• David
• 12 Jan, 2023

XTC - The Big Express (1984)

The big news of the day was the passing of guitar maestro and personal hero, Jeff Beck. I chose not to spend the evening playing his music but did play a couple of tracks earlier in the day.

• • #xtc

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• David
• 11 Jan, 2023

Alt-J - This Is Yours (2014)

I don’t know why I even bother reading reviews on “Pitchfork.com”. Despite being around for more than a decade, Alt-J is a very recent discovery.

• • #altj

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• David
• 10 Jan, 2023

Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology (2019)

This multi-national collective make some of the most magical music I’ve heard in a long time. Another band that is genre-less (a favourite genre of mine) which I’d put firmly in the Broadcast and Stereolab camp.

• • #vanishingtwin

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• David
• 08 Jan, 2023

Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka (2019)

I’ve always been really impressed with the the non-genre disclosure of this very clever English gentleman born to Ugandan refugee parents.

• • #michaelkiwanuka

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• David
• 06 Jan, 2023

Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island (2022)

I’ve finally got my space/place back where I can listen to the weird shit. With my grandkids now safely back in Australia, some semblance of order or disorder returns.

• • #kikagakumoyo

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• David
• 05 Jan, 2023

Everything But the Girl - Temperamental (1999)

1996’s “Walking Wounded” and this, their last record as EBTG, have aged very well indeed. Moving from acoustic folk/pop music to electrified trip hop and dance was a bit of a bold move.

• • #everythingbutthegirl

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• David
• 04 Jan, 2023

Cure - Wish [2022 Remaster](1992)

Fuck Yes!! While there’s some poppy, happy-clappy stuff on this record (incidently, this is the brand new, freshly minted 3CD deluxe edition), there’s still a wonderful, post-“Disintegration”, doom-laden dirge as thick as treacle.

• • #cure

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• David
• 31 Dec, 2022

Bee Gees - 1st (1967)

For some light summer reading, I’m currently plowing through Jeff Apter’s biography of The Bee Gees, “Tragedy: The Sad Ballad of The Gibb Brothers”.

• • #beegees

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• David
• 30 Dec, 2022

Angus & Julia Stone - Snow (2017)

Brother Angus’s stoner, melancholic alter ego, Dope Lemon was my introduction to half of this Aussie duo at least. Adding sister Julia to the equation on 2014’s self-titled “Angus & Julia Stone” pushed the mellow, chilled-out, easy going even further.

• • #angusandjuliastone

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• David
• 23 Dec, 2022

Vieux Farka Toure Et Khruangbin - Ali (2022)

After the highlight of last night’s Neneh Cherry and Youssou N’Dour collaboration on “7 seconds”, this whole album is another match made in heaven.

• • #vieuxfarkatoureetkhruangbin

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