Wilfully Obscure

Nevermind wasn't the only album to celebrate it's 30th anniversary last week. Lots of incendiary power chords on this as well. **Pl...

Yet another week has gone by with little or nothing prepared for you, my fine readers and visitors. With that being said, maybe the next sev...

From 1998. Swedish indie pop with winsome keyboard flourishes...and a modest side order of kitsch. **Please do not reveal artist in comments...

It was inevitable, but in the most rewarding way possible.  At some point I knew I was going to be bitten by the Big Stir Records bug.  The...

A brief follow-up to the Crystal Set's From Now On LP I posted a little while back. Commandeered by Russell Kilbey (brother of the Chu...

Ok, here's one from Switzerland.  Could be a first for this site, and what an interesting item Thin King were at that. Heavily reliant ...

From 2000. No other clues as I'm unable to make out the words.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!**  Hear

Given the quality of these two bands/songs, I'm downright surprised I didn't get to this one earlier when I initiated my somewhat sh...

But it sounded so damn good in the record store.  That's what I said after I took it home and gave it a second rotation, anyway.  Regar...

From 1992.  If you were a Sundays fan, safe to say this one will be your bag, as it were. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!**  Hear

This is going to be a quick write-up, but really how many words do you need to impart that something's great?  Vigorous guitar-rock, stu...

So, I'm not exactly where this one "fits" so to speak, this site included to a certain extent.  Despite Stockyard's hard r...

From 2016.   **Please do not reveal artist in comments!**  Hear

Not to be confused with the more current indie conglomerate of the same name, this Swimming were a largely unknown quantity, and per Discog...

Another record I picked up, without a single note heard prior, simply because it looked interesting and had a reasonable price tag attached ...

A 1991 collection featuring the bulk of this band's first three EPs spanning 1984-86. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear ...

Apologies for not getting more music to you this past week.  I remember getting a request for this one a few years ago.  Tracking down files...

I was encouraged by what I heard on the The Farewell Party's 1988 LP, Here a few years ago, and was compelled to seek out this single ...

From 2012. Breezy, chilled-out synth pop my ears haven't been able to let go of for the past few weeks.  In a nod to the album title, th...

I have a feeling this one is going to be available as a limited engagement folks, so don't sleep.  The label responsible for this reissu...

I was just reminded that it's the 25th anniversary of this one. This double album didn't merely introduce the world to a new band, b...

There probably isn't much I can tell you about these avant, UK post-punkers, or more specifically frontman Colin Lloyd-Tucker , than wh...

To paraphrase my friend's description of the amount of quality alt-rock to peruse in the early/mid '90s, the pool was flooded. Utter...

From 1989. The third album from this Minneapolis bunch, just not who you're probably thinking of. **Please do not reveal artist in comme...

So it's been awhile since I revisited this Melbourne export - about thirteen years in fact since I shared a digitized version of the Zim...