And a big ol’ batch of AMG reviews here…

A little extra work lately can be a good thing…

• v/a — Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway
• Night Wounds — Allergic to Heat
• Island — Orakel
• Attrition — All Mine Enemys Whispers
• Water Fai — Girls in the White Dream
• Lazy Magnet — Is Music Even Good?
• Instant Orange — Instant Orange
• Graham Macrae — Graham Macrae
• Patron Saints — Before Bohob
• Vendetta Valentine — There’s Nothing Safe
• The Weird Weeds — I Miss This
• AGF — Words are Missing
• Voyager One — Afterhours in the Afterlife
• Explorers Club — Freedom Wind
• Eric Bergman — Modern Phonography/Sending Out Signals
• v/a — Sumatran Folk Cinema
• Strangefire — Ezion
• The Secret — Disintoxication

Thursdays = busy confusion

Or so it’s seemed to me plenty of times. Quite a full day at work — no complaints, but there’s been everything from building-evacuating fire alarms to last minute reserves nuttiness and more besides. In brief:

• Noel Mostert’s The Line Upon a Wind is a good overview of the naval wars during the Napoleonic era, with particular emphasis on the British and American navies but less so on the French. A lot of familiar stories and situations but described engagingly; recommended for anyone wanting an in-depth but still popular audience-oriented history of the times and the navies in question. Will be published here in the US in June.
• Another day of the political wrangling among the Democrats makes me think further that people all need to chill….everywhere.
• All Bobb Trimble fans — and I know you’re out there — should check out the work of Strangefire. Very good duo, and they have the blend of Trimble’s kind of spacey float with tempered anger down solid.

Otherwise more later after trying some new recipes.