Oli Brown - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Well, the first indication of what you're in for is the fact that Mike Vernon (to whom all praise -- yea verily! -- for the unbelievably cool *Fleetwood Mac: Complete Blue Horizon 1867-1969* box he produced in '99, which I've damn near worn down to a set of plastic nubs) produced this disc...

The Electric Trains - Put the Track Back
Probably the coolest job I ever held was working in a used book store while a teen-ager. The job didn't pay worth beans but I was and still am a bibliophile and thus was in heaven...

Evangenitals - Evangenitals
I know the group's name seems like some unholy cross between G.G. Allin and Exene Cervenka, maybe with a dash of Diamanda Galas, but the Evangenitals is...

Truck Mills - The Day After Yesterday
Truck Mills is a very well honed fingerstyle guitarist, and his array of original compositions cover a lot of ground. However, the guy also plays baglama, cura saz, pedal steel, lap steel, churango, and...

Jimmy Bowskill - The Jimmy Bowskill Band Live
Nothing says 'Grand Era' like a really good piece of art-nouveau psychedelic painting, and *The Jimmy Bowskill Band Live* sports a great canvas, giving a very accurate sense of...

Swans - My Father will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky
The Swans is a group I formerly found difficult to make my peace with. Having heard one LP -- which one, I forget -- I didn't much care for it even though the group was enjoying...

Piano Red - The Lost Atlanta Tapes
Increasingly, the oeuvre of so many of the masters of the blues is coming under a very needed preservation movement to ensure that the music which created...

Soft Machine - Floating World Live
Soft Machine went through so many changes. Starting out as sophisticated semi-cabaret progpop outfit, it, after two landmark releases still almost baffling in their corrupted...

Jenny Gillespie - Kindred
Following her last release, *Light Year*, Jenny Gillespie has ratcheted up the lush ambientalization in segments of *Kindred* to a point that the opener...

Rick Berlin - Paper Airplane
Rick Berlin is so far off the wall that he's back on it again...and back again period. His last, *Old Stag*, defied categorization even though not some Beefheart-cum-Penderecki-cum-Juncosa...