The first two 'new' albums for 2007 came through the letterbox this morning, although the EP from The National Parks probably deserves that honour.
It's not an album though, see?

Ris has kept his word and finally returned my copy of TCM from its trip to Oxford, along with a copy of "Sideways" and Louis' second solo album "Tell Your Mum I Saved Your Life".
At least he said it was a 'copy' of Sideways, but the silly man has sent me an original! He really shouldn't be sending me these without payment, but what am I to say?
Busy tonight with cell etc so I've only played the first five tracks through once.
It has more immediate appeal than "From Trash" and 'X-Ray Vision' in particular really stands out. Distinctly psychedelic-electronica with a lot of Beatlesque vocal treatments and harmonies, but i need to give it a few more goes before making judgement and writing my review.
Busy tonight ploughing through the difficult middle third of the Hidden Man CD1.

To relieve the monotony, I've been revising the 'cover art' list in response to a suggestion by Ris that the man's illustrative work has never been classified! WHAT???
So far between us we have turned up about 30 titles and now I've just about found images for all except two and ISBNs for all of them. Difficult to get the right edition though - some have come out in a million ways. As far as I can see, only Rushdie's "The Moor's Last Sigh" bears the same cover art in every edition so far. Even the audio cassette version is the same