame) featuring John Grant is a beautiful song.
Anyway, so far this year I’ve been enjoying Thea Gilmore’s Counterweight, and her limited edition EP The New Tin Drum, Opeth Sorceress, Gizmodrome, Haley Bonar Golder, Judie Tzuke Peace Has Broken Out, King Crimson Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind, Arcade Fire Everything Now, Gaelynn Lee The Songs We Sing Along The Way, and All The Roads That Lead Us Home, Slowdive, Donald Fagen Sunken Condos, (not new, but new to me), Big Thief Capacity and Masterpiece, and Hurray For The Riff Raff Small Town Heroes, (again, not new, but new to me and signed by Alynda, the singer) and The Navigator, (which is the latest album), Kris Delmhorst The Wild, and finally Cara Dillon Wanderer, a signed copy of which arrived yesterday but I’ve not had a chance to listen to it yet.

Mostly stuff from 2018.

Is that.. y’no..the Judie Tzuke ?

Can’t believe no one has mentioned these:

Ocelot Ocean – “Fried egg plant”
Alfred Honeycomb – “The cat widdled in my shoe”
Zinc Daffodils- “Tungsten bicycle”

Are you lot making these band names up?
Frankly I’m just looking forward to the next Coldplay album.

Mount Kimbie, Blockhead, Mogwai and LCD are ones that have already been mentioned. Also current favourites are Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder, King Krule – The Ooz, Dark Sky – Othona and Basstronaut – Basstronaut. Basstronaut are very easy on the ears.

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Thundercat ‘Drunk’
Dan Auerbach ‘Waiting on a Song’
Peter Perrett ‘How the west was won’
Ryuichi Sakamoto ‘async’
Richard Thompson ‘ Acoustic Classics II’
Kronos Quartet ‘Folk Songs’
LCD ‘American Dream’
Slowdive
Jason Isbell ‘The Nashville Sound’….love this album!

Thanks for the suggestions (don’t know how I missed some of these)….Kurt Vile, Algiers, David Rawlings, Mount Kimbie, Eliza Carthy and Four Tet ‘New Energy (brilliant)

Pretty colours.

Thundercat ‘Drunk’
I don’t get it! I saw him on Jools and burst out laughing, it was so bad. 😆

One of the top few of the year for me Dez. I can’t believe that no-one else is down with Pond.

That’s a great album 😀
Have you got their 2015 album “Bullfrog in the light of a half moon’?

Indeed, sadly missed her recent gig in Bristol, never quite sure I’m going to be home in time to be able to get to a gig in time. Still a great singer and songwriter, her register has dropped a bit, but she’s 61 now!

No, I listed it, superb album, bought it from Rough Trade at Greenman, along with a bunch of other things.

‘Narkopop’ by Gas has made my year and some. After 17 years I wasn’t really expecting another one to surface so what a surprise and a sublime addition to the series. As per the subsequent albums it’s truly timeless and each listen uncovers something new.

And also something entirely different (someone’s thread on STW switched me on to Elder) this has been a great follow-up to ‘Lore’. Again, more of the same. Thankfully!

I’m slacking in my album listening. Currently in the office listening to ‘Quiet Giant’ by Emma Langford on Spotify. Singer songwriter stuff, pretty mellow stuff. Hannah Peel has a new album out, ‘Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia’. It’s ambient electronica stuff, I quite like Deep Space Cluster. Beck has a new album out too, Colors I believe it’s called. I must give that a proper listen, but it flowed nice on the way home from work the other day.