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This Is the Sea' by The Waterboys.

I'll start with my all-time favourite: 'This Is the Sea' by The Waterboys. Forty minutes of Mike Scott at his best. It's the high-water mark of that 'big music' sound, and I've never got tired of a single second of it. 'The Pan Within' floors me every time I hear it — just perfection.

'The Suicide Handbook' by Ryan Adams

Recorded in 2001, shelved by the label, and passed around as a bootleg ever since — finally its been released. Ryan at his most stripped back and least guarded.

Balmuda The Clock

I really love the design of this. Machined from a single block of aluminium, palm-sized, no hands — just soft light doing the work of telling the time.

'Trophies for Lovemaking' - The Cobbs

Twenty tracks, originally released back in 1999 under the name Ty Cobb, and one of those records that seems to have passed almost everyone by — it only really resurfaced when it turned up on streaming a few years ago. I've never understood why it isn't better known. 'Wondering' is the one I'd point anyone to first.

This Is the Sea' by The Waterboys.

I'll start with my all-time favourite: 'This Is the Sea' by The Waterboys. Forty minutes of Mike Scott at his best. It's the high-water mark of that 'big music' sound, and I've never got tired of a single second of it. 'The Pan Within' floors me every time I hear it — just perfection.

'The Suicide Handbook' by Ryan Adams

Recorded in 2001, shelved by the label, and passed around as a bootleg ever since — finally its been released. Ryan at his most stripped back and least guarded.

Balmuda The Clock

I really love the design of this. Machined from a single block of aluminium, palm-sized, no hands — just soft light doing the work of telling the time.

'Trophies for Lovemaking' - The Cobbs

Twenty tracks, originally released back in 1999 under the name Ty Cobb, and one of those records that seems to have passed almost everyone by — it only really resurfaced when it turned up on streaming a few years ago. I've never understood why it isn't better known. 'Wondering' is the one I'd point anyone to first.