I actually didn't mean to vanish...

But something about Echo and the Bunnymen has defied giving me a hook to write about, and I've had other projects looming. You know how it is.

Here's Album-a-Week Talking about the XX album that everyone's all gaga over:

Negative space, purposeful hesitation, simplicity and raw awkward understated talent are what make this album brilliant. Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith have birthed a masterful and original debut.

I suppose that's true. To me it sounds like a band sitting in it's bathtub and farting. But I haven't been in the most creative mood of late.