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David holmes admits fourth LP has been a decade in the making. He has announced his return with fourth solo album 'The Holy Pictures'.

The DJ producer has revealed that although releasing his other albums in between, he actually started work in this record over ten years ago.
"The story of this album really began on the August 4, 1996, when my mother, Sarah Holmes, passed away," he explained. "I had always wanted to make a record about my life in Belfast and all the things attached to that – family, friends, loss, love and starting a family of my own. All the stuff that shapes the person you become."

The first single will be 'I Heard Wonders', with the full album released on September 8.
from www.nme.com

Read a longer article in The Sunday Times

The recent delivery from the great Rough Trade Album Club (a music subscription service) was the outstanding 70s Retro Fusion Electro Pop Album by Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - this is SO cool!

BEYOND THE WIZARDS SLEEVE
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Release Date: 25/08/2008
Previously released: 25/08/2008

Text from Rough Trade:

«we got a big one here! you don't wanna' miss this! richard norris, founding member of the grid, and london's premier dj, producer and remix maestro erol alkan have been releasing music under the beyond the wizard's sleeve moniker since 2007, when their first 12" sold out in a matter of days. then came the second, third and fourth releases, all selling out as soon as they hit the shelves. here is a collection of some of the finest moments from the 4 highly sought after 12's. this is a serious slice of esoteric, eclectic freakbeat weirdness. re-edited nuggets, long lost exotic psychedelia and krauty, disco beats are all mangled into previously unheard shapes. totally exclusive to rough trade, this is simply some of the most vital, mindbending and great music to be heard. do. not. miss.»

About the Album Club:

At Rough Trade we’ve been helping people discover great music for more than 30 years. Our customers love this personal touch, and it’s helped us to be regarded as “The World’s Best Record Shop”, something we’re pretty proud of.

The Album Club delivers the essence of this Rough Trade shopping experience straight to your door.

Every month we compile the ten hottest album releases. As a member, you receive the most exciting album from this selection – we call it The Album. It comes with exclusive bonus material and a fold-out guide (see examples right, click to view as a pdf) that includes a members introduction to The Album by the artist.

All for just £12 per month (including postage).

The remaining nine albums selected that month are expertly profiled in the fold-out guide, and available to preview online at the members' store, where every recommended album, past and present, is available to buy for £12.

Uniquely, many members like us to make further album selections on their behalf to suit their attitude and taste, so we also offer a handy option of sending a tailored selection along with The Album.

Whatever your choice, The Album Club guarantees a new musical adventure will arrive on your doormat each and every month.

www.thealbumclub.com

Roots Manuva & Nightmares on Wax - Nice one!

Food and Music is always great over here...

Yesterday we went to see the gossip live in Montreux. We've seen them twice so far and both concerts were fantastic.
But yesterdays concert topped them both. Musically they've even gotten better, lot's of new songs, Beth just looked absolutely gorgeous in her butterfly dress and their performance was just explosive .
For the encore Beth took off her silk dress and went stage-diving in her underwear. Of course they played "Standing in the way of control" as additional song...
To me the gossip are just the best and in the world!

Last night, thanks to Sir Nick (who also took this shot), I went to a bloody cool gig by Dirty Pretty Things who played the tiny ISC club in Bern due to a festival cancellation.
Man they rock!!! Go see them if you can!

«Dirty Pretty Things are an English band fronted by Carl Barât, a former member of The Libertines. The formation of the band was announced in September 2005, after a dispute between Barât and Pete Doherty led to the breakup of The Libertines in 2004. Barât had worked with Vertigo Records and had previously revealed that his new project was with the label. Didz Hammond announced he was leaving the Cooper Temple Clause[1] to join the band alongside ex-Libertines drummer Gary Powell and guitarist Anthony Rossomando, who had filled in for Doherty following his departure from The Libertines.» - from Wikipedia

Young Marble Giants, «Colossal Youth» LP, Rough US 6, 1980. Alison Statton - Voice, Philip Moxham - Bass, Stuart Moxham - Guitar & Organ. Songs: Stuart Moxham except 3 songs with Philip Moxham, Alison Statton. Produced and Arranged by Young Marble Giants and Dave Anderson (Engineer)

What an astonishingly beautiful record..! The Young Marble Giants don't really compare, they produced a very unique sound. But if you like music as diverse as the Velvet Underground, PiL, Booker T & The MG's, Mouse on Mars, The Slits, Radiohead and Laurie Anderson – those kind of bands, you'll love this record too.

YMG in Cardiff photo by Andrew Tucker

The album was released in 1980 on Rough Trade Records as the band's debut release. It was an instant hit on the independent scene.
The trio are from Cardiff, Wales, and were together as band for only two years. They created an outstanding collection of stripped-down, marvellously austere music.
A three CD set of their entire material was put out last year in a nice package on Domino Records, including a booklet with photos and an excellent text by Simon Reynolds.

«Crucial to the band's crisp and dry sound was Stuart's Rickenbacker, "a very trebly guitar" which he played using "an extremely hard plectrum, called a shark fin, with a serrated edge." Throughout the YMG songbook, Stuart eschews lead-guitar flourishes and soloistic playing in favour of a signature style of scurrying rhythm guitar, its characteristic choppy quality reliant upon on a technique called "muting", where "you're basically resting the hand that you strum with on the strings." The result was a feel that was dynamic and propulsive yet curiously suppressed,subdued, even furtive. Philip played his bass high, sch that it was frequently mistaken by listeners for another guitar; indeed, with Stuart's playing so intensely rhythmic and stripped-down, the bassline was often the melodic thread in YMG songs. The brothers' instruments wound around each other like fibres twining into yarn. "We became immensely tight," says Stuart. He attributes their supernatural synchrony not just to fraternal closeness but to their use of machine rhythm. Instead of a human drummer, YMG twitched to the precision pulse of a very basic drum machine. "We were playing to what was effectively an electonic metronome", akin to the click-track used by sessions musicians in recording studios.
- Excerpt from Simon Reynolds text in the CD booklet

The brilliant Oscillation played in Bern last night. They brought me this 7" with great etching on the flipside. Niiice!