Reeling slightly from the bad news about John Martyn, here are the records played in the Uncut office over the last couple of days. Mildly weird mix this week: the glut of Smog is due to me trying to review the new Bill Callahan album, which I’ll try and blog about in the next few days.
1 Black Dice – Repo (Paw Tracks)
3 1990s – Kicks (Rough Trade)
4 Everything Everything – Suffragette Suffragette (Myspace)
5 Vince Taylor – Jet Black Leather Machine (Ace)
6 Arbouretum – Song Of The Pearl (Thrill Jockey)
7 Tim Exile – Listening Tree (Warp)
8 Jonathan Richman – ¿A Qué Venimos Sino A Caer? (Munster)
9 Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate (?)
10 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Beware (Domino)
11 Crystal Antlers – Tentacles (Touch & Go)
12 Iggy & The Stooges – Shake Appeal (Bootleg)
13 Mastodon – Crack The Skye (Reprise)
14 The Delta Spirit – Ode To Sunshine (Decca)
15 Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much To Love (Domino)
16 Smog – Knock Knock (Domino)
17 Boards Of Canada – The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
18 Loren Connors & Jim O’Rourke – Two Nice Catholic Boys (Family Vineyard)
19 Anni Rossi – Rockwell (4AD)
20 The Leisure Society – The Sleeper (Willkommen)
21 Royksopp – Happy Up Here (Wall Of Sound)