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Oh sweet, Manitoba Caribou is going on tour and will be playing Austin on May 13. Would any of you out in blogland want to go? Up In Flames was probably my favorite record of 2003.

It has been a while since I've posted anything about music, so I will add that I really like the new Fischerspooner record, Odyssey. I won't say that it sound different than their first record, but it's different; it's much more pop-oriented, and it doesn't seem to be as thick with irony as #1. My two favorite songs are "A Kick in the Teeth" and "Cloud."

Perhaps fortunately, I listened to the latest New Order record, Waiting for the Siren's Call, a few days before I got Odyssey. My initial reaction was disappointment, partly because I'd hoped that it would sound more like Fischerspooner. When I refined my opinion of the album, I thought that New Order could be a little more like Primal Scream, radically updating their sound, as they did on Xtrminator. As Pitchfork notes, its a solid record, "from a group that doesn't need to prove a damn thing to anyone," but I have a hard time getting excited about it.