Why Aren't You Listening?

it’s a beguiling listen and one to stick on if you’re feeling abstract.

Dutronc knocked out some classic records in the sixties

We really should have brought this record to your collective attention earlier: because it’s absolutely brilliant.

Simple, (in the best sense), precise and blessed with a magnificent gift for melody, this record is an absolute must if you like intelligent, reflective pop music.

The conceit behind the LP's birth is a marvellous one, and in many ways, a product of the psychedelic era.

You get the feeling that there are three great, unrelated, unfinished projects or ideas here, all waiting for a moment of clarity... like a meeting of three people at a party who have nothing to say to each other.

Are we still supposed to like No Age, or have they had their allotted 5 minutes?

I thought it a strange LP then; and I do now.

Now imagine, in a parallel, slightly more warped universe, Texan Redneck with a Big Cock would be the soundtrack LP for the Breakfast Club. Think on.

Get a fabulous and intelligent spoken word artist in Myra Davis and team her up with Gudrun Gut and Alexander Hacke and you get something as witty and engaging as Cities and Girls.

Seriously, sit on the internet, cock in hand, and join the blogosphere in orgasming over its merits...

Okay, let’s get this straight. This dude, Paddy Steer, has sat around in Levenshulme for nigh on 20 years and amalgamated a set of wibbling, erratic, incidental chamber music...

As for Blue Skies, that one's so Sarah Records it almost had us wishing Incendiary was actually published on badly photocopied A5 and sold for 50p with a flexidisc from a rack next to the latest seven inch indie chart contenders.

...listening to the Vaselines brings back very personal memories of girl hang-ups, posing in what I thought were 60s threads and playing records in my bedroom.

Apparently this LP contains polkas or slow waltzes and tangos. But you wouldn’t know as the band doesn’t stick to strict interpretations of any musical convention.

Time for this reviewer to tell you that you won’t pick up a more surprising and enjoyable LP this year.

An ideal accompaniment to an evening cocktail, you could play much worse than Russell Huie when trying to entertain your dinner guests.

I love this record, it’s such a beautiful idea, and despite the fact that the whole thing’s cranky as hell, it is charm made music.

Blackpool’s greatest set of avant garde music poets compile yet another brilliant CD choc-full of punk & outré tunes to satisfy every taste.

What this compilation does is show just how inventive and off-the-cuff incidental music used to be before execs started nabbing standard chart sounds (or similar) to fill out their programmes.