Andrew Carver - Favourite Albums


Garbage and the Flowers

Garbage and the Flowers - Eyes Rind As If Beggars

Andrew Carver examines New Zealand noise duo the Garbage and The Flowers's 1997 debut album 'Eyes Rind As If Beggars', which has been re-released in a new double CD edition


Lucy Show

Lucy Show - ...undone

Andrew Carver looks at London-formed band the Lucy Show's post-punk debut album, '...undone', which has recently been reissued on the American Words On Music label


Rats

Rats - The Second Long Player

Andrew Carver reflects upon 70's glam rock band the Rats long lost 'The Second Long Player', which has been recently rediscovered and restored


Anton Barbeau

Anton Barbeau - In the Village of the Apple Sun

Andrew Carver examines eccentric Sacramento-based musician Anton Barbeau's psychedelic and uniquely distinctive 2006 album, 'In the Village of the Apple Sun'


Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple - Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO

In our ' Re : View' slot, in which our writers reappraise albums from the past, Andrew Carver examines seminal Japanese psychedelic act Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO's 1996 eponymous debut album


Penetration

Penetration - Moving Targets

In the latest in our Re : View series, in which our writers look back at albums from the past,Andrew Carver examines British punk band Penetration's 1978 debut album 'Moving Targets'


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Vancouver Complication

In the latest in our 'Re : View' series, in which our writers lookk back on albums of the past, Andrew Carver examines 'Vancouver Complication', a classic 1979 punk compilation, which has just been reissued on Sudden Death Records with extra tracks


Nils

Nils - The Nils

Alex Soria, the leader of the influential Canadian punk band The Nils, died in December. Andrew Carver looks back over his legacy and at his band's often maligned 1988 self-titled debut album


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Explain the Unexplained

In the latest in our 'Re :View' series, in which we look back upon albums that we feel deserve further re-evaluation, Andrew Carver examines Los Angeles space rockers Pressurehed's relatively unknown 1997 masterwork 'Explaining the Unexplained'


Pixies

Pixies - Doolittle

When I think of the moment that set me on the path to my current taste in music,one song looms large: 'This Monkey’s Going To Heaven.' It, and the Pixies’ 'Doolittle' gave me a swift kick out of the T