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 9 April 2012

Strategy: Super Awareness is Fruit (Under The Sire)

Lovely clear vinyl 12" in clear sleeve - promised so much before I even placed it on the turntable. It is a single 20 minute piece split over the two sides and is the most exceptional piece of dub-techno-underwater-electro-psychedelia i've heard since the reissue of the first Porter Ricks album on Type a few months ago. It throbs away like a submerged heartbeat and, once it hits it's stride you just find yourself locked in and getting off on the depth of it all. I know nothing of Strategy - I bought it as part of a batch from Under The Spire recently after hearing a brief edit but, if this is anything to go by, I need to investigate further. Beautifully produced and deceptively intricate - this is wonderful music to drown in.


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