Criteria - When We Break.

Because I have a new job and absolutely no sense when it comes to spending money on things i definitely don't need and probably don't even want.

Which may be why i'm going to spend about £140 on a clock.

http://mocoloco.com/archives/001766.php

Anyone heard that Jenny Lewis record? I've read about five tip-top reviews in the last hour.

Is it really so good?

18 months ago I'd have bought it by now, but since I stopped being single and started uni (pretty much simultaneously) I buy markedly fewer records. Shame.

Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree, because it was on the cheap in HMV and it's almost worth it for the song titles alone. I'm fairly addicted...

I've heard a few mixed things about it. Some say the lyrics are very poor but others just love the album. I suppose any album with Conor Oberst, M. Ward and Ben Gibbard can't be that bad.

Could always listen to it here:

http://team-love.com/bands/jenny/releases.html

or here:

http://www.myspace.com/lewiswithwatsons

cheers

A Camp - A Camp
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Kathleen Edwards - Failer
Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is Ok
Duke Garwood - Holy Week
Animal Collective - Feels
Regina Spektor - Mary Ann Meets The Gravediggers & Other Short Stories

Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman
Fischerspooner - Odyssey
Willy Mason - Where The Humans Eat

The Ultimate Collection - Joe Cocker
Shakti - John McLaughlin and Shakti
Devotion - John McLaughlin
Lodger - David Bowie.

Fopp has every Miles Davis album and most of Coltrane, Adderly, Blakey, Gillespie etc etc for £5 each.

Wicked.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Cat Power - The Grea-*test*-('")
Clearlake - Amber
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out

Cocteau Twins - Victorialand, because I love the other Cocteau Twins records I already had.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Acid Casuals - Omni
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One

Broken Social Scene
Off to buy new Belle and Sebastian at lunch today

CDs i recently comandeered from my brother:

Morrissey live at Earls Court (only fair, he comandeered my DVD)
The Havenots (absolutely marvellous)
The Magic Numbers
Neil Young - Zuma
Ben Lee (His la-*test*-('") one with 'Catch my Disease', went to his gig last week, and i've never seen so many Australians involved in a sing along about mosquitos before ever)
The Mutton Birds - Rain Steam and Speed
The Posies - Live at Islington Garage 26/01/06 (Excellent excellent gig, very good quality recording too.... and i have fond memories of the gig as I seem to have acquired Jon Auers plectrum, eheheh)

New Belle & Seb. Don't really know what to make of it yet. It's not as polished or as brash as Dear Catastrophe Waitress, but it's hardly Tigermilk either. Some of it I've quite liked so far, some of it has genuinely annoyed me already.

Got to give it chance yet though.

To be fair, they've never made a great album proper and last year's Barman collection of EPs was so fucking flawless it was bound to set up unattainable expectations. Maybe they will make a proper album as good as that, but, as little as I'm aquainted with it so far, I can pretty much say this isn't it. But there's fun to be had I'm sure.

Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Belle and Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds

The Waifs - Brief History
System Of A Down - Hypnotize
Korn - See You On The Other Side
Sing-Sing - ... And I