The long awaited (at least by me and Grandpa Swish) Boxer by The National. Sounds pretty freaking good even though it's through crappy monitor speakers here at work. (No I'm not stealing time). Up to track 3 and I love it so far.

-Grabbed even longer awaited full length s/t album by Voxtrot. What I actually heard I liked quite a bit.

-A decently reviewed Erasure album was too hard to pass on. Gonna play that as soon as I can bear to eject The National.

-Anyone grab the Wheat album? That one snuck by the local record store curators. Gonna have to wait until they get it in. Samples didn't sound especially impressive so I'd love to hear if their oversight saved me some money!

After some careful deliberation I passed on the new Stars album too. I was all psyched until I realized it was simply a remix of their previous release, Set Yourself On Fire. I love that one but do I really need a remix by the bands buds? Read a review on metacritic that said it was so good that it blew the original away. We'll see.

Hope y'all found something wicked.

jc