Shfl Update, 11/30

Japanese Indie & Psych-Folk by Jon Dale, plus new reviews from Philip Freeman, Ned Raggett, Shy Thompson, Harold Heath, Chris Catchpole, Joe Muggs, Megan Iacobini de Fazio, Andy Beta and Jon Dale

Here’s all the recommendations added to Shfl in November. I’ve also started a little project, an attempt to find out if the proportion of songs that have spent any time on the Billboard Hot 100 that are about love has changed over time, if you want to help out with the project (or are just curious) that can be found here.

Guides

Jon Dale on Japanese Indie & Psych-Folk. This in particular really got its hooks into me. Four of these albums we had to put up on YouTube just for the guide, so enjoy :)

Reviews

Philip Freeman on Joe Henderson and McCoy Tyner

Ned Raggett on The Frogs, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Long Fin Killie and Drop Nineteens

Shy Thompson on Akio Suzuki, Riri Shimada, Hiroshi Yoshimura & Takehisa Kosugi and Blue Asia

Harold Heath on Steve Cobby and Fila Brazillia

Chris Catchpole on Drug Cabin, The Beau Brummels, Ronnie Lane & Ron Wood, Shack and Madness

Megan Iacobini de Fazio on Simon Goff, Les Abranis, Piezo, Nguashi N'timbo & Orchestre Festival Du Zaire, Mombasa Roots, Gj Leith, Ahcene Adjroud, Soema Montenegro, corto.alto and Deena Abdelwahed

Andy Beta on Hiroshi Sato & Wendy Matthews, Resavoir, Tara Clerkin Trio, Dorothy Carter, Leo Smith & Marion Brown, Bex Burch and Frank Harris & Maria Marquez

Jon Dale on The Jesus and Mary Chain, Fagner, Tanguito, Minhwi Lee, Slumber Party, Arto Lindsay, The Perfect Disaster, Egberto Gismonti, LSD March, Candelaria Zamar, Ricardo Villalobos, Trumans Water, Up-Tight, Mariá Portugal, Luis Trochón, Miminokoto, Circuit Rider, Bruno Berle, Clara Presta, Spiritualized and Jorge "Flaco" Barral