Tim Maia's Racional volumes 1 & 2. Luaka Bop reissued one of his albums a couple of years ago but these two might be even better, super tight cosmic Brazilian funk from the mid seventies.

Oh Susanna https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Gal and Caetano!

How's that new Hot Chip album?

My grand daughter's had a very successful day with the old potty training~not one accident today!

The Pop Group~Mad Truth
Jane Weaver~Mission Desire
Kendrick Lemar~Complexion (A Zulu Love)
R. Seiliog~Constellation Drip
Bjork~A History Of Touches
Milton Nascimento & Mercedes Sosa~Sueño Con Serpientes
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard~Slow Jam 1
Alabama Shakes~Don't Wanna Fight
Sherwood & Pinch~Wild Birds Sing
Le Barra De…

A tortoise got mugged by a gang of snails, afterwards the police asked if he got a look at his attackers? 'No, it all happened so fast'.

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Just finished Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows which blurs the line again between fiction and biography. I thought it was great but it's also pretty close to the knuckle and absolutely heart breaking. Just started Chinua Achebe's Arrow Of God I should really of started with Things Fall Apart but this was in the…

Whatta band!

factoid:- my friend Andy did the cover art for Weird Sister but I never listened to it because of the terrible band name. I will now rectify this.

Yeah she sounds quite raw on it and the lyrics are very direct and painful. But honestly I'm going to have to live with it in my headphones and get familiar with it before I decide where it fits into what she's done before. I totally admire her for not taking the sonic line of easiest fit and constantly pushing…

It was properly twisted which I appreciate. Plus I thought Evan Bird's performance as the child star was absolutely spot on and the whole cast really committed to their roles. I'm not always too good at articulating what I do or don't like about a film, it either clicks with me or it doesn't and I could really buy…

Ha ha, as if it isn't bad enough that you're on my i tunes now you're in my lap! Glad you enjoyed the shows though.

So you should. Perhaps I should start a confessional booth in my library for people to get rid of their guilty secrets.

Ha ha what with that and The Edge it's been a good week for people falling off of stuff.

Very, very excited for the new Pete Rock, that Cosmic Slop tune is something else. Mello Music Group can do little wrong in these eyes (or ears).

The whole family decamped to Mersea island yesterday for to get our fill of seafood at the wonderful West Mersea Oyster Bar. Oh my goodness this really is one of the best seafood spots in the world as evidenced by the large contingent of Japanese visitors using their selfie sticks (?!?!) to snap themselves with their…

I didn't realise (fuck off spell check, that's how it's spelt) that Garland had done the adaptation until the end credits rolled but I really do think it does a pretty good job of getting the main themes of Ishiguro's novel to the screen intact.

Ed Sheeran is a willowy pubic hair on the toilet seat of life.