Pink Fairies -- Kings Of Oblivion

  What can I say about the Pink Fairies, other than just state the obvious?  They are the UK's answer or version of the MC5!

The Barbarians

  You know I somehow expected this record to be way awesomer than it is.  The album is a quickly thrown together version of The Kingsmen who take the lyrics 'hey' and 'yeah' way too seriously ... I get it, they are a ragtag band of swashbuckling early punk rockers, a great find for 60's freaks!

Os Mutantes

  Heavily influential Brazilian psych-pop band Os Mutantes does not only feature some great fuzz'd out weirdness but has some killer bubbly space'd out futura that would inspire groups to this day still!

Curtis Mayfield -- Superfly

  Almost like a poor man's version of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, but don't let that statement, or the fact that it's a soundtrack for basically a piece of crap movie, deter you from the fact that it's a brilliant album and a Soul masterpiece!

Allen Toussaint -- Southern Nights

  A psychedelic soul pop album, all I could think of was that Toussaint must have been diggin' lots of Shuggie Otis at the time, cause that's what it sounds like and don't get me wrong he pulls it off beautifully, it's always interesting when classic artists can inspire and be inspired by what they had started. 

The Kinks -- Muswell Hillbillies

  The Kinks are always somehow overshadowed by The Who for the Holy trinity of British rock, but are way more deserving to sit beside the likes of The Beatles and The Stones, mostly due to their latter classic career which is definitely their most relevant, innovative and influential, they had a brilliant way mishmashing genres while still keeping true to their sound.  I've always been torn between Something Else, Village Green and Arthur as my favourite Kinks record.  Somehow Musswell Hillbillies gets swept under the rug, but let's face it, it's their last great album and is a strangely Brit version of 70's Americana that only The Kinks could have pulled off!

Courtney Barnett -- sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit.

  At first I wasn't too sure how I felt about this 90's throwback, Julie Doiron meets Elastica mash up, but already by the second listen it's growing on me.  The mellow tracks definitely overshadow the rock numbers... anyway, who knows how what I'll think the next time around, I could hate it!?