Music
Collection
Much of my website is sort of a personal but public wiki. I use this page to keep track of what I have bought. If I have it on vinyl or CD, I also have it digitally. I regret buying music digitally and have not done so for a couple of years. I don't really add (legally obtained) free digital downloads to this list.
| Artist | Album | Format | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| AJJ | Live at Third Man Records | LP | Folk Punk |
| AJJ | Bible 2 | LP | Folk Punk |
| AJJ | Ugly Spiral | LP | Folk Punk |
| Alt-J | An Awesome Wave | CD | Indie |
| Andrew Bird | Are You Serious | LP | Indie |
| Andrew Bird | My Finest Work Yet | LP | Indie |
| Ásgeir | In The Silence / Dýrð í dauðaþögn | CD | Indie Folk |
| Beirut | Gallipoli | LP | Balkan Folk / World |
| Beirut | Gulag Orkestar | CD | Balkan Folk / World |
| Beirut | March of the Zapotec (and Realpeople Holland) | CD | Balkan Folk / World |
| Beirut | No No No | CD | Balkan Folk / World |
| Beirut | The Flying Club Cup | CD | Balkan Folk / World |
| Beirut | The Rip Tide | CD | Balkan Folk / World |
| Beirut | Artifacts | LP | Balkan Folk / World |
| Beirut | Hadsel | LP | Balkan Folk / World |
| Ben Gibbard | Former Lives | CD | Indie |
| Ben Howard | Every Kingdom | CD | Indie Folk |
| Ben Howard | Noonday Dream | CD | Indie Folk |
| Ben Howard | Where We Were | CD | Indie Folk |
| Biffy Clyro | Only Revolutions | Digital | Alt Rock |
| Biffy Clyro | Puzzle | Digital | Alt Rock |
| Blind Pilot | 3 Rounds and a Sound | CD | Indie Rock |
| Bon Iver | 22, A Million | LP | Folktronica |
| Bon Iver | Blood Bank (Single) | CD | Indie / Folk |
| Bon Iver | Bon Iver | CD | Indie Rock / Folk Rock |
| Bon Iver | For Emma, Foever ago | CD + LP | Indie Folk |
| Brad Sucks | Guess Who's a Mess | LP | ??? |
| Bright Eyes | Cassadaga | CD | Indie |
| Bright Eyes | Digital Ash In A Digital Urn | Digital | Indie |
| Bright Eyes | Down in the Weeds | LP | Indie |
| Bright Eyes | I'm Wide Awake It's Morning | Digital | Indie |
| Bright Eyes | Noise Floor | CD | Indie |
| Bright Eyes | The People's Key | LP + CD | Indie |
| Bright Eyes | LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | CD | Indie |
| Bright Eyes | Letting Off The Happiness | LP | Indie |
| Brontide | Sans Souci | LP | Indie |
| Bryan John Appleby | Fire on the Vine | Digital | Folk |
| Cage the Elephant | Cage The Elephant | CD | Alt Rock |
| Cage the Elephant | Thank You Happy Birthday | CD | Alt Rock |
| Ceschi | Broken Bone Ballads | LP | Folk Punk / Indie Rap (?) |
| Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band | One Of My Kind | LP + CD | Folk Rock |
| Conor Oberst | Ruminations | CD | Acoustic / Folk |
| Conor Oberst | Upside Down Mountain | CD | Country |
| Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | Digital | Electronic |
| Dawn of Midi | Dysnomia | LP | Electronic |
| Death Cab For Cutie | You Can Play These Songs With Chords (Demo Album) | Digital | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Something About Airplanes | Digital | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | CD | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | The Photo Album | Digital | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism | LP | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Plans | LP | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Narrow Stairs | LP + CD | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Codes and Keys | LP + CD | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Kintsugi | CD | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Thank You for Today | CD | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Asphalt Meadows | LP | Indie |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic) | LP | Indie |
| Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros | Up From Below | LP | Folk Rock |
| Elephant Sessions | What Makes You | LP | Folk |
| First Aid Kit | Stay Gold | CD | Folk / Indie Folk |
| Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes | CD | Indie Folk |
| Foals | Total Life Forever | CD | Indie Rock |
| Frank Turner | FTHC | LP | Folk / Punk |
| Hozier | Hozier | CD | Blues / Indie Rock |
| Hozier | Wasteland, Baby! | CD | Blues / Indie Rock |
| IDLES | Joy as an Act of Resistance | CD | Punk Rock |
| IDLES | Ultra Mono | LP | Punk Rock |
| Imar | Avalanche | CD | Folk |
| James Blunt | Back to Bedlam | CD | Pop |
| Jean Michel Jarre | Oxygene | CD | Electronic |
| José González | Veneer | CD | Folk |
| Júníus Meyvant | Floating Harmonies | CD | Indie |
| LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER | NO BOOTLEG PT. I | LP | Electronic |
| LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER | NO BOOTLEG PT. II | LP | Electronic |
| Mandolin Orange | Blindfaller | LP | Folk |
| Mandolin Orange | Tides of a Teadrop | LP | Folk |
| Mischief Brew | Bacchanal 'N' Philadelphia | LP | Folk Punk |
| MGMT | Oracular Spectacular | CD | Electronic / Indie |
| Monsters of Folk | Monsters of Folk | CD | Folk |
| Mumford & Sons | Sigh No More | Digital | Indie Folk |
| Muse | The Resistance | LP + CD | Rock |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | In The Aeroplane Over The Sea | LP + CD | Indie Rock / Folk |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | On Avery Island | LP | Indie Rock / Folk |
| Passenger | All The Little Lights | CD | Indie Folk |
| Passenger | Whispers | CD | Indie Folk |
| Pink Floyd | The Wall | LP | Classic Rock |
| Pixies | Doolittle | CD | Alt Rock |
| Public Service Broadcasting | Inform-Educate-Entertain | LP | Alt Rock |
| Public Service Broadcasting | The Race For Space | CD | Alt Rock |
| PUP | This Place Sucks Ass | LP | Punk Rock |
| PUP | Morbid Stuff | LP | Punk Rock |
| PUP | PUP | LP + CD | Punk Rock |
| PUP | The Dream is Over | LP + CD | Punk Rock |
| PUP | THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND | LP | Punk Rock |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Like Clockwork | CD | Rock / Hard Rock |
| Single Mothers | Our Pleasure | LP | Punk |
| SOFT PLAY | Heavy Jelly | CD | Punk |
| Talisk | Abyss | CD | Folk |
| The East Pointers | Secret Victory (signed) | CD | Folk |
| The East Pointers | What We Leave Behind | CD | Folk |
| The Feeling | Twelve Stops and Home | CD | Pop |
| The Head And The Heart | The Head And The Heart | Digital | Indie Folk |
| The Lumineers | Cleopatra | CD | Folk Rock |
| The Lumineers | The Lumineers | LP | Folk Rock |
| The Postal Service | Give Up | Digital | Indie |
| The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow | LP + CD | Indie |
| The Shins | Oh, Inverted World | CD | Indie |
| The Shins | The Worms Heart | LP | Indie |
| The Shins | Wincing the Night Away | CD | Indie |
| The Smiths | the sound of The Smiths | CD | Rock |
| The Strokes | First Impressions of Earth | CD | Indie Rock |
| The Strokes | Is This It | CD | Indie Rock |
| The Tallest Man On Earth | Dark Bird is Home | CD | Folk / Indie Folk |
| The Tallest Man On Earth | I Love You. It's a Fever Dream | LP | Folk / Indie Folk |
| The Tallest Man On Earth | Shallow Grave | CD | Folk / Indie Folk |
| The Tallest Man On Earth | Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird | Digital | Folk / Indie Folk |
| The Tallest Man On Earth | There's No Leaving Now | CD | Folk / Indie Folk |
| The Tallest Man On Earth | The Tallest Man On Earth | CD | Folk / Indie Folk |
| The Tallest Man On Earth | The Wild Hunt | LP | Folk / Indie Folk |
| The Tallest Man On Earth | Henry St. | LP | Folk / Indie Folk |
| The xx | Coexist | LP + CD | Electronic |
| The xx | xx | CD | Electronic |
| Treacherous Orchestra | Grind | CD | Celtic Fusion / Folk Rock |
| Various Artists | Piano Ambience | CD | Classical |
| Wintergatan | Wintergatan | LP | Folktronica |
| Yo-Yo Ma | Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites | LP | Classical |
Albums I want but can't get hold of
- Cesci / Pat the Bunny - Split
- Ramshackle Glory - Live the Dream
- Ramshackle Glory - One Last Big Job
On the "to buy" list:
- Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
- Bright Eyes - A Christmas Album
I seem to be missing quite a few Bright Eyes albums for some reason. 😅
Listening
- Amplifiers
- Topping G5 - Headphone amp with USB, Bluetooth and Aux inputs. Works great, can drive my AKG 702s perfectly.
- Leak Stereo 20 - The story behind why I have this and how I restored it is documented here.
- Custom Pre-Amp - I built a 12AX7 based pre-amplifier for the leak so I can use it with my turntable. You can see this build here.
- NAD C 338 "hybrid" integrated amplifier. Overall a nice amp. It sounds a bit cleaner than the Sony TA mentioned below, which it replaced. Has an interesting Telnet interface. Main disadvantage is that Bluetooth has no authenticated pairing, nor is there a way to disable it.
- Sony TA-something integrated amplifier. An uncle gave me this more than 10 years ago. It's okay, there are some dry connections on the inputs which need re-soldering. I will probably buy something new eventually.
- Rega Planar 2 belonged to my Dad but I take care of it now. It's a stylish piece. I recently replaced my older cartridge (AT95A) with a Rega Bias 2.
- Headphones
- Austrian Audio Hi-X60 closed back headphones bought in September 2024. Very (very) comfortable, sound good.
- AKG K702 open back headphones which I am using when I am at home. They have an impedance of 62ohm, and things like laptops and phones struggle to drive them. However, when properly powered give a great sound.
- Sennheiser HD 300 Pro bought in Feb 2019. First impressions are very positive. Generally a very similar design to the 280s, the straight cable is a nice bonus. Sound is very slightly different, not quite figured out how yet.
- Sennheiser HD 280 Pro closed headphones which I use mostly in work. Bought in April 2013 and still in excellent condition.
- Speakers
- Alesis MK2 Monitors brilliant well priced speakers. I definitely recommend them.
Live Events
- Death Cab for Cutie @ Rock City, Nottingham
<2023-03-18 Sat>
- supported by Slow Pulp
- Death Cab for Cutie @ Rock City, Nottingham
<2019-01-28 Mon>
- supported by The Beths
- PUP @ The Bodega, Nottingham <2016-09-07 Wed>
- supported by Shit Present and Solid
- Beirut @ Albert Hall, Manchester <2016-02-13
Sat>
- supported by D.D Dumbo
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales @ Bangor University <2012-12-01 Sat>
- Death Cab for Cutie @ O2 Academy Leeds
<2011-11-17 Thu>
- supported by Butcher The Bar
- Death Cab for Cutie @ Manchester Academy
<2011-07-04 Mon>
- supported by The Head and the Heart
- Muse @ Manchester Lancashire County Cricket Ground
<2010-09-06 Mon>
- supported by Pulled Apart by Horses
- Paolo Nutini @ O2 Academy Liverpool <2009-05-08
Fri>
- supported by Will and the People and One Eskimo
- Queen and Paul Rodgers @ Liverpool Echo Arena <2008-10-18 Sat>
- Coldplay @ Reebok Stadium, Bolton <2005-07-05 Tue>