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Left column:
- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Flaming Lips
- Transatlanticism, Death Cab for Cutie
- Final Straw, Snow Patrol
- Hopes and Fears, Keane
- Give Up, The Postal Service
- Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse

Right Column:
- Happenstance, Rachael Yamagata
- Franz Ferdinand
- American Idiot, Green Day
- Garden State soundtrack
- Oh Inverted World, The Shins
- Around the Sun, R.E.M.

Some comments:

I think I’ve ranted enough about how much I enjoy Give Up, though it’s awfully hard to find in Singapore ($35 at Tower Records, ack).

The new Green Day album, American Idiot is quite decent too, though it can’t match Nimrod for excellence (I’m not sure any punk rock can anymore, as I get older and crankier).

Snow Patrol’s Final Straw: very melodic, but nothing exceptional other than “Run” (best song of the summer, IMO).

As for the rest… they’re there to be clicked on, at least, which is more than I can say for the other 100-odd albums in my iTunes library. The new R.E.M. album I’ve yet to listen to, but how wrong can you go? Admittedly, Up was kinda crap but it did give us “Walk unafraid” and “At my most beautiful.”

There, I’ve exhausted everything I can say about what I’ve been listening to. This is what happens when you’re on off and everyone else is at work.