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#01 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There

I listened to this as a download before the CD I'd bought arrived and was very taken with it, so it was the first thing I listened to after completing my CD listening. It's not the most cheerful of albums but very enjoyable nevertheless.

#02 Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

I've listened to this a number of times since its release and while its an interesting and rewarding listen if you concentrate, it's quite throwaway if you try to do other things while it's on. Not bad, but quite a way from my favourite, having listened to the two of them back to back I even like King Of Limbs more.

#03 Nerina Pallot - Fires

Like a lot of artists around the time of its purchase I found Nerina Pallot through friends of friends of people I liked on Myspace.

#04 Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp were definitely in a box marked "I doubt they're my kind of thing" until this album, and I've bought the albums that came before it too.

#05 Karine Polwart - This Earthly Spell

*see Nerina Pallot above - acoustic singer/songwriter stuff - released in 2008, it's her fourth album. I've also got the album before, Fairest Floo'er.

#06 The Undertones - Positive Touch

One thing I've discovered that I never knew is that It's Going To Happen! is one of very few Undertones songs about The Troubles, specifically about the 1981 hunger strikes by Republican prisoners.

I'd forgotten how interesting they'd become by this album, it feels very "now what are we going to do? . . . whatever we like!" to me.