It can be said with great certainty that I am a man full of excuses, especially since the birth of my daughter, and my posting here has been particularly slack-assed. So what have I been up to? What am I listening to? Short answer: a pile of new stuff. The only problem is that I am wicked unfocused, more than normal that is, and all this music is sort of floating about my head like a fog, ephemeral and indistinct.

• Bodycode - The Conservation Of Electric Charge
• Etran Finatawa - Introducing
• Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
• After The Burial - Forging a Future Self
• Dosh - The Lost Take
• DJ Rap - Up All Night
• My My - Songs For The Gentle
• The Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces
• Booka Shade - Movements
• Cinemechanica - The Martial Arts

Now, maybe the problem is that these ten albums are all over the place from the quirky progressive stylings of Deerhoof to the grind of After The Burial and everything in between from the sparse House tracks of Bodycode and the trance inducing song cycles of Etran Finatawa. Who knows.

Anyway, while I continue to nosh on these albums for the weekend I’m hoping to get my head back in the game and knock out a couple of reviews before I am completely buried. So apologies all around for my absence and hopefully your heart remains fond of us here at Candied Pop.