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...

This is the third album of the trilogy Scott-Heron made after parting company with musical collaborator for most of the 1970s, and the...

The second part of this 'two albums on one CD re-issue' by Zappa is 1973's Overnite Sensation, bought in a charity shop just before...

Revisiting the Housemartins' second album, bought before Christmas on an EBay raid, didn't fill me with as much expectation as the debut had. Perhaps what was new then was subsequently repeated, and no longer fresh, but it's offered up a few surprises, mostly positive. It's certainly an album I bought at the time, and enjoyed, but haven't really missed, so let's see why. Opening with the title track, The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death, it's a bouncy, if over-wordy to

Reflections is the second album from the Original Album Classics box set, which Santa brought me, and was heavily drawn from on the...

The next offering is another Zappa mid-seventies album, picked up in a charity shop just before Christmas. Apostrophe(') is doubled up...

I was an early fan of John Cooper Clarke, having heard and liked Disguise In Love a couple of years earlier, and bought the 10" clear...

Santa's one contribution to my CD collection this year was a three album compilation of Gil Scott-Heron's early 1980s CDs, made after...