Y.M.O. - Naughty Boys - CD (1983)
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Combat Rock from the triple vinyl People’s Hall release. I think it improves on the original vinyl. Doesn’t matter really as it’s just another brilliant Clash album & you can never have too many Clash albums.
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The band name, the cover and the title…
But love the album. In the days when Gregg was married to Cher.
Allman and Woman- Two The Hard Way
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Linda Thompson, Proxy Music. So far out of my comfort zone I’ll need a map to get back. Sometimes you need some folk (?), or a Russian techno station, to challenge your musical tastes.
Anyway thoroughly enjoying this (though only on track 2!)
And now The Proclaimers are singing 8)
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A whole bunch of trax of Shelby Lynnes up and coming album due to drop 16th Aug.
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Cave In - Heavy Pendulum (2022, limited edition)
Cave In’s most recent album and the first without bass player Caleb Scofield after his tragic death several years back. In his stead steps in Nate Newton of Converge fame who along with his commendable bass skills also adds his pipes for the harsh vocal parts. Heavy Pendulum feels like a coalescence of every aspect of Cave In, swirling together not only their metalcore and spacey, melodic motifs but bringing in aspects of Mutoid Man, Stephen Brodsky’s thrashy side-project, leaving us with a record bulging at the seams. It rocks (opener “New Reality”), it shudders (“Blood Spiller”) and it moves you to a higher plane of being via closing track “Wavering Angel,” a 12-minute epic that stands as arguably the best thing the band has ever produced. Yes, the album is probably too long for its own good but it doesn’t stem from the ego of a band giving in to self-indulgence but from a love of the medium, bursting with too many ideas to leave fallow.
A messy, ungainly album, yes, but a great one nonetheless. Can’t wait to see where the band goes from here.
Special mention must be paid to this pressing as it’s a phenomenal sounding record, producing a massive, involving sound that does justice to the music nestled in the grooves.
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Radiohead - OK Computer - CD (1997)
27 years ago today 28/06/97 Radiohead went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their third album OK Computer. The British groups first self-produced album later appeared in many critics’ lists and listener polls for best album of the year and also won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.
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