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it sometimes feel like i save all my best opinions for mess and noise! so here's me quoting myself, instead of rehashing it all anyways...

- the new notwist is actually quite lovely, and not as disappointing as the early single might have you believe. (it works well in context though, as the opening track). and i'm sneakily enjoying the synth pop delights of neon neon (boom bip meets super furry's gruff rhys, with occasional input from spank rock and fat lip)

- really coming around to this dodos' album 'visiter'. wasn't particularly sold on their sxsw show, but i don't think seeing them at a noisy outdoor environment, surrounded by industry hacks, TELLING me that they were hot shit, was the best way to see them for the first time and before hearing them on record.

but the album is solid. folk pop essentially, i still think *pfft* at this supposed drone - it's less so than say, rand and holland (who is the closest i can think of for drone-meets-folkpop), but ignoring misplaced hype, i think it's a pretty good record.

also the cryptacize album 'dig that treasure' is worth checking out. minimal art-pop, which reminds me of fog's '10th avenue freakout'. with the ex-deerhoof fella at the helm, it's has a similar angular vibe to it.

- on don caballero: i frequently have the urge to listen to american don as i have done in the past hour, but then by the last track, somewhere about 2 mins in, and only 3 minutes to go, i conclude that the noise is driving me crazy, i've had enough and i just can't make it all through to the end. this has happened the last 8 times i've listened to this album.

but then a sufficient amount of time passes, i forget and then i start all over again. weird.

''you drink a lot of a coffee for a teenager'' it must be a noted is a damn fine piece. 2:41 of math rock awesomeness. it's what sold me on the band in the first place.