It Beats 4 U

In the past month a few new CD's have come out. Of note are My Morning Jacket's Z. The band makes an appearance as the Kentucky band in the new Cameron Crowe film Elizabethtown. I just picked it up yesterday but it is good, in the same vein as It Still Moves, but a better follow up than Death Cab's Plans. David Gray new album, Life in Slow Motion is not the next White Ladder, but better than 2002's New Day at Midnight. Switchfoot also came out with a new album called Nothing is Sound, but it is mediocre at best, although they still have their signature sound. The lyrics are pretty good but don't always fit with the music that they go with. The Beautiful Letdown is a much better album. You can read reviews of these in Paste Magazine and Rollingstone. Although somewhat older, late summer, I am still convinced that Aqualung is the best album to come out since Coldplay's X&Y.