Elvis Costello - The Best of the First 10 Years

He's been around for a long time, and if you've never listened to him before, this CD is a good starting point. Accumulates his best early material. Succinct? Enjoy.

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Crystal Castles - Alice Glass EP

This Toronto duo is the newest "it" thing at the moment. Hell, NME even labeled Alice Glass the coolest person of the year, if you care about that kind of menial unimportant shit. From what I've read, Ethan Kath, the second half of the duo, gave Glass a CD with 60 instrumental tracks upon which she recorded vocals for 5. They went to the recording studio and accidentally recorded the mic check. Thus the "Alice Practice" single was born. Enjoy.

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The Great Destroyer

I haven't decided yet on the format of this blog. I've been contemplating on just flooding a very large post containing all the works of one artist or trickle the works out along an extended period of time, sprinkled in with various other artists' works. I'm leaning towards the latter, plus, variety is always good.

This Low album, like the Christmas album, doesn't sound like the rest of their usual output. Much more aggressive and fast-paced. Enjoy.

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Lovvers - Think

Because I'm in a hurry, I'll just quote Dom Gourlay of contact music, "To break ‘Think’ down into a song-by-song summary would be both laughable and pointless(...). Quite simply, this is music to annoy the neighbours and offend anyone with an inclination to listen to such aural dross as Nickelback or Scouting For Girls."
Sums it up. Enjoy.

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On A Holiday Roll

It's The Beatles. There's nothing more to say. Enjoy.

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More Holiday Cheer

This is an interesting album from Low. Widely known as a "slowcore" or "sadcore" band, which might I add, must be one of the most retarded labels a person can use to classify music. Adding "-core" suffixes to anything is asinine and personally annoying. I digress. If you're familiar with Low, you'll be surprised by this admittedly pop-leaning album. Not your usual fare by these guys. Enjoy it.

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'Tis the Season, I guess

December is the best month, when you're a kid. Christmas cartoon specials, holiday food/junk food, awkward family reunions, drunken relatives, and of course the presents. I always had a predilection for Charlie Brown for some reason. It could have been his melancholy and self-disparaging attitude of himself, or his keen ability to completely ruin everybody's shit with his innate incompetence and naïvety. The music to this particular cartoon is, like most of the other Charlie Brown specials, surprisingly adult in tone. Not your usual high-pitched, kid humming theme music. Enjoy.

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