Hello! Do you have a favourite album of the year? I know we should really think about these things in December, but I feel it is highly unlikely that I'll hear any new album between now and the New Year that surpasses Universal Audio by the Delgados. I've no idea exactly when this album came out (other than "sometime this year") but I bought my copy last Saturday and it's rarely been off the stereo since. I was forewarned that this album doesn't have the epic strings that were found on Hate and the Great Eastern and so could be reasonably described as a more conventional album than either of these, but wow does it have tunes! Everybody Come Down and Girls of Valour are amazing songs! I think this is the strongest Delgados album lyrically as well - I wanted to have "Every single person who has told you that you couldn't lives in fear that you'll achieve the things in life they think you shouldn't" as my subject line, but it was too long to fit in the Subject box! Which is a shame, as it's a great line and one I broadly agree with. I'm going to say something vaguely sacriligious now - Keep on Breathing reminds me a bit of Sweet dreams my LA Ex! I'm sure this is just a bizarre coincidence - I doubt if the band intended it as an homage to Ms Stevens. Someone at work who has met the band tells me that they are not keen cyclists as I'd always assumed, having been named after a cyclist and having 2 cycling related album titles. Not that this matters mind, apparently the Beach Boys didn't like surfing, either! I'm going to be in that London for a few days, fom tomorrow (Sunday) until Tuesday. Tomorrow is my birthday (yay!) so I shall prolly be relaxing at my Mum's house and then on Monday I'm going down to Brixton to see Kate St Claire (ex-Lollies)'s new band the Kissing Time, who are playing at the Windmill. So should you. I can really recommend them - ok, so i've only heard mp3s so far, but it's sure to be good. I hear that Simon Aurell is back in town, too, which is excellent news. bye for now, Mark. _________________________________________________________________ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! http://toolbar.msn.co.uk/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+