Simian Mobile Disco - WhorlEvery musician needs to take action to keep themselves fresh from time to time, but James Ford and Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco have really gone to extremes this time: they've completely abandoned every tool they previously used to make music. For the recording of their new record, 'Whorl', they've started from the ground up and created an entirely new electronic system, and recorded everything entirely live, from scratch. Over the years as members

Bonnie Billy has been quoted as saying that one of the songs on the album is a conceptual track that‰۪s about ‰ÛÏone day in 1973 when only two people died in the whole word

‰Û÷Together‰۪ (2010)

in autumn of 1992

the first volume of Wheedle's Groove shone a light on the formerly unheralded soul scene in 1960s and '70s Seattle

first recording the songs on his own in a solo-setting

Considered the ‰ÛÏlast ever‰۝ Cleaners From Venus release

tight knit dynamics and subtly insightful and affecting emotional depths

Blind Boy Fuller Step It Up and Go 19

'Nostalgia' and 'Summerdays' that are collected on this new 12"

The album again sees Little Barrie working with their longtime mentor Edwyn Collins

‰Û÷Total Explosion‰۪ was Johnson‰۪s most successful album at Hi Records and was one of the best in the label‰۪s catalogue

a primitive garage romp that borrowed liberally from Led Zeppelin