So what's your 4 current fave listens???

[Davey]

Oh yeah, how could I forget to mention the only new thing I've bought lately!?!? Carina Round! The Disconnection! This English girl knows how to rock, kind of like early PJ Harvey circa Dry, especially on the single "Into My Blood". But also with traces of a cabaret style at times like that single from the Dresden Dolls. Maybe a touch of Fiona Apple. But mostly just solid, passionate rock. I've been listening to this alot. She's even getting MTV play from what I hear. Miracles never cease when you have Interscope big bucks behind you, although she doesn't seem to be getting much promotion which is refreshing in a way. One of those nice price CDs too at under ten smacks locally (under 7 smacks online). I'm pretty sure this one will crash with wild abandon into my top 10 this year.

I wait all my life
just for the rush
the passing of fire
into my blood

Nice review at the easy-to-hate new AMG site so I'll put a sock in it for now. US front cover below...UK front cover is the back cover in US.

[Slosh]

I haven't got much new this year and this bb becomes kinda boring to me when there's nothing new to crow about

Wilco's new one is definitely a grower. I knew that from release day. . . and it's seriously starting to seep in now. Usually the stuff I like right off the bat becomes tiresome in short order so this is a good sign for A Ghost Is Born Oh, and man am I glad my CD player has a delete memory function for track 12! I've also been spinning Richard Davies' Telegraph a lot these last several weeks. It makes for a nice companion right after playing Wilco. A shame that this album is so hard to find (at least in my locale).

A good friend of mine recently separated from his long time, might-as-well-be-wife girlfriend and to make ends easier to meet got a roommate for a while. Now my friend plays guitar and drums and the new roomie is quite a good guitar/bass player as well and my friend's been getting him into Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On. This is one of my favorites so I'm glad to hear if being spun at other peoples' houses for a change They've managed to pick up on quite a few of the riffs and "I Would Hurt A Fly" sounds great on acoustic guitar.

The new McLusky is great but I've found I like it a whole lot more in bits and pieces. There are only a few songs I don't care for, which seems to be par-for-the-course for me and McLusky, but the sequencing just doesn't work IMO. Those stop/start type songs kinda mess up the flow of the album. Just 'cause Albini recorded it it doesn't make them Shellac.

And just about everyone I come across on a regular basis IRL loves Les Savy Fav - Inches, even some that say they don't like punk

NP: a pity spin for Davey's Half Gone 2004 (just kidding!, but I am really listening right now)