Record Reconstructor

This week:  G Flip, Eels, East 17, Britney, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Jurassic 5, DJ Format, Run The Jewels, Gemma Heyes, Incubus, Johnny Flynn As I write these words, it is 5.38am, and I've been awake for about two hours - certainly at least long enough to listen to two albums since I dragged myself out of bed so I wasn't also disturbing Catherine's sleep as well as my own; I'm sure anxious insomnia isn't a gift I should be sharing.  But I'm going to choose to consider my brain's response to the continuing collapse of western society as a very well-hidden blessing, as I have a busy Sunday planned so this early start gives me a chance to get a jump on getting this blog post written and up in good time before I start cooking a Palestinian mezze meal for my friends and spend the afternoon playing Rock Band 3 with them, which promises to be a very welcome distraction so long as I am able to stay awake through it. It's been a pretty rugged mental health week b...

   Dashboard!  I knew that by committing doing these weekly wrap ups each week that I was going to have to scoop up a bunch of albums in one big megapost in order to try and stick to the brief.  I don't think I realised quite how many different records I was going to have to skim past with just a sentence or two - often critical darlings and personal favourites all getting the drive-by shooting treatment as they become just another statistic on the relentless journey to 1000, but here we are.   What I can do, before I dive into all the albums I listened to this week, is talk about about how I've ended up picking what I listened to.  Originally, my thought process was pretty route one - there must be a thousand albums I've listened to that I can name off the top of my head, let's just start grabbing stuff out of my mental list of music and throw it scattershot across the week.  Now, obviously, there are times when I've picked a particular artist to...