Lambchop- Damaged Jul 2
Lambchop- Damaged
Ranking out of 5* - ****
Lush - Ciao Jul 2
Lush - Ciao
album rating out of 5* - ****
The Dears - Gang of Losers Jun 16
Album rating out of 5* - ***1/2
Favourite tracks are: Ticket to Immortality, Find our way to Freedom, You and I are a Gang of Losers
www.thedears.org
Wings of Desire, Diva, Blade Runner, Wong Kar Wai movies, Kurosawa movies, Wenders movies, Tim Burton's stuff, Heathers, David Lynch, Coen Brothers, Robert Altman, David Cronenberg etc
Indie, alternate, alt country, goth, classical, jazz basically interesting music. Examples of current listening - Kings of Leon, Lucinda Williams, Dresden Dolls, Arcade Fire, Electralane, Tindersticks, Bjork, Feist, Asobu Seksu, Bright Eyes, Joy Division always, Siouxie, Hope Sandoval, Radiohead, Awakening, Tom Waits, Blonde Redhead, Sigur Ros, NIN, Messiaen, Gorecki, Beethoven, Charles Mingus, Bloc Party, Decemberists, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jam, Modest Mouse, Explosions in the Sky, Mew, Coco Rosie, Johnny Cash, Dntel, Postal Service, Fad Gadget, Soft Cell, Cure, New Order and lots more
Anything by the following: Iain Banks, Murakami, Tanazaki, Canetti, Eco, Kawabata, Pynchon, Ishiguro, as usual a fair variety of stuff
Music, live shows, clubbing/dancing, cycling, good films, books, coffee, some travel