HURRAH!: Tell God I’m Here (LP, Kitchenware 208…
Years and years ago my great old pal Matt (who I unfortunately lost touch with and now haven't seem for a long time) made me a brilliant mixtape, that I was listening to regularly until…
THE FOREVER PEOPLE: Invisible (7″, Sarah SARAH 54,…
Sarah was one of the first labels that I got truly fanatical and collectorish about, diligently buying up all of their releases and doing my utmost to plug gaps in my collection of their earlier…
WOODEN SHJIPS: Shrinking Moon For You (10″, no…
I love this kind of thing: I read in an issue of Wire some time back that this band, who sounded great from the all-too brief description that was given, were giving away free 10"…
THE WALKER BROTHERS: Take It Easy With The…
I bought this in a charity shop very recently (Oxfam, in Oxford's Summertown area if I remember rightly) as it was pretty cheap and I've long been intrigued by how much devotion and column inches…
MOONSHAKE: Eva Luna (LP, Too Pure PURE 16,…
I'd been after this record for ages and couldn't track it down anywhere - nothing on eBay, nothing from any mail-order outlets, nothing in any second-hand record shops - and then who would have thought…
HOOD: Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys (LP, Domino WIGLP42,…
To my recollection this was Hood's first 'big time' release, marking their shift from sporadic flurries of records coming out of tiny microlabels in bagged, hand-folded sleeves to a proper, 'real' label. (Bear in mind…
TRAFFIC: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush…
Ah, I love this record. I saw the movie Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush, for which this is the theme tune, when I was around 17, and it immediately became one of the…
STEREOLAB & BRIGITTE FONTAINE/MONADE: Caliméro/Cache Cache (7″, Duophonic…
Not sure what year it was when this record came out, but I'd hazard a guess that it was something like '97 or '98 perhaps. Who knows. Does it matter? Is it important to place…
SPACEMEN 3: Walking With Jesus (7″, Earworm EGS01,…
I was going to say how this record was part of the short-lived 'Earworm Gold' series, launched after the demise of the Earworm label proper, but a bit of internet research points out to me…
THE EDMUND FITZGERALD/BILGE PUMP: Noisestar Sessions #05/#06 (12″,…
Ah, 2004, just a few short years ago. The Edmund Fitzgerald were putting out records on little labels like this one and Vacuous Pop. Who'd have thought at the time that some of them would…