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Dr Doom SUBS ● 21st Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Bert Jansch - Avocet (2016)	From the label website... The vinyl edition comes with 6 high-quality, heavyweight lithograph art prints (by UK illustrator Hannah Alice) representing each of the birds on the album, held in a heavy board die-cut gatefold sleeve. This unique packaging is fully interactive - the cover image is interchangeable with any of the prints, though each one is perfectly framable too. Remastered from the original tapes. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide.
Dr Doom SUBS ● 17th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Chuck Cirino - Chopping Mall : Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2014)	The Yellow/Green vinyl may be rare issue but I think the Day-Glo Pink vinyl really suits the artwork.
Dr Doom SUBS ● 16th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Shira Small - The Line Of Time And The Plane Of Now (1974)	I would dearly love to hear the rest of this LP... [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS ● 16th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From The Canyon (2017)	Review After an eleven year wait my favourite Numero Group compilation is finally available on vinyl and spookily they've removed the track I always thought stuck out like a sore thumb - Ellen Warshaw's cover of 'Sister Morphine' This release would be 100% perfect to me if the sublime 'Eternal Life' by Shira Small had been on the bonus 7" but you can't have everything! For fans of Joni Mitchell, Judee Sill, Judy Collins and alike. Highly recommended. [YouTube Video] 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 13th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger (1975)	Review Seen my many as a landmark 'Alt. Country' release. One which Willie Nelson had to fight to get released as the record label thought the sparse and low-key instrumentation made it sound like a collection of demos rather than a 'proper' album. Thankfully Willie won the argument - It's a brilliant record. It really reminds me of a soundtrack album with no film to go along with it. In 1985 the opening track 'Time Of The Preacher' was used to amazing effect in the UK thriller series Edge Of Darkness - perhaps someone should make a film based on the whole album!? 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 23rd Sep 2016		Vinyl Album Johnny And The Hurricanes - Rock Revival (1972)	Nice sleeve!
Dr Doom SUBS ● 6th May 2016		Vinyl Album Mike And Lal Waterson - Bright Phoebus (1972)	Thanks chaps. I'll amend the notes. I did think it was weird that my sleeve seemed older than the 'Highway' vinyl. It was bought off Ebay (for about £30 just before the price went through the roof) so it may have been swapped round at some point or perhaps there were spare sleeves left for a while.
Dr Doom SUBS ● 2nd May 2016		Vinyl Album Peggy Lee - Then Was Then Now Is Now! (1965)	Absolutely gorgeous title track on this LP. [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS ● 27th Apr 2016		Vinyl Album Ivor Cutler Trio - Ludo (1967)	Review Inexplicably rare and very very good. Mr. Cutler worked with The Beatles in 1967 but it doesn't seem to have helped sell copies of this great album. It took me about about 20 years to obtain a copy. The magnificent 'Flim Flam Flum' is even more pertinent in today's age of Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. 'I'm preoccupied by my Flim flam flum. Why? Goodness knows!' - Flim flam flum being Ivor's term for meaningless trivial fluff. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 21st Apr 2016		Vinyl Album Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance (1974)	Dual citizen as you say. The label clearly states being distributed in OZ & NZ so it was fine as it was. If anyone feels strongly enough then they can add an entry for New Zealand. : )
Dr Doom SUBS ● 18th Apr 2016		Vinyl Album Mike And Lal Waterson - Bright Phoebus (1972)	Review An English Folk Rock classic which has gained almost mythical status party due to 'legal problems' which seem to be preventing its much needed reissue. It did appear on CD in 2000 but only as a CDR and with accusations that it was a bootleg. I bought my copy of this many years ago purely on reputation and on first hearing the opening track 'Rubber Band' I thought I'd wasted my money. As the album played on I soon realised I hadn't. The rest of the album is fantastic. For those who like their Folk 'dark' then there are plenty of bleak but beautiful songs here, none more so than 'Red Wine Promises' which amazingly was later released as a single! (It's the B-side but still...) Hopefully some day soon this brilliant album will be reissued properly. There have been rumours.... 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 15th Apr 2016		Vinyl Album Gimmer Nicholson - Christopher Idylls (2016)	Review Just when you think there are surely no lost gems of the 60s left to be discovered something like this album comes along. Recorded in 1969 at the legendary Ardent studio of Memphis it remained unreleased until a 1981 issue on Peabody (Good luck finding one of those) and a 1994 CD reissue on Lucky Seven. Despite these two issues it remained scarce and was certainly unknown to me. Step forward Light In The Attic to make this wonderful album more freely available. Six instrumentals which are so melodic and floaty that they could have been recorded yesterday. If you can imagine a cross between the more placid work of John Fahey and the melancholy moments of fellow Memphis alchemists Big Star then that will give you a good idea of what to expect. Of course this album was recorded 3 years before Big Star's debut but you have to feel that they must have heard the tapes. As one of my friends commented when I first played this album to him - 'You keep expecting it to break into Watch The Sunrise at any moment' All in all a really beautiful album with artwork, sleevenotes and a fine pressing to match its high standards. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 13th Apr 2016		Vinyl Album John Carpenter - Dark Star: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016)	Official release date of 29.02.2016 with a shipping date of 14.03.2016 but copies didn't seem to make it to the shops until April 2016.
Dr Doom SUBS ● 14th Dec 2015		Vinyl Album Elyse Weinberg - Greasepaint Smile (2015)	[YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS ● 14th Dec 2015		Vinyl Album Elyse Weinberg - Greasepaint Smile (2015)	Review Being a huge fan of Ms. Weinberg's sole LP from 1969 I was excited to hear that Chicago's Numero Group were going to release this unissued album. I had wrongly presumed it would consist of demo recordings but instead it's a proper complete but unissued album (her label Tetragrammaton went bankrupt leaving 'Greasepaint Smile' in limbo - full story in the sleevenotes) Well I'm pleased to say that on first listen this sounds every bit as great as her first album. It has a wonderfully ragged feel about it but her voice and the songs are beautiful as ever. Re-issue (of sorts) of the year for me. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 26th Nov 2015		Vinyl Album BC Camplight - How To Die In The North (2015)	Review One of my albums of the year which seems to have vanished from the media glare. The artist being banned from entering the UK can't have helped promotion and maybe it's just me but isn't B.C. Camplight an awful name? Thankfully it's not an awful record. It's great oddball pop. He certainly has a musical magpie approach but more than enough talent to fit all the sum of parts into something special. The instantly catchy opener 'You Should've Gone To School' sounds like The Rolling Stones 'Gimme Shelter' under the influence of Ketamine, with Jan and Dean crashing the party. Top stuff! [YouTube Video] 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 8th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Bappi Lahiri - Disco Dancer (1982)	It's worth waiting for the annoying Uncle Ben's advert to finish to watch this incredible video. [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS ● 10th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Gruff Rhys - American Interior (2014)	That should be it fixed now. Sorry for the delay.
Dr Doom SUBS ● 11th Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Assagai - Assagai (1971)	Press release added
Dr Doom SUBS ● 29th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album P.F. Commando - Manipulerade Mongon (2014)	Courtesy of the Ugly Pop website.... Self-released in 1979 by one of Sweden's most notorious bands, this monster debut was the country's first punk LP, packing in 15 tracks of pure three-chord bash at its most primal and aggressive. Vocals are alternately barked and snarled, guitars slash and buzz, the rhythm section thrashes along maniacally-- no pop, no art, just PUNK in the vein of Dead Boys, Viletones, Germs and early Black Flag! Ugly Pop is very pleased to be making this hard-to-find slab available again in its first legitimate vinyl pressing since 1979, with all new insert.
Dr Doom SUBS ● 19th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Catapilla - Changes (2000)	I've heard that some of their releases are legal and some are not but it's not really practical for us to try and sort which is which so the label should either be 100% bootleg flag or 100% Italian flag. I'm inclined to favour the 2nd option unless we have conclusive proof, perhaps mentioning in the label intro that the label is 'controversial' = See also Radioactive, Past & Present, Particles, Phoenix etc. etc. Eek!
Dr Doom SUBS ● 22nd Nov 2014		Vinyl Album Josie And The Pussycats - Josie And The Pussycats (1970)	Miaoow!!
Dr Doom SUBS ● 9th Nov 2014		Vinyl Album Tiny Ruins - Brightly Painted One (2014)	Too many guest musicians to mention but the main three are… Cass Basil: Upright & Electric bass, backing vocals Alex Freer - Drums & Percussion Hollie Fullbrook - Acoustic & electric guitars, vocals & cello.
Dr Doom SUBS ● 5th Nov 2014		Vinyl Album Bill Callahan - Dream River (2013)	Beer. Thank You. [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS ● 29th Oct 2014		Vinyl Album Velvett Fogg - Velvett Fogg...Plus (1989)	Changed to UK and French See For Miles deleted. Nice to see that NZ Velvett Fogg LP you added vinylsol. That must be pretty damn rare/expensive?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 15th Oct 2014		Vinyl Album Tiny Ruins - Brightly Painted One (2014)	Review This is one of my favourite albums of the year. This first track is beautiful…. [YouTube Video] ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 11th Oct 2014		Vinyl Album Tami Lynn - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone (1972)	Just heard this LP this week. Really love the downtempo moody stuff on side one. Is it hard to find?
Dr Doom SUBS ● 10th Oct 2014		Vinyl Album Cuckoo - Iona (1978)	Following a mail to the contact address I've edited this so that the artist is now CUCKOO and the album is entitled IONA - An easy mistake to make given the layout on the label. Here's a small bit of info… JAMES LASCELLES ......... Percussion Dulcimer Melodica Piano James' first lessons were with classical composer John Taverner'. Founder member of the Global Village Trucking Company he went on to work as a multi instrumentalist with a great number of artists including Frank Zappa Joan Armatrading Lee Scratch Perry The Wailers and Steve Harleys' Cockney Rebel. He formed the legendary jazz rock festival band Cuckoo with Storey in the late 70's and they have performed together ever since.
Dr Doom SUBS ● 3rd Oct 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Rock 'N' Roll Music Volume I (1980)	This world is speeding ahead it has to be said!

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