The Official 2014 Festive Fifty - January 2015 Continuing a Christmas tradition started by the late broadcaster John Peel in 1976, an assortment of our DJs count down through the best 50 tracks from 2014 based on listener's votes. You can hear the full results of this legendary poll repeating from Christmas Day and into January, finishing off with Kevin Robinson revealing this year's winner! | ||||
Artist | Title | Recording | Record Label | Catalogue No. |
Sultan Bathery | Satellite | LP 'Self-titled' | Slovenly Recordings | |
TGE (The Gray Earl) | Too Del For This | MP3 | None | None |
Heathers | Where Did I Go Wrong | Dandelion Radio Session | ||
Pow | Switchboard Scientist | LP / CD Hi Tech Boom | Castleface Records | |
Xiu Xiu | Stupid In The Dark | Angel Guts : Red Classroom | Bella Union | |
Alkaline | Live Life | MP3 EP 'Gone Away' | Tad's | |
Silent Someone feat Rhinoceros Funk | Rhinoceros Funk | MP3 Single | Peasant Podium | 808391 000155 |
Ibibio Sound Machine | Let's Dance | LP 'Ibibio Sound Machine' | Soundway Records | SNDWCD057 |
Sharon Van Etten | Your Love Is Killing Me | CD 'Are We There' | Jagjaguwar | |
Young Romance | Pale | 7" | Banquet | |
Pere Ubu | Golden Surf II | Carnival of Souls | Fire | |
Cloud | You & Me | EP 'You & Me' | Audio Antihero | |
The Soundcarriers | Entropicalia | LP 'Entropicalia' | Ghost Box | GBX 020 |
Ste McCabe | Go Polski Boy! | Brains of Britain | Maleki-Neko | |
St. Vincent | Digital Witness | CD 'St Vincent' | Loma Vista | |
Ought | Today, More Than Any Other Day | LP - 'More Than Any Other Day' | Constellation Records | CST103 |
JD Meatyard | Taking The Asylum | V/A Download Album '21 Songs for John' | Unwashed Territories | None |
The Hobbes Fanclub | Run Into The Sea | LP - 'Up At LaGrange' | Shelflife Records | LIFE110 |
Good Throb | Acid House | LP - Fuck Off | Super-Fi/White Denim/Sabremetric | |
Deers | Bamboo | 7" Single 'Demo' | Lucky Number | None |
Broncho | Class Historian | CD 'Just Hip Enough To Be A Woman' | Dine Alone | |
The Fall | Amarator! | LP - The Remainderer | Cherry Red | |
Ste McCabe | Cockroach (Feat. Billy Bragg) | CDLP - 'Brains Of Britain' | Maneki-Neko Music | MNM001 |
Slum Of Legs | Razorblade The Tape | 7" - 'Begin To Dissolve' | Tuff Enuff Records | TEEP13 |
Tyrannosaurus Dead | Local Bullies | CDLP - 'Flying Ant Day' | Odd Box Records | |
The Very Most | Wond'ring | 7" EP 'Things Too Obvious To Sing' | My Little Owl | |
Mogwai | Repelish | CD 'Rave Tapes' | Sub Pop/Rock Action | SP1070 |
ILL | Secret Life | Exclusive Session Recording | None | None |
Henry Plotnick | Wapiti | blue tapes fourteen | Blue Tapes | |
Cruising | You Made Me Do That | Cassette single | Soft Power Records | |
The Vacant Lots | Mad Mary Jones | CD 'Departure' | Sonic Cathedral | SCR080 |
Fat White Family | I Am Mark E Smith | mp3 | Without Consent | |
Postal Blue | The Last Goodbye | 7" | Jigsaw | |
Allo Darlin' | We Come From The Same Place | LP - 'We Come From The Same Place' | Fortuna Pop! / Slumberland | FPOP175 |
Half Man Half Biscuit | Urge For Offal | LP - 'Urge For Offal' | Probe Plus | PROBE71LP |
Goat | Hide From The Sun | CD 'Commune' | Rocket | Promo |
Bourbon Somersault the 3rd | Smash Them Kill Them | Self-released MP3 | ||
Allo Darlin' | Bright Eyes | CD 'We Come From The Same Place' | Slumberland | |
The Bordellos | The Gospel According To Julian Cope | |||
Shellac | Dude Incredible | CD 'Dude Incredible' | Touch & Go | TG404CD |
Martha | 1997, Passing In The Hallway | LP - 'Courting Strong' | Fortuna Pop! | FPOP172LP |
Benjamin Shaw | You & Me | Goodbye, Kagoule World | Audio Antihero | |
Close Lobsters | Now Time | Kunstwerk in Space Time | Shelflife | |
Girl Band | Lawman | Lawman 7" | Any Other City | aoc016 |
Shellac | Riding Bikes | LP 'Dude Incredible' | Touch & Go | TG404LP |
Savages | Fuckers | 12" Single | Matador | OLE-1060 |
Future Islands | Seasons (Waiting On You) | 7" | 4AD | |
Flowers | Young | LP - 'Flowers' | Fortuna Pop! | |
Ace Bushy Striptease | Ibiza Rocks | Download Single | ||
Goat | Talk To God | CD 'Commune' | Rocket | LAUNCH068CD |
Withered Hand | Horseshoe | 7" | Fortuna Pop! | |
Aphex Twin | Minipops 67 [120.2] [source field mix] | CD 'Syro' | Warp | |
The War on Drugs | Red Eyes | CD 'Lost In The Dream' | Secretly Canadian | |
Benjamin Shaw | Goodbye, Cagoule World | Goodbye, Cagoule World | Audio Antihero | |
Mogwai | Remurdered | CD 'Rave Tapes' | Rock Action/Sub Pop | SP1070 |
Half Man Half Biscuit | The Unfortunate Gwatkin | LP - 'Urge For Offal' | Probe Plus | PROBE71LP |
Alvvays | Archie, Marry Me | LP - 'Alvvays' | Transgressive Records | trans178x |
Cuban Boys | The Nation Needs You (2014 Version) | V/A Download Album '21 Songs For John' | Unwashed Territories | None |
2014 Review - January 2015 For January 2015 Dandelion Radio introduces a Review of the year 2014, as seen through the eyes of our DJs. Join Rocker, Pete Jackson, Kevin Robinson, Mark Whitby and Neil Jenkins as they take a turn in guiding you through some of their musical high points from the past year. Tune in, enjoy, and give us your feedback. | ||||
Artist | Title | Recording | Record Label | Catalogue No. |
Human Hair | Sleeping | |||
Jamie xx | All Under One Roof Raving | |||
'Allo Darling | Half Heart Necklace | |||
Nightingales | Bullet For Gove | |||
Personal Best | The Tide | |||
Childbirth | I Only Fucked You As A Joke | |||
Marc Romboy And Stephan Bodzin | Styx | |||
Jibóia | Manasha | |||
Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band | Lam Phu Thai | |||
PYPY | Daffodils | |||
Aby Ngana Diop | Ndadje | |||
Millie & Andrea | Temper Tantrum | |||
Perfect Pussy | Interference Fits | |||
Quirke | Break A Mirrored Leg | |||
PRIMETIME | Tied Down | |||
The Pukes | Holiday In cambodia | |||
Jack Hayter | Horsemeat For Dogs | |||
Deers | Castigadas en el Granero | |||
Dementio13 & Nita Disaster | Pollution | |||
Kate Tempest | Marshall Law | |||
Shopping | We Say, You Pay | |||
Dolly Dolly (with Moon Wiring Club) | Consanigh | |||
Ibibio Sound Machine | Let's Dance | |||
Kevin Robinson - January 2015 Before we even begin to tackle 2015, there's a pile of releases from late 2014 to sift through including terrific albums which must not go unheard from Raspberry Bulbs, Witching Waves, Trash Kit, USA Nails, Afrikan Sciences, The Skull Defekts and Posh Isolation's White Void, as well as an awesome compilation from Duppy Gun Productions. As usual we go global with The Calypso Steel-O-Rama Band from the Caribbean, The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band from Thailand, and there's a recently reissued album from Congolese legends Verckys & Orchestre Veve. We've also got new records from Cairo's Maurice Louca Hungary's Stephan Olbricht and from Romania there's more found material from Rodion G.A.. Weird and warped electronica this month comes from IVVVO, Klara Lewis, Shackleton, Ekoplekz, and Eric Copeland, plus a particularly lively number from Dead Man's Chest. Also this month Gorgon Sound remix Kahn, Ancient Methods rip Powell to shreds, Skeptical collaborates with Clarity, and there's a stunning late contender for remix of the year from The Haxan Cloak and Akkord. | ||||
Artist | Title | Recording | Record Label | Catalogue No. |
Kahn | Dread (Gorgon Sound Version) | 12" | Deep Medi | |
The Calypso Steel-O-Rama Band | Java | LP - 90 Degrees Of Shade: Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds From The Caribbean | Soul Jazz | |
Raspberry Bulbs | How The Strings Are Pulled | LP - Privacy | Blackest Ever Black | |
Early One & I Jahbar | Mad | LP - Duppy Gun Productions Vol 1 | Duppy Gun | |
Champion & Mele | Get Down | 12" | Formula Records | |
IVVVO | Redux | EP - Theories Of Anxiety | Danse Noire | |
Klara Lewis | Msuic III | EP - Msuic | Peder Mannerfelt Produktion | |
White Void | Some Days Are Better Than Others | LP - We're Falling | Posh Isolation | |
Verckys & L'Orchestre Veve | Bassala Hot | LP - Congolese Funk, Afrobeat and Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978 | Analog Africa | |
Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77 | Skeleton's Dub | Single - Medicine Chest Dub | Tru Thoughts | |
Clarity | Segment (feat. Skeptical) | LP - Infinite | Samurai Music | |
Witching Waves | Creeping | LP - Fear Of Falling Down | Soft Power Records | |
Maurice Louca | Malnash Diyah (Spineless) | LP - Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan | Nawa Recordings | |
S Olbricht | Emtee | Cassette - Emtee | Gang Of Ducks | |
Tomaga | Futura Grotesk | LP - Futura Grotesk | Hands In The Dark | |
Gerstaffelen | Invisible Ghosts | 12" - Night Flowing North and South | MOS Deep | |
The Skull Defekts | Holy Drums | LP - Street Metal | Diagonal | |
USA Nails | Chain Of Command | LP - Sonic Moist | Smalltown America | |
Admiral Bailey | Politician | LP - More Jammy's From The Roots | Greensleeves/VP Records | |
The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band | Show Wong Molam International | LP - 21st Century Molam | Studio Lam | |
Nots | Televangelist | LP - We Are Nots | Goner | |
Powell | Club Music (Ancient Methods 'Körpersäure91' Remix) | 12" - Club Music Remixes | Diagonal | |
Afrikan Sciences | Circuitous | LP - Circuitous | PAN | |
Rodion G.A. | Contrast | LP - Behind The Curtain - The Lost Album | BBE | |
Robert Wyatt | At Last I Am Free | CD - Different Every Time | Domino | |
Shackleton | Dominion Rings | 12" - Deliverance Part 2 | Woe To The Septic Heart | |
Ill Winds | Vision | LP - Ill Winds | Not Not Fun | |
Trash Kit | Beach Babe | LP - Confidence | Upset The Rhythm | |
Miss Hawaii | Percation Trap | Single - House | Storage Records | |
Dead Man's Chest | Dreamscapes | EP - Dreamscapes | Ingredients Records | |
Ekoplekz | Ariwakz | EP - Influkz | More Than Human | |
Eric Copeland | SXIXO | EP - Ms Pretzel | DFA | |
Akkord | HTH020 (The Haxan Cloak's Cloud Of Witness) | 12" | Houndstooth | |
Lee Adcock - January 2015 Oh, this would be a tough one to compile, the elders said. Throw together a review of last year, they said. Well, GUESS WHAT? By some crazy feat of luck, I've piled up a bunch of sparkly new tunes to stun and amaze you with. (OK, I did cheat a little bit, but shhhhh.) So hey-ho, let's ring in 2015 with one banging' party: main man Pour Le Plausir will man the decks; Ex Hex can bring the keg, and Hookworms the illicit drugs; Clockwork Orchestra will stomp everyone on the SNES; The Fucked Up Beat will project super-8 black-and-white films on the wall; and The Ropes will stand in the corner as the resident divas. But partying shall cease to observe the strange aural rituals of an elusive cult known only as MiND BRAINS - rumor has it that the members are Elephant six magi, but no one knows. Also, prepare to be hypnotized by more Henry Plotnick, Andy Stott, Dissolved, and Gretchen Lyme. Plus a big warm welcome to Empty Child, another precocious composer/producer with most excellent skillz. | ||||
Artist | Title | Recording | Record Label | Catalogue No. |
Ex Hex | Waterfall | Rips | Merge | |
Hookworms | Radio Tokyo | The Hum | Weird World | |
Fear Kittens | Spell | Fear Kittens | ||
Anguish Sandwich | Levity | An Actual Thing | Odd Box | |
ILL | Hysteria | The Housewives' Trilogy | ||
Stefan Jaworzyn | Gland Collector | Principle of Inertia | Trensmat | |
Picturebox | Bit Part | Graffiti EP | ||
Clockwork Orchestra | Terry Took The Moon Away | Fish For A Heart | Soft Bodies | |
Diane Marie Kloba | His Jacket | Dandelion Exclusives | ||
Mind Brains | Body Horror | Mind Brain | Orange Twin | |
Henry Plotnick | Kinetic Point | blue fourteen | Blue Tapes | |
Rhino Cock Soundsystem | Tease Me 23 | |||
Pour Le Plaisir | Tin Machine | Tin Machine EP | Blue Tapes | |
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love | Burrow | Last | Audio Antihero | |
King Of Cats | Half Nelson | Odd Box 2014 | Odd Box | |
Pinkshinyultrablast | Glitter | Everything Else Matters | Shellflife | |
Mosca | Impulse | Mosca/Gretchen Lyme split | ||
Press Charges | People From Your Block | People From Your Block single | Countersunk | |
The Ropes | Sadness is the Rich Man's Drug | Sadness is the Rich Man's Drug EP | ||
The Fucked Up Beat | Disinfosomnolence (In Metropolis A) | The Watch Towers of Metropolis A | ||
Dissolved | Seven Places | Temporal Breathing | ||
Ste McCabe | Chinless Wonders | Brains of Britain | ||
Jumble Hole Clough | The angle where two lines meet | 202 Days | ||
EMPTY CHILD | Tresco | Always for You | ||
Broken Shoulder | You & Me | You & Me EP | Audio Antihero | |
Mind Brains | Bouncy Clock | Mind Brain | Orange Twin | |
Container | Adhesive | Adhesive EP | Liberation Technologies | |
Andy Stott | Faith in Strangers | Faith in Strangers | Modern Love | |
Gretchen Lyme | EggsEggsPeanutLegs | Mosca/Gretchen Lyme split | ||
Mark Whitby - January 2015 Jackn Bones provides the session tunes for a January show in which the emphasis is firmly on the new. In that spirit, we've got tunes from a whole load of keenly awaited releases set to hit us during January and February 2015, including new albums from Belle & Sebastian, Peter Kernel, Disappears, The Wave Pictures and Whyte Horses, plus a few that won't be seeing the light of day until March, from Moon Duo and Gratuit as well as a cracking Awesome Tapes From Africa reissue from Ghana's Ata Kak. The amazing Blue Tapes is branching out into vinyl this year and we've got the first fruits of that, courtesy of the excellent Pour Le Plaisir. There's also a new album from Alasdair Roberts, something suitably eccentric from Mcferrdog and a debut from Viet Cong to look forward to so we throw something from those in there too. Of course there's been plenty happening since the last show so we also manage to cram in some fine end-of-2014 releases from the likes of Mogwai, Can Can Heads and Pete Bentham & The Dinnerladies, as well as the glorious racket brought forth by Slovenia's Praznina and an excellent split release from the Outward label featuring Scares and Tocopa. And, with the 2014 Festive Fifty now out there for your listening pleasure, our Peel Back... section digs back into the chart of ten years ago while tentatively speculating what might have made a festive fifty forty years ago, had there been such a thing. | ||||
Artist | Title | Recording | Record Label | Catalogue No. |
The Wave Pictures | Pea Green Coat | CD 'Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon' | Moshi Moshi | Promo |
Can Can Heads | Slow Kill Monotony | Download EP 'King Dong Kong' | Silber | silber163 |
Scares | Krieger | Split Cassette w/Tocopa 'Present & Tense' | Outward | None |
Moon Duo | Animal | LP 'Shadow Of The Sun' | Sacred Bones | SBR122LP |
Pour Le Plaisir | Tin Machine | 12" EP 'Tin Machine' | Blue Tapes/X-Ray | X-Ray Two |
Jackn Bones | Smack Fiend! | Exclusive Track | None | None |
Whyte Horses | Astologie Siderale | LP 'Pop Or Not' | Whyte Horses | WHLP001 |
Breedlings | Carbon | Download EP 'Breedlings II' | None | None |
Dissolved | Vast Wires | Download Album 'Temporal Breathing' | None | None |
Disappears | Another Thought | CD 'Irreal' | Kranky | KRANK192 |
Praznina | Zival, Ne Clovek | CD 'Iamdisease' | Moonlee | None |
Belle & Sebastian | The Party Line | CD 'Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance' | Matador | ole10568 |
Gratuit | Les Autres | CD 'La' | Kythibong | KTB43 |
Unqualified Nurse | White Line Fire | Download EP ''The Weird' | None | None |
Autosome | Elephant Raindance | Download EP 'Impulse Current' | ESF | None |
Peter Kernel | High Fever | CD 'Thrill Addict' | On The Camper | OR028 |
Mizeha | Aneneko Iaby | Cassette 'Tratrike' | Awesome Tapes From Africa | None |
Other Bodies | Black Box | mp3 download | None | None |
Jackn Bones | Masks | Exclusive Track | None | None |
Alasdair Roberts | Artless One | CD 'Alasdair Roberts' | Drag City | DC613 |
Ballboy | I Don't Have Time To Stand Here With You Fighting About The Size Of My Dick | CD 'The Royal Theatre' | SL | LONE30 |
Digital Mystikz | B | 12" Single | DMZ | DMZ001 |
Ella Guru | Park Lake Speakers | CD 'The First Album' | Banana | BANANA 2 |
Be Bop Deluxe | Third Floor Heaven | LP 'Axe Victim' | Harvest | SHVL 813 |
Mogwai | Teenage Exorcists | CD EP 'Music Industry 3 Fitness Industry 1' | Rock Action | ROCKACT89CD |
Viet Cong | March Of Progress | CD 'Viet Cong' | Jagjaguwar | JAG260CD |
Ata Kak | Yemmpa Aba | Cassette 'Obaa Sima' | Awesome Tapes From Africa | None |
Jackn Bones | Child Of Light | Exclusive Track | None | None |
Mcferrdog | Peak Of My Curiosity | CD 'Lawd Forgive Me' | 1080p | None |
DRLING | Icarus | Download EP 'Icarus' | Silber | silber167 |
Pete Bentham & The Dinnerladies | Don't Listen To The Government | CD 'I Heart Here' | None | None |
Jumble Hole Clough | 202 Days | Download Album '202 Days' | None | None |
Slurred Words | You Smell Like Shit | Download EP 'Rock N Roll Dads' | None | None |
Tocopa | Jofa Suite | Split Cassette w/Scares 'Present & Tense' | Outward | None |
Vert:x | s.p.a.c.e.p.u.n.k. | CD 'The Mindstalers' | None | None |
Emmy The Great | Swimming Pool | Download Single | Bella Union | BELLA461DIGS1 |
DJ Triex | Just A Weed | V/A Download Album 'Ruffbeatz: Get Mushy' | RuffBeatz | RuffBeatz #11 |
Jackn Bones | Arsenic | Exclusive Track | None | None |
Lake Kwan Do | Apollo | Download EP 'Recordings' | None | None |
Yoko Ono | Sun Is Down (Wonderfeel Remix) | Download EP 'Mixtopia' | None | None |
Brigitte Roussel | Churchyard | CD 'Amber Hole' | Double Hallucinative | Double Hallucinative 003 |
Maurice Louca | Al'-Asr Adh-Dhahabi (The Golden Age) | CD 'Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan (Salute The Parrot)' | Nawa | NAWA002CD |
Colourbox | Arena | CD 'Music Of The Band (1982-1987)' | 4AD | TAD 3443 |
Pete Jackson - January 2015 Just 60 mins from Pete this month, but still chock full of great new stuff from Hookworms, Blue Giant Zeta Puppies and Jumble Hole Clough, old stuff from Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and Art Phag and the first fruits of my mate Steve's mega US cross country CD buying adventure, kicking off with music from the Blue Ridge Mountains. | ||||
Artist | Title | Recording | Record Label | Catalogue No. |
Pour Le Plaisir | Girly Hole (Remix) | |||
Hookworms | Radio Tokyo | |||
Jumble Hole Clough | Humunculous At Staups Mill | |||
The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies | The Attack Of The Steam Powered Tarantula | |||
Mungo's Hi-Fi | Haffi Livley Up | |||
Scott Freeman | Sourwood Mountain | |||
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry | Walking On Your Hands | |||
Jibóia | Treta Yuga | |||
Los Moretones | La Muerte De Dilly | |||
gLAMville | I Don't Wanna Live | |||
Lee Sexton | Pretty Polly | |||
Art Phag | Golf | |||
The Flaming Lips feat. Moby and Miley Cyrus | Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds | |||
Rocker - January 2015 Kicking off the New Year with a bang! This month's three hour show includes three featured albums - the new one from the reformed Manhattan Love Suicides, the forthcoming debut from The Fireworks, and an excellent compilation from Very Gun Records which you may have missed when it slipped out towards the end of last year. We also manage to squeeze in new tracks from Stephen Fall; Emma Kupa; CTMF; Burnt Palms; Not Right; The Electric Pop Group; Sleater-Kinney; Caves; Hard Left; Lost Pets; Trust Fund; The Popguns; Zipper; Pale Lights; Evans The Death; Tyrannosaurus Dead; Kahoots; Joanna Gruesome; and Inspiral Carpets. There's some twisted electronica too - Applescal reworks Daniel Avery's Primal Scream mix; Butch and C. Vogt collaborate on a killer track recorded live with an orchestra; Radio Slave remixes Theo Schwarz, and Max Cooper mangles an ambient classic from The Rustle Of The Stars with judicious application of drum'n'bassbeats. This month's Peel's Big 45 is a pseudo-Japanese release from 1971, while this month's Educating Elizabeth track is the title track of the current Swamp Dogg album. As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: Rod Stewart's 'Reason To Believe', played here in memory of recently deceased keyboard player Ian McLagan, a cover of a Tim Hardin original, was released in 1971 as a 7" A-side, however it was the B-side 'Maggie May' which received most US airplay, and became Stewart's breakthrough hit on both sides of the Atlantic. | ||||
Artist | Title | Recording | Record Label | Catalogue No. |
The Rolling Stones | Rip This Joint | 2LP - 'Exile On Main Street' | Rolling Stones Records | COC 69100 |
Rod Stewart | (Find A) Reason To Believe | 7" | Mercury | 6052 097 |
CTMF | It's So Hard To Be Happy | LP - 'Acorn Man' | Damaged Goods | DAMGOOD434 |
The Rustle Of The Stars | Sleeping Land (Part 1) (Max Cooper Remix) | Download | ||
The Manhattan Love Suicides | Speak To You | LP - 'More Heat, More Panic' | Odd Box Records / Squirrel Records | SQRL40 |
Sleaford Mods | Bunch Of Cunts | 12" - 'Tiswas EP' | Invada | INV138LP |
The Fireworks | Switch Me On | LP - 'Switch Me On' | Shelflife Records | LIFE 117 |
The Electric Pop Group | Believers | LP - 'Integration' | Matinée | Matinée xxx |
Evans The Death | Don't Laugh At My Angry Face | LP - 'Expect Delays' | Fortuna Pop! / Slumberland | |
Swamp Dogg | The White Man Made Me Do It | LP - 'The White Man Made Me Do It' | Alive Natural Sound | |
Kahoots | Take Anything From Me | LP - 'Take To The Fields' | Telegraph Harp Records | TH 004 |
Theo Schwartz | Traumdeuter (Radio Slave Cut) | Download EP - 'Traumdeuter (Remixes)' | TS Music | LC 16002 |
Inspiral Carpets | Calling Out To You | LP - 'Inspiral Carpets' | Cherry Red | BRED639 |
Stephen Fall | The Two Cats Of Mr. Hyde | EP - 'Stephen Fall' | Topplers | |
The Manhattan Love Suicides | Frozen Wasteland (Do It Again) | LP - 'More Heat, More Panic' | Odd Box Records / Squirrel Records | SQRL40 |
Vic Godard And Subway Sect | Holiday Hymn | LP - '1979Now!' | AED Records | AED0023LP |
Trust Fund | Cut Me Out | LP - 'No One's Coming For Us' | Turnstile Music | |
Caves | Anchor | Mini LP - 'Leaving' | Specialist Subject | |
The Fireworks | Back To You | LP - 'Switch Me On' | Shelflife Records | LIFE 117 |
Erin Bardwell Collective | Worn Out Shoes | LP - 'Our Time' | Pop-A-Top Records | PAT 015 |
The Yamasukis | Yamasuki | 7" | Dandelion Records | DAN7004 / K19003 |
Violence Cowpiss | Ten Commandments | 7" EP - 'PRF Singles Club Q3' | Lake Of Fake Records | PRF003 |
Boyracer | The Kind Of Man You Really Are | 7" - ;Pete Shelley EP' | Emotional Response | ER10 |
Hard Left | It's Not You | Shared 7" | Emotional Response | ER12 |
Heathers | Sometimes | Cassette Compilation - 'Fuzz Pop' | Very Gun Records | VG 003 |
Burnt Palms | Me | Cassette Compilation - 'Fuzz Pop' | Very Gun Records | VG 003 |
The Manhattan Love Suicides | Anything But Satisfied | LP - 'More Heat, More Panic' | Odd Box Records / Squirrel Records | SQRL40 |
Emma Kupa | Half Sister | 10" Mini Album - 'Home Cinema' | Where It's At Is Where You Are | |
Tyrannosaurus Dead | NYKIO | CDLP - 'Flying Ant Day' | Odd Box Records | |
Pale Lights | Twisting The Knife | Download Single - 'Fourteen Stories Tall' | ||
The Fireworks | Took It All | LP - 'Switch Me On' | Shelflife Records | LIFE 117 |
Lost Pets | Get Out | Demo | ||
Not Right | Balls | CDLP - 'Your Turn' | Not Right | |
Butch & C. Vogt | The Infamous (Original Mix) | 10" | ReBirth | REBLTD 005 |
Sleater-Kinney | Surface Envy | LP - 'No Cities To Love' | SubPop | SP1100 |
Zanders | Narcissus Jonquilla | Download LP - 'Been Better' | ||
No Kill | Big Muff Scream | Cassette Compilation - 'Fuzz Pop' | Very Gun Records | VG 003 |
Monster Treasure | Weird | Cassette Compilation - 'Fuzz Pop' | Very Gun Records | VG 003 |
The Popguns | If You Ever Change Your Mind | CDLP - 'Pop Fiction' | Matinée | Matcd070 |
Ibibio Sound Machine | I'm Running (Nya Fehe) | LP - 'Ibibio Sound Machine' | Soundway Records | SNDWLP057 |
Joanna Gruesome | Satan (Desire Edition) | Shared 12" | Reeks Of Effort / HHBTM | |
Melbourne Cans | Final Flight | LP - 'Moonlight Malaise' | Lost & Lonesome Records | |
The Fireworks | Corner Of My Mind | LP - 'Switch Me On' | Shelflife Records | LIFE 117 |
Zipper | Wednesday (The Worst Day Of The Week) | 7" | Dufflecoat Records | |
The Manhattan Love Suicides | The Blood Club | LP - 'More Heat, More Panic' | Odd Box Records / Squirrel Records | SQRL40 |
Primal Scream & Daniel Avery | Drone City (Applescal Rework) | Download | ||
Hank Levine & His Orchestra | Image (part 1) | 7" | His Master's Voice | 45-POP 947 |
Sean Hocking - January 2015 Welcome to 2015. On a short trip down to Sydney in December I realised how much great new Australian music there is around at the moment. You'll have all heard the likes of Tame Impala and / or Courtney Barnett over the last 14 or so months but all of Australia's state capitals seem to be overflowing with great left field indie pop and rock at the moment. Melbourne still without doubt the nation's musical capital has bands left right and centre. In the show we feature, The Twerps, Dick Diver and The Ooga Booga's amongst others. A short 15 hour drive takes us up to Adelaide where we've come across the Wireheads who are on of those bands who don't sound like anything else we've heard..nothing better than a bit of cultural isolation to let a band develop properly. Back in the car and it's only a 23 hour hop across to Sydney a city that has been losing venues to developers in 2014 and being a musician there at the moment is by no means easy. Especially being a band with attitude, Low Life are appropriately named and remind me of the spirit of the early Fall. Do check out their album Dogging on Bandcamp. Also new band Community Radio formed from the ashes of cult Sydney band Youth Club have released a great little album that just gets under your skin after about half a dozen listens. Thanks to Red Eye Records in Sydney for the recommendation. Finally it's another 15 hour drive up to Brisbane to experience some more of the wonderful Blank Realm. This month we feature their track "Working on Love" which I have a funny feeling I'll be listening to daily this year. Also to break up the aus indie music fest I've thrown in a short set of left of centre dance tracks that have appealed to me recently. LA's Secret Circuit who I've featured in the show, a new 12" from Clarian entitled "My Shiva", a track that harks back to the days when Sven Vath was still making inventive music. And the best last, New York based Invisible Conga People and a DFA release entitled "Can't Feel My Knees". As far as I'm aware they've only written three songs - "Cable Dazed", "Can't Feel My Knees" and "In A Hole". But here at Ring of Fire those three songs still outclass the entire oeuvre of 90% of artists out there. Thanks for listening Sean | ||||
Artist | Title | Recording | Record Label | Catalogue No. |
Twerps | Who Are You | cd lp Twerps | Chapter | CH091 |
Community Radio | Gasoline | cd lp serious magic | self released | none |
Ausmuteants | Hate This Town | CD LP Ausmeteants | Aarght Records | 108 GONE |
The Wireheads | Five Grand | The Late Great Wireheads | Format | N/A |
Lower Plenty | Nullabor | lp hard rubbish | Fire | N/A |
ooga Boogas | Sex in the Chillzone | ooga boogas lp digital | booga box | N/A |
Nun | Evoke The Sleep | lp nun | Aarght Records | n/a |
Blank Realm | Working On Love | lp go easy | Fire | Fire 288 |
Low Life | Dogging | lp dogging | Rip City | N/A |
ela stiles | Kumbh Mela | lp ela stiles | bedrooom suck | BSR048 |
Lower Plenty | Strange Beast | lp hard rubbish | Fire | N/A |
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Head On / Pill | lp float along | Flightless | N/A |
The Wireheads | Bob Brown | The Late Great Wireheads | Format | N/A |
Step Panther | Nowhere | lp strange but nice | self released | N/A |
Zoe Zac | Flow Chart | cd ep flow chart | Metal Postcard | mp108 |
Erasers | Window | 7" | Metal Postcard | mp22 |
Invisible Conga People | Can't Feel My Knees | 12' | dfa | ? |
Clarian | My Shiva | 12' | multi culti | MC007 |
Secret Circuit | Nebula Sphinx | 12' | Beats In Space Records | BIS002 |
Dick Diver | Hammock Days | lp new start again | Chapter | CH092 |
Straight Arrows | Rotten Teeth | lp rising | agit | agit030 |
Ed Kuepper | Rue The Day | lp return of the mail order bridegroom | self released | ? |
Twerps | Anything New | cd lp Twerps | Chapter | CH091 |
Ausmuteants | Tinnitus | CD LP Ausmeteants | Aarght Records | 108 GONE |
Shacklock Meth Party | all the cowboys in rio | demo | not released | n/a |
Community Radio | Puff Of Smoke | cd lp serious magic | self released | none |