March Music

Music I’ve bought in March.

Hey, that’s quite a lot of music. And a couple of eagerly awaited albums this month:

Sacred Paws - Turn Me Down (Official Music Video)

Sacrew Paws has a new album out! Get it here. It’s pretty spiffy — it’s more “produced” than previous albums, and they don’t sing across each other like they used to (I love that crosstalk singing thing), but it’s good stuff.

Snapped Ankles - Smart World (Official Video)

The other one I was really excited about was the new Snapped Ankles. I saw them live last autumn, and they played mostly the material that ended up on the new album. They were awesome. The new album is very, very bouncy.

So what else… Oh, I was thinking I didn’t have enough music from the 70s, so I went through a quarter of this list and bought some stuff. Giorgio Moroder’s album’s fun… The John Cale seems pretty good… The Big Star album I’m not such a big fan of (at least not yet)… I had somehow never actually bought The Idiot by Iggy Pop, but that’s fixed now, and I find to my surprise that I’ve got cover versions of almost all the songs on that one on various albums…

And then I read this list, which has the best “indie” albums of the millennium. It’s probably the best-written “best of” list ever — very amusing. I wasn’t really going to buy any of that stuff, but I did finally buy the album by The Postal Service, because I discovered that one of the guys from there was also in Figurine! One of my favourite bands!

James Figurine // Leftovers

See? Good stuff. (It’s the Dntel guy.)

I was also surprised to learn that The Postal Service only did a single album, because they’re always mentioned on lists like this.

Let’s see… anything else stand out?

FKA twigs - Eusexua

Oh yeah, the new album by FKA twigs. I’m a bit disappointed, but it’s pretty good.

Book Club 2025: The Moon and The Echo edited by Richard Porter

I don’t really know how I come to have this… I guess I bought it in 2022? Anyway, this is subtitled “Responses to The Moon and The Melodies”, which is an album I quite like. It’s by Cocteau Twins with Harold Budd, but not titled that way, because that would have led to higher sales, I mean, a loss of integrity or something.

It’s not an album I listen to a lot… let’s see what Emacs says:

Played 10 times (first 2007-02-25; last 2025-03-31)

I’ve only listened to it ten times since I ripped it in 1999, which is as far back as my data goes. But I put it on now while reading this thin book.

And I guess I assumed that this would be full of, er, more fan-based texts?

But it’s pretty good! I liked all the texts, but perhaps particularly the above…

… and this one…

… and somehow snooker balls with butterflies makes sense…

And this text could actually be the lyrics to one of the songs for all I know.

OK, this has inspired me to put the entire Cocteau Twins catalogue on.

The Moon and The Echo (2022) edited by Richard Porter (buy new)