Space Raiders ‘Don’t Be Daft’ (Skint, 1999)

‘Quiet Is The New Loud’, the debut album from Norway’s Kings Of Convenience – Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe – is the gentlest strum and pluck of a record, and the Bergen duo were cast very much from an old school folk tradition.

"For more than 23 minutes, the side-long title piece emerges like fog that’s crept in so slowly overnight"

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

There wasn’t much room on the dancefloor for the version of Fingerprintz that released their ‘Distinguishing Marks’ LP in 1980...