Upon the ritual hour, they meet beneath the trees

Brrrr... rubbish day. But! You can download a free EP by Moon Wiring Club here:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3723/

And you should, because he/they are really rather wonderful. The finest purveyor of hauntological sounds not on Ghost Box, by my reckoning.

If you like that, head on over to www.blankworkshop.co.uk and see what else Mr Hodgson and his eerie animal-faced singers have to offer.

In unrelated news, I recently interviewe Eve Myles from TV's Torchwood/Doctor Who. And what a very lovely lady she was too. You can read that at the link below, if you like.

http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=eve_myles_interview_exclusive#comments

Hang along!

Currently in the throes of another bout of Ghost Box obsession this week with the arrival of the new Roj album, The Focus Group's collaboration with Broadcast, and my purchase of their '07 album We Are All Pan's People. In the words of our Prod Ed, I am Ghost Box's bitch. But that's because they're the best label in the whole wide world. Don't believe me? Check the website below.

http://www.ghostbox.co.uk

You can find my Clash mag review of the new Bernard Fevre album here...

http://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/black-devil-disco-club-presents-the-strange-new-world-of-bernard-fevre

Last week I started an episode-by-episode review of the new series of Dollhouse for SFX. See the link below this for episode one,'Vows'. Part two should be up Tuesday/Wednesday, certainly before I head off to Whitby to see my dear ol' mum for her birthday.

RADITUDE!

Bleary eyed today, following a great night on the town with the SFX crew and Filmstar's Steve O'Brien. I got home somewhere around 7.30 this morning, tried to watch an episode of Sky, an odd bit of seventies kid sci-fi which, in my admittedly broken state, appeared to be about a magic boy hiding in some leaves. Witchy and painfully hauntological, man. The Ghost Box folks would love it. Gave up ten minutes in and staggered to bed instead.

Anyway, two things that are making me smile through the pain...

1. Beck, proving he's still a genius. He's currently covering a Leonard Cohen record, one track at a time. Last week's 'Suzanne' was a godawful mess. This week it's 'Master Song' which has somehow mutated into a wonderfully bad bit of impromptu hip-hop.

http://beck.com/record_club

2. Totally stolen from Pitchfork this, but too good to miss. The cover art to Weezer's new record, superbly titled Raditude - a word we should all incorporate into our vocabulary more often, I feel. Just look at that!