What do I listen to?

As I’m sure you can imagine, whenever I meet people for the first time (and it’s happening quite regularly at the moment), one of the questions I inevitably get asked is ‘what are you listening to at the moment?’

My High Fidelity moment is coming… I clam up and say a lot of uhs and ahs, it’s not very eloquent either way. The reason is simply that I barely remember, Last.fm used to do the job for me, but I’m listening to more and more vinyl and fewer and fewer Mp3s. Also, my girlfriend has started to pollute it somewhat, listening to too much Radiohead.

So what I’d like to do is take my time and mention a few artists who are new and exciting me at the moment, they are, in whatever order I remember them:

Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences (Jezus Factory) – awesome live, great lyrics, nice chaps
Gablé (Loaf: ) – best album of 2008 thus far
The John Baker Tapes – coming out on Trunk shortly, absolutely brilliant
Beestung Lips (Capsule) – although they’re not particularly new at the moment

And I think that’s it really, I’ve been listening to a lot of Ninja High School and the Dawn of the Dead incidental music soundtrack recently as well.