musical genius of the near future...

Oooh, january 29th has been and gone... and Klaxons’ ‘Myths of the Near Future’ and Jamie T’s ‘Panic Prevention’ are now sitting pretty in my CD collection (finally!!). yep, it’s been a long time coming and there is now no chance ill get any work done on my dissertation anytime soon – ill be playing those albums over and over and over and over... The View got its fair share of plays last week (its only real competition was my new-found obsession with Fujiya & Miyagi on the free CD with the last edition of Soundvenue and that was only one track) so this week is dedicated to this week’s musical acquisitions...

So far, Klaxons’ album has surprised me more than I thought it would... there are more of the melodic, less engineered kind of tracks on there than their singles would indicate (let’s face it, as genius as ‘gravity’s rainbow, ‘magick’ and ‘atlantis to interzone’ are, they all have an undeniable techno/rave edge that qualifies them better for getting-ready-for-a-night-out listening than the it’s-Sunday-afternoon-and-I-had-far-too-much-to-drink-last-night variety). But overall, the album is actually a really nice listen – they have come up with a track order that works incredibly well, even if has yet to be tested on a hangover-Sunday...

Jamie T’s album hasn’t gotten as much of a chance to prove itself yet. Listened to a few of the tracks I didn’t know off it when it was streaming on his myspace page over the weekend and although none of them screamed ‘Golden Skans’ (oh god, I’m unnaturally obsessed with that song!) on first listen, none of Jamie T’s songs have really ever done that for me. By listen 3, however, I’m preaching his talents to absolutely anyone who is willing to listen. So when it comes down to it, I can’t imagine not loving this album to bits either...

And now my bank balance finally has a chance to recover – it has survived christmas, our insanely large gas/electricity bill and aaaaaaall these albums, which I think is actually rather impressive...