Blyth Power – Stitching In Time
Most bands don’t have even one song about the Wooden Horse and the fall of Troy. Blyth Power have three. This one is my favourite, to the point where I used a snippet of the lyrics as an epigraph to my dissertation way back when (“The Changing Character Of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey, and The Homeric Question”, fact fans, available at no good bookshops)

Doghorse – Observations On Time Travel
Every word of this song is true.

Smerin’s Anti-social Club – Doctor Who?
Local Bristol funk act take on Ron Grainier’s finest moment, win on points

Sublime – Doin’ Time
Sublime were a great melting pot of punk, hip hop, reggae and the Grateful Dead. Unfortunately they were also rather keen on heroin, meaning that they only ever made two proper albums before the singer OD’d.

Po’ Girl – I Got Time
Po’ Girl are an offshoot of the Be Good Tanyas, and make some lovely rootsy acoustic Americana. The kind of thing I imagine is on the playlist of every independent coffeshop in Portland.

Gillian Welch – Revelator
Gillian Welch also trades in acoustic Americana, but hers is a harsher, more arid take. Some of the songs on the parent album to this track sound straight from the Dustbowl. Laugh laugh laugh.

Hope Of The States – Seconds
A nice bridge from the quiet last couple of songs to the upcoming noisier stuff…

Parts & Labor – Constant Future
This is the title track of their latest album. P&L produce music with an amazing fizzing effervesence – somehow they’ve stumbled on the trick of making noise anthemic and it pushes my buttons in all the right ways. They’d been going for ten years, I discovered and fell in love them this summer, and about a month later they split up. Bastards.

Daft Punk – One More Time
I once spent hours editing a video so that every cut matched with the beats on a Daft Punk track. Drove me mad, but I still like the band

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Counting Down The Hours

Secret Machines – 1,000 Seconds
Prog rock is the Millwall of the music world. No one likes it, it doesn’t care,

The Get Up Kids – Ten Minutes
ah, pop punk like they don’t make anymore – quite literally, in The Get Up Kids’ case, as I loved this album and then hated every subsequent record they made. Sometimes, bands should be mayflies.

Luna – 23 Minutes In Brussels
Dean Wareham was in Galaxie 500 before Luna, and that band’s delicate guitar sound is all over this brooding epic.

Mazzy Star – Rhymes Of An Hour
It’s Mazzy Star. Pretty much every track is identical, but it doesn’t matter because they’re identically gorgeous.

Submotion Orchestra – Finest Hour
Dubstep gone all coffee table and jazzy. Reminds me a bit of Lamb. Lovely lovely deep dub bass all over this album, well worth a listen if you like this track.

Killing Joke – Pandemonium (A Thread Of Steel In The Suspension Bridge Of Space & Time Mix)
Bloody ridiculous title for a remix, but it had a tenuous connection to “time” and that was enough for me. Not the usual KJ rantathon, but a nicely slowed down and dubbed up version.

Gram Parsons – In My Hour Of Darkness
Gram & Emmylou duetting on a sweet country lament, begging for help and salvation in the dark times. A month after recording, Parsons was dead and Phil Kaufman was getting ready to steal his body…

hope you like it,

Dan

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