CD and LP purchases February 2008

This covers three batches. First in Exmouth Market, £3 CDs, then £1 CDs from Flashback in Islington...

Angie Reed - XYZ Frequency [Chicks on Speed 2005]
Ben & Jason - Hello [Go Beat 1999]
Cat Empire - Two Shoes [Velour 2005/2007] Australian-Cuban party music.
Edwyn Collins - Home Again [Heavenly 2007]
IV Thieves - If We Can't Escape My Pretty... [One Little Indian 2006]
Maazel / Sibelius - Symphony 1, 6 [Decca SXL 6364]
Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory - Tree Colored See [Mush / Rough Trade 2005]
Patrick Duffy - Luxury Problems [Harvest / EMI 2005]
Quasi - Hot Shit [Domino 2003]
Seafood - Paper Crown King [Cooking Vinyl 2006]
Sinead O'Connor - Theology [Rubyworks 2007]
Stromba - Tales from the Sitting Room [Fat Cat 2005]
Suzy & Maggie Roche - Why the Long Face [Cooking Vinyl 2006]
The Montgolfier Brothers - Seventeen Stars [Poptones 2000]
The Rogers Sisters - The Invisible Deck [TooPure 2006]
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters [Fat Cat 2007]
The Woodentops - The BBC Sessions [Renascent 2007]
Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind [Fat Cat 2007]
White Hassle - Your Language [Fargo]

And Decca classical LPs from Haggle Vinyl in Islington:

Britten - Spring Symphony [Decca SXL 2264]
Maazel / Sibelius - Symphony 1, 6 [Decca SXL 6364]
Maazel / Sibelius - Symphony 3 [Decca SXL 6364]
Mehta / Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra [Decca SXL 6379]
Munchinger / Suk, Wolf, Strauss [Decca SXL 6533]
Solti / Holst - The Planets [Decca SET 628]
Solti / Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra [Decca SXL 6749]

My latest haul today in the 3 CDs for £1 bin

Poppy & The Jezebels, a Birmingham teen indie girl group is the highlight of my latest haul of CD promos, all 3 for £1

310 - After All [Leaf 2001]

Amandine - Solace in Sore Hands [Fatcat 2007] Swedish Americana, ho hum

Ann Millikan - Featuring the California EAR Unit [Innova 2007]

Avril Lavigne - I'm With You [Arista 2002]

Budnubac - Que Se Yo [Blanco 2004] Latin fun from Nightmares on Wax guy

Crowsdell - Within the Curve [Big Cat 1997]

Enter Shakira - The Zone. Synth funk

James Yorkstown - Woozy With Cider [Domino 2007] Five remixes of narrative track from Year of the Leopard. Overkill?

Jose Conde y Ola Fresca [Mr Bongo 2007] Brooklyn based Cuban rhythms

Oh No Ono - Yes [Morningside 2006] Danish synth funk quintet

Orchestra Baobab - Made in Dakar [World Circuit 2007] Senegalese kings

Photek - Love & War [Sanctuary 2007] Techno-house single from drum n bass maestro

Poppy & The Jezebels - Follow Me Down [Reveal 2007]

Prinzhorn Dance School - Prinzhorn Dance School [DFA] Fall-style tribute

Rosie Thomas - If Songs Could Be Held [Sub Pop 2005]

Samamidon - But this chicken proved falsehearted [Baked Goods 2006] Palace style Americana from Brooklyn

Sixtoo - Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man [Ninja Tune 2007] Montreal-based hip hop splicing

Soft Hearted Scientists - Take Time to Wonder in a Whirling World [My Kung Fu 2007] Pop folk

Taraf de Haidouks - Maskarada [Crammed 2007] Gypsy knees up, critically savaged

The RG Morrison - Learning About Loathing [Drift Collective] Devonshire Palace style Americana

The Rogers Sisters - Why Won't You [Too Pure 2006] Brooklyn trio, Talking Heads influence

To My Boy - Model [XL 2007] Liverpool power pop

Turner Cody - Quater Century [Boy Scout Recordings] Anti folk

Two Lone Swordsmen - Wrong Meeting [RGC] Gruff dub from Andy Weatherall

Various - A Box of Odd [Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation 2004] Sheffield garage comp

Various - Anarchy in the UK: 30 Years of Punk Vol. 1 [Spin 2007]

Various - Classic Rock magazine Best of 2007

Various - Independent [EMI/Virgin/Mute 2008] Solid track from Edwyn Collins' latest. So so rock from Dave Gahan. This 2 CD comp is a freebie at independent record stores

Various - Q magazine Best of 2007

Various - Songlines magazine Oct/Nov 2007

Various - The Lyrichord World Music Sampler [Lyrichord 2000]

Various - Woodstock 99 [Sony 2000, Vic Anseni] Softer second volume from dodgy festival retread

Various - Word Magazine Best of 2007

Vatican DC - Made it Ride [The Red Flag 2007] London punks

Witches Hat - Mastery of the Steel [Emergency Umbrella 2007] From Missouri "Warren Zevon fronts Spinal Tap" - indeed