Symmetry - Themes for an Imaginary Film

 Nic Newby likes this.  This is perfect rainy-day music.  Mellow and somber and introspection-inducing.  I should know; it's a rainy day right now as i review it.

David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant

 Nic Newby likes this.  At the same time whimsical, symphonic, and dark.  Just like David Byrne and St. Vincent!

d'Eon - LP

 Nic Newby likes this.  There wasn't as much Céline as I expected.  But a great rainy afternoon sit-in-a-dark-house-and-think-about-what-you've-done album.  Also recommended if you like Seal (1994).

Chairlift - Something

 Nic Newby likes this.  This album falls somewhere between Ladytron, Florence + The Machine, and Air. How does one fall "between" three different bands?  Listen to find out.

Titus Andronicus - Local Business

 Nic Newby likes this.  Well, that was fun!  It reminded me of so many smoky, sweaty, muggy-as-heck basement shows from my youth a year or two ago.  But of course all the best parts of those shows.  It was raw AND peppy AND scratchy.

The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)

 Nic Newby likes this.  I was afraid from the track titles that this album was going to be a little pretentious.  However, it turned out to be perfect music for listening to a typhoon blow in on a muggy-as-hell summer night.  Some parts are even too scary to listen to alone!

Blithe Field - Warm Blood

 Nic Newby likes this.  I judged this album by its cover.  But in this case, that was a good thing.  it's one of those melancholy-background-music-over-nostalgic-samples types of albums, but it's so well done that a tear may come to your eye, one tear to each eye alternating for each song.