Gone and Back

Sorry for the hiatus, work has done a disappearing act on all of my free time. In the meanwhile, here's a playlist of current favorite songs:

• Orenda Fink - High Ground
• Conor Oberst & MVB - The Reason #2
  
• Rural Alberta Advantage - The Dethbridge in Lethbridge
• Friendly Fires - White Diamonds
• Fleet Foxes - Your Protector
• The Choir of Young Believers - She Walks

And now for a list of yet to be released albums I'm looking forward to hear:

• "Daisy" by Brand New
• "Vapours" by Islands
• "Ask the Night" by Orenda Fink
• "Earthly Delight" by Lightning Bolt
  

Finally, a list of artists with albums slated for this year that I'm slightly intrigued by but won't necessarily go out of my way to listen to:

• Dashboard Confessional (those songs about heartbreak and self-loathing better play over more than 3 chords or I'm giving you the "one trick pony" card, Chris Carrabba)
  
• Backstreet Boys (seriously??)
• Creed (wow, I guess Scott Strapp got tired of being poor and wants to bang the Christian anthem for more money)
• OK Go (produced by David Fridmann and entitled "The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky?" Bring on the Flaming Lips comparisons!)
• 30 Seconds to Mars (hahahahaha, you're a band?)

And with Pavement announcing their reunion tour, I wonder which Britpop bands from the 90s are left to reunite? Blur's back, Oasis is halved, and Jarvis Cocker is enjoying his tweed art professor look too much to reunite Pulp. So Suede's left. Really, that's it?