Pip Blom - Welcome BreakThere are approximately a great deal and very many Welcome Breaks scattered throughout the sprawling motorways of the UK. Now, regardless of whether that statements true or not when lifes become a series of long stretches and welcomed breaks, its to no avail that sometimes all it takes to alleviate spirits is the simplest, of experiential indulgences. Be it the buzz of an overly exhausted tour van, or the green light and smell of sausage rolls in the

poignant riddles that celebrate the ambiguity of love & affirm the conflict of harmonious life within a disharmonic world

Big Supermarket have counterintuitvely emerged as a leading light

Ramones is one of those rare records where there is not a single weak or out-of-place song

taking the tender intimacy of radiohead classics like 'no surprises' and 'fake plastic trees' and cross fertilising them with elements of world music

Jesus and Mary Chain‰۪s ‰ÛÏDarklands‰۝

just a stone‰۪s throw from Richmond and Eel Pie Island where the Stones started out as a young blues band playing pubs and clubs

After three sought-after singles for the Whatever We Want label - plus remixes for the likes of Gorillaz

on the luk thung Isan (as the hybrid became known) smash Jeb Jin Jeb Jai included here

More a historical document than a great album

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yet twisted

Japanese folk together with Little Feat's superb classic sound