What usually happens is that we buy an album or two by a new-to-us band and those are the only albums I'll ever like by them.  Unless all their albums sound the same.  It doesn't matter if we get the newest albums or the oldest albums, I like the ones we get first.  It's kinda funny, really.  I can't control it, it's just the way it is.

So it's really weird that I'm digging the new Department of Eagles albums we bought.  First we got In Ear Park, which I LOVE LOVE LOVE.  So wonderful.  Completely.

Just last week, Andrew got their previous album, The Cold Nose, which sounds completely different, even within itself.  And I LOVE LOVE LOVE it, too.  Love it!

They are like a mixture of Elliot Smith, Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Can, Portishead's most recent album, with just a hint of Of Montreal, the Cure, the Strokes, and Sufjan Stevens thrown in.

Sound interesting?  Listen.