The biggest question facing me when I woke up this morning – what to listen to first? ¡Forward, Russia! ran out winners in a lucky dip between the four new CDs I’d bought this week, so on the stereo they went. Initially, I’d planned on posting while I was listening, but then decided against it. After all, one of the things I was trying to achieve with this experiment was my rediscovery of the joys of simply sitting down and putting some music on. So that’s what I did. And, to be honest, I don’t think my original plan would have worked anyway, for one simple reason – Life Processes is bloody brilliant.
I really cannot remember the last time I enjoyed an album this much on first listen – in fact, I’d probably have to go back to the first time I heard either Morning View by Incubus or Metallica’s Master of Puppets way back in (I think) 2003. Maybe, since then, I’ve listened to so much music and given so many albums no more than a second listen that a lot of it has rolled into one, and perhaps that’s dampened the impact of a lot of what I’ve listened to over the last five years.
Now, I’m not saying that Life Processes is going to have the same kind of impact as those two albums did all those years ago, but you never know. After all, it’s the first album I’ve willingly listened to in three weeks, and that, in terms of my music listening, is a very long time. One thing’s pretty certain, though – I think I’ve found a new favourite album of 2008.
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