April 2025 Spin Challenge – Well, this is puzzling…

Day 6 - Spin any splatter / marbled / split wax, picture disc or shaped vinyl

Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

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Day 14 - Spin a recently discovered artist / band

My lovely wife bought me this record recently. She heard a song randomly on our NPR station and thought I'd dig it. She was right.

Made it even better this is a self-released record by the artist. Love to support those doing it their own way. Buy this guy's records...



Justin Golden - Hard Times And A Woman

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Day 13 - Spin any Best of / Greatest hits comp

Robert Charlebois "Les Grand Succès de Robert Charlebois" (1972 Gamma)
Robert Charlebois is one of the most important figures in the history of Quebec music. He came to prominence during the late-60’s at the height of what we call “the quiet revolution”. Prior to that, the province was run with an iron fist by the catholic church and an ultra-conservative government. The church ran schools, health and most community services, all hand in hand with the very traditional government in place. The 50’s in Quebec are known as “the great darkness”. The population was very much repressed. The 60’s came along with a new progressive government and a massive rejection of the church in all things. In the span of just a few years, we got free primary & secondary education, single-payer health care, nationalized electricity, women’s rights, labor rights and myriads of other progressive measures that we can’t even imagine being without today. Along with that came the self-affirmation of Quebec culture in music, plays, TV and film. Among these was Charlebois, one of the first to sing using the local dialect instead of proper "parisian"-style French and to sing about the culture. This is a collection of his biggest songs from his early years and includes the classic "Lindberg", which sings about the rejection of the "great darkness" years and the longing for a free more adventurous life. 🍁

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Day 14 - Spin a recently discovered artist / band

Art D'Ecco "Serene Demon" (2025 Paper Bag Records)
I discovered Art D'Ecco a little over a month ago, when I started to delve deeper into Canadian new releases. Such a fun artist. He plays a type of modern glam rock, but the thing that got me with this record is the use of the horn section to back several of the tracks. At times, they have this almost afrobeat quality to them, which gives certain songs a feel like T Rex meets Fela. The horn section is also full of drama, which suits the sound very well. Streamed it a bunch of times then decided i should support the artist and picked up a vinyl copy from the label. 🍁

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Came back home last week at night from overseas. Feel free to kick me out if I'm too late.

Day 1 – Spin any artist’s / band’s debut record


Yurie Kokubu (国分友里恵) - Relief 72 Hours

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Yurie Kokubu has an amazing city pop debut and a great follow-up, but not much else noteworthy. This debut is, for my money, a 2nd tier classic in the genre. Found both reissues in Shibuya (渋谷) a little over two weeks ago and couldn't be more elated.

A boogie highlight from here (one of many!):
 
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