A first playlist from our new subterranean lair, and some new arrivals to check out. Wish I had a link to any of the Chris Abrahams album – maybe I’ll see one or two at the Necks Café Oto show next week. Please find, though… an amazing hour of 75 Dollar Bill live in Paris last week; the return of Mark Eitzel, grandly produced this time out by Bernard Butler; something new by Bing & Ruth, which follows on neatly from Wyndham’s piece about the whole New Classical/Post-Classic in the current issue of Uncut; Visible Cloaks!; and a step up from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, recommended for all Feelies fans, among others.
Also Robert Forster’s memoir, Grant And I, is wonderful, and I dearly hope it finds a UK publisher sometime soon.
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1 Chris Abrahams – Climb (Vegetable)
2 75 Dollar Bill – Live In Paris (28/10/16)
3 Mark Eitzel – Hey Mr Ferryman (Décor)
4 Michael Chapman – 50 (Paradise Of Bachelors)
5 Oren Ambarchi – Hubris (Editions Mego)
6 Tinariwen – Elwan (Anti-)
7 Washington Phillips – Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams (Dust-To-Digital)
8 Terry Dolan – Terry Dolan (High Moon)
9 Pharoah Sanders – Kazuko (Live In An Abandoned Tunnel In San Francisco 1982)
10 Israel Nash And The Bright Light Social Hour – Neighbors EP (?)
11 Mushroom – Psychedelic Soul On Wax (4 Zero)
12 Chris Robinson Brotherhood – If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home By Now (Silver Arrow)
13 Gillian Welch – Boots No 1: The Official Revival Bootleg (Acony)
14 Allison Crutchfield – Tourist In This Town (Merge)
15 Various Artists – New Orleans Funk Volume 4: Voodoo Fire In New Orleans 1951-77 (Soul Jazz)
16 Jim James – Eternally Even (ATO/Capitol)
17 Hand Habits – All The While (Woodsist)
18 Neil Young – Peace Trail (Reprise)
19 Solange – A Seat At The Table (RCA)
20 Priests – Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon)
21 Kaia Kater – Nine Pin (Kingswood)
22 Lambchop – FLOTUS (City Slang/Merge)
23 Bing & Ruth – No Home Of The Mind (4AD)
24 Visible Cloaks – Reassemblage (RVNG INTL)
25 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Julie’s Place (Sub Pop)