RECORDS OF THE WEEK: JANUARY - MARCH 2016

If you have liked the Randon's Reviews Facebook page, you're not a dick you may have noticed that I publish a small group of albums/EPs/singles on there at the end of each week judged on what has soundtracked the preceding six days. Whether they are new/upcoming releases, old favourites or albums that I may only just be discovering, they are my RECORDS OF THE WEEK. Now that we are pretty much a quarter of a way through 2016 (where the flying shit did the time go?), I thought I'd put together a quick mega-playlist featuring one track from each of the records featured*.

* Not including Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces Podcast, and the fucking atrocity that is Reckless Love's InVader, which I featured rather aptly as a joke.

If you haven't quite got the memo at this point, my taste in tunes can be eclectic at the best of times: there's <sometimes> a bit of linearity (the transition from Muncie Girls to Muskets to Into It. Over It. kinda works, doesn't it?), but it can also be one hell of a headfuck. Case in point? Cane Hill into Savages into Municipal Waste (is gonna fuck you up) into Arcade Fire. What is even up with that, brain?

I'm not really counting this particular playlist as an edition of The RR Playlist as I've already spoken at length about some of the music featured in Records Of The Week - you can click on some of the titles in the captions below to see their individual reviews.

Scroll to the bottom of this post for the playlist via the Randon's Reviews Spotify page (hint hint), but first, here's an 'ICYMI' of my Records Of The Week from January to March 2016:

Week 1 (31/01/16): Milk Teeth - Vile Child;
Hindsights - Cold Walls / Cloudy Eyes;
Basement - Promise Everything;
Beach Slang - The Things We Do To
Find People Who Feel Like Us

Week 2 (07/02/16): The Black Queen - Fever Daydream;
Bury Tomorrow - Earthbound;
Five Miles North Of Nowhere - Less Talk,
More Action EP;
The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About

Week 3 (14/02/16): Rain - Symphony Pains EP;
Title Fight - Hyperview;
Diet Cig - Over Easy EP;
Creeper - The Stranger EP

Week 4 (21/02/16): Cane Hill - Cane Hill EP;
Savages - Adore Life;
Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying;
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Week 5 (28/02/16): Pretend Happy - Tired Eyes;
Grader - Wholly EP;
PVRIS - White Noise;
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip*

* OBVIOUSLY THIS ISN'T FEATURED ON THE PLAYLIST, BUT I
ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES, IT'S THE SHIT.

Week 6 (06/03/16): Muncie Girls - From Caplan To Belsize;
Muskets - Spin EP;
Into It. Over It. - Proper;
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...

Week 7 (13/03/16): Cheap Meat - The Parts
That Show EP;
Sorority Noise - It Kindly Stopped
For Me EP (released April 8th on Topshelf Records);
Architects - A Match Made In Heaven (new album,
All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, is out May 27th
on Epitaph Records);
Max Raptor - Max Raptor (released April 22nd on Hassle Records)

Week 8 (20/03/16): Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute;
John Coffey - A House For Thee EP;
Turnover - Humblest Pleasures EP;
Reckless Love - InVader *

* JUST NO. JUST FUCKING NO. I COULDN'T EVEN MUSTER UP
ENOUGH ENERGY LAST WEEK TO WRITE ABOUT HOW FUCKING
DIABOLICAL THIS RECORD IS. AVOID IT LIKE THE FUCKING PLAGUE.

Week 9 (27/03/16): Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression;
The Dirty Nil - Higher Power;
Brian Fallon - Painkillers;
Heck - Instructions

YOU CAN NOW STREAM THE MEGA-PLAYLIST OF 'RECORDS OF THE WEEK' FROM JANUARY TO MARCH BELOW VIA SPOTIFY:

Don't forget: like the Randon's Reviews page on Facebook (honestly, every single 'like' is appreciated beyond words) to see the Records Of The Week as they come in. I'll do another playlist like this when summer arrives, at which point you probably won't be sat at your laptops wishing Storm Katie would get to fuck already.

Ho hum, hang in there folks: the shit part is nearly over.

Danny