oh good more records

I am an unreconstructed Swell Maps fan yes it is true and so when I heard this album, called Mayday Signals, was coming out I was up for it. It's a collection of mainly unreleased recordings by them either before they actually entered a studio or, around side 4 I think, a bit later. It's one of those stupid things: if it's a third as good as Jane from Occupied Europe then it's gonna be pretty good. I will let you know. 

So I bought this online from Monorail in Glasgow and well since I was buying one thing from them I figured I may as well buy two. I had been meaning to get this since I heard it in Glasgow whenever, October 2019? So I bought it as well. 

So far so good, it's the only one of these I've played so far. So while I was walking to the bank to do my ID check and release the loan contracts, I got an email from work to say there was a parcel for me there, they do that now, I'm not sure why but I'm not against it. It was the two records above. I am not sure why they went to my work but I had ordered stuff from Monorail a few years ago back when I lived in Albion and I more commonly had things sent to my workplace because I didn't want to have to go to Sunshine West to pick them up if the postal delivery worker didn't leave them. So then I got home, got these out and started to regard them, when there was a knock at the door. It was a postal delivery worker with some more records that apparently I had ordered some time ago, though I don't remember doing it.  They were these: 

That's right not one but two Barbara records

And a John Coltrane record which I probably just grabbed because I was already buying the other things and so postage was free and so it was probably a negligible cost but I'm certainly looking forward to it*

Oh and this! Which is the EP that came free with the first pressings of the second Martha and the Muffins album, but which wasn't in my copy of that album. So, for what it's worth, I have it. I definitely do not remember ordering this. Hmm, actually, or any of it. Perhaps I was drunk. 

Don't look down your nose at me my life's been really hard. 

*Actually a Wilbur Harden/John Coltrane album that was reissued in the mid-60s with Coltrane's name given absolutely greater prominence