“When you start to age now, you begin to think you’re lucky.”
Diagrams – Chromatics
It’s almost the perfect alternative pop record; with enough to satisfy urban existentialists and garden centre visitors alike.
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Jib Kidder – Teaspoon to the Ocean
Now and again things do disappear down a wormhole, but overall this LP’s a damned good, funny, and all-giving listen; and best is saved till last.
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Viet Cong – Viet Cong
Will the lumbering, frayed Golem that is this take on alternative guitar rock stay upright longer than the odd month or two?
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Cornershop – Hold on It’s Easy
There WERE good things that happened away from all that Britpop balls. And Cornershop were one of them.
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Godspunk 14
If you’d get one Godspunk comp to get out of your box to, I’d get this one, it’s perfect trippe material, C17th stylee. The soundtrack to digging up Silbury hill.
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Noveller – Fantastic Planet
This is why Fantastic Planet is so good. You can sense that it means something to Sarah Lipstate.
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Afterpartees – Glitter Lizard
I’ll guess wildly and think that they’ve gone into the studio and felt a bit of pressure, and not really gone further than presenting a cleaned up version of their live shows
Chasing Rainbows – Make Love Caravan
A classic mix of droopy sixties bedroom folk pop offcuts, stitched into a new comfort blanket; a record for staring out of windows.
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Space Siren – Songs for a Dead Pilot
The sucker punch, Song For a Dead Pilot, is a feral and often primal bash which sounds like Roxy Music’s Do The Strand thrown into a tumble drier.