So. Today at HMV was a bit of a washout. Got the M.I.A. album since it was on sale. Sounds good on first play through. I was looking for Errors EP but no sign of it. On returning home I discovered that People In Planes were coming up to release their debut album which is exciting stuff. I figured this was my last time to get their American released ( Read more... )

Me and Liars have fallen out. Their first album was an absolute joy and the singles that followed it were also fantastic. Admittedly Fins To Make Us More Fishlike was less warmly received here at Chez Unlixes than We No Longer Knew Who We Were but we liked them both, really. Then came There's Always Room On The Broom and that was a okay. A little ( Read more... )

I think I'm gonna bite the bullet and set up a wishlist because I utterly cannot afford music any more and every time I stop buying it I stop doing anything else as well. Well, kinda. But writing in my journal and recording old episodes of Coupling from UK Gold +1 hardly counts as accomplishment ( Read more... )

So, we've had that snow everyone keeps talking about and I'm going BACK out now to brave it again with my holy toes a-peekin' through my shoes let alone my socks. This time it's not for much but last time I was out it was for some rather delightful elements of Singles Day At HMV. Couldn't afford them all but we got the main ones, plus an order that ( Read more... )

Three singles this week, nothing exciting at all. Very annoyed by that. Still, got no cash so I should be grateful. I'm not, let's get that completely clear, but I should be ( Read more... )

For the purposes of Twenty Songs I should mention songs I'm enjoying more in this thing. For the purposes of self promotion I should really just write more often in this thing. You'd probably hate that. Soz ( Read more... )

I'm gonna sell a blasted lung. I've been virtually fingering through - at stupid o'clock in the morning I know - some of the music I'm missing and to actually buy it I would need to actually do my own job TWICE simultaneously. Even then I wouldn't get much change. Anyway. My main concern is that I'm currently trying to piece together a music ( Read more... )

So. Last singles day once again pinned down by lack of credit at the bank of cash we purchased a couple of copies of Bloc Party's latest, including The Streets' remix of Banquet (some quirky UK Garage affair with a story about Jo Wiley's microphone, bless him) and new b-side Hero. First I'd heard the song (which shows how out the loop I am) and I ( Read more... )

Today I didn't get anything from HMV. I could have got Run The Road 2 and maybe the Mystery Jets single. I would have loved to have got the new Elbow album. But I can't afford any of it so I didn't. Instead I consoled myself by buying some tracks from the latest Warchild album. I might buy the whole thing one day but heaven knows I can't afford to ( Read more... )

Been a while eh. That's what lethargy, surreal shifts and a lack of cash will do for a music journal. So. We've had, what, three Singles days? A couple I had to miss due to lack of funds but I've picked up a few things. I got a couple of Amerie singles, 1 Thing and Touch. I don't mind Amerie and it's good to have, in Ciara and Amerie, some R+B ( Read more... )