So I've been lounging around Mass for a few weeks. My mom let me borrow her mp3 player before I left because I have no cd player or radio in my car. I forgot the obscure usb connector it uses so i'm stuck with the albums that are on it. They are:
Liars "Drum's Not Dead"
Flaming Lips "At War with the Mystics"
Flaming Lips "Clouds Taste Metallic"
Brain Eno "Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy"
Thom Yorke "The Eraser"
Band of Horses whatever that album is called
Danielson "Ships"
This is especially annoying since I joined a gym here and these are not exactly workout albums. I downloaded the last three before I left because they're new and had heard good things about them. "The Eraser" has its moments but overall is pretty bland and at times even annoying. I like something about the timbre of the singer for Band of Horses but dislike the alt-country sounding songs. "Ships" has a few toe-tappers but overall I find the album irritating.
Anyway.. "Drum's Not Dead" is an A in my book. The album has a few songs which are kind of uplifting/beautiful and a few that are ominous and creepy. I think this would a good album to pop in while driving on a back country road in the pitch black night.
abby [email] said at 7:50 PM 06-25-2006: the eraser is kindof sucky. i like "where bluebirds fly" and the song that sounds like the first track off amnesiac. but overall, it seems thin, sortof stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
NathanK said at 12:34 AM 06-27-2006: I went to Tiger Mountain in the Bronx Zoo last weekend. It had a one legged duck - kind of morbid. Anyways, I've heard that "Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy" is better than "Here Come the Warm Jets." I need to get it.
reggie [email] said at 6:39 AM 06-28-2006: It's June (almost July) and while I actually haven't heard much new music (believe it or not) I've heard nothing at all that's better than Drum's Not Dead.
It would be a good work out album if you just replayed "You Drum" over and over again.
