@TheKevster, Been on a bit of a 70’s spurge of late, and the MTH album came up while tidying up my CD collection.
You will probably know a lot more than me, but never understood why MTH never quite broke through into the mainstream. Great band, great album.
Wye Oak – If Children
CD|2008
Realized didn’t have this album from their catalog. Recently purchased, first listen. Liking so far.
Indie rock.
Graham Bond Organisation – Live At Klooks Kleek
The West Hampstead gig a few months shy of 60 years ago!
King Creosote and Jon Hopkins. Diamond Mine. 2011 CD.
I bought this some years ago for my wife as she is a bit of a Jon Hopkins fan. It didn’t sell that well but was critically well received.
Sturgill Simpson’s new album released under the nom de plume, Johnny Blue Skies. The reviews are good. Qobuz stream.
Eric Clapton - I Still Do, on shm-cd.
Mott The Hoople, Mott The Hoople, 1969.
I arrived to MTH because of this album art, a connection to M.C. Escher, with whom I have been a bit obsessed for a long, long time.
original reviews of the Slider by T. Rex stated
even to ears successfully past puberty, Mr. Bolan does have a certain fey charm that in the end defies analysis
is full of songs of a slightness which is wondrous to behold.
I don’t know how successfully I passed puberty and it was a few years after T. Rex’s heyday but Boylan just sounds so effortless - a wonderful album that probably makes no best of lists.
.sjb
A bit of a prog tragic here but if you like long songs, great melodies and lots of synth and guitar this is worth a listen. Quite prolific but generally excellent and this is the latest (one guy, Antony Kalugin, from the Ukraine primarily but with various guests)
Karfagen
Land Of Chameleons
Hi Pete - hope all is well with you
I also listened to this. Recognised the sound as Mk 2 Purple so a bit dated but done very well. Interested to hear how balanced the music was - the new guitarist got good air time, as did Don Airey but I didn’t get the sense they were competing for the spotlight. Rhythm section sounded tight and Gillan stuck to the range he can now sing in. All in all, very creditable but I doubt I would play it often.
