Oh hello world! I had a change of heart. Fave Tunes April / May 2008

The Chameleon - The Left Outsides Perfectly executed Barretty folkadelia

Glory To The World - El Perro Del Mar Happy heart and candyfloss head

I Fell Asleep In The Sunbleached Grass - Skygreen Leopards Sounds like what it says

No One Word - Vetiver Summer trees ruffled by breezes, swallows swooping the sky.

Girl Of The Skies – The Canterbury Music Festival Instrumental soft-pop rarity on RevOla re-release. Just the right side of queasy.

Subterranean Bazaar – The Dilettantes Blammin’ pop-sike for doing beatkid dances too.

Tallahassee Bop - Slowdown Tallahassee Sugar buzz nursery rhyme drone-pop
http://www.myspace.com/slowdowntallahasseegirls

The end of the summer on Bookbinder road – Cocoanut Groove Long lost baroque pop that The Left Banke dropped down the back of the sofa
www.myspace.com/cocoanutgroove

Sweetness I Could Die In Your Arms – Horowitz Delicious fuzz-coated Razorcutty cuteness
http://www.myspace.com/horowitzband

Sundropped – Earthling Society Harmonia swirls become Teardrops Exploding through a sun-psych prism. Perfectly titled.
www.myspace.com/earthlingsociety

He had a psychotic episode on a dude ranch that involved a bottle of ammonia: Fave Tunes February/March 2008

Steel Your Girl – Neon Neon The twinkly side of sleekly constructed synth pop, sounding kind of like Wire’s ‘Outdoor Miner’. SerWOON! In danger of being played to death.

I Lust U – Neon Neon Synth bleepo disco-stuff, then Gruff’s voice makes your icy eighties heart melt. Once again: serWOONN!

My Elven Home - Gandalf The Grey Oddly jangle-pop sounding for something so obviously hippy-div.

Albert Goes West - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lord Cave does The Jesus and Mary Chain whilst The Bad Seeds act like yobs. Plus, when old Nick asks ‘Do you wanna dance????!!!! Do you wanna move????!!!!’ with that much punctuation you’d better give the right answer.

Don’t You Ever Fail - The Dilettantes Dippy jangle refracting sun-psych
http://www.myspace.com/thedilettantes

Greasy Crisps - The Sunny Street Blurred wistful dreampop belies title
http://www.myspace.com/thesunnystreet

Sparrow - Mountain Home Espers-esque etherealness – the best kind. Plus, look at their picture – fabulous.
http://www.myspace.com/mtnhome

Replica - The Shortwave Set Stately kaliedoscoping psychedelia found at the back of a dusty old cupboard

Shared Islands – High Places Animal Collective using sunbeams as wind-chimes
http://www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces

There’s so many more colors / Without the dirty windows Fave Tunes December 07/January 08

There’s So Many Colors – Akron/Family Expansive space-folk hippy psych-jam. Just ignore the bad grammar in the title.

Shelter From The Ash – Six Organs Of Admittance Whirling, apocalyptic, manages to remind me of The Afghan Whigs and Godspeed! You Black Emperor simultaneously.

Stillborn - Sarah Tucek Insular, intimate. Sitting in a campfire glow, drinking whisky, darkness pressing in all around.

Mend - Sparky’s Magic Piano Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink electro indie-pop goodness.

This Year’s Beat - Japancakes Cinematic sweeps waltzing with languorous pedal steel guitar make me go all floaty.

Keytarded – Love Will Tear Us Apart Miaow / Miaow miaow miaow miaow miaow miaow / Miaow.

Colonise the Moon – Gruff Rhys Meditative mind-buzz, complemented by the lyrics ‘I vomited throughout your saxophone solo"

Shape Of Things To Come - Left Outsides Eerie/soothing folk-psych. The Left Outsides can always be relied on to transport you.

Frenchy’s - Holy Fuck Monster mongo groove bouncing round inside a stainless steel cell.

Shrinking Moon For You - Wooden Shjips Drone-fuzz, screechy madness. Spacemen 3 fighting Loop with chainsaws.

I Burn Myself On You – The Lionheart Brothers Norwegian dreampop boys being glidey and twinkly and a tad MBV-ish.

Those who cry and run away live to cry another day: Fave Tunes October/November 2007

• Soft Hearted Scientists - The A470 Song Swirling psych chant, hymning wonders of the Welsh countryside.Oh the joy of a new Soft Hearted Scientists album! Also, check out the way you can sing 'Postman Pat' to their lovely 'I Wanted You'.
  www.myspace.com/softheartedscientists
  

• Tonada Yanomaminista – Devendra Banhart Some of the ‘Smokey Rolls…’ album can be quite Velvety in a Herman Dune kind of way
  
  
• Eggs and Chips – Manic Cough What a good mix in the morning
  www.myspace.com/maniccoughh
  
  
• 31st Floor – The Tamborines Rahh! The Tambos at their ferociously fuzzy buzzingest
  www.myspace.com/thetamborines
  
  
• Love Lies Bleeding – Pete Molinari The way Pete’s voice glides up the chorus makes by mind skip a beat.
  
  
• Run Away – Super Furry Animals SFA deliver another perfect pop moment non-shock!
  
  
• See The Light – Sound Carriers The hazy sound of sunspots on faded photos, and dandelion seeds drifting on sultry breezes.
  
  
• On The Drip – Freelovebabies Ex-Spaceman proves infinitely more charming and entertaining than his more notorious erstwhile colleagues. Make sure you see Will Carruthers play live.
  www.myspace.com/freelovebabies
  
  
• Disintegration – Hong Kong In The 60s Broadcast-tinged gazing out the window wistful wonderousness
  www.myspace.com/hongkonginthe60s
  
  
• Candylion – Gruff Rhys The ultimate comfort song. When I’m sick I want Gruff Rhys to come and sing this to me whilst stroking my hair. Or even when I’m not sick.
  


• Sister – Horowitz Delightful fizzbomb fuzzpop from Stoke-on-Trent Razorcut-alikes www.myspace.com/horowitzband
  
  
• King Of England – The Hot Puppies Poutily funking bassline carries The Hot Puppies on a victory lap of the pop universe.
  www.myspace.com/thehotpuppies
  
  
• Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind – Vashti Bunyan Stately Loog-Oldham orchestrated winsome popstrel swoonings.
  
  
• The Coldest Night Of The Year – Vashti Bunyan More lovely Vashti. Sounds like a place where Jaseman Pierce might have found some of his ideas. Maybe Spiritualized should do this as a Christmas single.
  

I’d like to find a field between the hills: Fave Tunes August/September 2007

Mostyn A Diego – Radio Luxembourg The sound of early Super Furries rolling on the lawn with Gorkys = sunshine goodness. Plus the single has an exciting interactive sleeve.
www.myspace.com/radiolux

Get You Out Of My Head – The Sparkling Fountains Of Magic Reality Hoo, boy! Maxed out fuzz all the way. Why don’t all songs sound like this?
www.myspace.com/thesparklingfountainsofmagicreality

Outside - The Asteroid #4 Sky-looping dreampop crash-lands in a field of Barretty pastoralism.
www.myspace.com/asteroid4

Gift That Keeps Giving - Super Furry Animals SFA obligingly release album of summer-pop psych-dream lusciousness in time for my summer hols. The harmonies on this track make my head turn inside-out.

Horse Riding – Euros Childs Groovy old Euros tickling the ivories like a good ‘un, so you have to jiggle about in your chair with a a stoopid grin on yr face.

Secrets – Tuung Some of the ‘Good Arrows’ album is a tad Sunday Supplement, but this is all twinkling and regretful and sounds like dew-soaked medieval meadows.

My World – The Go! Team Cover of olde schools tv theme has freaky regression therapy effect on my brain.

Presidential Suite – Super Furry Animals Sitting under a tree hypnotized by ticklish Greek waves, I remember how much I love this song. "Sparkling like dragonflies".

The Fire In My Head - Voice Of The Seven Woods Dementedly sinister twangy Eastern mysticism with some serious tambourine bashing and gloopy rhythms.

Derek - Animal Collective Especially the moment when the big thumpy, shuffling bass drum sounds burst out from the skirling loopiness. Also, ‘Derek’ is an amusingly unlikely name for a song.

When the going gets weird the weird turn pro: Fave Tunes June/July 2007

If You Gotta Go – Jim Reid: Cute spangly strumathon with Jim in fine voice. Ser-woon! There’s a good bit where he sings "Listen to the…" and your brain goes "girl as she takes on half the world" because ‘Just Like Honey’ is hopelessly imprinted there forever.
www.myspace.com/jimreid

About You – The Pastels: Gorgeous twinklingly warm and fuzzy version of the Reid brothers’ already v. swoonsome track. The line ‘People die in their living rooms / but they do not need this God Almighty gloom’ has been making me laugh for the last twenty years.
www.myspace.com/thepastels

Bats Over Barstow – Pete Greenwood. Fear and Loathing folky darkness.
www.myspace.com/petergreenwood

Swami – William Penn V: From The Essential Pebbles Vol. 1: The Very Best of American Garage

Up The Hill - The See See: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young meet The Essex Green. Hoo yeah!
www.myspace.com/theseeseeband

Let’s Live For Today – Living Daylights: From Rubble Vol 1: The Psychedelic Snarl. God Bless Bam Caruso.

That Girl Suicide – The Brian Jonestown Massacre: After their mighty performance of this at Islington Academy, it’s become this month’s BJM obsesso-tune.

The sound of Crumhorns: not fussy what the song is really, get hip to the Crummy sound, it’s what all the cool Medieval kidz are digging.

And I Was Blue – Sunforest: Medieval psych-folk from 1969 – how can you go wrong?

Navigator - The Lovetones: The Lovetones have gone a bit grown up on their new album, but the kind of grown-up that involves delivering daze-dreams epics, so that’s alright then.
www.myspace.com/thelovetones