Cowboys International ‘The Original Sin ‘ (Virgin, 1979)

byJoe Silva
September 12, 2024

1979 saw the Shah of Iran on the run, the beginning of digital recording and the end of Sid Vicious...

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The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

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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

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It’s 1996, Britpop is all-seeing and Rough Trade couldn’t give a hoot.

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Savath and Savalas ‘Folk Songs For Trains, Trees And Honey’ (Warp, 2000)

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An album can be revelatory in any number of ways. Perhaps it arrives at the right time in your life to be particularly resonant, or it might reveal a whole area of music you didn’t realise existed.

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If, like me, you were a teenager in Australia in the early 2000s, the album everyone was listening to at house parties, on the radio, and on swapped burned CDs was the debut record by The Avalanches.

Cowboys International ‘The Original Sin ‘ (Virgin, 1979)

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Joe Silva

The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

Disco Inferno ‘Technicolor’ (Rough Trade)

Higher Intelligence Agency, ‘Colourform’, (Beyond, 1993)

Paddy Mcaloon

Savath and Savalas ‘Folk Songs For Trains, Trees And Honey’ (Warp, 2000)

Prop ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ (Silent, 2001)

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Cowboys International ‘The Original Sin ‘ (Virgin, 1979)

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