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8 Sep 2005

My record collection: Cormac Parle, Stoat

Yann Tiersen - Amélie OST

This gets played constantly during September in my house every year. It's just such perfect autumn-y music. Never really listen to it at any other time.

Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

This album is mostly responsible for my taste for weird shit, bought it on CD recently and it's as brilliant as I remembered it.

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers

My younger brothers were into hip-hop all their lives, but I never really got it until I heard this. It's comfort listening for me now, I put it on whenever I need to be soothed.

Mumblin Deaf Ro - Senor My Friend

Ten poorly-recorded but brilliant songs from a local guy. It's a few years old now but still gets a regular airing. Stoat were afraid to talk to Ro when we heard the album first - we were just awestruck. Now he is Our Friend

De Amsterdam Klezmer Band

A Dutch expert on bat detectors (honest) who stayed in my house introduced me to these guys. They play East European Jewish part music, kind of a "Fiddler on the Roof" buzz with accordians and saxophones and lots of people shouting "HOI!". A big favourite of my five-month old daughter.

Boxes - Big ships in the night, small boats in the morning

Listening to this again in preparation for Boxes' next album which is due out pretty soon. I suppose you'd call it post-rock, with some serious fire in its belly. I'm looking forward to the next one a lot.