(over 40's only) Your favourite album of the year so far?

[Icy Gull]

Don't get it then.

Heard all tracks on line and pre ordered

Will obviously give it a chance, as I loved the last one. Might be pleasantly suprised to find it is a progression and not a rehash of what they have done before.

Plenty of bands can't move on, just curious if they were one seeing as the last album was so massive. Keane had the same problem imo.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Last night I listened to Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles and thought it was pretty good if you like weired bloopy sound effects in your house music.

But definitely album of the year is

'Omega', by Asia.

Saw them live at High Voltage, and will be seeing them again at London Forum in December.

And if anyones interested, I use a full-on NAD Silverline setup ( S500 CD, S400 Tuner, S100/200 pre-power amp ) combo with Dynaudio Audience 10 loudspeakers, plus a couple of rarely used NAD casette decks ( one now v. unreliable ) and a Rega Planar 3 / Sumiko Blue Point Special record deck.

No, I don't download !

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

my very first hi-fi system of separates i bought around 1970. it consisted of an A & R deck, Trio Amplifier and Celestion Speakers.

The deck was AR ( Teledyne Acoustic Research ) from the US, not to be confused with A & R ( Cambridge ) who became Cambridge Audio, went bust and the brand was taken over by Richer Sounds who now make electronics not worthy of the name under that brand.