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some new albums have been released these past months. there was once when i knew about all the new releases of my favourite bands and i would download/buy them ASAP. these days though, it's a different story. sometimes i'll be reading wiki or wherever and i see WOW NEW ALBUM?!

so anyway, new albums...
blaqk audio - bright black heaven
the xx - coexist
billy talent - viking death march
stars - the north
metric - synthetica

i was in HMV the other day browsing through as usual and then suddenly OMG BILLY TALENT NEW ALBUM IS HERE? quickly grabbed it, and then i glance down and OMG BLAQK AUDIO TOO?!?!?!? grabbed it immediately.

walked around and saw all of the above albums there and i thought if i were to buy them all i'd be $100 poorer, and fuck that so i only bought the blaqk audio album for now.

anyway some time back i saw people posting the xx's new singles on fb, and after a couple of listens, i decided that it was going to be the worst album ever. if these were supposed to be their hit songs, then i guess it was hopeless.

their old album had some catchy songs and the rest were some kinda spaced out music and from that 2 songs, it seemed to me that they had given up their catchy tunes for the spaced out music. the album would just be zzz.

well i ended up downloading the album anyway (boredom forced my hand) and surprisingly as a whole it was quite good. the songs blended well together and i just felt the melodies were more subtle but really stayed there once it got into my head.

and although it is after just one listen, i think the biggest disappointment would be metric. listen for yourself.