Roy Harper – Stormcock

Not enough people listen to Roy harper, hopefully this post will help remedy  this travesty. The picture above is from the front cover of Roy’s 1971 album, Stormcock, (yes I know the name sucks, get over it asshole) which is almost universally agreed to be his magnum opus. By this point in his career, Mr. [...]

Alan Stivell – Reflets

I had a short conversation with Vitor about Celtic music yesterday, so I figured it would be a good idea to post something here. This is one of the best folk albums ever made. Alan Stivell is a musician from Brittany, and he is pretty much single-handedly responsible for resurrecting the Celtic harp, an instrument [...]

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 – Propellor Time

Propellor Time  is a new album by Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 (Peter Buck of R.E.M, Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellows and Bill Rieflin of Ministry) released on the 22 of March 2010. One of my favourites of this year so far. It features contributions from John-Paul Jones of lead zepplin and Johnny [...]

The Angels of Light – How I Loved You

I remember first listening to Swans last year with very high expectations. I’d seen people on last.fm with great charts who’d managed to accumulate thousands of Swans scrobbles, and I found them really underwhelming when I finally got around to listening to them (I started with Various Failures, because Fred Frith plays on some of [...]