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Now Hear This - the road to financial ruin
I didn't get around to listening to the latest CD until last weekend, but I have to say that it is the best for ages - a really terrific collection of songs that manages to be incredibly diverse yet work as a cohesive compilation in its own right.
For me the real highlight is the Yeasayer track which is phenomenal, coming across like a lost 80s track given a sprinkling of 21st century electropop. I can't stop playing it. But then there are other real gems - the Carolina Choclolate Drops, Lissie and Basia Bulat in particular will certainly be on heavy rotation Chez Starkley.
The only problem is, I could seriously dent my new year's resolution to cut down on buying new albums: there are at least 4 I'm very tempted to get on the basis of Now Hear This alone. Please, have a heart: reduce the quality of your CDs now if you don't want a destitute reader on your doorstep.
Anyway, this was just supposed to be me saying thanks but turned into sycophantic gushing somewhere along the way. Still, everyone needs a sycophantic gush once in a while.
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Lonely here isn't it?
Nothing but the sound of the wind whistling through the cracks in the blogosphere. My first zero-comment post. Sigh.
It's not all bad
You got some Up arrows and look... this appears to be a comment (though I don't know if it counts as I'm commenting about the lack of comments... it's some sort of logical paradox).
I very much enjoyed the latest CD - The Tailors, Jaga Jazzist and The Mary Onettes all sound good in particular
Fact
In most cases, it's not the post that prompts a deluge of comments. It's the comments themselves.
Buy the Jaga Jazzist album
You won't need to play anything else. Terrific.
I dont like "Jazz"
But I did like this very much. Most idiosyncratic and refreshing.
Like you ,Starkley
I decided to not buy as many new albums this year.
Since the turn of the year i have only bought 2,
Grant Lee Phillips-Little Moon & Patty Griffin-Downtown Church.
I have to say that i have thoroughly enjoyed both of them.
I don't know if i have just been lucky with my 2 choices or whether buying fewer albums has meant that i have actually listened properly to what i have bought rather than flitting from one record to another.
CD
Definately one of the best of the recent ones, particularly Lissie and Yeasayer.