This Is Why I'm Poor

So it appears to be over a whole week since I last updated this thing. I do apologise - busy social life/apathy etc. got in the way and all that. To make up for this I shall try to do a bumper crop of posts in the next few dates so as to get a bit more content on here (only 13 posts in March? That's not so good).

As an easy first April post I could talk about how I came, in typical style, to blow £60 on CDs last week.

Monday was a fairly usual affair, with me buying The Decemberists' new effort "The Hazards of Love", which is a really excellent prog-folk masterpiece, and is basically a modern rock-opera (it tells a story, and all dialogue is sung).

The rest of the money was spent in the glorious musical cornucopia that is the Rough Trade East shop. Suffice to say I went a little bit crazy and bought the following:

Dan Deacon - Bromst (the 2nd best album released this year, probably)
Trans Am - TA (I love Trans Am, excellent experimental electronica)
The Fucking Champs - Greatest Hits
Oneida - The Wedding*
The Fall - Slates (I can't go into a record shop without buying some Fall, it seems)
Wire - Kidney Bingos (an excellent 3" single disc, and possibly the coolest thing I bought)

So yes, I feel quite proud of the fact that it's only 3 and a bit months into 2009 and I've listened to something like 12 albums.

In other news have some single reviews:
Tartufi - Dot Dash (http://www.musosguide.com/tartufi-dot-dash/3588)
The Paper Chase - What Shall We Do With The Bodies (http://www.musosguide.com/the-paper-chase-what-should-we-do-with-your-body-the-lightning/3503)

I will try and update tomorrow with recent goings-on and hopefully I will be less distracted by listening to podcasts featuring Speednik.

*bit of a theme going on here, since Phil Manley is in both Trans Am and The Fucking Champs, and contributes to this Oneida album, fact fans!