Hey believe it or not, I'm almost done listening to all my CDs. Approx 1650 of them in 8 months time.

Today was:

Killdozer - God Hears Pleas Of The Innocent
House Boat - The Thorns Of Life
Joe Jitsu - The Perfect Life
The Maxies - Greenland Is Melting
Knodel - Dawn Of The Butterfly

and a bunch others...

Well done, that is quite the achievement.

I'm surprised your government has not contacted you. An alternative to waterboarding.

The only torture I brought upon myself is that I've hardly listened to any 2015 releases. I know in the past couple of years I've been like "Yeah I'm not keeping up with things as much as I used to" but THIS year especially - I can count on one hand the number of new releases I've listened to.

But on the other hand, now I can't say "I've had this on my shelf for years and I never listen to it." They've all been re-loved and I can justify keeping them for another 15 years.

Andy Human And The Reptoids - Blood On The Wall

This has progressed into my favourite for the year so far.



In a time where so many bands do little to tweak their influences, Andy Human & The Reptoids do what all great bands do: They take the past, hint at the future, and turn it all into the NOW. With punk energy, a new wave sense of economy, and the tap of power pop, these guys fold in Roxy Music, Devo (both the art and the pop sides), early Eno, and Pere Ubu, while making sounds that are very much their own. Raven Sings the Blues has called Andy Human's Freeze album “...a wobble of weird that makes the candy coating delightfully astringent...digesting Devo and Gary Numan through a faded VHS glam punk hangover and knocking the results crisply out of stacked speakers.”

Andy Human & The Reptoids’ debut contains eleven songs, each one a sonic worm that will burrow into your brain and turn you into a Reptoid-humming zombie. Play side one forever, that’s okay, when it is worn out, you have side two to obsess over. Or keep flipping the thing over until you get carpel tunnel syndrome. Whatever you do, you will listen to this. This isn’t a record that gets lost in the stacks. It is one you wear out.

Andy Human is Andy Jordan. You know him from the Cuts, Time Flys, Buzzer, and LENZ (also Razz, Brain Glaze, and Factrix). He is one of the best Bay Area rock & roll song-writers around and an ace on guitar and keyboards.

The Reptoids are Cripe Jergensen, Beast Man, and Ra Diehl. They’ve been doing time in Drunk Horse, Sir Lord Von Raven, Girls, and LAND. Throw them in a bowl and stir them around and you’ve got a couple dozen records out of them, countless festival and SXSW appearences, and too many tours and shows to count.

Andy Human & the Reptoids play some of the freshest & smartest rock & roll being made today and this record is proof of it.