Put this album in your headphones while going for a walk, and everything you see will have a decidedly more sinister look to it.

After a small South American tour, a line-up change, and a relatively quiet 2009, British band Los Campesinos! return with Romance Is Boring, the follow-up to 2008’s We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed. Formed four years ago at Cardiff University, Wales, Los Campesinos! consists of seven members (none of whom are Welsh, strangely enough) who have all adopted the last name Campesinos! (Spanish for “country person”) along with a knack for writing upbeat indie pop.
Los Campesinos! is signed to one of my favorite labels, Arts & Crafts (Canada), alongside such …

Boy bands from this era were all about feelin’ good and partyin’ inoffensively, so naturally I thought that “Get Down” would be a call-to-arms for tweens trying to throw dance parties in their parents’ basements. Time would teach me that any party informed by b4-4’s song and thrown by middle schoolers would be disgusting.

Every Friday afternoon DJs, directors and trainees vote on what music makes it to A-list, what ends up on B-list, and what just sucks.
The are the albums have made the cut at WCWM 90.9FM this week, including a few samples for your listening pleasure.

I feel like a bit of an ingrate. I got the latest Eels album and it’s not very good. This itself is unremarkable: I own several albums, and Eels has made bad ones before. The remarkable thing is that the album isn’t even out at the time of this writing. Also, I didn’t steal it from the internet. Their label was kind enough to send me the whole thing –unsolicited I might add — in hopes that I would enjoy it and talk it up a bit. That seems unusually …