Stereolab

Coming to a shopping aisle near you - any day now. In 1983.

Though the TV show may be from the 90s, the music reeks of the 80s and at the very least will test your capacity for this sort of ironic kitsch to the max. I was having visions of day-glo legwarmers and 'that' hair about 20 minutes in. And there's hours of it....

Your ears may need scouring after this if you can last.

This is about as much of a mood-changer for 2020 as the dance scene between Oscar Isaac and Sonoya Mizuno is for the movie Ex Machina. Some people may not like the departure in comparison with the previous two albums, but who cares when the grooves are this good - and so much needed.

We Will Always Love You is going to get a lot of play over the holidays....

Imagine the best melodies from Stereolab and the High Llamas played mostly on acoustic instruments with a voice from some Japanese fairy-lair underworld and you are about 80% of the way to 'Windswept Adan'. Add some Debussy/Satie piano impressionism and a pinch of Steve Reich percussive minimalism and you are pretty much there.

I use AOTY to basically track my own listening and rating without reviewing, but 'Windswept Adan' really deserves to reach the largest audience it can. It is very, very ... read more

Again a tragically unheard and underrated album....This really deserves much more attention.