CDs
It's oddly a long while since I've bought any CDs. I have just rectified that by buying blind a few new albums which I will now briefly review based on a single listen at work:Bjork - Volta
Very good album this. That's to be expected really, this peculiar Icelandic sometime be-swanned freak box has never released an album that is anything less than very good. There's two types of Bjork album really: ones that are "Very Good" and ones that are "Very Good, with a bit of an edge too it". This falls into the latter category.
Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
More of the same from him really, which is a shame. I was hoping he'd have developed his sound a bit from Want One and Want Two, but this is not much of a leap forward. Maybe if I heard it in isolation without his back catalogue I'd be singing high-praises (with a melodramatic but overly synthesized string backing), but the fact is he does have a back catalogue that you simply have to consider when rating this.
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Yeah, good innit. To be honest, they're a bunch of talented guys, so this was bound to be good. It will though be interesting to hear their "tricky third album". Let's hope they don't go down the Oasis road of just churning out the same sound over and over again without much artistic development and instead explore avenues that you wouldn't normally expect a bunch of spotty kids from Sheffield to tread.
Pick of the bunch? Bjork. Bless her.
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