I thought it would be ideal to post up what records I have been buying over the past weeks seeing as how I'm now pretty much an avid record collector.





A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head

Have to say, this definitely is a progressive masterpiece. Their first album was awesome and they still haven't managed to dissapoint. I can't understand why publications like Kerrang and NME have written it off. Maybe because they can't handle that it's not artificially made :P



Japandroids - Post-Nothing

The irony of this was on the way to Rough Trade, Matt Hurst (a person on my course) were discussing this band and so I felt more than a bit excited to find it for a rather reasonable price. It was fifteen fucking quid when I saw it in HMV. But the music itself is very good and has encouraged to look further into the noise pop scene more.



Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

I was a little curious about this one. They've had a lot of buzz recently since their reformation and so the reissues of their first two albums have come back into life. I have to say it's not bad at all and can see myself giving this a few more spins. There seemed to be quite a lot of great bands from the original emo wave. Contenders for the next ATP curated by Pavement?



Jesus Lizard - Goat

Yet another reissue and by a band I've been meaning to obtain material from for ages. I'm hooked!! This really does sound like a straight forward thinking record ahead of its time. Now I can see where bands such as Future of The Left and Pulled Apart By Horses get their influence from. "Seasick" seems to be the one song that sticks out and "Mouth Breather" also deserves a worthy mention.



Tubelord - Our First American Friends

Got this from the lovely people at Banquet Records seeing as how the corporate nazis at HMV didn't appear to stock it. But yeah, it's a solid record and it makes me happy to know these guys don't live too far away from me so that's one good local band in the bag even if the sound isn't too different from their contemporary plas Dananananakroyd but that's certainly not a low point.