Mighty mighty children. Back with #77 a couple of days late, but it’s worth it. This month we’re breaking into a few sections, starting with the blues and funk, working on through the beats into the indie, stopping off at 1970 via a massive piano, then finishing up with some more housey stuff that is channelling 1989. Highlights? Too many to go through them all but Vakula drops space disco from an imagined soundtrack to a 1920s scifi novel, Nils Frahm hits the aforementioned massive piano, Big Lips makes an appearance with a great soundtrack song from Performance, and The James Gang show us how to get footloose. Plus there’s Paul Weller doing house. What more do you want?

As always you’ve got the full tracklisting with links to buy just underneath, and I do indeed urge you get out there and support your artists. In particular this month:

• Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell is such a good record it should be mandatory to buy it. Buy it!!
• The Style Council – Originally rejected by Polydor in 1989 Modernism: A New Decade only saw the light of day in 1998. Paul Weller doing house sounds ridiculous but for me this really works! (Vinyl copies now going for silly money!)
• Joe South – Big recent discovery. Big voice, 1970s southern rock hair, original writer of ‘Walk a Mile in My Shoes’ AND ‘Rose Garden’. Yikes. But hell, he’s got backing singers and tunes, much recommended for fans of country soul.