As you can imagine coming back to work after a whole week off means I have a mountain of shit to deal with and a looming deadline next week so the pages and pages of new posts I’ve started writing will have to wait even longer to be finished. I’m going to call myself a Slow Blogger from now on, it sounds so much better than “lazy bastard”.

While I was at home last week I did some digging around in the neglected corners of my record collection and pulled out some albums I probably haven’t played in over 20 years, specifically the sort of gloomy post-punk I used to listen to when I was a tortured teen and these days wouldn’t play when the wife and kid were in the house. In the process I rediscovered a few real gems of album tracks I’d forgotten all about. Why, I almost felt 18 again, but without the black clothes and severe haircut.

Download: Paradise Place – Siouxsie and The Banshees (mp3)
Buy: Kaleidoscope (album)
Download: Lucinda – A Certain Ratio (mp3)
Buy: Sextet (album)
Download: Carnival (Shelter In A Suitcase) – Simple Minds (mp3)
Buy: Reel to Real Cacophony (album)