Zan Lyons ‘Desolate’ (Foundry ,2000)
There’s beauty in the noise. Or is it beauty in the nanosecond as the noise stops?
Disco Inferno ‘Technicolor’ (Rough Trade)
It’s 1996, Britpop is all-seeing and Rough Trade couldn’t give a hoot.
Alpinestars ‘B.A.S.I.C’ (SVS)
The problem with any music industry buzz is the knowledge that the buzz quickly fades and the act stagnates and often dies.
400 Blows ‘…If I Kissed Her I’d Have To Kill Her First…’ (Illuminated ,1984)
Synder: “If you got outta here, there are a lot of people who think you’d start killing again.”
Boyd Rice / Frank Tovey ‘Easy Listening For The Hard Of Hearing’ (Mute, 1984)
Originally recorded in 1981 at London’s Blackwing Studio, this brilliant maniacal fusion of weird soundscapes and fucked up noise ideology is one of the records that got away.
Seefeel ‘Quique’ (Too Pure, 1993)
As a fledgling fanzine writer, it seemed implausible that anyone would send anything resembling decent music to an outpost on the Wirral.
Vic Twenty ‘Electrostalinist’ (Lucky Pierre, 2005)
I first came upon Vic Twenty when they supported Erasure at Leicester’s De Montford Hall in 2003 and I was prepared to be disappointed.....Of course, I was wrong.
Peter Gabriel ‘Birdy’ (Charisma, 1985)
When they first came out, I was slightly too young to appreciate Peter Gabriel’s four, self-titled solo albums that spanned 1977-1982, but ‘Birdy’, his first film soundtrack, really caught my attention.
Leila ‘Like Weather’ (Rephlex, 1998)
Leila Arab was born in Iran, but moved to Britain at an early age, her family forced to flee the country’s Islamic Revolution because of her father’s ties with the ousted Shah
Shining ‘Din’ (Synthetic Symphony, 1995)
"I’d become a Nitzer Ebb fan on the release of 1992’s Alan Wilder-produced ‘Ebbhead’, a frustrating time to become a fan of the band because they went on a three-year hiatus pretty much straight after they released that record."