It's autumn, the songs are falling from the trees
Autumn's my favorite
season, because of the smell of the plane trees, the soft yellow sunlight, and the notion that days are becoming shorter, but are still long. The songs that provoke the strongest emotional reactions in me are the ones that fit the mood of autumn. Everything from the first three Suede albums, and especially Sci-fi Lullabies. Almost everything from the second, third, fourth and fifth Manic Street Preachers album. Most of Kate Bush' stuff. The odd Radiohead b-side. For some weird reason, i never can get myself to finishing that ultimate autumn mixtape. I know all the songs that should be on it, but whenever i start putting them together it's just too much, emotionally. Not that i start sobbing or something, i'm a guy you know, i don't do that tear-thingy. The feelings just clash. Perhaps i'll give it a try once again this year.New music coming out the coming months: Depeche Mode are releasing their new album Playing The Angel in October. They say it's their best album yet, like they did last time, thus luring us into buying Exciter. I'm not exactly gung-ho about that title either. And Dave Gahan has written about three tracks for the album. And they started recording the thing about six months ago! Depeche Mode albums (the good ones anyway) take at least eighteen months, two members leaving and one crawling back, a heart-attack and two suicide attempts to record! It must be crap...
Other albums: Franz Ferdinand are releasing You Could Have It So Much Better... With Franz Ferdinand the third of October. No word yet of any new Rapture material. Sigur RŪs (Takk) and The Bloodhound Gang (Hefty Fine) finally are releasing new albums on September 13. No news on the new Radiohead album, although they will be contributing a track to the new Help album for War Child. Ten years ago they came up with Lucky, which ended up on OK Computer. Ohhhgodohgodohgod let it be as swell as that one. No word yet of any new New Order album, which apparently is already recorded during the sessions of Waiting For The Sirens' Call. I've listened to that one just twice. It's really that horrible.
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