I've tried not to buy compilation albums since starting this blog, preferring to visit stand alone efforts, but for £1 in a charity shop...

Tired of Yes-dom after 1974's Relayer , the band scattered to the four winds to pursue solo projects. None of these were particularly...

Also in the recent Ebay package was the Tangerine Dream album which followed Force Majeure, about which I was quite lukewarm. So, I'm...

Despite owning a number of their CDs, of all the bands who were ubiquitous throughout my teenage years, Led Zeppelin are a band I rarely...

Among the latest set of EBay purchases is this 1979 album from German electronicists, Tangerine Dream. I was a late convert to the Tangs,...

Tight band, layered drums from a duo of drummers, pounding bass, lyrics half spoken, half sung on top, House Of All have taken The Fall...

This was a Christmas present several years ago, and it collects together in a 2CD set, BBC sessions from the band (mostly for John Peel's...

The first new purchase of 2025 is Richard Dawson's latest release. I've spoken lots about my love for Dawson's musical world and this...

This one's a recent purchase from Oxfam (I actually saw it a couple of weeks ago, but had to check that I didn't already have it). It's...

This is the second album of Hackett's from Universal's Five Classic Albums set, picked up cheap at a boot fair, and probably the one I'm...

This was Gomez's second album, and their highest chart placing, making No 2 in the album charts. I bought it on release, after being...

1969 was a hell of a year for Fairport Convention. They released three albums, over the course of which they morphed from a country-rock...

Mike Ratledge, the final founding member of Soft Machine to leave the band, died this week, so we might have a couple of Softs albums in...

I've been listening to a lot of Eno and other ambient music recently. Four weeks ago, I had knee replacement surgery, and sleep has been...

Picked up for a decent price in an HMV sale some years ago, this is a recording from one of Davis' 1950s sextets consisting of himself,...

Nick Cave's covers album from 1986 features an eclectic selection and Cave himself has suggested it's the album where the Bad Seed really...

Damon Gough's debut under the moniker Badly Drawn Boy was the surprise winner of the mercury Music Prize in 2000, and I bought the CD at...

I bought this album many moons ago, in a sale in a short lived Fopp outlet in Canterbury, and I don't recall ever listening to it. It...

This incarnation of King Crimson is probably my favourite - the early 1980s, Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin lineup....

It's 1978, and for the most part, as a first year student I'm very punk resistant, still preferring the more cerebral challenge of the...