I'd really like a shopping spree at Tower...

Except there aren't any Tower locations in the US anymore... used to be one in midtown Nashville and Opry Mills... no more. Thanks mp3s. Or Limewire, etc. What's the efficient way to pirate music these days? Tangents?

Anyway, I've apparently missed the release of Eleisha Eagle's last four albums (although I don't think I can even buy physical copies of her albums; thanks music pirates that made CDs practically obsolete) and Royksopp's Junior and I need this album (and so do you):

Listen and watch XX by The XX.

Write up from "Rough Trade Shops" (some too cool for school UK music site):

THE XX

xx

Release Date: 17/08/2009

the xx are four precocious 19 year olds from south west london who provide the hushed minimal strokes of young marble giants and early cure but through the minds of a young act obsessed with the r&b turns of ciara and aaliyah, having gone so far as to cover the latter's 'hot like fire' as the b-side for their first single, 'crystalised' and having first been picked up after recording a sensational version of womack and womack's 'teardrops'. having signed to xl sub-label young turks earlier in the year the band began to record with a host of the finest producers going, including brazilian giant diplo and up-and-coming hotshot kwes the four eventually settled with the option of recording at xl's in-house studio, with 'xx' eventually produced by the band themselves. this is an inspired, broken and uplifting record, packed with melancholic charms that recalls the suburban disillusion of the previous burial records and portishead's 'dummy'. this is a remarkable debut record from a remarkable new act.

I haven't heard the whole thing yet but I am digging everything so far. I haven't been able to search for new tunes, and I certainly am not hearing anything on 102.5 The Party (although they do play "Heaven" by DJ Sammy [click for video, pump up the volume and DANCE] as much as I probably would).

I'll spend some time setting up Pandora so I can expand my listening beyond my iPod and NPR. Pandora doesn't have Eleisha Eagle as an artist? I am so emailing them. She has to go on my "Piano Stories" station with Ben Folds and Regina Spektor...