Tracks:
1. Disposable 3:38 Cameron Avery Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams;
2. Soothing 4:17 Laura Marling, Semper Femina;
3. Truth Is Light 3:59 Joe Goddard, Electric Lines;
4. Anymore 3:55 Goldfrapp, Silver Eye;
5. Where I'm Going 2:10 Thundercat, Drunk;
6. Unholy 8:59 Richard Barbieri, Planets + Persona;
7. When It's My Time 5:17 Imelda May, Life Love Flesh Blood;
8. John Doe's Carnival Of Error 2:35 Blanck Mass, World Eater;
9. The Great Highway 4:44 Ray Davies, Americana;
10. Distant Shore 4:15 Karen Elson, Double Roses;
11. Pink Up 5:57 Spoon, Hot Thoughts;
12. Losing You 2:53 Alison Krauss, Windy City;
13. Way We Won't 4:22 Grandaddy, Last Place;
14. Feel You (Live at RAK) 4:05 Julia Holter, In The Same Room;
15. My Church is Black 2:58 Me And That Man, Love Is A Dog From Hell;
16. I Can't Find Water 5:08 Hauschka, What if;
17. Fall From an Eyrie 4:24 Arboretum, Song of the Rose;
18. Trust The Sun 5:55 Elbow, Little Fictions;
19. Break Apart 4:35 Bonobo featuring Rhye, Migration;
20. Retour au Champs de Mars 3:45 A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Iris;
21. Memories Are Now 4:23 Jesca Hoop, Memories Are Now;
22. Told You I'd Be With The Guys 4:34 Cherry Glazerr, Apocalipstick;
23. Green Lights 3:35 Sarah Jarosz, Undercurrent;
24. Hate To See You Go 3:21 Rolling Stones, Blue and Lonesome;
25. Cogs Orchestral Variation 5:48 Minor Victories, Orchestral Variations;
26. Honest Life 4:15 Courtney Marie Andrews, Honest Life;
27. Thinking Bout You 3:45 Flo Morrissey & Richard E White Gentle Woman Ruby man;
28. Local 2:54 Tycho, Epoch;
29. Still Life 4:37 Lowly, Heba;
30. Road_Block 3:37 Thievery Corporation, The Temple of I & I;
31. So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain 9:58 Father John Misty, Pure Comedy.
So, if I had a mic working I would probably said some of the following:-
1.Cameron Avery – Tame Impala and Pond man creates his debut solo album and with previous work in the Psych-rock genre, one might expect to hear Psych but that's been replaced by ballads.
2.Laura Marling – Moves further from the folk format with this album where theme is generally relationships between women.
3.Joe Goddard – Hot Chip co-founder with his first full-length solo outing – dance inflected.
4.Goldfrapp with their 7th studio album and it’s synth over drum machine but with grown-up lyrical themes which I guess is to be expected for folk in their 50’s.
5.Thundercat is bass-playing Stephen Bruner, across many genre musician but this album focuses in the main on what us oldies call ‘jazz infused soul’ and has many guest appearances from the likes of Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell.
6.Richard Barbieri – once with Japan and more recently, Porcupine Tree, this is his 3rd solo outing and excellent it is.
7.Imelda May – now divorced after many years of marriage, she’s dropped the more recent rockabilly stuff in favour of soft rock. She’s also changed her image from the quiff totting teddy-girl – see album sleeve.
8.Blank Mass – F* Buttons leader with another rather excellent electronic outing.
9.Sir Ray Davies – surely must be one of the best British song-writers ever and by British I don’t only mean nationality, but song content. This album sees an American themes sung in an Americana style backed by the Jayhawks but with several references to the Kinks. Wonderful stuff Sir Ray
10.Karen Elson – supermodel/singer-songwriter with another excellent musical outing.
11.Spoon – Texan indie-rock band with another (9th) album adding a little electronica this time.
12.Alison Krauss – with a song made famous by Brenda Lee about this time of year 54 years ago. Lots of covers from Alison on this her first solo outing for 12 years, with songs sung to perfection in my opinion – but I’m sure you’ll have you own thoughts about that.
13.Grandaddy – whose reform as a band is heralded by a fanfare at the start o(continued)
