Mostly Loudon Wainwright. As I said on the singer songwriter thread the other week, I was really looking forward to his new album as it contained covers of his own songs from his first two albums.

And damn do I love those first two albums. It took a while to get used to the older Loudon singing a younger Loudon's songs. Very weird, the youthful angst and passion wasn't there in his singing at all. But after a while I just fell in love with the songs all over again. Luckily there are no radical departures from the originals, he might make a song a little more bluesy here or countrified there but nothing to get the fans up in arms.

And I've also been listening to his 1999, Social Studies. Unusually for him, it's an album of topical and political songs. It was really a compilation of all the songs he'd recorded for NPR throughout the 90s. So you get a microcosm of 90s America on one album. There are songs about OJ, Jessee Helms, Bill Clinton etc The best song on the album is about Tonya Harding - Tonya's Twirls:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2p2nFwpRh6Q

James McMurtry - 'Where'd You Hide The Body?'

Saw Ladytron on Monday night so been listening to Velocifero again since.

And it makes a lot more sense now - I'd previously given it a couple of spins thought "oh fuck, what have they done?", found it a completely indecipherable mess and gone back to 604 and Light and Magic but I'm really warming to it now.

I am utterly and completely obsessed by Philip Glass' Solo Piano. Haunted by it. It's so perfect.