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Siouxsie And The Banshees – Join Hands (1979)

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Mar 292 min read

Siouxsie And The Banshees – Join Hands (1979)

This was the first Banshees album I owned (pretty much as soon as it came out), but I've listened to their first one, The Scream far more...

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Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (2018)

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Mar 292 min read

Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (2018)

In 1978 it was "God save the Queen, she ain't no human bein'". Forty years on, Sons Of Kemet make a similar statement with more subtlety...

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Mar 272 min read

Steely Dan - Gaucho (1980)

I pretty much got up to speed with all of Steely Dan's albums while at university, yet this, their final album before a 20 year album...

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Mar 262 min read

Silver Apples – Silver Apples (1968)

I had never heard of Silver Apples until this was the featured album on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone. I hadn't heard anything like it, and...

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Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate – World Tour (1998)

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Mar 241 min read

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate – World Tour (1998)

I first came across Joe Zawinul in my teens when a friend lent me a Weather Report album, and certainly wasn't aware of his pedigree in...

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Mar 232 min read

The Passage – Pindrop (1980)

OK, I'll fess up. When I bought this cheap on Ebay earlier this month, I thought I was buying their first Cherry Red album Degenerates. I...

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Mar 231 min read

Sauna Youth – Distractions (2015)

I hadn't heard of Sauna Youth until they appeared on Marc Riley's All Shook Up, under the name Monotony, performing the song of the same...

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The Ruts – Something That I Said - The Best Of The Ruts (1995)

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Mar 222 min read

The Ruts – Something That I Said - The Best Of The Ruts (1995)

The Ruts were just one of the host of second division punk bands around at the end of the 1970s, who churned out a couple of decent...

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Mar 202 min read

Rush – A Farewell To Kings (1977)

At the time I had Rush written off as one of those annoying metal bands from across the Atlantic, loved by people whose hair was longer...

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Lou Reed and John Cale - Songs For Drella (1990)

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Mar 192 min read

Lou Reed and John Cale - Songs For Drella (1990)

Cale and Reed hadn't spoken for years until Andy Warhol's memorial service in 1987, but made enough of a connection to want to work...

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David Rees-Williams Trio – Hidden Colours (2002)

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Mar 182 min read

David Rees-Williams Trio – Hidden Colours (2002)

I've never really liked classical music as a genre (yes, I know the term classical music is as broad a term as music). I've never liked...

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Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star (1973)

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Mar 163 min read

Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star (1973)

I first heard Rundgren in the early 1970s, I Saw The Light being a song I liked, and that seemed to be played only on pirate radio and...

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Mar 152 min read

New York Gong – About Time (1980)

In 1980, Gong's Daevid Allen was at a loose end, and found himself in New York, hooking up with former Gong champion and producer Giorgio...

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Mar 122 min read

World Party – Bang! (1993)

Karl Wallinger died earlier this week, far too young at 66. I'm not too familiar with his music, really only through one unconvincing...

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Redskins – Neither Washington Nor Moscow (1986)

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Mar 102 min read

Redskins – Neither Washington Nor Moscow (1986)

One album wonders - bands and artists who recorded one album only. This NME article lists its top 21 of these, and there are many which...

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Mar 92 min read

Pip Pyle – 7 Year Itch (1998)

This one is deep into the Canterbury Sound rabbit hole. Pip Pyle, who sadly died in 2006, aged 56, was drummer with Gong, Hatfield And...

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Public Image Ltd - Paris Au Printemps (1980)

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Mar 82 min read

Public Image Ltd - Paris Au Printemps (1980)

John Lydon has been in the news today, doing some public racism for attention. But it's nicer to think of the times when he was relevant,...

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Premiata Forneria Marconi – Photos Of Ghosts (1973)

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Mar 72 min read

Premiata Forneria Marconi – Photos Of Ghosts (1973)

I remember listening to PFM, touted as Italy's answer to ELP (a lazy comparison, although they were signed to ELP's Manticore label), in...

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Mar 13 min read

Daevid Allen – Time Of Your Life (2005)

Now this is an odd one. I bought this 2CD set cheap on EBay a few years ago, without really looking at what was on it, but being aware of...

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Feb 292 min read

Polar Bear - Dim Lit (2003)

In Canterbury there used to be a half decent HMV shop. DVDs, t-shirts and nonsense downstairs, music on CD and vinyl upstairs. Assistants...

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