Consumerism (Follow-Up)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Bought 3 albums today.

Amerie: first half uniformly gorgeous, love the 86/87 washed-out synth-soul-pop she's using as a template, love the way breaking up songs has become her "thing" post 1-Thing. Second half slows down, I tune out, there's still stuff to like but not itching to hear the back end again.

Dizzee: usual curate's egg - "Pussy'ole" is funny, savage awesome, so is "Where's Da Gs" tho sadly no chicken noises on that one. There is an awful lot of putting ppl down for not being real on this album. DO NOT WANT to know what Dizzee thinks of the state of the world, Lily Allen collab disappointing, enough lust and venom on eg Flex, Bubbles, Da Feelin to make this a "keeper". I'll probably listen to it more than his other albums tbh.

Rihanna - just started listening, very pop but also sounds weirdly thin: where are the BIG ENGINE REVS that have made her number one for eleventy weeks? Futher reports possible. "Breakin Dishes" is good.

What do you think of these PLATTERS? If you've heard them. What else should I be buying in my newly ALBUM-FRIENDLY state?

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[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I bought 5 albums last weekend, of which:
- Mercromina - Desde la montaña más alta del mundo (Spanish shoegaze-indie-pop, what I went in the store for. I had it MP3 but it's Spanish indie and the band broke up last year so felt I should snatch it while I could even at 16 euros (so you know I like it!)
- Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (already had the MP3s but felt obliged since I didn't buy the last one) - unremarkable but nice to feel like you've voted for the right candidate
- Valérie Leulloit - Caldeira (French, um, whatever it is they do - folk-pop-chanson, former singer of Auteur de Lucie) - The only thing totally "new" and I haven't listened to it yet although the single is groovy in a Madeleine Peyroux kind of way
- Françoiz Breut - Vingt à Trente Mille Jours
- Françoiz Breut - Une Saison Volée (also had the MP3s) - I would describe her, especially "Vingt," as kind of NOIR indie-chanson. Quite fun in that way.

(Am just now looking to leave work, otherwise I'd write something more helpful for you punters.)

Says something about (my) buying habits, though - two "new/recent" albums and three ones 2-5 years old - and only one "new/unheard."
Also absolutely none of it poptimist material (sorry Lex!)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Vingt à Trente Mille Jours is BEAUTIFUL, I absolutely love it. 'Portsmouth' and 'Si Tu Disais' especially. It has been v much in contention for various League of Pop rounds but never quite made it.