2014 albums

New Billy Childish is on Soulseek. If anyone cares other than Mahoney

What's it called and what band is it with?

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF – Acorn Man

“Always different, always the same,” as John Peel famously described his perennial faves The Fall, but only the latter is required to sum up Billy Childish. One hundred-plus albums have followed since The Pop Rivets’ 1979 debut, typically displaying a knack for imaginary Sonics riffs alongside a Bukowski-esque sense of artistic purity. Acorn Man continues to drag his garage clatter down ever-more rickety avenues, and in a fortuitous twist, it also happens to rank among his finest hours.

Former single Punk Rock Enough For Me is the centrepiece; a sprawling, bawling beat manifesto (Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, Star-Club-era Beatles and “a cup of tea” rank among the items to uphold the titular credo). It’s the dance numbers that’ll getcha though – A Flame From The Fen is all top-down groove and glorious chorus, while bassist Julie Hamper sneers snappily through the brilliant Zero Emission. With a blueprint this good, evolution seems an unnecessary extravagance.

Stop the presses! All you shoegazers should listen to this album before closing your lists:

kaironirse.bandcamp.com/album/ujubasajuba

Shoegaze is always welcome, Barny & Noble. Finnish, eh?

Anyone familiar with Morgan Delt? Saw Mahoney rated it a 2 or something on RYM. Actually think its a fantastic album myself.

Nice. My favourite shoegaze record this year might be this iamjetblack.bandcamp.com/ or the cheatas record. Both excellent records.

I'm not that fan of the genre tbh, only heard that record I put once and thought people here would enjoy it. Didn't think Cheatas was very special.

The Morgan Delt album is great. On my Christmas delivery from Normans.

you fucking cunt chrissie. I finished my list Thursday after spending hours and now I've heard the new Childish album and have to slip it in there somewhere, thus DESTROYING my hard work.

When tears roll down JPs cheek Monday morning when he realises my list isn't up it'll be you he has to thank.

Don't you all show your lists the first day, if we release a list a day it will seem like there's some activity in the forum

That's why you shouldn't write your list until the last possible moment. It's what Childish would do, if he had a computer and an interest in any music beyond 1967.

Fucking good record it is. Minus the occasional nugget, none of his albums have done that much for me in recent years. Probably his best since punk rock at the legion hall.

Aye, agreed. I love Childish songs where he basically lists things he hates/likes, so I'm a big fan of Punk Rock Enough for Me. Still no word if he's ever going to start doing gigs again?

Last I heard on the situation it was a no. He basically said now he has a son he doesn't want to pay for a baby sitter He said he'd leave him with his mother but then she's the bass player and he can't have his kid running around the toilet venues that they play.

I think more-so the fact that his art has become more successful than ever in the past five years or so means his focus is elsewhere.

The new record got 4 stars in the Sun friday YEAH I SAW THE MUSIC PULLOUT IN THE SUN, FUCK OFF CUNTS.

The music pull-out in the Sun is surprisingly decent. Something for the Weekend it's called? Even named after an SFA classic. The Sun - the true indie newspaper.

That's the one. The Sun, even more indie than Vermu.

I'll spread mine over multiple days to create huge amounts of tension. Will even throw in top gigs, EPs and older records discovered in '14.

Won't be able to sleep tonight for sure.

billy childish is cowriting and performing on the new wave pictures album out next year. big times.