Gerrardasnails:What an album!
The CD is gathering dust on top of my turntable. My wife bought it for me as a recent birthday gift, but I can't stop playing All Delighted People EP by Sufjan "better than Snow Patrol,Mr.Duncan" Stevens.
It's becoming an obession. Like being a kid and repeatedly playing the few records you had in your possession. In my case, circa '77, aged 12, it was ELO's New World Record, The Beach Boys' 20 Golden Greats, The Beatles 67-70 and The Story Of The Who. There is joy and value in compilations when it's all new to you.
I digress, but only Robert Plant's new one has been able to supplant the might of Sufjan. Neil Young's new album should arrive today, so that will be given a blast or two.
So I need to decide whether to actually play The Suburbs - I've got their first two, and mildly took to the first one - or leave it unplayed for a few months or a year. I take a silly, perverse pleasure in owning a current rave-reviewed album and refusing to play it. Friends and colleagues will blather on about it, like me with Sufjan, and appear incredulous when I say I haven't got round to it yet. The more they implore, the more I ignore.
Thanks Gerrard for the pointer.