Every month I buy about 6-10 albums to listen to. I create the list during the previous month from the suggestions of
friends, things I hear and read about from media sources (including the Intar-Web). During the month, I add an album
or two.

The following are the albums I've ripped to my iPhone for December listening. I don't have any personal
opinions on many of these albums yet, but your comments would be appreciated. Especially, tracks that you think I
should pay particular attention to.

The albums roughly into their area of interest this month, which is:

+ Folk Rock/Brit Folk
+ Alternate Rock
+ Electronica


Plumb (1995) by Jonatha Brooke & The Story



Folk rock, maybe Pop. Recommended by a (female) friend.

Aleyn (1997) by June Tabor



Brit Folk. Left over from my "All Tommorrow's Parties" playlist.

Little Honey (2008) by Lucinda Williams



Alt Folk isn't so bad.

Concrete Igloo (2007) by Dandi Wind



Recommended Canadian duet from WBG.

Break Up the Concrete (2008) by The Pretenders



Are they what I remember them to be?

A Hundred Million Suns (2008) by Snow Patrol



What my mates in the UK are listening to.

Order Of The Reptile (2007) by Ego Likeness



Etheral female vocals in Goth rock.

Mindstalking (2004) by Lunascape



Electronica duo with fine female vocals. Was hard to find, but was reissued.

Modern Guilt (2008) by Beck



Beck is back doing Electronica. Gets mixed reviews.

Ego Likeness? old school goth-techno sound. I thought I was in black lipstick again (yes)

Not bad just very flat from the quick bits I heard.

Beck- I guess I never 'got' beck so much. Fun stuff but never really got me to want to listen to it again.

Went back to The National's Boxer and Radiohead's In Rainbows. Two outstanding albums that made my drive home yesterday quite pleasant, if slightly melancholic.

re Radiohead's In Rainbows... very likeable in some strange way.

This last 10 days I've been locked into G'n'R, Chinese Democracy



Forget AC/DC's new album, this is the smoking rock album of 08. There's a lot of shite mediocre stuff on there, but its worth suffering out for some truly classic Roses inspired tunes. Nuggets of gold, buried for way too long. I feel a warming glow as i work my way each listening; hairs on the kneck moments.

I have been unable to stomach GNR since I bought the Lies album day one and was absurdly disappointed in it. Patience... what a travesty.

There is nothing about Modern Guilt that is "Electronica", if you must apply a label to it. It is much more of a blues album than "Electronica". Did you listen to it, BJ?

And Bictaker, you actually bought axl's midlife crisis?

Please do not encourage him any more. In fact, upload that album to LimeWire and Pirate Bay NOW, to discourage that coked out little Botox junkie from ever subjecting uos to his idiocy again.



Lately, I have been listening to all the Juan Garcia Esquival I can find. Notably "Songs from a Shiny Planet" and "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music".

Best band leader evar.

Oh, yeah. Everyone should buy this now. BJ might call it "Erectronica", but I call it blues, and it is damn good. Intelligent lyrics, and music that is so stripped down you'd think a zen monk had the blues. Damn good thinkin' music.

Just downloaded Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid from the new Amazon UK shop. DRM free for three quid! Very nice.

Listened to a couple of Pixies tracks as I drove home. I do love Caribou so very much.

Marc With A C

I just discovered this guy, through the magic of thesixtyone.com

I find him funny and catchy as hell.

I've fallen into a cycle of EBM and general noise. Angelspit, Unter Null, Ayria, i:scintilla, Zombie Girl, Pzychobitch... the misspelling could go on for a while.

funny to see people listening to unter null remembering her as just some lassie on a mailing list years ago.

i've had a busy month, so not had enough chance to listen to the stuff i have bought so far. though i also just made an impulse buy on an MP3 player that i don't need, so no doubt i'll be experimenting with that.

new this month:
warsaw village band - infinity
squarepusher - just a souvenier
KTL - IV
prurient - arrowhead
dresden dolls - yes, virginia
dresden dolls - no, virginia
murcof - the versailles sessions
kk null - oxygen flash
bjork - volta

in particular, last night i listened to
coil - the ape of naples
mum - finally we are no one

Been listening to Crystal Castles a lot the last coupla days. It's very good. It's one part noise, one part dance, one part donkey kong and one part atmospheric. Not necessarily in that order.

Shadoth's list of music I've never heard of intrigues me and I think i shall go looking for some of it.

new box of music arrived today as hoped, so more stuff to listen to:
orphx - teletai
contagious orgasm & c-drik - journeys into space and time
xabec - using ununsed methods
herbst 9 - the gods are small birds
coil - ANS
ovro - horizontal
artefactum - sub rosa
infanct cycle - secret hidden message
coil/new blockaders/vortex campaign - the melancholy mad tenant
fennesz - black sea

I listened to the new Dido album, Safe Trip Home and to the new Enya album, And Winter Came.

Dido went in a new direction, some of it good, some of it so-so. Enya is doing pretty much the same thing but I like it.

I should probably be exposed to newer artists but I am not in the scene anymore, alas.

I'm back on a Of Montreal kick.
One of the reasons why

Today I went from early morning Metal to mid-day noise.

Currently listening to The Boredom's "Super æ"