the fun thing about blogs is the little insights into people’s lives. now we’re not going to be posting our most intimate secrets, but we thought it would be fun to give a little insight into life at electric angel hq. so what aural delights are we subjecting rob (our work exp. student) to this week?

there’s always at least one aimee mann album in the studio cd rack. ‘whatever’ was her first solo album and has some great songs. some people think she’s a bit depressing - we tend to think she’s just rather wry. always good for sing-a-longs.

this was the first elvis costello album i bought. ‘mighty like a rose’ is equal parts tenderness and bile - he just spits the lyrics out in places. a lot of people say his earlier stuff is best, but i think this sounds fantastic.

i first heard this when bradford library had a diverse vinyl section and i would pop down on my lunch break - it had loads of classic stuff, most of it probably original releases but that was before i got too geeky about things like that. anyway, i didn’t ‘get’ soft machine then, but now i think this is wonderful. that said, this is the nearest to prog-rock we get in the studio thank goodness - unless you count radiohead.