Albums & Downloads

Rattling around in various nooks and crannies are a swarm of tapes, mini-discs and mp3s containing a range of musical idiosyncrasies that I have recorded to date which one day I may try to properly catalogue before mold consumes them. This page details the tracks I have gathered together into notional albums which have slowly been finding themselves homes in other people's houses.

A number of the tracks are available to download as mp3s if you can master the whole right-clicking thing. Alternatively you can listen now using the mp3 player.

Pop Culture Ballads

A lighter tone, the introduction of some ukulele and more celebrity references than an issue of heat typify the third album. The presence of pre-school wind instruments like the melodica and Xaphoon replace some of the synths of earlier songs. It's dark, light and absurd at the same time. There's nothing that sounds like it - probably for a reason.

Album Cover 1. Rejected Album Titles - 3:11
2. Our Survey Says - 3:42
3. The Dark Heart Of Simon Cowell - 4:50
4. Like The Arctic Monkeys - 2:13
5. When No-one's There - 4:19
6. Racing For Penelope - 3:57
7. Broken Men Don't Drink Whisky - 3:46
8. Movie Producer Blues - 3:29
9. I Can't Feel My Legs Keyser - 4:41
10. Kate, Paris and Scarlet - 3:38
11. William Shatner Boldly Goes - 2:47
12. Nevermore - 4:39

A Dozen Rippling Layers

With these dozen rippling layers, each composed of a dozen rippling layers, with smaller layers which ripple within them, my second album is complete. The tracks are inspired and infused with everything from ancient myth to particle physics, via a heady dose of popular culture.

Album Cover 1. I Believe - 4:26
2. At the very beginning - 4:48
3. Dr Faust's bar and grill - 3:39
4. Somewhere in the world it's summertime - 4:46
5. Pion love song - 3:36
6. 15 feet of knotted string - 1:12
7. Al Pacino can't sleep tonight - 4:10
8. The greatest theories of our time - 2:42
9. Life without the Bob Hope jokebook - 3:27
10. True direction - 3:34
11. When Jerry Bruckheimer falls in love - 3:19
12. Circular reflections of sound - 2:37

The Abridged Audio Guide To Relationships

My first album had much that could be described as emotive, heartfelt, bleak or downright depressing depending on your particular point of view with wry lyrics stumbling through distorted synths and guitars. Recorded on a 4 track it retains a nice cassette ambience that you did find these days. This Is Meant To Be Kids TV details how early morning TV frazzled many a wasted brain, The English Language According To R&B rips into overpaid and overly self-loved US (and now increasingly UK) music acts whilst Sha La La tackles the age old question of what a songwriter says when words are not enough and finds the age old answer. The highlight is probably Superhero, a comic tale of how the weight of expectation hangs heavier on some relationships than others.

Album Cover 1. Somehow (the peanut song)
2. Too much lipstick
3. You'll save us all
4. This is meant to be kids TV
5. The English language according to R&B
6. It's time to leave town
7. Prospects
8. I'm the only one there
9. Forever (the metaphor song)
10. Superhero
11. This place
12. Sha la la
13. Too much trust is a bad thing
14. Friction burns

Audio Mixes

As well as writing songs I also stitch together other people's into half hour mixes.

Hollaback Love
Features: Alabama 3, The Wiseguys, George Formby, DJ Yoda, Gwen Stefani, Big Yoda Muffin, Soulwax, Osymyso, Fatboy Slim, Go Home Productions, Donna Summer, Dinah Washington and The Jam.