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@acremonium.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:49 AM

#StillDoinCDs Jakko M. Jakszyk was the son of an Irish singer & unknown father, adopted early by a Polish couple in London. A career as an esteemed rock guitarist & songwriter didn’t sate an urge to find his bio-dad. “Son of Glen” (2025) is a musically fluent reveal of a never-met US airman.

A man (50s) and a woman (30s) dressed mainly in black (but the woman wears a patterned deep crimson top and has a pale blond bang in her long dyed-black hair) sit on a red divan with a purple throw pillow between them. This scene is set in a narrow room alcove filled with religious objects, mainly crucifixes, and family photos, along with some miscellaneous artworks and glass display casings.

@acremonium.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:29 AM

#StillDoinCDs Elham (Matin Elham on streaming sites) is an expat Persian singer recording out of the Iranian émigré stronghold (one hopes) of Reseda, California. 2003’s Hanouzam Dir Nashodeh (Never Too Late) starts with synth-pop, moves on to more trad pop & ends with Amr Diab banger Nour el Ain.

@acremonium.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:31 AM

#StillDoinCDs “Dark Side of the Moon,” something of a concept album about being driven mad by modern times, was a 1973 Pink Floyd epic that is the 3d biggest seller of all time. It’s also a personal favourite of mine ever since I heard bits as house music at an Applejack (early Trooper) concert.

Against a dark field, a beam of light enters a prism and breaks up into a rainbow.

@acremonium.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:17 AM

#StillDoinCDs The 2CD set “May You Never” is 1 of 5 compilations from 2015 of outright musical gems that were somewhat overlooked. There’s a lot of Canadian content on this Dutch issue, starting with the electrifying “September Fields” by Frazey Ford. Soul-& folk-rock highlights.

A young rock & roller in a suit & big hair sings at a 1950s style microphone.

1-1 Frazey Ford– September Fields
1-2 James Brown– Talk To Me, Talk To Me
1-3 Teddy Thompson– Home
1-4 John Martyn– May You Never
1-5 My Baby (2)– Singing In Chains
1-6 Bobby Womack– California Dreamin'
1-7 The Nits– The Bauhaus Chair
1-8 The Grays– Both Belong
1-9 David Clayton-Thomas– She
1-10 The Living Sisters– Blue
1-11 John Grant– Marz
1-12 Ron Sexsmith– Nowhere To Go
1-13 Case Mayfield– I Don't Know I Don't
1-14 The Blind Boys Of Alabama Ft. Justin Vernon Of Bon Iver*– Every Grain Of Sand
1-15 Boz Scaggs– I'll Be Long Gone
1-16 Oh Susanna– Forever At Your Feet
1-17 Jesse Winchester– All Of Your Stories
1-18 Allen Toussaint & The Stokes– Go Back Home
1-19 Jakob Dylan– Lend A Hand
1-20 Blackie & The Rodeo Kings* Ft. Amy Helm– I'm Still Loving You
2-1 I Am Kloot– From Your Favourite Sky
2-2 Natalie Merchant– San Andreas Fault
2-3 John Mellencamp*– Jackie Brown
2-4 Isaac Hayes– Soulsville
2-5 Richie Havens– Morning Morning
2-6 Percy Sledge– I'll Be Your Everything
2-7 Bruce Cockburn– Closer To The Light
2-8 Cat Stevens– Sad Lisa
2-9 Elvis Presley– Loving You (Slow Version)
2-10 The Chapin Sisters– Let Me Go
2-11 Free– My Brother Jake
2-12 Bob Carpenter– First Light
2-13 Sandra Rhodes– No Such Thing As Love
2-14 Hugh Coltman– The Mathematician
2-15 Don Covay– It's In The Wind
2-16 Paul Brady– The Island
2-17 Phantom Limb (4)– Gravy Train
2-18 Paul Weller– You Do Something To Me
2-19 Tedeschi Trucks Band– Shelter
2-20 Youngblood Brass Band– Is An Elegy

@acremonium.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:18 AM

#StillDoinCDs Jeff Beck’s 1972 4th album under his own name & last with “Jeff Beck Group” was most popular in Canada, reaching #15. It featured 5 covers incl. the definitive version of southern rocker Don Nix’s “Going Down.” Gold record despite critics’ negativities at the time.

Rows of small upright rectangular photographs make up the cover. The top row consists of four blank panels and a central photo of an orange. The remaining four rows consist of black-and-white head shots of band members, repeated in the same order in each row, slightly tinted in different background colour shades.

@acremonium.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 12:48 AM

#StillDoinCDs Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, “Gurrumul” to friends (thus title of his 1st solo album, 2008), was a platinum-selling, multi ARIA winning Australian singer-songwriter from the Yolngu peoples of Elcho Island, Northern Territory. His singing is regarded as transcendently beautiful.

Portrait (close-up head shot) of a 30-something blind Yolngu Australian songwriter. He seems to be wearing a plain white teeshirt.

@acremonium.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 2:22 AM

#StillDoinCDs Hawai’i and its Caribbean immigrants evolved an effervescent form of reggae, sometimes called Jawaiian, featured in this 2002 collection “Island Roots 3.” Even indigenous protest song “Couldn’t Take the Mana” is upbeat. Swedish/Jawaiian “We Are Only Human” is classic.

The cover shows Honolulu’s Aloha Clock Tower with a faded Hawai’ian flag (eight stripes of red, white & blue with a British Union Jack in the canton) as a background skyscape. Palm fronds drape in the foreground. Song titles letter the irregular red border.

1 D-Ru– Good Lovin' (Brown Sugar Girl)
2 TK– Natural Feeling
3 Ekolu– Just One Night
4 Ho'omau– Daydream
5 Mana Kaleilani Caceres– Couldn't Take The Mana
6 Ryshé– Leilani
7 Native Blend– I'd Still Say Yes
8 Nā Waiho'olu'u O Ke Ānuenue– Kaulana Na Pua
9 Mystic Roots– One For Me
10 Kamaha'o– Dream Girl
11 Three Plus– Driving Me Pupule
12 Ehukai– Moloka'i Slide
13 Phenomenal Ladies– Wild World
14 Sunland– We Are Only Human
15 Forte (23)– Loving You
16 Pati– The Star Spangled Banner.

@acremonium.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:39 AM

#StillDoinCDs The Stranglers, starting as a keyboard-heavy punk band in Guildford, Surrey, England, went through several musical phases. Though this “Collection” (1998) on the Dutch label Disky starts with their sophisto 1982 hit, Golden Brown, it mostly has punky live tracks from 1977.

Four glowering to neutral young male band members lurk on a rococo couch in a room with gray marbled wallpaper.

@acremonium.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:50 AM

#StillDoinCDs Holly Clausius from Toronto bills herself as a “queer artist blazing a trail of her own,” but her brand of lightly alternativized youthful soul-pop is like a brilliant dragonfly zigzagging over the mainstream. “Thinkin’ About You” from 2nd album “Petal Pusher” (2025) is hit stuff.

A young woman is seen in a front-on portrait shot with feather-like designs painted around her eyes and with a rose in her mouth. She also wears complex beaded earrings that may be indigenous art, and has warm auburn hair. The cover plays on a Miley Cyrus cover for the album “Bass Persuades,” which in turn may owe its flower-over-mouth theme to Kate Bush’s “The Sensual World,” though Kate didn’t have the flower IN her mouth.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 3:16 AM

#StillDoinCDs Ellen McIlwaine was a famous exponent of blues slide guitar. Born in Nashville, raised in Japan, but immigrating to Canada in 1987, she became a Calgarian. Her 10th & last studio album, “Mystic Bridge” (2006), with tabla guru Cassius Khan, was a sumptuous fusion.

Cover shows a covered footbridge with tiled roof, as seen in Japan, crossing a large creek in a hilly pine forest.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 1:26 AM

#StillDoinCDs Another musical UK excursion reveals, via “Now That’s What I Call Music,” v. 123 (2026), that former One Direction members are all over the charts (e.g. Louis Tomlinson’s “Imposter”), Lewis Capaldi & Olivia Dean are big hitters, & Canadians Tate & Bieber remain club VIPs.

The title appears in huge letters embossed on a background of primary coloured molten streams and blobs.

Track list.

1-1 Olivia Dean– So Easy (To Fall In Love) 2:49
1-2 Sabrina Carpenter– When Did You Get Hot? 2:25
1-3 Tate McRae– Tit For Tat 2:57
1-4 PinkPantheress– Stateside 2:49
1-5 Justin Bieber– Yukon 2:43
1-6 Dominic Fike– Babydoll 1:39
1-7 Tame Impala– Dracula 3:26
1-8 Tyla (6)– Chanel 3:09
1-9 Zara Larsson– Midnight Sun 3:09
1-10 Milky And Mall Grab– Just The Way You Are 2:39
1-11 MK* And Clementine Douglas– Come Find Me 3:27
1-12 Sonny Fodera, D.O.D (4) & Poppy Baskcomb– Think About Us 2:59
1-13 Calvin Harris And Kasabian– Release The Pressure 3:26
1-14 Ewan McVicar (2)– Share The House 3:14
1-15 Kato (13) And Jon*– Turn The Lights Off (Radio Edit) 2:59
1-16 Louis Tomlinson– Imposter 2:40
1-17 December 10– Angel 2:27
1-18 Lewis Capaldi– Almost 3:40
1-19 Cat Burns– There's Just Something About Her 3:12
1-20 Lily Allen– Madeline 2:55
2-1 Sienna Spiro– Die On This Hill 3:38
2-2 Olivia Dean– A Couple Minutes 3:32
2-3 Skye Newman– FU & UF 2:39
2-4 Lana Del Rey– White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter 3:54
2-5 ROLE MODEL (2)– Sally, When The Wine Runs Out 3:38
2-6 Noah Kahan– The Great Divide 5:17
2-7 Sam Fender & Elton John– Talk To You 5:15
2-8 Ella Langley– Choosin' Texas 3:52
2-9 Luke Combs– Sleepless In A Hotel Room 2:59
2-10 Westlife– Chariot 3:20
2-11 JP Cooper & Gabrielle– Sad Song 2:46
2-12 December 10– Run My Way 2:45
2-13 Myles Smith And Niall Horan– Drive Safe 3:20
2-14 Robbie Williams– All My Life 3:53
2-15 Jessie Ware– I Could Get Used To This 3:43
2-16 Holly Humberstone– To Love Somebody (Radio Edit) 3:18
2-17 Katseye– Internet Girl 2:44
2-18 Doja Cat– Gorgeous 4:27
2-19 ZAYN (3)– Die For Me 3:01
2-20 Lewis Capaldi– The Day That I Die 2:55

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 12:47 AM

#StillDoinCDs Spinvis (Erik de Jong), from Spijkenisse, NL, waited til he was 40 to bring his attic-made 1st demo to a label, where he was signed & rose to alt electro folk rock cult star. “Be-bop-a-lula” (2023) is album 7, with fluent tunes & witty Dutch lyrics - genius really.

Cover mimics famous Edvard Munch painting “The Scream,” but featuring a yellowish figure with either curly hair or exposed brain running along a green lane between two rows of yellow, Amsterdam-style 2-story, gabled buildings. Rays emanate from his head as his steamy breath bears the text, “Als je maanlicht braakt,” “if you vomit moonlight.” This is a text from the album’s most popular song, Paradijs, meaning Paradise.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 3:26 AM

#StillDoinCDs Rough & Ready, 1971, was the 3d solo group album of eminent rock guitarist Jeff Beck (from the London area) after hitmakers The Yardbirds broke up. Unusually for him, he wrote most of the rather complex, jazz-influenced but definitely rock-oriented tracks himself. Highly influential.

Cover shows portraits of 5 young-ish (30s?) male band members.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 2:32 AM

#StillDoinCDs American Woman was a rocket of a #1 album (Canada; #9 US) with a #1 title track (both countries) that moved the Guess Who from pop stars to rock stars in 1970. “No Time” was a 2nd #1 (Canada) track that was my Canadian rock gateway drug in Grade 8. Chills forever!

Four young (20s), long-haired rock band members cluster in a photo superimposed on a large image of a red-headed woman’s face. The woman has hair pulled back severely and her face is bluish in silhouette. The ruffles on drummer Garry Peterson’s leather jacket blend into the silhouette making it look as if the woman has fangs. One of her eyes stares at you past the band huddle.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 3:32 AM

#StillDoinCDs Matt Steady is a top indie musician I support with advance purchase of new projects, & I’m delighted with “Velvet & Gold,” a collection of often Celtic-inflected rock done with multi-instrumentalist & vocalist Sally Minnear. Yes, daughter of Kerry Minnear, ex prog band Gentle Giant.

A young middle aged man with a violin and a younger woman with a star-shaped tambourine face each other while playing music in a deciduous forest. Signature of Matt Steady superimposed.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 2:14 AM

#StillDoinCDs Sons of one of the first-recorded “Senior Dagar Brothers,” Ustad Zahiruddin & Faiyazuddin Dagar, as the “Junior” Dagar Brothers, brought the family tradition of 2-singer, meditative dhrupad music through the mid 20th cent. Their Rag Miyan Ki Malhar (2000), is pure rainy-day bliss.

Cover shows a black & white image of two sixty-something Indian singers singing together into the same microphone. The image is framed in two concentric layers of fancy gold frames and forest-green matting.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 2:20 AM

#StillDoinCDs Glen Miller, currently rebranded Glen Alan, put together a band called Elemental for “Finding the Way,” a 2008 CD featuring his deep baritone on self-penned pop tunes & some lively Jobim & Weill covers. He now runs Mint Music school & studio in Toronto.

The cover frames an impressionist painted image of a sunlit low mountain behind a boreal lake with broadly striped bare rock hillocks and small, wind-bent spruce trees on the foreshore. A ray of sunlight illuminates the yellow grass on the mountain’s saddle as well as the choppy waves on the blue lake. The sky towers with heavy grey clouds and grey streaks of localized falling rain. This painting is “Lake Wabagishik” by Franklin Carmichael, 1928.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 1:47 AM

#StillDoinCDs Coming from the era where rockers’ drive for respect led to complicated progressive rock, Atom Heart Mother from London’s Pink Floyd was a prime (#1) success, with its 24-min. title track scored and enhanced by experimental composer Ron Geesin. Cover by art collective Hipgnosis.

A Holstein (black and white patches type dairy) cow stands on a field, turned away from the viewer but looking around to gaze at sem.

Inside cover shows 3 Holstein cattle looking at the camera, while, on the other side of the inner CD folder, one cow stands with the album’s title displayed across the grass behind it.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 1:35 AM

#StillDoinCDs Openly gay rocker Bob Mould is now, with 2025’s ‘Here We Go Crazy,’ at 15 solo albums; this CD came from a trip I made to Edinburgh, so his sturdy post-punk single-guitar wall of sound (there’s also a good band in there), graffitied with tune-rich introspections, is getting around.

A landscape that shows a nearly dark desert scene in the faint glow of sunset (rise?) behind some distant mountains is ripped as if made of paper, and an irregularly triangular shaped tearaway zone shows a bright daylight version of the same scene, possibly interconnected , where a silhouetted male figure with an electric guitar in hand appears beneath blue sky with the high cumulus clouds of a nice day.

@acremonium.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 2:39 AM

#StillDoinCDs The Franklin Electric is a Montréal-based, mostly anglophone indie folk rock band with 6 albums so far, of which 2013’s “This is How I Let You Down” is the 1st. The rockin’-smooth & highly melodic songs often have horn arrangements, producing a unique sound.