Following my previous entry from the Fuzz Dance catalogues, Trophy‘s Slow Dance is a bold, poppy italo record from a guy who seems to have done very little else with his music career bar a bit of cheeky guitar work here and there. One of those great italo one-hit-wonders that you can expect to empty the coppers...

For some reason, I passed on this record when I first listened to it in Phonica last year. Thankfully I rediscovered it a few months later and was still able to pick it up, which is good because I bloody love it. Although I don’t like everything he puts out, there’s no denying there’s real...

This little diamond of a record arrived in the post for me today. It’s arrival was made even better by the fact it was delivered by the happiest and campest postman I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. He was singing Oh What A Beautiful Morning at the top of his voice to the whole...

Rare as a hen’s gum shield and pricier than a return ticket to Glasgow (possibly) this a real gem of a record. Even the bootleg costs upwards of £40. It’s just one of a number of superlative releases on the Italian Fuzz Dance label, which put out a number of records from owner Maurizio Dami...

First Simon’s post on the excellent Witch and now this. That’s two Italo posts in two days! Madness. Faces is much cheesier than Witch, and all the better for it in my opinion. There’s no getting away from the fact that the best Italo records are cheesy. They have a certain innocence to them which...

Shameless Italo disco with a hint of the sinister about it, thus making its title somewhat apt. Not sure I can imagine a witch quite this groovy, but then I’ve never seen a picture of Helen. The track is in a somewhat off-piste 6/4 time signature during the “verses”, which for music boffins is enough to get the chin-stroking gloves out....

Hollie Cook’s self-titled debut album was without doubt my most listened to album of 2011. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve listened to it and I’m still nowhere near bored of it. The album never tries to be big, clever or ground-breaking. Instead it’s nine tracks of the most perfect poppy dub...