Twenty Year Treasures
Recommendations Based On Favourite Albums
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Sweet Whirl
A borrowed piano somewhere late at night in an old empty theatre late at night. Authentically wistful without bells or whistles.
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The Zenmenn, John Moods
Grounding in a Green House
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Todd Rundgren
A devastating 1979 synth pop masterpiece.
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Swervedriver
Kick out the blues while you gaze at yr shoes.
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Supergrass
Slept on this soaring Supergrass suite.
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Sonic Youth
Start here, or try again some other time.
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R. Stevie Moore, Kramer, Dave Gregory, Shooby Taylor
Making Plans For Nothing
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Roxy Music
Let go into more than what you were taught.
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The Roches
Sunday School was weird, now what?
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Roger Nichols & The Small Circle of Friends
The Sgt Pepper of Sunshine Pop.
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Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
If you don’t get early R.E.M. you’ll get this.
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Robert Wyatt
The documentary soundtrack to how on earth we got to where we are.
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Richard Wright
Nervous breakdown break throughs in the Bahamas.
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A soundtrack for surviving suburbia.
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my bloody valentine
Wash away the useless noise you’ve heard before with the beautiful noise you forgot about.
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ML Buch
Making sense of what you can before the sun rises.
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Kate Bush
Deconstructing everything with synths and drums at the top of a lighthouse.
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Karla Bonoff
Southern love after Woodstock in a well-kept house.
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Jamie Hutchings
The hardest season through a Super 8 camera and an analog 4-track.
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Jacobites
Whiskey that doesn’t leave you wallowing.
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Ian McCulloch
A final salvation for anyone in 1989 dreading 1990.
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Happy Mondays
Record store hopping on a rainy day
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The Go-Betweens
All your go-to books next to the bed
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Faith No More
Soundtrack for a storm warning.
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The blisteringly beautiful sound of surrendering to the chaos.
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Chris Darrow
Nashville Skyline meets Sweetheart Of The Rodeo.
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The Byrds
The Byrds do country better than country does country.
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Boz Scaggs
Strongest Yacht Rock album if you don’t count Steely Dan’s Aja.
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The Beach Boys
The other Pet Sounds, there I said it.
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Belle and Sebastian
A non-depresso solo espresso
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Antonia Lamb
Sublime 70s psych folk artefact
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