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Looking forward to the James Holden and the Animal Spirits album - songs heard so far have been pretty good...

Re the former: I'm going backwards on it - liked it more when I first heard it, now rating it 6.5/10. Re the latter: the tracks I've heard are pretty good. More of a Barnett than a Vile fan, but this seems to steer a line down the middle, with entertaining words and jangling guitars and, for me...

Apart from the singles, I'm particularly liking track 4. The Alvvays album is also very good - maybe one for the C86 thread?

I remember her. Popular with Kerrang readers.

Too many albums to catch up with: Nadine Shah, Mogwai, LCD Soundsystem, Alvvays, The National, reissue of first Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever EP. I'm drowning in (multi-coloured) vinyl. Thank goodness I decided not to pursue an impulse buy of the Paramore album that's just come out on vinyl...

Can't quite make my mind up about these two albums. I prefer Japanese Breakfast - especially the tracks that don't sound like an update for a Twin Peaks soundtrack album, but that unfortunately wipes out half the album. Diving Woman, The Machinist, The Body Is A Blade and This House (plus...

My middle-aged man's quick picks include: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - French Press Slowdive - Slowdive Ride - Weather Diaries Perfume Genius - No Shape Laura Marling - Semper Femina Hoping to be inspired by some "new" new music this summer at festivals.

New Ride album today - looking forward to this one about 7.5 out of 10. Of the three new tracks I've already heard, I would describe them as "not bad" rather than "amazing". Happy to upgrade if they've saved the best songs for the full release.

Fair enough - fades badly on side 2 I would say. Haha - you don't ask for much, do you?

Anyone else very much enjoying the Pixx album? Nice and soothing after a long night watching TV. Don't think I want to see any more politics for a good long while after the past couple of months. Ulrika Spacek: I'm thinking curate's egg, but ultimately a little lacking in variation? And, pretty...

I can't really make my mind up about Mac DeMarco: it's OK, never amazing, maybe quite pleasant, but somehow I always expect the next album to be different and better and it's more of the same. I can't actually imagine having a really strong opinion about his music. However, I'm seeing him live...

Couldn't really get into the second; I'll try the first.

:thumbsup: can't remember where I left all my blank CDs though - bought a job lot (25) in anticipation of a load of NSC Secret Santas a few years back.....

I think I need to do a euphoric melancholic mix for the weekend now. Pretty sure Pevenseagull did a thread on this about a year ago. Could have the two Interpol tracks and the Slowdive song mentioned above, plus probably bung in When The Sun Hits by Slowdive for good measure, You Never Should by...

Ha ha! Well, you live and learn, I suppose. I'm next seeing Slowdive at the End of the Road festival, which has a pretty decent line up and I'm looking forward to introducing the kids to the magic of the band, although they may be embarrassed to see dad's moist eyes as the music takes control.

I'm fairly predictable - anything that combines euphoria and melancholy, from pop to indie to electronica and beyond, floats my boat the most. I remember buying the PDA single, not having heard it, and obtaining sustenance from the last three minutes for weeks.

I'll second that. Even the Slowdive-by-numbers No Longer Making Time has you longing for the guitar cascade to pile in like a ton of icicles.

You need to see them live - they're something else. The sound is the saddest but most immersive comfort blanket ever made.

It's a peach. I could just listen to the first minute or so of the first song on repeat for an hour and I would be in pieces; probably best to listen to the whole thing, to be honest, but it's chiming, beguiling, loud, quiet, beautiful, sad and joyous. A keeper.

Yoshimi was only a bit below that.