Aaron's

These are all from Grooveshark, since I haven't bought new music in over a year and a half.

1. Editors - An End Has a Start. I like this more than their new one. Also, I often confuse Editors and the National. There. I said it.

2. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight. They're Scottish, and therefore have no problem singing in ridiculous accents or in using execrable language in love songs.

I should note that I found FR by sifting through the SXSW bands a couple of years ago. How about that?

3. The Thermals - F***in' A. You kind of have to be in the right mood for this. The kind of mood where you want to listen to a guy yell at you for 45 minutes.

4. Sunny Day Real Estate - How it feels to be something on. At one time last year, I was using Groovshark to listen to some old music that I hadn't heard in a long time. I came up with that playlist of songs I remember from the radio in high school, listened to some albums I have lost (like this one), and from there went on a 90's post-hardcore, early emo jag. Anyway, I eventually found this album. I had only heard earlier and later stuff from Sunny Day, and this blew my freaking mind. So here you go.

I had for similar reasons considered an earlier The Promise Ring album, but figured I had to hurry up and post something or Andrew would feel bad.

Andrew's Top 5

They will all eventually be found here. Only have one uploaded so far, but the rest are zipped up and will be doing them this week. Keep an eye on that link. Once I get them all uploaded I'll blog about them, but in the meantime please do enjoy The Temper Trap. I know I did.