I would just like to mention that I finally got around to listening to that Bear in Heaven disk yesterday, and goddamn is it good. Lush/4ad/M83/Siouxsie/other stuff mixed together until it stops sticking to your fingers, then spread on toast.

Man, I really really like this. Thanks again Ken!

Nakashima Mika - Hitori (中島美嘉　ー　ひとり)

The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

Gomez -- How We Operate

Elvis Costello - The Best of Elvis Costello

toe - for long tomorrow

OMG YES.

just checked this band out, great stuff. thanks.

indeed. Its kinda like Battles, except 5000% moar awesome. And melodic.

Dirty Projectors -- Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors -- Bitte Orca

Great CD! Some of their previous CD's have some really disgusting looking artwork, but this one's a keeper on both counts.

You don't like line drawings of hairy naked dudes? To each his own, I guess.

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Portico Quartet -- Isla

Great CD! Some of their previous CD's have some really disgusting looking artwork, but this one's a keeper on both counts.

Yeah, they haven't really moved that far since 2004, have they?

Another vote for Bitte Orca as a great album. Bought the vinyl and it's a nice pressing too.

Horace Parlan - Speakin My Piece (MM45 vinyl)

Neil Young - s/t (180g box set vinyl)

Mechanical Animals

I have no idea why, but I've been spinning this and LOW repeatedly lately.

MA is hit or miss, but when it hits its great.

The Alan Parsons Project -- Ammonia Avenue

Rush - Grace Under Pressure

Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant

Death Cab for Cutie - Plans

Puscifer, "C" is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference HERE) -- the first two tracks, in particular -- "Polar Bear" and "The Mission (M is for Milla Mix)" -- rawk. This video is kind of trippy:

This one is not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tU-hSpErIw

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Just finished sampling Valerie & Friends -- retro synthpop and electro goodness. Starting Morphine, At Your Service -- was listening to this earlier, need to go back to it. If you like sax and other reed instruments (baritone something on there, too), highly recommended.

"...You're the bedtime story,

The one that keeps the curtains closed,

And I hope you're waiting for me,

'cause I can't make it on my own..."

Yeah, they haven't really moved that far since 2004, have they?

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Another vote for Bitte Orca as a great album. Bought the vinyl and it's a nice pressing too.

Actually, talking about disgusting album art by the Dirty Projectors, I was referring to this one:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wPIIrQ4yL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Sorry, but I'm not going to post that image directly. Dang! What a revolting sight during breakfast.

Greg Laswell - Covers EP

A track off this was featured at the end of last week's Dollhouse episode so I decided to track it down.

Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman

Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington

Redbook

Christopher Parkening / Elmer Bernstein - Concerto for Guitar

Redbook

I had no idea this existed before yesterday. A surprisingly good concerto for guitar. Parkening has been at my top spot since Segovia passed, so it's all win if you're into this kind of thing.