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Today's Order of Business: The Fall (!)

A band that had fallen off my radar since the late '90s, Your Future Our Clutter is a setpiece and should be listened to as such, starting off strong and gaining momentum as it goes. Mark E Smith's snarl has lost none of its edge - you can still hear the spittle fly.

Layers of distortion unpeel as intros to the next cut, which segues beautifully into the next, and so on. The music carries itself like a stage production - I'm betting this story would be way more interesting than American Idiot, with fresher, more satisfying music to boot.

Save this and play it as an apology to your sons and daughters for filling their planet up with mountainous heaps of useless crap.

Today's New Favoritest Song Like, Ever

It's "All I Want" by LCD Soundsystem. Not just by reminding me of my enduring love of Brian Eno, or even imparting just a faint whiff of something as pleasantly forgettable as Psychedelic Furs, it's the slow build that gets me every time. That and the perpetual day-old growth of beard. I can't wait to hear the rest. This is James' wikipedia picture. It's three years old, would someone please rectify this matter immediately? (On second thought, don't. The double chin AND the day-old growth is really working for him. Never mind.)

No Matter What You Think You Know About Music, You Don't Know Anything

Today's case in point, The Method Actors - This Is Still It.

The fact that these songs could languish in mostly obscurity for thirty years (I remember reading reviews about these guys from Athens in-the-know types muttering their name while clutching Pylon bootlegs to their hollow chests - I loved Pylon, R.E.M., the B-52s and Love Tractor but somehow I missed out on these guys.)

This is a two piece (guitarist Vic Varney and drummer David Gamble - no bass player) that will remind you at times of some of the bands that were their contemporaries but on further listening will make you wonder how they missed getting famous. Bouncy and energetic pop that will make you want to jump up and down in a semi-rhythmic fashion that is so early 80s it will make your kids want to retch. Go on, embarrass them, this is a gem.