Melt Bananas,to be precise (I know, I’m not proud of this Alan Partridge style opening, but it’s been a long week) Three tracks from “Fetch” the new LP by the incomparable Melt Banana graced the programme plus a new live LP from the greatest band to ever walk among us and the answer to the question I get asked more than any other (apart from “why don’t you go and put some clothes on’).

The Fall – “I Wake Up In The City” (LP – “Live In San Fransisco”) (Ozit/Dandelion)
Polvo – “Anchoress” (LP – “Siberia”) (Merge)
Jeff Mills – “When Night Fell” (LP – “The Jungle Planet”) (Axis)
Laura Cantrell – “Can’t Wait” (LP – “No Way There From Here”) (Spit and Polish)
Melt Banana – “The Hive” (LP – “Fetch”) (A-Zap)
Talisman – “Season For Freeman” (LP – “I-Surrection”) (Sugar Shack)
65daysofstatic – “Heat Death Infinity Splitter” (LP – “Wild Light”) (Superball Music)
Marc Smith and Joey Riot – “You Know How To Love Me” (Download) (Notorious Digital)
The Lodger – “Fast” (Download single) (Bandcamp)
Melt Banana – “Infection Defective” (LP – “Fetch”) (A-Zap)
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band – “When Big Joan Sets Up” (LP – “Trout Mask Replica”) (Straight)
Si Begg – “Kosmiche Stepper” (LP – “Permission To Explode”) (Additech)
Red Hex – “Shoulda Known” (7″) (Negative Fun)
The Fall – “Cyber Insekt” (LP – “Live In San Fransisco’) (Ozit/Dandelion)
Melt Banana – “Lefty Dog (Run Caper Run)” (LP – “Fetch”) (A-Zap)
Dubblestandart feat. Jazzmine Tatum – “Don’t Worry What The People Think About You” (LP – “Woman In Dub”) (Collision)

An unusual amount of records by people called Bill in tonight’s programme. Not least three tracks of primal guitar strangling from the peerless Bill Orcutt whose new LP “A History of Everyone” tackles The Great American Songbook in the way that Roy Keane tackled Alfie Haland plus a dub selection from Pete Chapman who the eagle eyed will have observed isn’t called Bill.

Betse Ellis – “The Complainer” (LP – “High Moon Order”) (Free Dirt)
S3RL feat. Johnny – “Da De Da” (Download) (Emfa)
The String-A-Longs – “Wheels” (7″) (London American)
Bill Orcutt – “When You Wish Upon A Star” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Bill Callahan – “Ride My Arrow” (LP – “Dream River”) (Drag City)
Shed – “Fluid 67″ (12”) (50 Weapons)
Carlton Livingston and Blend Mishkin meet The Burger Project – “Born Troublemaker” (7″) (Cast A Blast)
Pop 1280 – “Coma Baby” (LP – “Imps of Perversion”) (Sacred Bones)
Bill Orcutt – “White Christmas” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Bonnie Prince Billy – “Make It Not An Evil Mark” (LP – “Bonnie Prince Billy”) (Astro Black)
Wild Billy Chyldish and CTMF – “Our Moonlit Heath” (LP – “All Our Forts Are With You”) (Damaged Goods)
Singers and Players – “Follower” (LP – “Revenge of the Underdog”) (On-U-Sound)
Tingle In The Netherlands – “Namklim” (EP – “Mirror Writing”) (Nerve Echo)
Sector Zero – “Guitar Attack” (7″) (Goner)
Agent Sasco – “Gone A Lead” (Download) (Markus)
Bill Orcutt – “Onward Christian Soldiers” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Nphonix – “Getting Run Down” (EP – “Getting Run Down”) (Shifting Peaks)