Haven't posted here for a while. I've been listening to loads this summer.
Figures by
Zaine Griff . A brilliant record yet to be released on CD.
Breaking Glass by
Hazel O'Connor . For her debut as an actress, singer and, last but not least, songwriter is absolutely remarkable.
Come into the air is my favourite and could have been her 6th single off the album!
Far Away In Time by
Martha and the Muffins . A compilation of
Metro Music (noticed Gibraltar Point on the Map of Toronto :p )plus selected tracks from
Trance and Dance and
This is the Ice Age. New Wave material moving onto pop. I guess
Echo Beach still remains "Far Away in Time"!
Icicle Works (Box set) by the
Icicle Works . No synths but a fantastic rock album with well written and performed songs.
The Best of Toyah summarizes the phenomenon that Toyah was...from another planet!
Wire's back catalogue. Noticed
I am the Fly on Rhodes & Taylor's compilation re The Rumrunner. Noticed also some similarity in the artwork on Duran Duran's debut album to
Chairs Missing . Early Wire didn't do too much to me, although I need to play their 2nd album quite more as it feels like a lost classic. Perhaps it must have been on the strength of the song
Outdoor Miner. Their eighties/early nineties period is my favourite with Graham Lewis's bass playing sounding as prominent as Peter Hook's on New Order's records. It is often mentioned that both Graham and Peter influenced each other. Graham influencing Peter in the late seventies and Peter influencing Graham in the eighties.
Howard Devoto's Jerky Versions remaster. A better release than
Magic, Murder and the Weather . Still waiting for a release from him after the brilliant
Buzzkunst was released more than 5 years ago.
Astrea Redux's Eyes Alone ep and
Endzeit's Sternenlicht. A great musician
Axel Treusch is.
Martin Hannett's Joy Division personal mixes . Has 3 versions of
Decades known here as
N4 Europop . Spooky but great stuff!
Roxy Music's Avalon . A classic.
David Bowie's Sound and Vision box set. The legend and icon.
Chris C
