Welsh Rich

The first track on this album is an absolute belter...

A bit UK-centric this, but with the closure of one of the biggest chain of independent record stores, Fopp, the other week it is a worrying time. There's now no independent record shops in my town, just HMV or Virgin. I also like the fact Prince is giving away his new album with the paper!

Hmmm - I need to give PP another listen...

Yeha, those 7250's are a real pain, unfortunately their the main handheld used here until the upgrades come through. I've got a motorola razr and that's fine for me!

Yeah, we're still using the one's with the side wheel, though I've not been impressed with the 8300 "nipple" feels very cheap and nasty.

You're a blackberry user Kyle? I deal with them day in day out and I wouldn't touch one at all... Find them very, very buggy.

Alex Ross has endorsed it on his blog... http://www.therestisnoise.com/2007/07/endorsement.html It has been announced today that the 02 network in the UK will be the solo carriers of the iPhone when it comes over here... which is the network I'm on, but I'm not totally convinced...

Yeah, my feelings exactly. It's so concise and focused... love it. Well, being a minor European, shipping for the Spoon pre-order is actually more than the CD itself... so forget that!

Piece on it in the Guardian today, raising similar fears. Though, apparently, she's done some "proper" acting in the past, so we'll see.

Just going to bring this thread back to the top as it's out next week... What a great album this is, it's really clicked with me. Short, sharp and focused... the production is outstanding and seems to have distilled everything that's great about spoon into 10 songs. Shame my promo copy didn't come in a nice package... wonder if the Merge pre-order is still working...

Nice... I'm really loving the new album, it's just really clicked with me.

Paul Duncan - Above the trees Nice americana, plenty of slide guitar... really mellow stuff.

As the cricket is delayed by the rain...