Stars Of The Lid - Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The LidThis the rst time this monumental album from 2001 has been available on the vinyl format in ve years. Put on Stars of the Lid's 'Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid' and bliss out. Unspeakably sublime, the latest effort of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie, who distance themselves from their hometown Austin, Texas, boogie rock scene, is a minimalist, parametric and ambient symphony with a faint rock sensibility that refuses to beg for attention. Tired

Pierre Barouh received an invitation from a Japanese label to come record an album in Tokyo

the waltzy and woozy centrepiece ‘University Hill’ drifts even further and applies that logic more broadly

The album features Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) on ‰Û÷Lightinsisters‰۪

and gamely spill out over the 5 minute mark with exceptionally loose interludes and diversions is just another marvel in this carnival of aural delights

The OCS Live In San Francisco album was not only great musically but all the vinyl and sleeve variants made the collectors break out in a fan sweat they’re probably still recovering from

Maurice Williams

Fats Waller - Moppin' And Boppin' 11

Hope Downs was largely written over the past year in the band's Melbourne rehearsal room where their previous releases were also written and recorded

this second volume in the pentimento series presents eight new tracks by the music visionary

‘Dante’s Inferno’

' to the blues howler

When She Made Me Promise