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by gregor on December 4, 2007

sup hommies? not much going on, just trying to wrap my head around my best of the year list, since its that time. one problem i always run into is this: you have one record that is great from start to finish, then you have record two that is maybe has maybe one or two misses on it, but has like 2, 3 or 4 songs on it that are just phenomenal. now, do you go with the more solid record, or the less solid but has those songs that blow you away? thats kinda where i am at the moment.

in other news, amy winehouse aint lookin/doin so hot

one of my favorite records of the ’04 was aloha’s post rocky/poppy here comes everyone. their sophmore release, some echoes, was a bit of a disappointment considering how much i dug their debut, but it seems like they have shaken off whatever kind of rust with their recently released light works.

body buzz off light works

your eyes off some echoes

summer away off here comes everyone

aloha myspace

aloha’s drummer, cale parks, released his illuminated manuscript last year, which flew under my radar, and from what i can tell sounds pretty cool. sounds kinda like postal service, but more 4 tracky and less ben gibbardish. he’s got a bunch of songs streaming on his myspace page.

wet paint

cale parks myspace

i absolutely love athen, ga songstress madeline. more to come about her in the near future, but in the mean time check her out.

two songs from her 07 release the slow bang

sleeping dogs

to hell and back

from kissing and dancing

i left the light on

seeing double

sailing away

more tracks can be found on her site

madeline site