Let's keep it on the music... and sweet tarts.

I'd first like to start off by saying this was more supposed to be for friends of mine who get bored easily with their music, but I already have people in 20 states and Canada reading. Keep it coming and thank you. I like music and I'm glad you do too.

My list keeps growing... 62... count 'em... 62 albums. Good news is I have a nice mix here: some hip hop, some rap, some techno, some electronica, some rock, some classical, some jazz, some avant garde, and some undefinables. Bound to find something good... and something great.

Anyway, the real reason I'm up is because, as I was compiling my list, I went into my downloads folder and started going through some albums I've had sitting there. If you do anything productive tomorrow, let it be grabbing Break Science's Further Than Our Eyes Can See. Imagine Pendulum meets hip hop. Their songs are very beat heavy - what I mean specifically is that the beats control the songs and they are quite impressive; the rhymes could be complete nonsense for all I care. I should be in bed right now dreaming about property law, but instead I'm stuck on this hypnotically-pulsating album. It deserves a big thumbs up and a giant pat on the back. As a note: If you're unfamiliar with Pendulum, I highly recommend their album Hold Your Colour.

Solar Bear's Inner Sunshine EP has some moments of hesitant excitement mostly because parts of the album are not expected. Listening to the first song, I thought I was going to go crazy for these guys. Trans Waterfall is perfect. It doesn't necessarily follow a predictable pattern, but it builds upon itself, becoming a multifaceted layer of manufactured sounds at times, but the sounds mostly just overlap at the tail end of their lifetimes in a way that I can hear is highly methodical. Then the second song comes in and begins with a slowly vibrating organ, sustaining rather bizarre chords, and with a very nice vibraphone-sounding melody over it. A syncopated 12-string guitar then comes in to complete the song, along with other harmony parts. And this is all very nice and enjoyable. But then all of a sudden this crunchy guitar comes in from out of nowhere and static begins to envelop the once soothing melody. This is how the rest of the album progresses. There are moments of calm and then moments of crazy. It could be a better album, but all in all it's definitely a keeper because the moments of greatness strongly outshine the few moments of bleh-ness.

I'm also eating sweet tarts and the back of my jaw is starting to sting.

More to come.

Cheers, Jonathan