The Hold Steady 'Boys & Girls in America' - Fantastic album, rockin' music with amazing intelligent, literary lyrics about sex, drugs & the darker side of the party life. Also, I saw them in York - they were great & I had a good chat with the keyboard player Franz Nicolay who looks like Super Mario if he'd been raised in a bohemian squat in Paris. He's a top bloke!
The Wildhearts - obviously...
Ginger 'Yoni' - Probably the best pop-rock album since SG5 although for the reluctantly celibate (ie. not getting laid) such as myself its makes somewhat...
frustrating listening.
The Crimea 'Secrets of the Witching Hour' - A wonderful album of sweeping, epic pop music with a kind of small-town americana vibe. Plus, its FREE & LEGAL from
http://www.thecrimea.net - download it, NOW!!!
The God Damn Whores 'We Are the Lucky 13' - Mentalist pop-rock genius.
Tori Amos 'American Doll Posse' - Really hard album to describe but great to listen to. Mainly piano-driven but covers everything from stomping glam-rock to quirky pop to haunting piano ballads and pretty much everything else in between.
I expect my list will be much different by the end of the year with albums on the way from Ryan Adams, Queens of the Stone Age, Dizzee Rascal & possibly Robochrist (a rumour straight from the shiny, metal Robohorse's mouth himself - watch
his-space!).
The new Devin Townsend album will most likely join the above list but I only got it this afternoon and haven't listened to much of it yet. Also, I've downloaded loads of cool old stuff but I'd be here for days if I went into that.
"You say that now... but how are you at canasta?!"
