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.

Wednesday 30 March 2011

September Collective: Always Breathing Monster (Mosz)


Geman 3 piece go into a church, record the tones of an organ and take said recording home. They then cut up said recording and feed said bits into a computer, adding some midi tones and various clunky found sounds. Post production and.....hey presto! This is the result. I make it sound so simple but the results are really effective in conveying the required sense of droney ambience mixed with elegiac darkness. Very easy to listen in that the grim mood is rarely sustained to excess and that there are tempting glimpses of melody all over the album, that seek to lift the blanket of desolation.
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