Idaho

Lee Dorsey - "Get Out Of My Life, Woman"

Marcia Griffiths - "Mark My Word"

Sleepy Golden Storm

Kris Kristofferson - "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)"

Peggy Lee - "Where Or When"

High Priestess

Active Child - "High Priestess"

Beach House - "Master of None"

I Hear A Timpani

Jamie xx & Yasmin - "Touch Me"

Guest Post: Galen Disston, Pickwick

Sound your plastic party trumpets: Today Galen Disston from Seattle based band Pickwick curates my first ever Guest Post.

Pickwick record in a basement using vintage equipment and release on vinyl 45s, adding richness to a sound which already is just the type I like: exuberant and aching. So tap your tambourines, shake your shakers and be sure to sway along to the reverb... John.

Randy Newman - "Last Night I Had A Dream (Single Version)"

We all have been collectively astonished by this version. We all love Sail Away and Nilsson Sings Newman but whatever, this song is the king of our world right now. It is so fierce in the Project Runway sense; vocal delay, guitars with claws, such an amazing band. Even the countrified breakdown is dreamy enough to covet. This song is what we want to be. (From Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968).

Ty Segall - "You Make The Sun Fry"

Holy God, this guy is a fire like Lee Scratch Perry. Insanely hooky, heavy in the spaciest sense. And this melody will live on forever. (From Goodbye Bread).

Radiation City - "Find It Of Use"

Female fronted Bossa Nova Grizzly Bear from Portland. This upcoming EP will RULE ALL. (From The Hands That Take You).

Sun Ra - "Space Is The Place"

Recommended to us by Damien Jurado, I listed this song as the last thing I want to hear before I die. Because it will ease the transition into the afterlife. (From Space Is The Place).

(Galen Disston sings in Pickwick. There are five other members. I featured one of their tracks last year. You can buy their music direct from their bandcamp and, if you live West Coast, you should go see them live.)

Fairytale In The Supermarket

Faith Evans - "Jealous"

Arthur Alexander - "The Girl That Radiates That Charm"

Turn That Mutha Out

Barbara Mason - "Another Man (Short Version)"

You Can Never Hold Back Spring

The Pilgrim Travelers - "Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow"

Judy Collins - "I Think It's Going To Rain Today"

Goodbye To Berlin

Linda Scott - "I've Told Every Little Star"

The Night Will Go On