I was riding around town with my daughter yesterday and she had this on. The piano on the opening track is as epic as, Aladdin Sane.


kindred spirits - the next time you have a nightmare, remember this mixtape

Shortly before Christmas I ordered a limited edition live CD of The Paranoid Style. It's mostly acoustic, which is quite unusual for them. I haven't received it yet but that's probably due to all of the chaos with the mail. I'm looking forward to hearing it.

Really great album.
It’s always nice when something is just so high quality that it doesn’t need to break new ground or be sonically adventurous. Fiona just writes such compelling songs, and feeling is so palpable.

It almost feels like a Tom Waits record in some respects. Just totally vibrating with its own momentum, even on the slow moments. Really and truly one of the best “singer-songwriter” releases from an established artists in a long time.

Technically bought for me as Christmas presents but...

All on vinyl;

Thurston Moore - By the Fire
Jonsi - Shiver
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Loren Connors - Blues The Dark Paintings of Rothko

Also bought myself...

Sun Ra - Early and Rare
The Callas with Lee Ranaldo - Trouble and Desire

Album of the year for me. Remarkable.

It was 12ish years ago that I first heard SYG’s Dead-Air play, Shalloboi on What’s This Called?

Received a wonderful package from Tyler yesterday. The packaging/artwork is fantastic and all the fuzzy guitar bliss you can handle!! Also, he included the 7” test pressing cut from marble : )

Oh - the prices are beyond reasonable:

$4 double cassette

$2 7”

$4 double CD

$2 CD

Been conservative with record purchases for quite a while, but just spent some bonus money on the band (of many name changes) that does it the most for me these days:





Thanks to Forced Exposure for distributing these Swedish releases and thereby saving me a bunch of shipping costs

Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club.

Isn't Anything, Loveless, m b v, and EPs 1988-1991.

Did you know that My Bloody Valentine have a new webstore?

The best thing is you only have to hit refresh once every 23 years.

Awesome - i missed out on the deluxe vinyl of Loveless, sold out everywhere.

So did I, but I got completely stiffed - I was early enough to order it initially, but in my foolishness I bought all three records individually rather than the bundle. By the time I got it cancelled from their online store, the deluxes had sold out :(

I'm assuming you guys are talking about the fact that they signed to Domino. Since nobody has posted the link... https://www.dominomusic.com/releases...oody-valentine

unsurprisingly an absolute mess, had to pay fucking absurd jb hi fi prices after my orders direct and from juno both got cancelled.

but choccy look into strangeworld records in north fitzroy, they've still got preorders for the deluxe up I noticed and pretty cheap, maybe give em a ring/shoot an email and see what the chances are like.

The online store has given me a refund for my deluxe order so now that's all sorted. It remains to be seen which I'll actually get.

This deserves a requote.

Hey Kevin, it's 20 fucking 21 already.

Mogwai - As the Love Continues.