New
Coldplay - Viva Lavida - Nice change in style enough to drag me back to the Coldplay fold.
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (which translates as "with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly") . I should be bored with their warbly vocals and endless plains of minimalism with the inevitable crescendos. BUT I'm not and I don't think I ever will, musical Ambrosia.
Portishead - 3: Portihead is back as good as ever
Alanis Morrissette - Flavours of Entanglement: I've been buying the last couple of Morrissette albums out of habit. I think this is last one, all the originality has gone
Old
Nick Cave - Everything he has ever done (have just filled out the missing ones)
Otis Redding - Collection: Sitting on the dock of the bay
Django Reinhardt - Swing 39, Just swing
Anita O'Day - I Told Ya I Love Ya - Exhuberent jazz vocalist from the 40s on.
Robert Johnson - One of my favourite blues artists (next to Skip James)
Smiths / Morrisey - I never liked the Smiths and I put this down to Morrisey's voice and then I heard some Morrisey (solo) songs and I liked them so started listening to more Morrissey and Smiths and discovered I still don't like the Smiths much but I like Morrissey on his own.
Old Newly Discovered
Sometimes you find things and you wonder how you missed them the first time around? Well here are a couple from the 90s (thanks to Alan for reavealing them to me :-)
Alabama 3 - Electronica Country, Gospel and other Americana complete with southern aceents from London. And its good too.
Mercury Rev - "Deserters Songs" and "All is Dream" are my first samoles from these Neo-psychedelics that started in 1991 and are still going.
Les Rita Mitsouko - Been listening to lots of this bunch of French vaudeville rocksters. I like "Marc and Robert" and "Re" the best. Bit like a cross between the Eurythmics & Sailor.
Miranda Sex Garden - You just have to listen to a band with that name, and its worth it.
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