Delayed due to leaves on the line...



Hymie's Basement - Hymie's Basement

Why? and Fog get together in Hymie's basement and bang out some wonderful wonderful tunes, and throw in some truely off kilter lyrics. For example, the last tune "You Die": a wonderful melody set off with organs, strings, droning bass and a lazy Sunday Morning beat, but with lyrics which don't make a blind bit of sense: "Hem my pants, On a brand new Earth, Do the Fug, On a speck of dust." eh? I get the impression that these two could bang out a tune you'd be humming all day while making a cup of tea.



Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Strange album, both members of Outcast take a disc each and basically produce a pair of solo albums. Completely overwealming, I haven't been able to make it through in one go yet - Big Boi ends up with the more traditional (for want of a better word) Outcast album, Andre 3000 picks up where Prince left off around about his Lovesexy era.



Marke B 03

Freebie German electronica compilation that turned up with this month's wire, some nice ambient stuff from DubTractor and Monolake, and the fantastically named Jahcoozi do a great little song about Fish.



The Distillers - Coral Fang

Kind of punky I guess, or grungey (hey kids! do you remember that) female fronted band. Good album, although they blow there best stuff in the first four songs - not in the least bit like Hole, honest...



Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

I'm all for the concept of bands giving themselves limitations in what instruments they use, look at the White Stripes (drums, guitar, voice), Morphine (two string slide bass, drums, baritone sax), Philip Jeck (Danitone Record Players, Vinyl, and well...dust). But the whole argument that Radiohead were somehow better when they stuck with the traditional rock group lineup is a pile of shite. The last three albums, including this one, are by far there best in my opinion...



After Dark Part 01

OK, a free CD with last Saturday's Daily Star, so expectations were low. Mostly shite, that crappy 'funky house' that gets played in so-called trendy bars full of people who probably think cocaine is a good idea, it's not - it's a drug for arrogant cunts who want to feel more arrogant, stick to the interesting trippy drugs kids! As the late great Bill Hicks once said, squeegee that third eye clean!... anyway. Soul-less crap.