and when i caught it you were out of reach

so... i'm working on an album. i hadn't wanted to broadcast this, for fear of a) it taking forever or b) it falling apart and not getting finished at all ...like what happened with the summer project about this time last year.

but at this (still early) stage, i feel confident enough to say that it will be completed and released within the next two to three months.

like i said, it's still early, but i can reveal that [spoiler alert]:

• it will contain at least eleven songs
  
• it will be a lot more upbeat than the last one
• 'hard to please [a.k.a. sonic thrust]' will be on it
• a couple of the better tracks from that abandoned project will be resurrected for it;
• it will involve some DS action
• it will feature the kaossilator

sporadic updates will follow.

other things keeping me occupied:

the xx's album, xx.

probably the first clear challenger to Two Suns' position as my favourite album of 2009. their music is very minimal but very very effective. simple guitar parts, sparse beats, boy + girl vocals. we'll have to see if it has the power to endure like the Bat For Lashes album has.

celestebroderick.com

i first met celeste in hiroshima a good few months ago, but only recently discovered that she does amazing stuff like this:

charmingly hilarious, hilariously charming and deliciously subversive all at the same time.

depeche mode

again.