Egg Song (No Fishing Today) - Eve Appleton Band

Popped up to Bristol over the weekend to attend a Matt Berry Q&A with Acid Jazz's Eddie Piller and caught a couple of gigs, including Eve Appleton Band at The Lanes. This track, a folk/country/indie banger was the pick of the bunch. A ruddy great live act, well worth catching if you get the chance.  

Sometimes Life Hits You - Jeffrey Lewis

Song of the summer from Jeffrey Lewis. Last year may have been 'Brat' (whatever that was) but this one's the year of 'Ow, fuck, that hurt'.

I Gotta Limit - Matt Berry ft Kitty Liv

 

Ace 60s sounding Northern Soul tinged new track from Matt Berry's forthcoming album Heard Noises. I reckon Clem Fandango would approve...

Daylight - Toni Price

Another of last weekend's CDs (a signed one too), this time some classy country blues from the 'Juke Joint Madonna', Toni Price. She's a new name to me but it seems as though she was happy playing a weekly residency in her adopted home town of Austin Texas rather than touring, which might explain why she's not better known over here. Sadly she passed away last year at 63 years old. 

Leash - Sky Ferreira

 Instant synth pop classic (with shades of The Knife and Depeche Mode) from Sky Ferreira. 

Harlem River Drive - Eddie Palmieri

Another great weekend of CD hunting landed a compilation of Blue Note tracks featuring this classic cut. As I was buying it a fellow customer in the charity shop, a very earnest young lady, acknowledged how cool CDs were but warned me that they only have a life of 20 years so I should make other copies. I didn't have the heart to tell her that the very CD I was buying was already 25 years old and that some of my collection's now 40 years old. 

There seems to be this myth around CDs that they'll rot away and, whilst I've seen a few examples of what's known as 'disc rot' in the wild (less than five times I'm guessing...and I've probably looked at more than 10,000 CDs over the years), this is usually down to poor handling, storage and manufacture. Trust me, if CDs were going to become unusable it would have happened by now. Look after them, just as you would vinyl and they'll outlive all of us. Here endeth the lesson.  

Nothing Strange Is Going On - The Matt Philip Hale Band

Epic new single from The Matt Philip Hale Band's just landed! One day the rest of the world will catch up with this dude and his back catalogue...the musical equivalent of the Staffordshire Hoard. 

Sofistifunk - Return To Forever

I don't often buy things online but the chances of finding a Return To Forever album in the wild is pretty slim, so I buckled and picked up a two CD anthology on eBay before Christmas. And who doesn't need a slice of Sofistifunk in their lives eh? 

The Bigger The Front - Misty's Big Adventure

Happy New Year and all that jazz. Hope you had a cool yule too. Let's kick off 2025 with yet another classic from the still very much missed Misty's Big Adventure.