Nina Nastasia Outlaster and Wovenhand The Threshingfloor. Just got them both and only have a whisper of a listen so far, much left to explore. Nina again with Steve Albini for the recording, very nice sound as always. Great acoustic sound, especially on the strings. Got the new one by Broken Social Scene awhile back, and that's been probably my favorite so far this year, along with The National's High Violet. Completely different from each other in most regards, fun to switch back and forth.

So what have you been exploring lately? I've been kind of fixated on Yo La Tengo's still charming "I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One" lately too, along with the "Devotion + Doubt" mentioned in the Buckner thread, and Laika's always fresh sounding "Sounds of the Satellites". All from 1997, hmm, wonder if that means anything? Good time. Remember those Retro comps we did way back, that was fun. I worked on one from 1997 (it was a bit of a collaboration), but just checked and, in Retrospect, it was a pretty strange mix, looks like I messed up bad by leaving off something from D+D. Hehe, there were some pretty strange mixes passing around, and I'm not just talking about the ones from my postmark.