because everyone is still telling me The Strokes are the best thing in ages, and I still think they're "a little bit shit" (me, a few days ago) I appreciate that I'm opening this up again, but I *did* start it. And it's just a preamble for me to say ....... ***THE NEW HEFNER ALBUM IS GENIUS*** I can't understand the antagonism towards "Dead media". It is a brilliant, brilliant album. Sure, there are analog synths and drum machines, but the album has pop tunes a-plenty. Think Darren fronting Grandaddy, with slide guitar. It's really really ace. you'd be a fool no to go and buy it today. And I don't suffer fools ........ There are two other albums all 1500 of you need to go out and buy, too. The first is "The Hill For Company" by Sodastream. I suspect this will most likely be the least promoted album of the year, and will slip by without anyone really noticing it. But if you like heartbreaking acoustic guitar pop, fragile vocals, nice production etc. etc., you should check it out. "Looks Like A Russian" was a real highlight from last year, and this one doesn't disappoint. David Moore and Katrina House, I'm sure you concur, right? The other one is "Slum Clearance" by The Siddeleys. The Siddeleys are a late 80's, female fronted guitar pop band, sounding, musically, a wee bit like The Smiths. They made three singles, recorded two Peel Sessions, and despite being potentially "the next big thing", they broke up soon after. This 16 track compilation rounds out their entire recorded output, and is really really good. Check out www.siddeleys.com for more information if you're interested ....... but it's great, I swear. I appreciate that this post has amounted to little other than a record review. Sorry ... I am tired, and a bit frizzled by the SPRING SUN (ha ha Northern Hemispherians) and am about to fall asleep with a good book ...... Plus, I've been organising wedding stuff all day, and am feeling a bit out of it. Stress stress stress. OK, I'll shut up now ....... Lawrence +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+