The Golsings "Grandeur of Hair" on aRCHIVE is masterful, as is that new live Sadies CD.

about a month ago: joan armatrading -- songs "my myself i", "how cruel", "is it tomorrow yet?", "drop the pilot"

about three weeks ago: david torn -- cloud about mercury

about two weeks ago: jesu -- heartache

about one week ago: sleepytime gorilla museum -- grand opening and closing (reissue with bonus tracks)

I suprised myself when I found my most recent musical excitement from a little record called Orange, by a band called Asobi Seksu. So good!

The last band to truly raise a level of excitement in me was PISSED JEANS. I assure you they're the best thing on the current Sub Pop roster.

before that it was BORIS.

pissed jeans = bad band name

new junk:
Larsen - "Seies"
Sheriff - "Sail, Sail Away"
L/R - "When I Lift I Can Feel My Sunburn Singing"
Ghosting - "Cloudburst"
Jazzfinger - "Autumn Engines"
Sweek - "The Unbelievable Cinematic Crash"
Rocky Votolato - "Makers"

old junk:
Subway - "Subway"
Roger Rodier - "Upon Velveatur"
Bill Holt - "Dreamies"
Phil Sawyer - "Childhood's End"

this new indian jewelry album, "invasive exotics" is killing me.

there's a band called tar..feathers that has one song up on their myspace that i really like. it's the first one

www.myspace.com/tarfeathers

it kind of reminds me of modest mouse, old k records stuff

then there's another song called 'no more like that' by this one-man-band called eiafuawn

www.myspace.com/eiafuawn

and i think that's really neat.

lately there hasn't been any album where all/almost all the songs excited me.. um maybe chan vangaalen's 'infiniheart'.. i thought that was pretty creative.

sufjan stevens always has little bits and pieces of fun stuff but i find all his songs are just one part that keeps getting embellished with more and more instruments, and i'm not super interested in that for some reason.

this is super lame, but i borrowed a copy of ryan adam's 'heartbreaker' and listened to it while driving overnight and i enjoyed it.

i kind of wish the kinsellas would pull their shit together and concentrate their ideas into one solid record, rather than put out 6000000 things that are mostly airy space and random noise.

rachael wrote:I suprised myself when I found my most recent musical excitement from a little record called Orange, by a band called Asobi Seksu. So good!

is this that japanese band? some band that sounds exactly like that just played ottawa while i was away and everyone was flipping out over them.

oh, i am super excited to hear the new forms record. i love that band!