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Monday, November 08, 2004
I bought a bunch of stuff this weekend while waiting for plans to gel, almost all dance stuff. Yay Kim's. I haven't gotten through very much of it yet, but so far the highlight is unquestionably Dykehouse's "Chain Smoking," which could honestly be a Matthew Sweet song if produced differently (and in contrast to the other songs on this disc, which, um, couldn't). Just lovely. I see gabba/pod posted it at one point, so maybe some of y'all already have it, but if not, find that fucker. It's transparent and catchy and adolescent and reverby and danceatastic and dream-pop + Teenage Fanclubby. The whole album (Midrange) is good, actually, but partially this is due to my fondness for slightly cheesy Juno pad sounds. Whee-ooh...