It Starts With a Birthstone...

Simetumes it's great when a fine goup splinters.

Jake Xerxes Fusell's The Old Beloved Path.

One of theose ticks on the Folk Rock box.

I can't particularly write about Jazz but I do appreciate it.

This has an incredibly high 'Hip' quotient.

Julia Jacklin's fourth album The Gem has a poised quality and I'd suggest benefits most of all from active engagement. and repeated listens to release its harvest .

Sometimes its in the name.

Kurt Wagner offers a dry, warm perspective on the world and its ways.

Alex Winter and Geese seem to be connecting with a lot of people right now.

Slayyter's Wor$t Girl In America it would seem reasonable to conclude is not a record that is aimed at the likes of me.

This will do me for today !

The Cole Porter classic.

i Iike a record with a liminal space dimmension and an intriguing sobriquet.

Rufus Wainwright makes me feel like I'm waking up in New York.

Sitting on a big oak tree.

There are a series of titles with the Jazz and Soul late and greats entitled 'At The Montreux Jazz Festival' ; Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie.

'Long drive to Reno.

Not what I listened to 25 years back and not really what I listen to now.

'Double, double toil and trouble.

I've never listened to a James Blake album before.

Listening to a record like Anita, Anita O Days debut album can teach you a lot .

I wonder sometimes whether you have to experience the Mid West to truly appreciate Bob Seger,

Beautiful things happen every day.

An album that sets off as if you're heading in to My Sweet Lord then proceeds with a song called Mohammed and another called Nietzsche.

Team Dresch a Punk Queercore band from Olympia, Washington are back after a thirty year hiatus with Furthermore a robust streamlined album that sounds a bit like Fleetwood Mac morphing into Sleater Kinney.

Flagrant expression, sexuality, display, abandon and release.

There's a copy of (Turn On ) The Music Machine by LA Band The Music Machine in Canterbury Rock at the other send of town and I think I'm going to go and buy it.

'We are all of us in the gutter.

I've always been slightly partial to My Morning Jacket without ever finding the album that hit my soft spot so I'm giving this a spin before I turn in.

Indie Folk Stalwarts Mountain Goats are nothing if not a set of safe hooves.

The Troggs.

One of the crazy ladies of Jazz

This is a series about coveting objects.

I was a late developer and certainly came late to The Velvet Underground.

From the frantic new album from Lex Walton which I'll review shortly.

Neil Young has a new album out.

I stuck with Blur which I didn't with Oasis.

'The whole place is dark.

A hop and a step and we're off.

I just surprised myself.

Charlie Faulkner, Bobby Windsor and Graham Pryce from the Golden Age of Rugby.

Possibly because you can't really have too much Fela.

The Cowboys The Bottom Of A Rotten Flower has all the jagged, misdirected romance of 1978.