Sorry I've been so lazy with my musical mind droppings in the recent weeks. Busy Daddy has had to try to take in things musically to pontificate about. I have some new and old material that is sure to take you on a wonderful musical journey if you are as daring as me.

The new music scene seemed a bit dry for a while but just spewed forth some great indie albums from some reliable veterans of the genre.

Some Fresh new albums and tracks to check out and why you might like them.

Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing 4.5 out of 6
This band spawned in Philly and has frighteningly good tracks you would have thought T-Rex and Thin Lizzy already wrote.
Songs that highlight them are Young Hearts, Wild Winds, Hope Child

Graham Parker - Imaginary Television 3 out of 6
This Pub Rock and UK New Wave legend that is an excellent Song Writer falls a bit flat but has a couple really nice tracks.
Highlight is Broken Skin. Buy this track if nothing else.

Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 - Propeller Time 4 out of 6
One of the UK's finest Alternative Pop Craftsmen teams up with Peter Buck and some other fine guest like Nick Lowe, and John Paul Jones on a folksy album that has some nice musicianship and a killer song penned by Johnny Marr formerly of the Smiths and currently in Modest Mouse called Ordinary Millionaire.

Avi Buffalo - S/T 4 out of 6
This band from Long Beach takes it's cues from bands like Love, The Grateful Dead, Flying Burrito Brothers, to name a few. Some strong Beachy psychedelia for you. Airy and atmospheric, but may be a bit too falsetto for some.
What's It In For, Five Little Sluts and Jessica are the takeaway tracks from this one.

Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record 5.5 out of 6 (Best this year if my math is correct)
This large group of Canadian Indies has released their most tasty offering of accessibility with a brilliantly textured selection of cleverly written compositions. World Sick, the first single is an awesome example of the swagger these guys and girls exhibit so well. Texico Bitches is poppy and fun. Forced to Love, Art House Director, and Ungrateful Little Father are all top notch tracks. Romance to the Grave and Water in Hell are special too.

The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning 5 out of 6
This band from Wales has been buzzing around XMU on Sirius but just finally got released state side. A great female led post New Wave band that feels a bit like Scotland's Delgados or a bit like Blonde Redhead. Dissonance and layers of shimmering sound to shoegaze around to. Check out the tracks Austere, Whirring and my favorite, The Last Drop.

That will do it for some of the new. I will wrap up this posting below with some of the great albums from yesteryear that I have uncovered and explored over the past couple of months that I think you should know.

The Move- Very Best of
The Move was Jeff Lynne of ELO's first band and the original Do Ya is here, along with I Can Here the Grass Grow, and the original California Man. This UK band might as well have invented Power Pop.

Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians- Fegmania 6 out of 6 stars. This album is brilliance. Tracks like Egyptian Cream, Strawberry Mind, The Man with the Lightbulb Head, Heaven, and Bells of Rhymney show why this lad is criminally overlooked when it comes to creativity in songwriting.

The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong This is for the daring. Dance oriented laconic post punk is definitely not for everyone, but Mark E Smith's peculiar style of delivery and cadence has garnered my interest. Try Powder Keg, High Tension Line, Victoria (cover of Kinks), Green Eyed Loco Man, and Feeling Numb if you're up for a challenge.



Some special Tracks over the past couple months.

Pete Shelley - Homosapien Former Buzzcock drops the band for a drum machine but here it works.
Uncle Tupelo - I wanna Destroy You Alt Country legends cover the Soft Boys on a B-side from Still Feel Gone
The Soft Boys- I Want To Be and (Anglepoise Lamp) Thanks to Pete S for pointing this one out. hard to find though.
Vic Godard & the Subway Sect - Ambition This songs percolates and pops in a beautifully British Punk manner.
The Skids - Animation The Skids had Stuart Adamson from Big Country on guitar and were fine Scottish Punk
Japan - Automatic Gun
Robyn Hitchcock - Out of the Picture Blissful amounts of Reverb and Crunch
Old 97's - Jagged A track that shows why the Old 97's are legendary when it comes to Alt Country
Echo & The Bunnymen - Do it Clean U2 owes these guys a lot of credit.
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - The Crawling This is the best track of Element of Light and really exhibits the strong song structure that this lad is the master of.

That's enough for now. It's time to go out and spice up those playlists, because hearing the same shit over and over gets old.

Please let me know what you think.