Glad to hear about your daughter and her skills. Of course, we're at least as famous/notorious for taking things apart. Maybe a career as a conservator?
Yes, the same: Michael Lane the pretentious twat. At least I'm put my dilettantism to good use, or at least where it does the least harm. I'm keep extremely busy (so please forgive only intermittent correspondence) interpreting Linear B texts and plotting archaeological fieldwork in Greece....
Arular - MIA
Alright, Still - Lily Allen
Parallel Play - Sloan
Cold & Kind - The 1900s
The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists
Robyn - Robyn
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? - Of Montreal
Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
T…
seconding 'the oughts,' except it is properly spelled 'the aughts,' as the ou-spelling meads 'should have' while the au-spelling means 'nothing' or 'zero.'
no list here.
off the top of my head the records that stay with me over the past decade:
W…
I love procrastinating with this kind of stuff. Here is a start, no order or top 10, but what I would place in the top 100 or so:
Boris, "Pink" and "Smile" and "Amplfier Worship"
School of Seven Bells, "Alpinisms"
Keren Ann, "Keren Ann" and "la Disp…
Futureheads- debut, Area ep
Hives-Vedi Vini Vicious , Tyrannosaurus Hives
Exploding Hearts-Guitar Romantics
Jay Reatard-Blood Vision
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds-The Lyre of Orpheus, Dig Lazarus, Dig!!! No More Shall We Part
Hope Sandoval & the Warm In…