Great LP.  Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Stein Urheim with Moskus’ Barefoot in Bryophyte is on Hubro/Grappa Musikkforlag through Jim Johnstone. (Moskus, Music Norway, Norwegian Arts in the UK, Norway in the UK). I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…

New release alert. Out tomorrow. New double-LP version of a-ha's Time And Again comp. Insert with tons of words from me. What went with the CD is updated, overhauled, revised with new stuff too.

“The electronics are the same old clichés" (Time Out). White Noise's 1969 An Electric Storm – uniting Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson (both former Radiophonic Workshop), David Vorhaus – returns through Proper Music Group. I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/musi…

The new MOJO Magazine is out. On the cover, Bob Dylan. Inside, me (Kieron Tyler) on David Lance Callahan’s (David Lance Callahan) Down To The Marshes and Stuart Moxham’s (Stuart Moxham) archive set Fabstract (both on Tiny Global Productions).

Sparkling like a Roman candle. Norwegian art-poppers Pom Poko’s 3rd album Champion is bright, energised and unstoppable. Out on Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union (Music Norway, Norwegian Arts in the UK, Norway in the UK). I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…

Going to be looking at the Cherry Red Records box set Have A Rave-Up! - The British R&B Sounds Of 1964 for theartsdesk.com this coming Sunday. So here’s the singles for some of the tracks collected on it: The Birds, The Fairies, Downliners Sect, The Sneekers. All A-Grade paint peelers.

Sandpaper-scratchiness and what sounds like instruments being chucked down a stairwell. And, the earliest recording of Jeff Beck to surface. Having A Rave-Up! - The British R&B Sounds Of 1964 is on Cherry Red Records. I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/musi…

Sunny Afternoon / Dave Davies' I'm Not Like Everybody Else is one of many amazing The Kinks singles. In different countries, labels got on with their own sleeves. Varied results: Denmark, France, Holland, Germany. Did any capture what's on the record?

Darkwave fanciers would dig Finland’s jazz-inclined Shadowplay (Music Finland/Finnish Embassy UK/MFA Finland 🇫🇮). Touch and Glow (1988) and Eggs & Pop (1993) reissued by Stupido Records 🇺🇦. Fresh as they were back then. I’ve looked at them today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/musi…

With the enigmatic, wonderful Born Horses, Mercury Rev (grasshopper) have fashioned their own cosmos. Out on Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union. I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…

Peter Baumann’s first 3 solo albums tracked the path the poppiness, without typecasting as a core member of @QTangeineDream. All 3 are collected by Cherry Red Records’s Phase By Phase: The Virgin Albums. I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/musi…

New release alert. Powerpop majesty from 1982 by Wisconsin's The Steps. Inner w words from me. One for Sonic Magazine? Reissued by Sweden's One Way Ticket: jobcentrerejects.bandcamp.com/album/dont-wan…

Nov 1978: the final Eater single, What She Wants She Needs  "Ham-fisted splodge of tuneless bordum" (Garry Bushell, Sounds). No, no, no. No. Terrific glam throwback: youtube.com/watch?v=FFQ-ac…

People Funny Boy: The Upsetter Singles 1968-1969 digs into Lee Perry’s earliest years as an all-in-one music biz independent: commercial necessities vs. non-conformism. On Cherry Red Records. Essay by David Katz. I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/musi…

Reaching out to anyone with a yen for the cool and the refined. Juniore’s elegant, if deliberate, Trois, Deux, Un showcases a retro-futurist garage-pop. Out on Le Phonographe (LE PHONOGRAPHE) through In House Press. I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…

1972. Steve Hillage and Kevin Ayers go to Woolworth, Portobello Road - and settle on Jim Reeves (credit not known).

Good news about a great album. My review of Pom Poko’s Champion (on Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union) is the most-read theartsdesk.com piece today.  (Music Norway, Norwegian Arts in the UK, Norway in the UK). Here: theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…

Top-drawer R&B-inclined mod-beat. Bye Bye USA by Dagenham’s Sean Buckley & The Breadcrumbs wasn’t issued in 1964. Now, 60 years late, it is. On Hyperloop Records MD ANT. I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/musi…

NB: For folks frequenting Alan's in East Finchley - don't know when the notice was put up.

The new @MOJOmagazineis out. On the cover, David Gilmour. Inside, me (Kieron Tyler) on EFTERKLANG’s Things We Have In Common (on @CitySlangthrough @ssanctity) & Mariam The Believer’s Breathing Techniques (through MYSTIC SONS).