TOBACCO, spelled in all caps

I'm two weeks behind on this, I have a lot of catching up to do.

Civilized by Stellastarr* <http://www.stellastarr.com/> - Nothing really
special, but I enjoyed listening to them. Pretty much your standard
poppy, indie type. Listenable, but not really original enough for me.

El Radio by Chris Garneau <http://www.chrisgarneau.com/> - Slow and
folky with lots of instruments like acoustic guitar, piano, horns. Kind
of like a poor man's William Oldham. His web store has a great design
http://www.chrisgarneau.com/chrisstore.html

TOBACCO - The Allegheny White Fish Tapes. - Low-fi recording, uses of
effects on Vocals. Album ranges from acoustic songs to noisy electronic
songs.

Horehound - The Dead Weather - PJ Harvey was only a 50 foot queenie,
Allison Mossheart proclaims herself 60 feet tall. Bjork is only like
5'2". You can be the judge about height vs feminine singer debate,
however if you wanted my opinion, I'd go the short route. This is Jack
White's new project and I only wish he would have

Oskar Started it all

Last week I suggested that Oskar's album "Air Conditioning" was worth a
listen. This week I decided to buy it and I'm quite pleased with my
decision. It it a nice, melodic, ambient album full of soft
synthesizers, guitar, violins and a lovely female voice. What I didn't
realize is that LP2 is actually their new release. By comparison, LP2
is not as good, although I thought it started getting cool at the end.

O'Death : Underwater Nightmare - I don't normally listen to EPs, but I
felt obligated to listen to Underwater Nightmare. It is nothing that I
expected. I'd describe it as heavy bluegrass, mainly because there is
banjo and fiddle. There is also some pirate chanting, in harmony even
-- which is pretty fucking cool. In recap: bluegrass pirate punk.

Bjork: Voltaic: The Remixes - Bjork's remix albums have always been hit
or miss, usually the ladder. However, I enjoyed this one as it is less
repetitive and less terse that some of her previous remixes. In the end
though, it is just a remix album.