I haven't listened to REM in ten years. Five in the morning, Daysleeper from Up turns up on random. Oddly soothing. I have to clean up my music collection. Or not.
Right now, Shriekback - Gunning for the Buddha. The Hour of Slack for breakfast, then classical, or Death Metal, or Gogol Bordello, or Kaizers Orchestra depending on writing mood.
Or maybe I'll go back and find more stuff I listened to ten years ago.
@robb: it's coming on Ninja Tune in June. It's got the singles (Skeng, Jah War, Ganja, Posion Dart) but the highlights for me are the righteous fire and fury of Ricky Ranking's contributions. New single features Tippa Irie on 'Angry' - totally awesome.
Also my mate Harlequinade's new LP Kraken Wakes will tickle the fancy of anyone who enjoys cLOUDDEAD / Anticon and extreme noise. It's like cassetteboy soundclashing SunnO))))) with doseone on vocals...
The new Pendulum album is just wonderful. I can't say it's massively groundbreaking, and it's certainly a far more poppy album than the Burial one, but it hits all the right notes as a dance album, whilst every track works independently as an actual song, rather than an assembled collection of beats and bleeps. It's also a far more heavily vocal album than the first one. The opening to Granite sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it.