I’m just about tired of my latest mp3 CD. The first half is pretty good, but there’s a real dead couple of hours in the middle.

• Dido – Safe Trip Home
  It’s good, I blogged about it here
• The Guillemots – Red
  I really wanted this album to be superb, but it was a disappointment. After listening to it a few times through, it’s gotten better. There are a couple of good pop singles like Kriss Kross and Big Dog.
• Justice – A Cross The Universe
  This is their live album with a quippy title (their album was called †). It’s not new material but I’ve felt that I neglected their studio album by not listening enough and this makes up for it.
• Keane – Perfect Symmetry
  The lead single, Spiralling is catchy, but the rest of the album is bland and unforgettable.
• Ladytron – Velocifero
  I downloaded this album around the time I saw Ladytron, and it’s definitely not one of their better albums. Ladytron’s not known for their highs and lows, and a boring album makes it even worse.
• Lenka – Lenka
  This is the token pop album and also highlight of my mix. It’s not the perfect album, but there are some great singles like Knock Knock, Dangerous and Sweet, Trouble is a Friend and The Show:

• Peter, Bjorn & John – Seaside Rock
  This album is horrible, there are a couple of spoken tracks which destroy this album. It’s too bad, because it has one great track (School of Kraut), and although it’s a lot better if you skip the talking tracks, then it’s only like 20 minutes long.
• The Killers – Day & Age
  I wanted to take a listen to see if this was worth buying, but ended up getting it anyways as a filler on Amazon. The problem with this album is that aside from their single, Human, there are no standout tracks. It’s not that the songs are bad…
• The Killers – Sam’s Town
  I wanted to revisit this because I don’t think it should be as bad as I remembered it. The singles are still head and shoulders above the remaining tracks, but the rest aren’t as boring now – maybe my tastes have shifted.

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