That is all.

Here we are, almost halfway through the month, and I’ve already bought/downloaded (eMusic) the following albums since 1/1:

1/13 – MGMT – Oracular Spectacular

1/13 – Kimya Dawson – Remember that I love you

1/11 – Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts – Temporary People

1/8 – Mr. Scruff – Ninja Tuna

1/8 – Kimya Dawson – Hidden Vagenda

1/8 – Juana Molina – Un Dia

1/4 – Laura Veirs – Two Beers Veirs

1/4 – Quasimoto – The Unseen

1/2 – The Presets – Blow Up

1/2 – Breakestra – Hit the Floor

So I’ve been going a little overboard.  That’s 119 tracks in 15 days, suggesting I’ll need a couple new hard drives by the end of the year.  

My favorites of these so far are:

Kimya Dawson – wordy, fearsomely smart, profane, progressive.  It was worth leaving the useless iTunes “genre” column in the display to discover that Apple classifies her under “Country”.  Toby Keith fans may pass right on by, though.
Yeah, I first heard her in the Juno soundtrack, too.

Juana Molina – Blurry loops of beautiful vocals, and I can’t understand a word.  An eMusic recommendation.

Breakestra – Throwback funk, with Chali 2na rapping on one track.  Why can’t we ever get more than one track of Chali 2na on any album? Another eMusic recommendation

Mr. Scruff and MGMT are promising, but I haven’t listened to them enough yet.