Pray To Jesus – Brandy Clark – Lovely country track with a vicious and sad (and maybe a tad obvious) vision of white lower middle class America, equating faith with luck. Not inaccurate just a little self-evident – A-
Hungover – Brandy Clark – Robert Christgau rates her very high indeed and while I don’t, it might be worth noting that the first time I heard of Miranda Lambert was in an XGau column (the first time I heard of Bright Eyes, Old 87’s and Jenny Lewis among any others), so I went back and listened again. Not bad – B+
(She) – JD Samson And Men – Soundscape of beeps and beats and techno jive experimental dance with repetition in the nix and intoned calls to a female deity – B+
