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Is the best word to describe the new Oneohtrix Point Never album - veers crazily from laid back to hypertense to the threat of early 90s techno back to plangent guitars speeding back up to squalls of electronic noise, strange samples, cockney voices. It just won't sit still. I give it 8.

I'm happy to listen to all of them except Monomania every now and then. However, they've always included a proportion of needless filler tracks on their albums which sound like they took minimum effort to write and record - which serve to make the killer tracks stand out even more.

My personal jury is still out. There seem to be some nice moments, but nothing that says this is an album to come back to again and again. Still, early days......

I really can't get on with Ezra Furman - it's just noise (as Alan Partridge would say). I thought the Gwenno album was a bit weird - all the tracks sounded like Low's "Will The Night" (Songs For A Dead Pilot version) until I realised there was something wrong with my speakers. Now I'm enjoying...

...says the man with a seat two rows from the front.

If it sounds like Teen Angst by M83, I will love it. If it sounds like some generic emo band (ie soft rock masquerading as punk), less so. Haven't heard this yet. I've given up a bit on Low since The Great Destroyer, but I'm certainly willing to be impressed.

I have never heard of these people, but I'll give it a listen and get back to you.....

I'll give Kidwise a listen. Kid Wave are playing at Sticky Mike's - may well get a couple of tickets.

It's a bit of a twee name, and, as you say, anything that reminds you of It Bites is a bad thing. The Big Lad In The Windmill indeed.

I quite like this one too. I don't think I'd ever heard of them before, but apparently they're from Kent and this is (I think) their third album. My wife is currently playing Kid Wave and The Staves a lot. Quite like the sound of both of these from the tracks I've heard - the former being...

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Really liked their first, second was very average, didn't bother with their third - sounds like I made the right choice. I think it must be the long commute....

OK - In The Kingdom #19 off EVOL then. And Losing Haringey by The Clientele. Cuts Both Ways by Mogwai? Or that Puffy Daddy/Antichrist one with Iggy Pop instead. Dandelion by Boards of Canada. I'd better stop there - I could be a while. Maybe not The Stolen Child by The Waterboys though.

Here's another for your compilation: includes snippets from Annie Hall and Rebel Without A Cause. 7eXULrZFYoA

You're not wrong, but they've released some decent MOR in the past - I think Re-Arrange Us is the pick. If you like decent MOR, Get Better and My Only Offer are the best tracks. An album is probably too much. The first PSB album was somewhat maligned on NSC - unfairly in my opinion, but then...

That's a lovely album Staly - it's going in the shopping basket. Alert going out to hans kraay fan club: you may love this. Stay with it - final track's a keeper....

I'll put them in the priority queue on my playlist. Just fed my chickens - you should have seen them come running when I opened the back door. Cartoon-style chicken sprinting, thought they were going to keel over the way they were bouncing all over the place.

For those who like girls with fuzzy guitars playing frenetic 2 minute pop songs that sound a bit like The Pixies: https://peachkellipop.bandcamp.com/album/peach-kelli-pop-iii

Can't wait to get my hands on the Amara Touré collection (well, OK, the ten songs he recorded) later this month - a real treat...

Spotify is on the case - dowmloading has commenced. Blowtorch by The Go! Team is a lovely track, but a bit too similar to Buy Nothing Day, and without the peerless instrumental break. If anyone else had done it, I'd be raving about it, although probably saying they'd ripped off The Go! Team.