Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle * * * * 1/2
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life * * * *
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast * * * *
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion * * * *
The View – Which Bitch? * * * *
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz * * * *
The Leisure Society – The Sleeper * * * *
Butcher Boy – React Or Die * * * *
Pet Shop Boys – Yes * * * *
Soap & Skin — Lovetune For Vacuum * * * *
De Rosa – Prevention * * * 1/2
The Enemy – Music For The People * * * 1/2
Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe * * * 1/2
PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By * * * 1/2
Cotton Jones – Paranoid Cocoon * * * 1/2
Peter Doherty – Grace/Wasteland – * * * 1/2
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career * * * 1/2
Morrissey – Years Of Refusal * * * 1/2
Doves – Kingdom Of Rust * * * ½
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me It’s You * * * ½
Antigone – AntigoneLand * * * ½
The Mummers – Tale To Tell * * * ½
Super 700 – Lovebites ** * 1/2
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – s/t * * *
The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love * * *
Wintersleep – Welcome to the night sky * * *
Candi Staton — Who’s Hurting Now * * *
Polly Scattergood — s/t * * *
Grand Duchy – Petit Fours * * *
Röyksopp – Junior * * *
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest time, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau, Journals (1857)