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MIKE
RANDLE - My Music Loves You (US Eggbert '00. Soft, smooth and laid-back
loungers for the most part on this acclaimed solo effort from Baby
Lemonade member) 6.00
KIMBERLY REW - Essex Hideaway (Bongo Beat '05. 4th solo from ex-Soft
Boys guitarist & considered by many to be his best yet) 8.00
REX DAISY - Guys and Dolls (US Pravda '96. Brash upbeat Power Pop
of the superior kind with a glammy, snotty edge & some fine songs
in a Loud Family meets Grant Lee Buffalo vein with another stunning Paul
Fox production making everything glow.) 8.00
CHRIS RICHARDS - Mystery Spot (Adlinea Design '04. Chiming, jangly
pop heaven in that accomplished easy way reminiscent of Velvet Crush at
their best. Highly recommended!) 8.00
ADAM RICHMAN - Patience & Science (OR Music '05. Brash, loud and
insistent pop with lots of power indeed) 8.00
RICHMOND FONTAINE Post to Wire (El Cortez '03) 6.00
ROCK FOUR - Nationwide (Rainbow Quartz '04. Stunning album building
on all they've achieved in the past and reaching even dizzier heights
of Psych-pop perfection. Very,very highly recommended!!) 8.00
ROCKFOUR - Memories of the Never Happened (US Anova '07. Another great album!!) 12.00
EDWARD ROGERS - Sunday Fables (US Not Lame '04. Delightful gem
of an album by one of the nicest people I know in the pop world. All songs
are co-written with George Usher, Marty Willson-Piper helps out on guitar
and ex-Zombies Colin Bluntstone & Rod Argent guest vocal on
one track. Highly recommended!) 8.00
ROGUE WAVE - Descended Like Vultures (US SubPop '05. ) 8.00
ROOKS - Wishing Well (US Not Lame/ UK When '99. Long
awaited 2nd album and now out in the UK! Will wonders cease? This is a
more introspective, personal album and not as immediate as the earlier
works, but repeated plays brings rewards) 6.00
ROONEY - s/t (Geffen '03. Young, brash, high nrg, incredibly catchy
melodies - power pop at its best!) 8.00
NICK RUDD - One track mind (US Parasol '99) 6.00
SCHRAMMS - Rock, Paper, Scissors, Dynamite / Little Apocalypse -each
8.00
SCHRAMMS - Dizzy Spell (Germany Blue Rose '97. Continuing the excellence)
8.00
DAVE SCHRAMM - Hammer and Nails (Superb & mainly acoustic rootsier
solo effort) 8.00
SCRUFFS - Teenage gurls (Northern Heights '98) 6.00
SCRUFFS- Midtown (US Northern Hheights '98) 6.00
SELDON PLAN - Making Circles (US OTP '03. Great rocky power pop) 10.00
SEMISONIC - Great Divide (US MCA '96. Born from the unique &
majestic Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic have turned into a mega band
of great depth & ability. This album is one of the very best of recent
years. Tight & wild, inventive & electric, total musical eloquence
whipped into a maelstrom of powerful pop rock, without bluster, just brilliant
songs and fireworks. Paul Fox pruduced) 10.00
SEMISONIC - Feeling Strangely Fine ( MCA '98. Well, haven't they
done well! Who'd have believed we'd hear Semisonic on the Radio over here,
let alone TV? Astonishing. Totally deserved of course, and a sign that
anything's possible - even for MCA! Anyway, this follow-up is more poppy
& immediate than the first & full of hits, apparently!) 6.00
SEMISONIC - All About Chemistry (MCA '00) 5.00
THE SHAZAM - st (US Rainbow Quartz/Not Lame 01. re-issue of great
first album with 4 bonus tracks) 6.00
SHAZAM – Tomorrow the World (US Not Lame ’02. Great new album)
6.00
DUNCAN SHEIK - Daylight (US Atlantic '02. Magnificent upbeat return
to form for this majestic songwriter. Lush melodic arrangement and passionate
heart felt songs throughout. If you dig Gus Black, Michael Penn and Pete
Yorn then this will surely delight & comes very highly recommended)
6.00
MICHAEL SHELLEY - Half Empty (US Big Deal '97 Rustic pop, chunky
gtrs - a real grower) 6.00
MIKE SHUPP - The Key (US Private Mind '00. Produced by Jeff Murphy,
this is a very fine, straight ahead pop-rock album with some extremely
catchy tunes. Great sing-along choruses to lift the spirits, and he plays
everything himself, nearly. Likened in reviews to Tom Petty, Cheap Trick
and similar - I find it a more laid back, relaxed affair) 6.00
THE SINGLES - Better Than Before (US Rainbow Quartz '03) 6.00
SKOOSHNY - s/t (UK Minus Zero '91 17-track compilation of all
the early tracks & demos from '75-'81 - OK, I'm biased but only because
this is some of the loveliest music I have ever heard! Exquisite melodies,
astounding, sometimes baroque, arrangements, fantastic vocals and playing
all wrapped round incredible songs. Pop-psych, folk-rock (& all combinations)
for sure, but ultimately, they have their own sound which defies categorization. Michael Penn features considerably on some of the later tracks!!)
10.00
SKOOSHNY - Even My Eyes (UK Minus
Zero '96. Realising that the world did indeed have ears for more, the
band went back into the studio and cut this breathtaking album. Properly
produced by Jeff Peters (Beach Boys sound Engineer), this is a
real album with brilliant sparkling songs, proof of the enduring specialness
of this band. "Pain, heartache & loss never sounded so gorgeous"-Mojo)
10.00
SKOOSHNY - Water (Minus Zero '00.
Doesn't seem like very long ago when there was just two rare 45s to be
had by these LA wonders and now we have a 3rd album! Continuing the high
quality and including the beautiful 'Sad Summer Spring') 10.00
SKOOSHNY - Zoloto (US Vibro-Phonic.'04.
Great 20-track compilation with 4 bonus unreleased tracks) 12.00
(Please visit the SKOOSHNY page
for more details, information & reviews)
SLOAN - One chord to another (US The Enclave with bonus live disc.ss)
10.00
SOUL ENGINES - Closer Still (US '02 Rootsy power pop likened to Greenberry
Woods, Rubinoos, Gin Blossoms etc.) 6.00
SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES - Behind The Music (Telegram Records Stockholm
'01. Latest from these talented Swedes who are getting lots of press lately.
Not overtly Pop, more of a 70's vibe with lots of mellotrons and spacy
Floydian/King Crimson atmospherics.) 8.00
SPARKWOOD - The La La Crutch (US Sparkwood '00. Sprightly pop close
to sugary at times but anchored by solid playing - aided by Cotton Mather's
Whit Williams who plays lead guitar on three tracks - and a few,
big powerhouse, numbers. Kinda wins you over and I suspect will be a fave.)
6.00
SPARKWOOD - Jalopy pop (US self-produced '05. Excellent 2nd album)
6.00
SPELVINS - Whichever Train Comes (US Zoo. An absolute beauty this
one. Extraordinary vocals wrapped round some of the loveliest torch songs,
mixed with some guitar driven pop. Extremely unique. Sadly they no longer
exist but this album does) 6.00
SPINNING JENNIES - Peer Pressure (US Vast '01. Fourth album and
best yet finds the Jennies in chunky, guitar led, Posies mode. Maybe they
always sounded a bit that way, but I've not noticed it before.) 8.00
SPLITSVILLE - Ultrasound (US Big Deal 97) 10.00
SPRAGS
- Spil Phector (US
Proverus '02. Bunch of 60's influenced craziness helped out by The Pillbugs'
Mark Mikel) 6.00
STAPLETONS - Spirit of '76
(US MALB '01) 5.00
STARBELLY –Everyday and Then Some (US Not Lame ‘02. Again produced
by Myracle Brah's Andy Bopp, this fab follow-up to last years excellent Lemon Fresh will, again, delight any fans of the Beatles/Big Star/Matthew
Sweet/ Velvet Crush school of pop) 8.00
STAR COLLECTOR - Hundred Bullet Proof (Canada Clockwise '06) 10.00
STEW – The Naked Dutch Painter & Other Songs (UK Fire ’02.
Great new solo album coming in any day now. If Stew should come your way,
go see him, he's a born entertainer and a fabulous singer) 10.00
STEW - Guest Host (US Telegraph Company '00. If you dug the Negro
Problem, you'll love this solo album from the NPs main man. Fab stuff,
funny, wacky at times but always incredibly musical. Arthur Lee meets
the Mothers of Invention doing Jimmy Webb songs - it's an intoxicating
mixture. for sure.) 10.00
ANDY STOCHANSKY - Five Star Hotel (US BMG) 8.00
SUN - Enquire Within (US Spin Girl '00. Here's one to make you
smile! Starts off a bit happy-dippy then settles down to some superfine
soft psych-pop. Very 60's -reminds me obscurely of an old UK band The
Piccadilly Line & a bit of Nirvana(UK), at times, and probably not
for lyric watchers, but if you have an ear for the Cerebral Corps, Sagittarius,
Millennium, Association, Daniel Saturn way with melodies, this will appeal
strongly.) 8.00
SUN DIAL - Reflecter (UK UFO '92) 5.00
SUN DIAL - Live drug (UK Acme) 5.00
SUPERDELUXE-Famous(Excellent high nrg debut, great pop brashly
played) 8.00
SUPERS - Spklanng! (Canada Tri-Pop '99. Very up and bouncy Powerpop
in the classic style from this Canadian band. Suggested references are
Gigolo Aunts, Vandalias, Splitsville, etc..) 6.00
SWAG - Catch All (US Yep Roc '01. Very pleasing collection of classic
pop delights dished up by a super-group of sorts featuring: Tom Petersson
(Cheap Trick), Doug Powell, Robert Reynolds (Mavericks), Ken Coomer(Wilco),
Jerry Dale McFadden (Mavericks) & produced by Brad Jones. Some of
it is by the book but so well done it doesn't matter.) 6.00
MATTHEW SWEET - In Reverse (UK Zomba '99. This one has divided the
fans - personally, I think it's great. Huge arrangements, sometimes Spectorish,
echoes of Beach Boys, CSN&Y, Byrds, classic guitar driven stormers
all very up & dynamic, lashings of studio stuff, screaming guitar
solos, heavenly many-voiced harmonies, psychedelic, multi-everything -
layers, voices, instruments, tracking, ideas, you name it. Not much wrong
with that in my book.) 8.00
MATTHEW SWEET - Girlfriend (US Zoo '02. Absolute pop classic)
10.00
MATTHEW SWEET - 100% fun (Japan) 10.00
MATTHEW SWEET - Blue sky on Mars (Zoo) 6.00
SWEET APPLE PIE – Everybody Wants to be a Supertiger (France
Spirit of Jungle ’02. Excellent debut album by young French band with
the accent on invention and musical ability. These guys often break out
of the pure pop bubble and reach for more ambitious heights, successfully.)
6.00
SWINGSET POLICE - Kadiekadee...( Black Vinyl '96) 4.00
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