Absolutely Love & Adore:

The Kills “Midnight Boom” So I just kept reading about this band everywhere (like here or maybe here) and I kept thinking “I’ve GOT to check them out.” Yeah, well FINALLY my lazy ass did and I’m pretty damn happy about it. Love the beats, love the lyrics, love the energy. They put on a great set at Lollapalooza but I’d love to see them in some smokey dirty hole in the wall where the sound is so loud I fear for the longevity of my eardrums. Wait, did I say “smokey”? Get with 2008, girl, there’s no smoking in bars anymore…

Favorite Singles (not on any of the above albums):

• “Graveyard Girl” M83
  
• “Be With Me” Foy Vance
  
• “Late Last Night” Robby Hecht
  
• “The Hardest Thing” Patrick Park
  
• “Measure of the Same” Birds of Avalon
  
• “Circles ‘Round the Moon” Nana Grizol
  
• “Take a Bow” Rihanna
  
• “February 5th, 2008” Telekinesis!
  
• “Coast of Carolina” Telekinesis!
  
• “Good Things” Sounder
  
• “U and Me” Trina
  
• “The Last Thing on Your Mind” Lights
  

Other Albums I Liked:

• The Long Blondes “Couples” – Feels very “college” to me as it alternately reminds me of Berlin and Blondie. Can’t get enough of “Guilt”, “Too Clever by Half” and “I’m Going to Hell”. Lots of fun. And their live show is definitely worth it.
  
• Saving Jane “SuperGirl” – Not really sure what impulse made me buy this. Have to be in the right mood for it. But when you are, it’s perfect angry girl music. And “Better Day” has a total Sixpence None the Richer vibe, if that’s your thing.
  
• Death Cab for Cutie “Narrow Stairs” – Nothing on this album quite blows me away the way “Marching Bands of Manhattan” did on the last one…but I think it’s a solid follow-up and the more I listen, the more I seem to like it. I am not into the long jam sessions, however, so I actually prefer the radio edit of “I Will Possess Your Heart”.
  
• Bob Mould “District Line” – There was definitely a period of time when Mould had really fallen off my radar. But then there was a great single out (“Circles”) [doh, in apparently 2005] and then I went to hear him at Old Town and I find myself back on the Mould bandwagon. Maybe not that exciting, but always solidly rockin.
  

Not really for me / but maybe for you!:

Nelo (self titled) – No idea where this one came from, did I hear a single from it somewhere? Who knows. I like the song “Walkin’ Around” but otherwise it’s all way too Dave Matthews for me.

Duffy “Rockferry” – I can see why people like this non-boozed-out-of-her-gourd Amy Winehouse-type, part of the “British birds do R&B” crowd. She’s got a very distinctive voice. But it’s just not a style of music I often get the urge to listen to. I don’t mind when these songs come up on shuffle, but I don’t go lookin’ for them either.

Shamefully have either not listened to at all, or not all the way through, or so few times that I can’t legitimately offer an opinion:
Seems like a kinda slow month for buying music (did I just not spend money that month? Or did I spend a lot of it just on other things?), doesn’t seem to be anything I didn’t at least listen to a few times.