Latest music you …euh… obtained

As the film thread: short reviews from your recent downloads/purchases/gifts… anyway, whatever you fancied adding to your collection.

For me, recent purchases (yep, i still buy CD’s so i can scratch them and they’ll end up useless anyway… with LP records i at least learned to be careful, not with those shiny discs).

– Gogol Bordello, Gypsy Punks
Yeah! Violins at pogo-speed. What the Dropkick Murphys do to Irish folk, GB does to Eastern European folk (klezmer, Russian stuff, gypsy stuff). Violins and violence. And DO see ’em live. Brilliant.
– Queens of the Stone Age, Era Vulgaris.
Decent rock with a bit of nastiness. Not really hard, just a tiny bit unpleasant to listen to. Which makes them stand out from a lot of other bands i don’t buy, actually.
– Maximö Park, Our Earthly Pleasures.
A bit slick perhaps, and in a cynical mood i’d say the sound like Spandau Ballet without prozac (but that’s just mean), but pleasant to my ears. It can’t be kick-my-teeth-out music all the time, after all.