This one is a recent Fathers' Day / birthday gift from son. I saw their 2022 Glastonbury performance and was mightily impressed, which...

A recent online purchase, one of three Fall albums that EBay provided while I was bored earlier in the week. I told my wife that I'd...

As previously mentioned, in the early 2000s I trawled my way through Nick Cave's back catalogue, and I suspect this album, the Bad Seeds' second, was somewhere in the middle of that investigation. It's not one that gets a regular outing, and, I suspect is one which suffers from 'second album syndrome'. The wonderful Tupelo kicks off - thunderclap and torrential rain, before Barry Adamson's thumping bass and Nick Cave's manic, menacing vocals. And this sets the tone for the al

My Bowie education continues, with his final album, recorded while knowing he was dying of liver cancer, and released without publicity...

Depeche Mode have always just been there, without really making a massive impression. I quite liked the very early singles, but lost...

Of course I like Peter Gabriel. His era of Genesis was my favourite band as a teenager, and I thoroughly enjoyed his first four eponymous...

I've no idea where I picked up this CD, a compilation of the solo work of drummer Bill Bruford, well known for his stints with Yes and...

This one was a happy find for 50p in a charity shop last week, not something I could leave there. I've already reviewed his anthology...

Another one picked up during last month's Cornwall holiday, it's The Mighty Fall from the mid 1990s, not a happy place by all accounts,...

A break from the tyranny of the alphabet for a bit, and a look at more recent purchases. This is an album I've intended to pick up at...

The Imagined Village is a folk music project founded by Simon Emmerson of Afro Celt Sound System, with a cavalcade of stars, including...

I came to Hüsker Dü via Bob Mould's solo work, first hearing his debut album Workbook a couple of years after release. Since then, I've...

Picked up for the exchange of coins rather than notes, on the basis that I ought to hear John Lee Hooker, I have little idea if this 1991...

1976 and 1977 were all about punk as any documentary maker knows, yet where did I first hear this album? Was it Prog Time with Greg Lake?...

I suspect the reason I rescued this album from a charity shop, for exchange of a single coin, was my impression of Holmes as a pop...

This is a classic purchase of mine - "I must have some Billie Holiday (or insert other great) to see what all the fuss is about." So, for...

I first encountered Holdsworth on Gong's Gazeuse! album, then later playing with Bill Bruford's band. In fact, he seemed to be the go-to...

As ever, late to the party, I picked this up in a charity shop for a quid about ten years after release, more out of boredom than any...

I'm not sure how this escaped my attention at the time, but I wasn't aware of this album until after Hillage's second album, L, was out....

There's an unwritten rule (except I'm writing it now) that compilation albums won't be eligible for the coveted 5* status. But if there's...