2021 Re-View

Here’s my top-ish 20 something albums of the year. In approximate order of favouriteness/most played.

Hamish Hawk - Heavy Elevator

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage

Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Interim Report, March 1979

Pye Corner Audio - Entangled Routes

Steven Wilson - The Future Bites

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

Casper Clausen - Better Way

Hannah Peel - Fir Wave

Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra - Stylophonika

Concretism - Teliffusion

Low - Hey What

Jane Weaver - Flock

Snapped Ankles - Forest Of Your Problems

Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows

Tindersticks - Distractions

Mogwai - As The Love Continues

W. H. Lung - Vanities

LoneLady - Former Things

James Yorkston - J Wright Presents...

Godspeed You Black Emperor! – G_d's Pee At State's End!

The War On Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

Jarvis Cocker - Chanson D'Ennui

And here's some more waifs and strays that I appear to have photographed at some point but didn't post. In 2021 it often seemed harder to buy an album on black vinyl than on coloured vinyl.

Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra - Stylophonika

What the world needs right now is more music made with stylophones.

This is excellent, well worth checking out - a selection of covers (Bowie, Vangelis, Eno and Jarre) and originals.

Everything Must Go Mug

25 year ago I saw Manic Street Preachers live and I bought this mug, with John Paul Sartre's existential "Hell Is Other People" quote on it.

It's served me well, but one too many accidental visits to the dishwasher has left it in this state. This may be it's final cup of tea, after which it will fulfil its final destiny: "Everything Must Go"

The Human League on the Phone

Manchester Arena 

10/12/21