Apparently, I buy too many records

My wife Helen, like every other woman i've ever lived with, believes that I buy too many records.

Which, as every record-buying man knows, is a ridiculous belief.

I will concede, however, that I do indeed buy a lot of records and that I don't afford them the same amount of listens and attention that I did 20 or 30 years ago.

To this end, I have decided to blog about the records that I buy, in order to help my appreciation of them - and perhaps to show Helen that I don't buy that many records after all.

Because i'm crap with deadlines the blog posts will be sporadic and probably be about a month or 2 behind but that's just the way i am! The posts will not necessarily be actual reviews (most likely comments, at best) and will generally be pretty damn short due to the reasons outlined above. As a writer in a previous existence i have decided not to worry about writing as art in the pieces but, instead, to attempt to convey feeling over semantic (and often grammatic) perfection.

And 'OCRB'? It stands for 'Obsessive Compulsive Record Buying' - a little known mental health affliction that is potentially damaging to the bank account but ultimately life-affirming. It is sad.......but a nice form of sad.

Monday 7 March 2011

Aritomo: The Letter Raining Rainbow (self released LP)

As an obsessive record collector, this ticks all the right boxes - self released, limited numbers (200), hand made, hand painted.
As a fan of outsider art, this is a really beautiful labour of love - the heavy duty gatefold sleeve is adorned with  strange and interesting drawings, paintings and doodles and the insert sparks Japanese mystery.
As a fan great music, this really fucking sucks. Spindly instrumentation and a whispering whimpering psychedelic folk vocal singing bizarre incantations in Japanese. I can't handle it and i've really tried to persevere with it and so im going to file it away and pull it out in a few months to try again and will probably sell it on if it still evades me.
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