March Music

Music I’ve bought in March.

Hey, that’s quite a lot of music. And a couple of eagerly awaited albums this month:

Sacrew Paws has a new album out! Get it here. It’s pretty spiffy — it’s more “produced” than previous albums, and they don’t sing across each other like they used to (I love that crosstalk singing thing), but it’s good stuff.

The other one I was really excited about was the new Snapped Ankles. I saw them live last autumn, and they played mostly the material that ended up on the new album. They were awesome. The new album is very, very bouncy.

So what else… Oh, I was thinking I didn’t have enough music from the 70s, so I went through a quarter of this list and bought some stuff. Giorgio Moroder’s album’s fun… The John Cale seems pretty good… The Big Star album I’m not such a big fan of (at least not yet)… I had somehow never actually bought The Idiot by Iggy Pop, but that’s fixed now, and I find to my surprise that I’ve got cover versions of almost all the songs on that one on various albums…

And then I read this list, which has the best “indie” albums of the millennium. It’s probably the best-written “best of” list ever — very amusing. I wasn’t really going to buy any of that stuff, but I did finally buy the album by The Postal Service, because I discovered that one of the guys from there was also in Figurine! One of my favourite bands!

See? Good stuff. (It’s the Dntel guy.)

I was also surprised to learn that The Postal Service only did a single album, because they’re always mentioned on lists like this.

Let’s see… anything else stand out?

Oh yeah, the new album by FKA twigs. I’m a bit disappointed, but it’s pretty good.