Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Digg!!! (2008) – “I don’t need what it is but there’s definitely something going on upstairs”, Cave sings in his story of a resurrection that maybe wasn’t such a great idea and then Cave calls upon the author to explain.
The First Days Of Spring – Noah And the Whales (2009) – Oh, yes, love.
Of Montreal – The Sunlandic Twins (2005) – Kevin Barnes breakthrough on the Apples Of Stereo label.
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of being Pure At Heart (2009) – Aches and pops
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heat – Higher Than The Stars EP (2009) – Sure it sounds like Belle and Sebastian, what doesn’t? But it sounds good as well.
Panic! At The Disco – Pretty. Odd (2008) – Sure it’s Beatley, what isn’t? But it is psycehdelic pop Beatley.
Paramore – Riot! (2007) – She hasn’t done anything as good as “Misery Business” since, er, “Misery Business”.
Pitbull – Rebelution (2009) – This is the one that brought him out of the nightclubs, where the PR chicks, who know about this kinda shit, have dug him for years, and onto the charts. Best set at Jingle Ball this year.
P.J. Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (2000) – The City is New York City by the way, and the sea is the sea of love. Includes Thom Yorkes best vocal ever on “The Mess We’re In”
P.J. Harvey and John Parish – A Man, A Woman Walked by (2009) – I bought this album song by song. I kept on thinking well “Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen” sux and then a week later I can’t stop listening and then I got “Black Hearted Love” and so on and so on. Like Dirty Projectors, you think you’ve heard it but you haven’t heard it till you’ve heard it.
Primal Scream – XTRMNTR (2000) – Like Vanishing Point only with better songs.