The Chant Masters >> Gregorian Beatles

Gregorian chants and songs by The Beatles aren't natural bedfellows, what with being separated in popularity by many hundreds of years.  If you're curious how the two could coexist, by all means...

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Lou Reed >> Metal Machine Music

This album, believe it or not, was so terrible that the record company actually sent apology notices out to all of the record stores that carried it.  Imagine yourself sitting in a dentist's chair and having a drill in your mouth, without novocaine, with rusty nails being driven into your fingers, with an insane circus clown honking a horn in your ear while throwing pies in your face for hours and hours and hours. That feeling is this album.

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Nick Knowles >> Every Kind of People

DIY SOS host Nick Knowles has stepped away from the tool box and into the studio as he releases his debut album, and people have been giving it some hilarious reviews.  "The singing is quite simply astonishing. Nick brays along pleasingly in a raspy bass-type fashion: part Tom Waits, part throttled warthog. The musical arrangements are right up there with your average pub singalong (but not quite as good, but it’s close)."

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Studio Group >> Jungle Porn Soundtrack

What better combination could there be than the moans, squeals, grunts and sighs of a porn movie accompanied by the tribal music sounds of some jungle dwelling community?

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Is it warm in here or is it just me?

Thanks to Sami-Pekka, who submitted this to me a loooong time ago.

Orchestre Sein du Wun >> Musiques Khmères royales & populaires

Reader Niklas writes; "Here’s a masterpiece that I found when browsing through the wonders of Spotify one evening. I would like to introduce you to Burmese party-banger and club-shaking sounds. And if you play any song from this album, you’ll appreciate rhythm all of a sudden."

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He's not wrong.  Like a class of primary school children at a musical recital.  Thanks, Niklas!