Play It Cool in May

After recent posts bemoaning the lack of any decent new music this year I finally bought a brand new CD this month (Bic Runga's Birds)... two actually, although the new Snow Patrol album hasn't been delivered yet. Things look like they're starting to turn around at last, and with promising new releases out today from The Raconteurs and Feeder, and new albums to follow from Scritti Politti, The Upper Room and Nouvelle Vague in the coming weeks, hopefully there should be some good stuff to recommend this time next month. Anyway, here's what I've been listening to lately:

• Scritti Politti - Anomie & Bonhomie (Virgin)
• Bic Runga - Birds (Sony BMG)
• The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives (Eleven)
• The Beloved - Single File (East West)
• Sigur Ros - Takk (EMI)