New arrival! 65 minutes, 13 seconds

Max Richter
Memoryhouse

Back from a short vacation, and I'm tanned, rested, and ready. Actually, no. More like sunburned, exhausted from a grueling five-hour drive home, and mentally unprepared to return to the working world. In that last respect, I guess it's no different from any given Monday. But while it was nice to be on vacation, I must admit I missed listening to music, so it's not so bad to be back home. The CDs are always happy to see me. And unlike a dog, they don't jump on you and lick you. I like that about them. They're very independent.

Max Richter: Kind of on the ambient side of the spectrum, and I've been collecting a bit more ambient music lately. I'm ashamed to tell you how much I paid for this CD, but suffice it to say it's a rare-ish recording and I paid accordingly. No regrets. Recorded with the BBC Philharmonic, Memoryhouse has a nice array of active peaks and more tranquil valleys--more overtly soundtrackish than most other ambient recordings. His other discs are worth checking out as well: Songs from Before and The Blue Notebooks. I think so far I like those better than Memoryhouse, but I need more time with it to be sure.

Let's just say it rates, um, a little lower on the Richter scale. (Ugh. Sorry.)

Also today:

32:06 October Falls, Marras
32:05 Most of the Taciturn, Silent Accuser
32:02 Laibach, Macbeth
32:01 Autopsia, Death Is the Mother of Beauty
New arrival! 61:15 Inner Vision Laboratory, Insane Reality
New arrival! 60:47 Loscil, Submers
New arrival! 58:06 Schallfaktor, End of Love
New arrival! 50:02 Wappenbund, Schlacht: The Final Chapter & Blood & Fire
32:01 Oda Relicta, The Crown & the Plough
32:00 Anassane, Lyra