joy electric: ministry of archers vinyl

one of my favorite bands in the whole world is the genius known as joy electric. my passion for them cannot really be explained. so i wont bother. the reason i even bring it up is that i finally (after about 3 months of waiting) have received their latest full length album on vinyl! i already have the album on cd, but the vinyl one has two extra songs on it, so i of course had to buy it. i am really excited to finally have it. the only problem now is that i dont actually own a record player. oops. probably should have thought that one through, huh?

weird...

yesterday i heard what might be the funniest thing ever. i heard the music group hanson doing a cover of 'optimistic' from Kid A by radio head. wow. i dont think i could have ever put those two together. what a strange combo... and you know what? i kind of dug it.

reliant k: apathetic ep

i know that reliant k has a certain image among many people. most people see them as a group for 12 year old girls. and for the most part i would agree with you. i would, at least, until i got their last cd "mmhmm." it was actually given to me by one of my student for christmas last year (at the time, she was a 12 year old girl. oh the irony...) and i figured id give it a try. im glad that i did. ive heard their old cds and dismissed them as bubble-gum pop that was trying to be silly. for the mmhmm album they totally grew up! there are amazing songs about love, life, death, and taxes. a fantastic album. probably one i would put on a list of must-haves if stranded on an island.
anyway, they just put out a follow-up ep called "apothetic." i picked it up yesterday and its pretty cool so far. there are three accoustic versions of old songs, and four new songs. one of them , called in like a lion is inspired by the narnia books. (actually, im not really sure if it is, but it sure sounds like it...) on first listen, i would say that its a good ep, but it feels really lopsided. the first two songs are more agressive and rocky, but then there are three accoustic songs, and the last two new ones are fairly quite as well. ill keep listening and write again when i have a better feel for the disk.