Bored, Need Something New To Listen To

If you don't have any of these they will open up many a new avenue

never really got "soul" until I bought this album, Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures - and don't think soul isn't for you until you try it.

Horslips - The Book of Invasions - practically a genre all on it's own, Irish traditional  music as  template for a prog rock album. This could lead to Donal Lunny, Planxty, Lunasa.........

Ralph Towner - Solstice. Once again if you don't have it or similar ECM from Garabeck and Jarrett this will be something very new to your ears and will open up a huge variety of music

SJB

Total agree with Sloop John B, with regard to the Dave Godin. I was introduced to this collection via a friend who knew of my love for Northern Soul. This is not Northern Soul but simply music so powerful it will lift your soul and your life. I have lived with these albums for over 10 years and will never tire of it. Dave Godin (RIP) is in heaven right now for the joy, beauty and power he has shared with us all. Please forgive the hyperbole but this is the greatest collection of deep soul ever! 

Regards Graham

Guillemots - Hello Land

Anna Calvi

Neu!

The Blacks Keys

White Denim

Inch Time

Calexico are worth a listen, the album feast of wire is excellent. The DVD World drifts in is superb.

Rock with a touch of Mexican. Can't understand why they are not more popular.

Kid -

Check out "An Awesome Wave" by Alt-J.  

Doug Graham has been using it to demo the NDS at recent shows.

ATB.

Hook

Hi,

Recent albums I keep playing and wouldn't hesitate to recommend are:

Django Django

The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient

Hot Chip - In Our Heads

Metronomy - the English Riviera

Little Dragon - Ritual Union

The Black Keys - El Camino

Rival Sons - Pressure and Time

Also the previously recommended Alt J and The National albums ae excellent.

Andy.

Back in the day, we had Brent Bambry's Brave New Waves on CBC late at night–good AM / FM / satellite radio is the cornerstone of a thriving music industry, and it's still your best bet for cross-pollination.

Or Swans

The Seer

Play loud and preferably not around children (it frightens my young teens)!!

But seriously, some of the purest beauty I have heard of late, wrapped in a surreal, and sometimes jarring landscape.

On Spotify for test driving

Sam

Listen to Radio Paradise - I've discovered more new (to me) music through that in the last 2 years than in the previous 20. 

Bob Dylan's Freewhelin' sounding as fresh as a newly minted coin - content and recording quality.  Sometimes to go forward you have to go back.  G

try Dragons of Eden...it's sort of a funky jazz fusion rock thing, great stuff. Guitar, drum, keyboards.

The cd is hard to get but it's available on itunes.

I've found the Onion's AV club recommendations a good source of music by people I have mostly never heard of. 

http://www.avclub.com/section/music/