This month, the randomizer spit out two-thousand-six  and two-thousand-seven.  Crafty little devil.  Maybe it was going easy on me this month, as I was able to buy both records brand new without much trouble.

My choice for 2006 has even arrived already. After struggling with the quite musically varied and no-clear-winner top three-or-four contenders on my list, I stumbled upon an album I hadn’t remembered even being from that year. I had probably listened to it about two hundred times, but often as a double-playlist with the album that came before it, so the years got kinda blurred.  

There’s a pretty strong connection between my ‘06 and ‘07 choices, and I’ve seen both of them live, so feel free to guess away.  I’m just as interested in knowing: what are your favourite records of 2006 and 2007?

Well it got here, it just took me awhile to get my act together and get the pictures taken. Behold!

As much as I would love for this trend to continue, I think it’s unlikely that once a month I’ll get a bonus LP for free, but in the meantime I’m thankful to get Portishead’s eponymous album in addition to the 44 RPM edition of Third.

So here’s the finished pair for May, all ready to hang – two interesting takes on minimalist artwork.

And wholly unrelated to Album Art, I picked up these two gems at 4-Colour 8-Bit last night.

Damn that was a busy month. Pics incoming over the next week or so. This month was another strange random selection, so I’ll post that whole saga as well. The good news is that both records have already been ordered! Yeah, that’s what I said too! More soon.

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Aaaaaabsolutely

Faaaaabulous

The record that started it all, from the inimitable duo of Tennant and Lowe.  There’s a time-lapse vhs video somewhere from ninety ninety something of us unpacking a gig to this record, and then there’s me seeing the boys less than a 7 minute walk from my old flat in Newmarket.  There’s the “I can program a computer” line which never fails to make me laugh, there’s the inevitable and inescapable romance of Love Comes Quickly, and there is the king of the heap, my gateway drug to British synthpop when I was a wee’un, West End Girls.  This landmark debut is a piece of history, and for my money, nothing else in 1986 comes close.