Indian Summer Winds

Times of struggle are often great times of innovation and a special type of productivity. This obviously doesn't apply to this blog which has been a drift afloat in the Wifi-ether for about 9 months. I've been here, I didn't fall over board. I've just been quiet, really fucking quiet. Self-indulgently gorging on every bang, squeak and melody that blows through my headphones.

I've been listening intently as each album has made its splash this year, but like a good back seat driver I’ve kept my gob shut. Before I clean the barnacles off laptop and start to type freely, this should be a good musical map of where I’ve been. Enjoy.

1. Metronomy – English Rivera

2. The Congos – Heart of the Congo

3. Django Django - Django Django

4. Pete and the Pirates - One Thousand Pictures

5. The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles

6. John Cooper Clarke – Word of Mouth

7. Alt J – An Awesome Wave

8. Arctic Monkeys – Suck it and See

9. The Black Keys - El Camino

10. The XX – Coexist

11. The Horrors – Skying

12. Robert Johnson – Red Hot Blues

13. Scroobius Pip – Distraction Pieces