perfidy

Been listening to music, lately...and thought I'd share the list, because of the deep window this provides into my life.

• Feeder: Pushing the Senses -- What can I say? Yet another masterpiece from the best rock band hardly anybody in the US has heard of. You must go straight to Amazon and spend crazy money on finding their CDs.
• Let's Go: Let's Go -- Great straight-up melodic pop-rock. Handsome without the bitter metal.
• Fluke: Puppy -- You might know track 3 from the last Matrix movie (remember the big dance/orgy scene prior to the big battle?). The rest of the CD is great, pounding rhythms and melodies, and some of the best arpeggiated electronics I've heard in a while. Closes with the unexpectedly beautiful Blue Sky -- a kind of electronic/gospel hybrid.
• Coldplay: X&Y -- Yeah, me and everybody else. It's good enough to deserve it.
• Mercuy Rev: The Secret Migration -- I've known this band to be a critic's favorite for a while but never picked anything up. Good, melodic progressive, with Zero 7 overtones in places.
• Morel: Lucky Strike -- DC native (I think ;) Richard Morel creates another dark dance/pop thinker. Driving dance beats, brutal lyrics, Pink Noise (Deep Dish) production...there's much to like here. First listen makes you think it's just another dance record, but the unusually beautiful melodies hit you, and then the words hit you like a sledgehammer. Not for everyone, but it should be.
• Royksopp: The Undertanding -- Simply brilliant electronica from these Scandinavian geniuses. They forge through new territory with this release (as with their last), but the results never stop being musical and never stop being accessible.
• Orbital: Blue Album -- Orbital's last, so they say, and relatively satisfying. Can't say I'd give it top marks, but there are a couple of standouts that make the CD worth buying. In particular I love You Lot's sampled speech:

You, are becoming Gods. There's a new master of creation, and it's you! Unraveled DNA and at the same time youre cultivating bacteria strong enough to kill every living thing. Do you think you are ready for that much power. You lot ? You lot?! Cheeky b**tards. You're running around science like kids with guns, creating a new world, while you've got is stinking, but, hands up, hands up anyone who thinks you've got it right. Yea there's always one. I can see you. If you want the position of God then take the responsibility