the sutherland brothers - 'arms of mary'

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I'm in the mood for some old 70s guitar ballads and here's one of my favourites. I haven't heard this in years.

shovels and rope - 'stono river blues'

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I do like this track a lot, Bluesy Americana with a slightly sinister edge.

foals - 'late night (solomun remix)'

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A lovely deep house remix of a great Foals track, from their 2013 album 'Holy Fire'.

got a girl - 'there's a revolution'

Tweet Another pop reincarnation for Dan the Automator and this time sees him in Pipettes/St Etienne territory with a very catchy number.

alt-j - 'every other freckle'

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A damned fine way to start the week.

i am ampersand - '20 seas 4 oceans'

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I Am Ampersand is one-third of Brighton based Fujiya & Miyagi, a band that I have raved about on here before. He's the Ampersand in the middle to be exact and has a solo album, Grave Goods, up on Bandcamp that deserves a lot of attention. It's a lot more folky and acoustic than his Fujiya & Miyagi-type music and with tinges of psychedelia too although there's definitely some hallmark F&J traits that shine through still. Funnily enough, just before hearing this I was listening to Phil Selway of Radiohead's latest solo album and there are comparisons aplenty there too: quieter, more intimate but with a wonderfully assured delivery and some great tongue-in-cheek moments. I do like the flow of the album and this track especially. I think Marc Bolan would be proud of the hook in this tune.

You can listen to the rest of the rest of the album here. 

omd - 'electricity'

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35 years old! If you're going to have a debut single then this is the quality of tune you have to aim for. Superb stuff.

the sugarcubes - 'birthday'

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This tune, the album 'Life's Too Good' changed forever the way I listened to music. I still get goose-bumps listening to it now.

embrace - 'all you good good people'

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Have yourself a great weekend, all you good, good people. Sunny Worthing this afternoon for me.

saint etienne - 'spring'

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What a tune.

the brian jonestown massacre - 'memorymix'

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When you give yourself one of the greatest names in music, then you need to back it up with some seriously good music. Fortunately BJM consistently perform at a very high standard, their latest album is an absolute humdinger, this being one of their moodier moments.

zero 7 - 'in the waiting line'

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A classic to see me off for the night. I'm knackered.

bearhug - 'aimee'

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This is my 2001st blog entry. I'm very proud of that achievement, I'm the sort of person most likely not to see something through so to get this far is a hell of an achievement for me. Thankyou to everyone who has encouraged me to stick with this too.

This is a damned good tune to mark the occasion. Bearhug are an Aussie guitar band who play a mean guitar, lots of lovely Jesus and Mary Chain references in their chords and a very cool lyrical delivery. 

woman's hour - 'in stillness we remain'

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Another British band making big waves musically, Woman's Hour just go from strength to strength with their guitar-driven dream pop. This from their 2014 album 'Conversations'.

low roar - 'dreamer'

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This music comes from Iceland via California and as so often with Icelandic music is a beautifully melancholy number. As uplifiting as it is whimsical.

quilt - 'tie up the tide'

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Not feeling particularly with it this morning. This track did help though.

alvvays - 'adult diversion'

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It's as if those jangly late-80s, early 90s indie bands never went away. Superb stuff from this Toronto band. Their new album is a treat. Fresh sounding and unashamedly pop-driven.

john cooper clarke - 'kung fu international'

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I can't go back to Salford, the cops have got me marked. Enter the dragon, exit Johnny Clarke. Brilliant!

darkside - 'the only shrine i've seen'

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Wow! I've not listened to this since it was released last year and had clean forgotten how good it was. Beautiful.

spookyland - 'rock and roll weakling'

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Definitely on the rockier side of a Sunday morning, here's Aussie 'Spookyland' with a corker of a tune and a great video to accompany it. Big shades of Brit Pop and in a good way too, think Cast and you'll see where I'm going with this. It's a real get up and go tune, which is just as well because I have things to do!