Chromatics - Night Drive and Chromatics - Kill for Love

this is a fairly mellow album from Chromatics with some really good female vocals. 8/10

This ones a bit more upbeat but has some really nice guitar work. 8/10

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours and Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

A solid album from start to finish with classic infectious tunes and a masterpiece in soft rock. 10/10

This album by Fleetwood Mac has some good tunes on it and is a solid album. 9/10 

My Top 5 Albums of all time.

An All German Affair with nothing British or American.

Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras - Catholic and Arthur Russell - The World of Arthur Russell

A trip through the channels and origins of High NRG and techno. 7/10

Disco soul and jazz combined in this Arthur Russell compilation. 7/10

Kavinsky- Nightcall

Patrick Cowley - Menergy and David Bowie -Young Americans

This album by Patrick Cowley is very good, its inspired by Giorgio Moroder and its got a more New York sound to it. 8/10

This David Bowie Album is probably as soulful as Bowie ever got and is very good. 8/10

Joe Meek and the Blue Men - I Hear a New World and Alexander ''Skip'' Spence - Oar

Joe Meek and the Blue Men , I hear a new World is a watershed moment in electronica. its psychedelic and thoughtfully new in its scope and content wise , amazing. with electronics and rhythm playing a big part in the production. 8/10

Alexander Skip Spence Oar is a challenging but rewarding listen with plenty of highlights and nicely strummed songs. its got very good vocals and i think thats something to take from it. 8/10

Giogrio Moroder - E=mc2 and Patrick Cowley - Mind Warp

This album by Giorgio Moroder, E=mc2 was the first electronic live to digital album. its got heaps of dance beats on it, and nice vocoder vocals, aswell as female backing vocals. much like his other stuff but has a live feel to it. 8/10

Mind Warp by Patrick Cowley is a really great listen and a dance record. very similar to giorgio moroder but i think Cowley has a more american less European influence to his music. more High Nrg and less complex grooves or synth lines. more straight up dance music and its got alot of charm and character to and this is Cowley's last record before he died of aids. 8/10

Patrick Cowley - Tech-No-Logical World

Baltimora - Tarzan Boy (Instrumental)

Cliff Tuner - Sunset Rendevous (Remix)

The Clash - s/t and Daft Punk - Discovery

The Clash's debut album is proto mix of anarchism and rage packed into bite sized listens filled with angst and despair. opening track Janie Jones is a punk classic. Remote Control is good. I'm So Bored With The USA is a cracker. White Riot is classic punk rock. Hate & War is good too. Whats My Name is good co written by PIL guitarist Keith Levine. Deny is good and also London's Burning rounds out the first side well with angst and joy delivered via thrashing guitar and snarling vocals. its that thrashing guitar and snarling vocals that make The Clash such an endearing listen. Career Opportunities is golden. Cheat is good.  Protex Blue is alright and is written by Jones probably the weakest track on the album. Police and Theives is amazing and the Clash really join up and blur the lines between punk and reggae dancehall on this track. 48 hours is good and the final track Garageland is probably the best track on here. Joe Strummer's singing is second to none on the album and its highly recommended a worthwhile listen. I'd say this album is more pure punk than anything they ever created and is probably more enjoyable than London Calling. 

Daft Punk's album Discovery is a journey through french house and disco. The Album rocks along well at the start with tracks like One More Time a real quality highlight and Aerodynamic, Digital Love and Harder better faster stronger. the next half seems to dwindle a little bit but has its moments notably being Something about us and Face to Face. its a real mix of disco and french house that make this last. 8/10 

T. Ark - Count on Me and Bolero - Heartache

Daft Punk - Touch

Cleaners From Venus - Under Wartime Conditions and Disclosure - Settle

This Album Under Wartime Conditions by Cleaners From Venus is a jangly guitar orientated pop gem. Opening track Summer in a Small Town is brilliatn as it jitters from chord to chord with superb lyrics and vocals especially during the chorus. The Whole Album has these ambient sounds before the song starts which makes it very interesting. Johnny the Moondog is Dead rattles along with great vigour and the vocals are excellent,as well as the lyrics, the songwriting on this album is very reminiscent of the Kinks Beatles even maybe a bit of The Jam in there. It's quintessential Britishness and sounds like what Blur would become less than ten years later. Hand of Stone is a rocking track with plenty of gusto. Drowning Butterflies is great too as the guitar comes in and Martin Newell says ''Here we go'' great lyrics and vocals. Radio Seven is an instrumental track. Fracas on West St. is good and very spacey rock with droning guitars and pounding drums that just blurt out what their intention is. its a rocking track. and its probably as loud as Cleaners from Venus get on this album. Lukewarm Lovesong is a sentimental pop song that sorta sounds like the cure if you ask me. A blue wave is quite fast lyrics like ''And somethings happening in the us of a. the phones are ringing they'll be hell to pay''. Song For Syd Barret is brilliant and is the best song on the album , magnificent synth lines and quirky guitar lines and and a great chorus. the winter place is a nice track too and instrumental of chiming glasses, like a big orchestra of chiming glasses. quite original and it has a beautiful tune to it. 8/10

Disclosure's album Settle is a unrelenting pulse of dance and House music. Opening track when a fire starts to burn is brilliant crisp high hats synth bass that just pounds your ears unrelentingly. Latch is a good track too. F For You is a great track too. most of the songs on here are very fast paced and pounding. White Noise is a good track. with a synth line that just is a in a different medium to anything you have heard. new textures and new grooves really pronounce themselves on here. its not new areas for the genre of house music but the synth lines and grooves and revolutionary and perfectly assembled. Defeated no more is good too. Stimulation is a good track, also, Voices. Second chance is amazing, and grab her is probably the best track on here.You and Me is great. this whole album just rattle along to the same beat filled with plenty of hooks and different textures , these synth ambient drones that just level everything out and crisp high hats and amazing grooves. January is very good. Confess to me is good. Help Me loose my mind is ethereal and ambient beautiful in places. Boiling fells like its about to boil over with excitement. Whats in your head is great.Tenderly is good too. Running is good. the whole album just works on so many levels. you can dance to it. you can chill out to it. perfect beats chilled ambience drones. its like a conjoining of many electronic genres. 9/10

Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy (Instrumental) and Miko Mission - Two For Love (Instrumental)

Gazebo - Lunatic (Instrumental) and Taco - Puttin' on the Ritz

Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man and Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas

Leonard Cohen's album I'm your Man is a lament of love written in the most of intriguing listens. opening track First we take Manhattan is a synth pop wonder track with choirs over the top and is nothing like Cohen has ever done before. Aint No Cure For Love opens with some bashful saxophone and elegantly reaches its peak ''I've loved you for a long long time/I know this love is real'' Everybody knows is a stomper with funky basslines and plenty of schmaltz. I'm your man is a folk waltz with plenty of heart. Take this waltz is much the same. Jazz police is ok but the real highlight is I can't Forget which is unparalleled on this album. tower of song is ok. this album really hits hard the first half but slightly flails midway through it . its different to any other Leonard Cohen and is more modern in sound with a synth pop production and any synth pop fans should give it a listen. 8/10

Cocteau Twins Lp Heaven or Las Vegas is a heartfelt album with plenty of pop hooks and great tracks. opening track Cherry Co loured Funk is very good. Pitch the Baby is nice too. Iceblink luck is good. Elizabeth fraser sings in these made up languages and its really hard to follow the lyrics and you just sing whatever it sounds like. the guitar on these tracks is monumental with chorus effects dripping right off them, and the drum machines really add to the ethereal quality and nature of these tracks. fifty fifty clown is good and Heaven or Las Vegas is brilliant.I wear your ring is brilliant. but my personal fave track on here is fotzepolitic which is great.wolf in the breast is great. Road river and rail is ok and Frou Frou Foxes in midsummer fires is ok. it kinda lacks a bit towards the end but some of the songwriting is great. 8/10

Baccara - Yes Sir, I can Boogie

                                               Here is a classic Disco hit from 1977. enjoy!

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead and My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

The Smith's album the queen is dead is a truly evocative listen. beautifully crafted pop songs, great lyrics, chiming guitar sounds know by the smiths on previous like their debut and meat is murder.  the first track opens with drumming cracks and its propelled along thunderous guitar. this is the closest they have come to sounding punk. Frankly Mr. Shankly is just joyous novelty pop for the adoring fan. I know its over is amazing, as Morrisey sings ''Oh Mother , I can feel / the soil falling over my head." its heartbreaking and depressing but its also tongue and cheek and hilarious. Never Had No one ever is similar but propelled by wicked parts thanks to Marr. Cemetry Gates is kinda of upbeat and jolly and is ultimately amazing in songcraft and composition.Bigmouth Stikres again is the closest thing they come to a hit single and pop song of sorts. The Boy with a thorn in his side is equally brilliant as to anything on here and shines with guitar plucking s and licks. Vicar in a tutu is good and also the biggest lament to going out There is a light that never goes out. ''Take me out /tonight'' Some Girls are bigger than others is a nice guitar jangle and hilarious lyrics. 10/10

My Bloody Valentine's Magnus opus is a shining light of guitar pop and noise rock. opening track Only shallow rocks along to a gigantic riff. loomer is very lo tempo and slow. touched is an instrumental. To here knows when is simply beautiful with glorious vocals. when you sleep is probably the best track on here with a recognisable guitar riff that sounds like flutes is so noisy. I only said is equally just as good. com in alone is good. sometimes is epicand expansive with just guitar flowing the beat on. blown a wish is brilliant and the female vocals of Bilinda Butcher really shine through on this track. what you want is good and the closing track Soon is a dancy beat inspired rocker. on loveless MBV really recreate the guitar as an instrument of different textures and subtle moments of passion, and its barely worn with time so far. 10/10

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret and Simple Minds - New Gold Dream

Soft Cell's debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is a seductive lure into sado pop. Frustration hits you with some bouncing synth lines and is fairly upbeat like most of the album. Tainted Love is brilliant. a classic slice of synth pop. Seedy films is pretty groovy with some nice saxophone and female vocals. Youth is good too with some pounding bass and monotone voice. Sex Dwarf is hilarious. a sadomasochism track filled with hilarity. its also the fastest paced song on the album. Entertain Me is good. Chips On My Shoulder is good and very uptempo and melodic. with some pulsating synth lines. perfect synth pop. Bedsitter is good too with the same sort of synth pop lines and grooves. Secret Life is grooving with some descending synth riffs. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye is a ballad and is probably the weakest track on the album. as a whole NSEC is a trip through synth pop and its a memorable trip aswell. 8/10 

Simple Mind's album New Gold Dream is a passage of perfectly executed pop songs. Someone Somewhere in Summertime is a perfect pop song, with hooks and riffs on synth. the vocals are delayed.  Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel is very funky with some nice riffs and hooks. Promised you a MIracle is good too with some ecstatic bass lines and synth hooks. Big Sleep opens with a synth riff and the vocals and band comes in and its very funky.  Somebody up there likes you is an instrumental much like Bowie Low era. New Gold Dream opens with drum machine and synth and the vocals are brilliant. especially when the singer sings ''81-82-83-84'' its a punding relentless beat and its probably the best song on the album. Glittering Prize is the closest they come to a mainstream pop song and its propelled by the bass and drums with little synth hooks splatterred over it. Hunter and the Hunted is good with some nice strings added into the mix. King is white and in the crowd is the closest they come to their older stuff more post punk. this is simple mind's breakthrough album it serves to throw them into the forefront of what was 80's new pop. 8/10

The Stone Roses - s/t and Fuck Buttons - Taro Sport

The Stone Roses Dub s/t shines with a glorious passion nothing can surpass. the opening track I want to be adored sparkles with delight with superb musicianship showing in the first few minutes. soaring guitar lines, stoic bass and blistering drum beats. the second track She Bangs The Drums is pure Mancunian pop, Smithsy Jangle that hits you in the heart with a sweet chorus and nice guitar riff-age. Waterfall is brilliant with great riffs and good lyrics. Don't Stop is a remix of Waterfall and is equally passionate and melodic. Bye Bye Badman offers some new guitar textures and Ian Browns vocals are just stunning. Elizabeth my Dear is the shortest track on the album and Brown sings about Queen Elizabeth losing her thrown and ''Curtains for you'' Song For My Sugar Spun Sister is brilliant and equally passionate as anything on here. Made Of Stone is probably the best track on here with soaring guitar lines and lyrics like ''Sometimes I fantasize/ when the streets are cold and lonely/ and the cars they burn below me'' brilliant stuff. Shoot You down offers a different drum beat and bass line with chiming guitars and deeper vocals. This is the One is superb with chiming guitars and deep bass lines. I am The Resurrection is an 8 minute masterpiece with bridge section and outro, and instrumental breakdown sections. as a whole The Stone Roses debut is a an amalgamation of passionate vocals and lyrics with chiming proggy guitar deep bass lines and funky drumbeats. 10/10  

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Fuck Button's Lp Taro Sport is a brilliant exploration in techno and electronica noise music. first track Surf Solar is a breeze of beats and electronics and it really creeps up on you with its length and also subtle sounds that really get under your skin. Rough Steez is ultimately brilliant and surging in its wake. with the drums coming in its got this pulse along with it. The Lisbon Maru is a shuffle in electronic form as the synth just pierces your Brain and fragments in in two. Olympians is easily the best track on here and is just unrelenting. Phantom Lim is good, Space Mountain and Flight of the Feathers are all good but it definitely decreases in style and substance as the Lp progresses. the first four tracks you could listen to them for years they are perfect. Its unrelenting this album, the size of each track spanning at nearly ten minutes each is a good thing I think because they really draw your attention in and its surging in its wake. if this doesn't get you dancing nothing will. some of the beats on here are just layered jams that pulsate, and the synth is noise y and unforgiving. 9/10   

Lil'B - Hugh Hefner (Instrumental track)

this is a dope ass track.

Blur - 13 and David Bowie - Low

Blur's enigmatic release 13, is trip though American Lo Fi Indie rock and British lo fi. Opening tack Tender is brilliant and a real stomper of a song, ruthless choirs and indie rock guitar make their mark here. Bugman is good. the second track. Coffee and Tv is great as they show their melodic song craft. swamp song is good too as they experiment with different guitar textures, metallic cutting guitar sounds. 1992 is good too a little bit down tempo to what has gone previously in the album. B.L.U.R.E.M.I is great and very pavement esque. Battle is born with keys and synthesizer to start with and when the drums come it turns into pure art rock. Mellow Song is as you guessed it, very down tempo and mellow. Trailerpark is good too with keys and drums opening it up with. Caramel is good too with different guitar textures. it really is a masterpiece by their guitarist Graham Coxon. Trimm Trabb is good and very experimental. No Distance Left To Run is superb and one of the best tracks on the album. Optigan is very experimental with chiming key noises. as a whole 13, is probably their most experimental album to date, and is surely one of the best records to come out of Britain in the last 20 years. 9.5/10 

Opener Speed of love buzzes along to a guitar riff with plenty of synthesizers noises, and it sounds like Roxy Music. More guitar is evident on Breaking Glass and it surges along to a funky beat. with nice synth noises. What in the World is very experimental as the synthesizers bounces of the beat like a ping pong ball. Sound and Vision is probably the biggest 'hit' on the album and is certainly the most pop this album is going to get. Always Crashing the Same Scene is good and gradually builds up into a momentous beat of music. Be My Wife is close to glam with piano and guitars lyrics likes 'Sometimes You get so lonely, sometimes you get nowhere/ I've lived all over the world/ I've lived everywhere''. A new career in a new town is brilliant probably the best piece of music on this album, its very melodic for an instrumental, with even harmonica making an entrance. Warszawa is eery and a doom laden piece with barely what you call lyrics, a mdae up language of gibberish. the finest instrumental track he has ever created by far. art decade is good with some nice synth riffs. Weeping wall has some sort of chime and when the synth comes in its backs against the wall bold instrumental music. This by far Bowie's piece of work and it works on so many levels  it has everything experimental pop, post punk you might call it. its post disco, post glam and it works. 10/10 

New Purchases: Savages - Silence Yourself and Deerhunter - Monomania on Vinyl

I picked up these two beauties today, $35 each. pretty good deal they are beautiful and will take pride of place in my record collection

Coolio - I'll See You When You Get There

Smooth ass track from a swag rapper. I recently saw Coolio perform at the Falls  Festival in Marion Bay Tasmania for New Years last year and this song was fantastic. He had live saxophone on this track and it sounded brilliant as the sun was going down and the fuel of youth was being consumed. a dope track.

Memory Tapes - Seek Magic and Bronski Beat - The Age Of Consent.

Memory Tapes Seek Magic is a polished piece of work. opener Simming Field starts with a dog barking until a slither of guitar comes in and drums foolow, and we hear the lyrics washed in sweet reverb. Bicycle is pretty funky and upbeat. Green Knight is good. Pink Stones is excellent Stop Talking is up tempo and cutting with this synth line that keeps coming back at you. Graphics is funky and uptempo. Plain Material is good and slow. Run out is good. Treeship the closing track is brilliant , nice and long. the whole thing works because the feel varies from track to track its full album of good music, and the music and sounds are funky, disco even, inspired, chillwave, synth pop songs, a bit like if ducktails took pills. it even has nice guitar in the mix, it blurs the line between chillwave and synth pop so well its allmost mysterious. 8/10

The Age of Consent by Bronski beat is filled with synth pop gems. opener Why? is one of them. superb little number. Ain't necessary so is good and down beat. Screaming is good, another downbeat number. No More War is good and downbeat. Love and Money is slightly more upbeat than the rest. Smalltown Boy is amazing. Heatwave is good. Junk is uptempo with cutting synth lines. Need a Man Blues is good. the whole band is openly homosexual and in their lyrics appeal to gay issues and Need a man blues is one of those songs that. theres all passion here in these tracks. I feel Love/Johnny Remember me is brilliant. any fan of Donna Summer or Giorgio Moroder will like what Bronski Beat have done with this track. Smalltown boy ''12 version is amazing, the best track on this album by far. 8/10

After Dark 2 and ABC - The Lexicon of Love

After Dark 2 is a compilation of Tracks by bands such as Glass Candy, Chromatics, Desire, Mirage , Appaloosa, Symmetry, Twisted Wires, Farah, Mike Simonetti, all artists from the Italians Do It Better Label. First track Warm in the Winter by Glass Candy is outstanding. very good vocals on this track with a wall of synth. lyrics like 'Loves in the air/Warm in the Winter'', Tears From Heaven is the second track from Desire and its a good track, Lets Kiss by Mirage is good too. Fill the Blanks by Appaloosa is good. Looking For Love is good, Chromatics, and Heart Of Darkness by Symmetry is great, Camera by Chromatics is probably the best track on the album. Half Lives By Twisted Wires is good also. The Possessed by glass candy is good. Cherry by Chromatics is good. Beautiful Object by Glass Candy is excellent. Into Eternity by Farah is eery with some disturbing vocals. Intimate by Appaloosa is good. The Magician by Mike Simonetti is great too. Redheads feel more pain by glass candy is very good also. the whole album is just filled with moog and incredible vocal performances, and bass snare beats at a high tempo. 8/10 

The Lexicon of Love by ABC is a good listen. First track Show Me is good it opens with lots of nice trumpets, and fantastic groovy bass and organ. Poison Arrow is superb the best track on here. lyrics like ''Shoot that poison arrow right into my heart'' Many Happy Returns is good. Tears are not enough is good. Valentines Day is good too. The Look of Love part 1 is great too. Date Stamp is good. All of My heart is ok. 4 ever 2 gether is ok. The look of Love part 4 is good. all in all its a good pop album with plenty of hooks and good songs. 8/10 

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today and Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's lp titled  Before Today, is a piece of great imagination and poise. The First Song Hot Body Rub is pretty good. Bright Lit Blue Skies is a single and packs plenty of energy and taps in that chillwave summer vibe well. L'estat (According to the widows maid) is good. Fright night is excellent. Round and Round is brilliant probably best track on the album. Beverly kills is good also. Butt house blondies is good. Little Wig is great.  Can't hear my eyes is amazing. amazing vocals on that track. Reminiscences is amazing. an instrumental track, a cover of an Ethiopian pop singer. Menopause Man is great. Revolutions a lie is great. Before Today is a fun listen with plenty of good songs. lo fi, funky, synth pop, chillwave, and punk rock are all genres which show their face in this music. 9/10

Toro Y Moi's album Underneath the pine is a fantastic album. opening track Intro chi chi is good. New Beat is amazingly funky and fun. Go with you is good. Divina is good. Before I'm Done is good. Got blinded is ok. How I know is good. Light black is good. Still sound is good. Good Hold is great. Elise is ok. the sound is sort of electro chillwave, with lots of synthesizer  washy vocals, and reverbed guitar. I'm going to give it 8/10

Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms and Neu! - 4

Neon Indian's debut album opens up with track Deadbeat Summer, perfect for summer. very chilled. Laughing Gas is a brilliant instrumental track. Terminally Chill is good also. 6669 (I don't know if you know) rocks along. Should have taken Acid with you is good. Mind Drips is excellent. Psychic Chasms is good. Local Joke is brilliant probably best track on here in 4/3 timing. Ephemeral Artery is good. as a whole this album works because it has this lo fi apporach, with vintage syth sounds, and the sound seems to fade in and out, sounds brilliant on headphones, with plenty of kick and snare, nice beats and a dash of guitar. 8/10

First track Crazy is superb. with some punk guitar it sounds like it came from Neu! 75. drums propel this song along nicely. Flying Dutchman is a faint version of Good life which will appear later. Schoene Welle (Nice Wave) is very pleasant to listen to. as for Wave Naturelle which has particularly nice bass parts. Good Life (Random-Rough) is great with some good keyboard parts and bells. Daenzing is very fun and easy to dance to. lyrics like ''Dancing with my baby'' . Quick Wave Machinelle is great too. Bush Drum is very good also. La Bomba (Stop Aparthijd Worldwide) is fun to dance to . Good Life is great. Elanoizan is great too. as a whole Neu! 4 has a very souless sound with drum machines and synth, but its got all the right aspects of a good album, its produced well, good musicianship. I think its a vital step for synth pop and many critics don't seem to agree with me as alot of people seem to think this is Neu!s poorest album. 8/10

Suicide - s/t and La Dusseldorf - Viva.

Suicide's Debut album is filled with sinister undertones. opener Ghost Rider pulsates along to an organ riff and drum machine and it really hits home as an opening track about what Suicide are really about. Martin Rev plays organ and programs the drum machines, whilst Alan Vega sings in his baritone, elvis impersonator voice. Rocket Usa rocks along, but Cheree is very nice to listen to. Johnny is ok. Girl ok. Frankie Teardrop is simply stunning and very eery, very confronting, hilarious actually. Che is ok. Cheree remix is actually great. I remember is ok. but the highlight of the album is the brilliant Keep Your dreams which is breathtaking. the last track on the album. I'm going to score this album very high based on the success of those few tracks that make thisalbum worth listening to. a mixture of electro, synth pop and a punk attitude very DIY. manufactured and soulless but the singing is filled with heart and soul. 9/10

Viva is a brilliant listen. it opens with track Viva the title track which is brilliant. White Overalls is punk injecteded bliss very reminiscent of Neu! '75 tracks like Hero etc. Rheinita is amazing. it builds up and then drops on this piano part then comes back in again. the last half of the album is good too. I Think Klas Dinger former Neu! member wants to create something uptempo with spiralling ascending melodies, pop orientated with rock and punk beats. and punk guitars of course and piano placed nicely amongst organ and synthesizer. 8/10