An album you wish more people knew about

The Low Anthem-- Oh My God Charlie Darwin

 

Goya Dress - Rooms. Released in the late '90s to generally little acclaim. It was produced by John Cale and features the songwriting and vocal talents of Astrid Williamson. Beautiful and haunting stuff.

 

Heldon - Stand By

 

Any from Webb Wilder or Jason & The Scorchers

 

Monks Of Doom - Meridian



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This is a lovely record. It has the great avant-garde alto sax player Marion Brown on it. IIRC he's playing Pharoah Sanders' Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord.

 

Fay Victor is one of the few jazz singers that really matters these days.

Lazy Old Sun is from the days when she moved to Holland back in the late 90s /early 2000 . She actually does good interpretations of the Kinks' title track and the Doors People Are Strange. I hate when jazz singers cover pop tunes but she really does some great things with them. And they're cool tracks to cover. She's accompanied by a good quartet of guitar/bass/drums and Wolter Wierbos on trombone.

 

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking

 

This one - and especially the very first track...


- Eroc

 

M - The Official Secrets Act.

A brilliant New Wave concept LP about a spy under interrogation. Not at all what people expected after "Pop Muzik."

 

You would have thought that would be the obvious choice but he actually plays on "Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahim" which he had used on his own Vista album from 1975. Budd himself plays on the Vista track.

 

Eroc, are you a fan of Beggar's Opera?

 

Wayne County and the Electric Chairs- "Storm the Gates of Heaven" and "Things Your Mother Never Told You"

Rip Rig + Panic- "Attitude"

Elsa Lanchester- "Songs For A Smoke Filled Room" and "Herself"

BJ Snowden- "Life in the USA and Canada" and "In Memory Of My Father & My Life In Canada's Atlantic Provinces"

 

Barely pink: Number one fan
Great power pop album

 

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Jackie Greene - American Myth


Howie B / Will O'Donovan / Crispin Hunt - Mayonnaise II


David Lindley & Wally Ingram - Twango Bango III


Stevie Ann - Light Up


Randy Jacobs - The Return Of Randy Dynamite


David Rhodes - Bittersweet


Backyard Tire Fire - Good To Be


The Bridge - National Bohemian


Tim O'Reagan - Tim O'Reagan


Sunny Levine - Love Rhino


Michael Sackler-Berner - MSB


Orelia Has Orchestra - Orelia Has Orchestra


Nathaniel Street-West - Witness


Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Live Montauk Sessions


Link Montana & the Rough Riders - Joe's


Buffalo Nickel - Long Play 33 1/3


The Verbs - And Now ... The Verbs


Howlin' Hill Project - Howlin' Hill Project (Doug Thomas, Gary McCoy, George Tricomi, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson)


Marce Lacouture - La Joie Cadienne


Hans Theessink - Crazy Moon


Carlos Ann - Entre Lujos Y Otras Miserias


Noir - Strange Desire


Oceania - Oceania


Mary Cutrufello - When the Night Is Through


All the King's Men - All the King's Men


Orquestra Was - Forever's A Long Long Time


The Refreshments - Are You Ready?


Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Braver Newer World


Peter Wolf - Long Line


Dave Edmunds - Closer To the Flame


Jules Shear - More


T Bone Burnett - T Bone Burnett (for all those who enjoy the O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack)


John Wesley Harding - Why We Fight


Sailor - Street Lamp


Peter Case - The Man With the Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar


Andy White - Andy White


Tonio K - Olé


Kirstin Candy - Another Sweet Mess


Sophia George - Fresh

 

"Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band" 1976

 

Julie Feeney's "Pages". Vocals and strings. Brilliant.

 

You mentioned this one before and thanks to you I eventually picked it up - excellent album and not a second too long.

Another goodie:


Produced by Calum Malcolm and therefore somewhat similar to The Blue Nile's "Hats", but a little less synthetic and all the better for it IMO.

 

Everyone needs to hear this album. It wasn't released for 20 years after it was recorded in 1991 despite being fully completed. It's amazing how many albums had similar fates back then.

 

Two come to mind:

The Beach Boys - "Friends": No idea how this came to be so overlooked. This is one of the best things from the late 60's. Has aged gracefully too. Everybody that owns a copy of "Pet Sounds" should check this out!

Supergrass - "Road To Rouen": Different from anything they did, the French countryside has given their music a lovely homemade vibe. Terrific songs and lots of great playing too. Hard to categorize this album.

 

Didn't know too much about Beggar's Opera in the past. But when I did the remasterings of most of their albums last year, I got deeply into their music. And I REALLY became a fan of them...


- Eroc

 

I remastered this one also - and now I am something like a Kaleidoscope-fan, too...


- Eroc

 

Glad to hear it! If you haven't already tracked it down, I would also highly recommend Felt's Poem of the River (actually a six-track "mini LP"). Produced by Mayo Thompson, great stuff.

I've heard that It's Immaterial album before, but don't own it... nice recommendation! Will have to try and track it down now...

 

Sonia Dada. They don't fit any mold on their sound. I can listen to this all day.

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