post-Christmas CDs



M.I.A. - SunShowers

Single from M.I.A.'s upcoming album, I got it as I'm too damned impatient to wait for the album, the B-side 'Fire Fire' is brilliant.



TV on the Radio - New Heath Rock

Another single purchase based on me being too impatient to wait for there new album. The title track here is fantastic, a bit rockier than there earlier stuff but with the same sweet sweet vocal harmonies that make this band a bit special in my opinion. They also do a pretty interesting cover of a Yeah Yeah Yeahs track on this EP...



Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker

A CD that has been getting alot of critical acclaim, it's sort of gentle ambient indie music with a hint of dub here and there - not exactly dissimilar to the last Broken Social Scene album I got. It's very pleasant, but to be honest not completely essential.



Rob Sonic - Telicatessen

A very 'Definitive Jux' album, it's all old synths and electro riffs together with some good old fashioned dirty beats. Sort of old-fashioned, but with a vaguely futuristic edge - not too shabby, fun for all the family?



Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer

Completely fucking mental Japanese Punk... thing. Leaves me slightly breathless



Boredoms - Super Ae

Now this is a bit more like it, this is from when the Boredoms were getting a bit more psychedic with there music - once you get past the first track which seems to be designed purely to annoy. The second track has one of the most awesome screams ever recorded about half way through it, actually make that war cry as that's what it sounds like the most. The rest of the album is really good if you are in the mood for some Japanese Psychedelic Punk Rock nonsense.



Swans - Various Failures 1988-1992

Not a failure at all! This rather self-deprecatingly titled album collects various songs from the tale end of the Swan's career, this being the point where they'd matured from a band that had a reputation for being harsh, brutal and noisy into something that I've seen described as more like Gothic folk music. Ace stuff



CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Reve

One of the oddest albums I've ever brought, two sisters produce very very lo-fi bluesy soulful songs in a Parisian apartment with an acoustic guitar and what sounds like a bunch of broken toys... Very odd, but intriguing...