Capsule review: Euros Childs - Chops (2006)

A sketchbook, but it's alive. Giddy, silly, 'Donkey island'. I want to sell my house and follow this guy to lala-land. 'No animals were harmed in the making of this record,' the sleevenotes claim. They may have chuckled.

Capsule review: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Sleep/Holiday (2003)

Sleep.

Capsule review: Gastr del sol - Camoufleur (1998)

Hidden gem in the O'Rourke oeuvre. Find the record, then find the gems on the record. An intellectual band. But beautiful.

Capsule review: Cat power - The greatest (2006)

Beyond the Dave Grohl cameo. It hurts when your cult hate makes it and with a pretty good record too. (first listen)

Capsule review: Flaming lips - The soft bulletin (1999)

Turning point. Now boredom serves as existential catalyst. You can smear fake blood and sing 'Over the rainbow' with a gong, but you still got to serve somebody.

Capsule review: Donald Fagen - The nightfly (1982)

Concept album about singing into an expensive vintage microphone.

Capsule review: Flaming lips - Hit to death in the future head (1992)

Great ballad, called 'You have to be joking (autopsy of the devil's brain)'. (first listen)

Capsule review: Patsy Cline - 12 greatest hits (1960-63, 1988)

I get a time shock when she sings 'I've got the records that we used to share' on 'She's got you'. People had record collections in 1936? Oh wait. She could've bought a Dylan album.
Hard to untangle the myth from the records, but just her voice spells heartbreak.