Monthly Archives: May 2005

Neil Sedaka — Love Songs (2005)

It’s always nice to rem­i­nisce with past artists through great­est hits com­pi­la­tions. This isn’t one, but it is darn close. It’s titled Love Songs, and if it included “Cal­en­dar Girl” it would be closer to a hits com­pi­la­tion. But I could’ve sworn that “Cal­en­dar Girl” was a love song.

Mr. Anonymous — Mr. Anonymous (2005)

The orig­i­nal drum­mer Jeep Mac­Ni­chol of The Sam­ples trav­eled to Jamaica to record with the island’s lead­ing musi­cians. The result of the many col­lab­o­ra­tions is relax­ation music. One can eas­ily vision being on a sandy beach over­look­ing the ocean while lis­ten­ing to Mr. Anony­mous.

Le Concorde — Universe And Villa (2005)

This is as close to Emo as you’re going to get with­out it being Emo. Le Con­corde mir­rors the band Creeper Lagoon in terms of both sound and style. Although I site Creeper Lagoon as a sim­i­lar band, I never really cat­e­go­rized them into a genre. I just called them alter­na­tive, but it doesn’t seem to apply to Le Concorde.

S.F. Giants Trade For Hawkins

S.F. Giants Trade For Hawkins

Figurine — The Heartfelt (2005)

Elec­tronic music seems to be headed toward the main­stream lime­light. Moby is the poster-boy for elec­tronic music, and new bands seem to be pop­ping up all over the place. Fig­urine is a new band whose music resem­bles The Postal Ser­vice, Stere­o­lab and Air, but all in loose terms. The style resem­bles The Postal Ser­vice; the sound resem­bles Stere­o­lab; the mood resem­bles Air.

A Much Needed Break

Boy has this week wiped me out. As much as I was look­ing for­ward to the sum­mer, I for­got about the incred­i­ble heat that strikes Davis, CA. The tem­per­a­ture has risen 20 degrees from 70 just last week. Yikes.

Aimee Mann — The Forgotten Arm (2005)

There have reviews already writ­ten about Aimee Mann’s most recent album, The For­got­ten Arm. So I’ve decided to not review it as an album straight-through but more as a col­lec­tion of songs. I’ve decided to lis­ten to the songs ran­domly on my CD player and just let the music play. This might be odd, but I’ve been lis­ten­ing to Aimee Mann for a long time, and I think that this might be interesting.