Soda Stereo ‘Nada Personal’ (Discos Cbs, 1985)
"It might seem slightly disingenuous to label an album by Soda Stereo as “buried treasure”'...
PIG ‘Sinsation’ (JVC, 1995)
Raymond Watts, the man behind PIG, released ‘Sinsation’, an album arguably more likely to top the charts in the depths of hell
LAIKA ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ (Too Pure, 1994)
Laika should be much better known than they are...
Cowboys International ‘The Original Sin ‘ (Virgin, 1979)
1979 saw the Shah of Iran on the run, the beginning of digital recording and the end of Sid Vicious...
Robyn Miller ‘Myst Soundtrack’ (Cyan, 1995)
It’s the mid-1990s and my daughter and I are sitting with our noses practically rammed up against the screen of our Power Mac 5200
The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)
Side projects were everywhere in the 1980s. Talking Heads had Tom Tom Club, David Bowie had Tin Machine and Duran Duran managed to split into two rival factions as Arcadia and The Power Station
David Behrman ‘On The Other Ocean’ (Lovely Music, 1978)
"For more than 23 minutes, the side-long title piece emerges like fog that’s crept in so slowly overnight"
Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)
Fittingly for an album called ‘The Sitting Room’, I first came across Anne Clark’s debut long-player from 1982 while sitting in the living room of a friend-of-a-friend’s flat in Berlin last summer
Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)
There wasn’t much room on the dancefloor for the version of Fingerprintz that released their ‘Distinguishing Marks’ LP in 1980...
Don Dorsey ‘Bachbusters’ (Telarc, 1985)
Back in April 2012, at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, my two young daughters – then aged four and five – were watching the Electrical Water Pageant float past. Transfixed by its colourful show of lights, they genuinely believed it to be the work of pure magic.