Countdown to the Next Great Album of 2006

So the new Pearl Jam album is still on heavy rotation on my CD player at the moment, but already I am excited about the new Radiohead album. I fell in love with Radiohead around OK Computer (I just loved Paranoid Android - a real me type song!!). I never really got into Pablo Honey and, although I likeD The Bends, I was never really a fan until OK... came out. Then came Kid A and I was once again impressed. I have always felt that Radiohead fans fall into two brackets, the ones who love The Bends and the ones who love OK Computer. I was lucky enough to see them when they toured with Kid A and they blew me away. I always felt with that album that it was really difficult to hear any other CD straight after. It just made everything else seem so mediocre.

Anyway, I am excited not only because of the new Radiohead album, but also because of Thom's work being released in July. I received the following e-mail from W.A.S.T.E today:

this is just a note to say that something has been kicking around in the background that
i have not told you about.
its called The Eraser.
nigel produced & arranged it .
i wrote and played it.
the elements have been kicking round now for a few years and needed to be finished & i have been itching to do something like this for ages.
it was fun and quick to do.
inevitably it is more beats & electronics.
but its songs.
stanley did the cover.
yes its a record!
no its not a radiohead record.
as you know the band are now touring and writing new stuff and getting to a good space
so i want no crap about me being a traitor or whatever splitting up blah blah...this was all done with their blessing. and i don't wanna hear that word solo. doesnt sound right.
ok then thats that.

i think its out in july and im pretty certain XL are going to put it out.

love thom

www.theeraser.net

I doubt you read this Thom, but I hope you don't mind me posting this. I'm excited, sounds great!! So expect me to start going on about this and the next Radiohead release a great deal through June and July. What a great year for music!!! And there are still albums from Muse, Audioslave and Incubus to come!!