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.

Friday 17 June 2011

Forma: Forma (Spectrum spools)

I've been listening to so much of this synth laden kosmiche music lately that one wonders how i manage to hear the good from the bad but, somehow, i manage to persevere and only the great floats to the top. And this is really great - as Forma have taken the sweeping lushness of many of the other releases of this type and then morphed it into something that stands very much on its own, and in its own frame of reference. There are ten short tracks here and that information is very interesting indeed - as most of the other similar musicians seem to scorn shorter tracks and, instead, take up whole sides of records with a single track. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it just shows how formulaic this genre is becoming and, thus, something like this record stands apart. The melodies are very well structured and they seem to pack a wealth of quality music into each piece and the occasional motorik rhythms move the tracks along well and into almost dance territory (i could see 'Forma197' remixed into a mighty trance piece - such is it's illusion of power).

Great stuff and a band i'm really keen on hearing more of, also very happy to report that there isn't a huge number of back catalogue releases to buy up!
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