Never has an album title been more misleading than that of the third full-length in just three years from the Welsh band Los Campesinos! Even though lead singer Gareth Campesinos! may claim that Romance Is Boring, he then goes on, at staggering length and detail, about romance, and he makes it sound like the most exciting thing on earth.

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I don’t know much about Coldplay, but I know enough to know that my street cred—already rating -43 mega-fonzies—could be squandered completely by admitting I like them.

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At times Of the Blue Colour of the Sky sounds more like a Prince album than anything OK Go has done in the past, and it’s quite an obvious attempt to shake free from their power-pop roots. The band retains their trademark energy though, it’s just directed in a different way musically.

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The best part of doing these reviews is discovering new music that excites and fascinates me, and then getting the chance to pass the word along.

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The Florida based band Surfer Blood made a pretty big splash late last year when their debut single “Swim” became a bit of an underground hit. The single preceded the full-length Astro Coast by a number of months, but it certainly hinted at what was to come.

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Anybody who knew me as a 13-year-old kid in the summer of 1985 had to be mighty sick of this song. I played the hell out of this thing. I bought the cassette and never listened to another song on it, just kept cueing up “Get It On (Bang a Gong)” and air-drumming through the whole thing.

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