Hey Readers!  I wasn't able to post a review today so I thought I would share a top 10 list of my favourite tracks at the moment (not in any particular order). Another review will most likely be posted tomorrow at some point. Cheers, Patrick :) No. 10 Sticky Fingers - Land of Pleasure From the 2014 album, Land of Pleasure Genre - Alternative/Indie No. 9 Squarepusher - The Paris Track From the 2020, Lamental EP Genre - Dance/Electronic No. 8 Lil Peep - 4 Gold Chains ( feat. Clams Casino) Single released in 2018 Genres - Hip Hop/Rap No. 7 Joy Division - She's Lost Control From the 1979 album, Unknown Pleasures Genre - New Wave/Post-Punk No. 6 Ariel Pink - Lipstick From the 2014 album, pom pom Genre - Alternative/Indie No. 5 Mental As Anything - Berserk Warriors From the 2015 compilation, Essential As Anything Genre - Pop No. 4 King Krule - Stoned Again From the 2020 album, Man Alive!  <- Click to...

The bassist, Paul 'Duncs' Duncan, is in fact my uncle (My mums brother).  He played bass for Smudge from 1991 - 1993 He was also nice enough to give me a great yellow, marbled vinyl of this compilation, which I will attach images of below The bass playing is great Paul ;) By Patrick Baker Genre/s - Rock, Indie Guitar Pop Other Albums/Compilations: Manilow (1994) You, Me, Carpark...Now! (1996) Mo' Poontang  (1997) Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra (1998) This Smudge is True (2010) Similar Artist/s - Nic Dalton, Godstar, The Plunderers, The Lemonheads OVERALL RATING 8/10 Sydney-based band,  Smudge  (original members   Tom Morgan, Alison Galloway and Paul 'Duncs" Duncan) was started in 1991, only to produce the track 'Tea, Toast and Turmoil' for the Half A Cow 7" compilation. They would go on to record the 7" single, 'Don't Wanna B e  Grant Mc L ennan', which made John Peel's (English...

By Patrick Baker Genre/s - Reggae Rock Similar Artists  - Sticky Fingers, Lime Cordiale, Skeggs _________________________________________________________________________ OVERALL RATING 4/10 ________________________________________________________________________ Formed in 2011, the widely popular 6-piece, independent, Australian reggae-rock heavyweights hailing from the beautiful Northern Beaches of Sydney,  Ocean Alley  (made up of Baden Donegal, Angus Goodwin, Lachlan Galbraith, Mitch Galbraith, Nic Blom and Tom O'Brien)   released their   third studio album,  Chiaroscuro  (a visual arts term meaning the effect of contrast between light and dark) in 2018. It is a basic, easily accessible, psych-infused reggae rock album, and their most critically acclaimed and commercially successful to date.  Chiaroscuro  reached #15 on the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Albums Chart, #2 on the Triple J H...

By Patrick Baker Genre/s - Alternative/Indie Other Albums/Compilations: 6 Feet Beneath The Moon (2013) A New Place 2 Drown (2015) The OOZ (2017) Similar Artists  - Mac DeMarco, The Microphones, Joe Strummer, Shane MacGowan _________________________________________________________________________ OVERALL RATING 8/10 _________________________________________________________________________ Man Alive!   is the fourth album released by the notoriously grim and enigmatic figure,  King Krule  (real name Archy Marshall), a London-based singer, songwriter, record producer and musician, known for his foggy, melancholic and avant-garde sounding tracks. Man Alive! builds on the already accomplished catalogue of King Krule, and provides a fresh, cohesive and polarising sound in the heavily saturated alternative/indie of today. It is an extremely personal album, which was most definitely impacted by his introduction to...

By Patrick Baker Genre/s  - Electronic, IDM, Ambient, Downtempo, Trip-Hop, Psychedelia  Similar Artists  - Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Selected Ambient Works Volume II), Squarepusher _________________________________________________________________________ OVERALL RATING 9.5/10 _________________________________________________________________________ Music Has the Right to Children  is the enigmatic and mystifying 1998 17-track debut studio album of  the Scottish  electronic duo, Boards of Canada (BoC)  (comprised of brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin). It has, and still is praised for it's original, timeless sound, and regarded by many as an essential, pioneering album in the Intelligent dance music (IDM) genre. Music Has the Right to Children was released under the independent record label, Warp  (Most notable and personal favourite artists include Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Square...