Woah, I just did the biggest chunk of writing I’ve done in ages! It feels good, as if that bloke who wrote Catcher In The Rye had come and got off with me himself. Alas but that would be ghost rape; which I swear i’ve read about before. You can’t make memories like that up – either that or I’ve been imaging Casper the ghost to be Jack the ripper’s next victim.

Finally LOST is back and I was LOST without and so thankfully I’m not LOST because LOST has found its way back, albeit slightly, probably, definitely, illegally back onto my macbook screen. However I couldn’t streaming it because my bastard housemates were stealing all the bandwidth for Call of Duty, which I know think of the next big cult, kinda like a militant version of Scientology – oh wait…

On the Funnyology train of thought I was reading about John Travolta flying over to Haiti in his Jet earlier this week to give those poor people some aid. It was less the aid and more ‘I flew my own jet plane’ that interested me – note to self learn sympathy; or if you’re lazy list your top 5 feel good songs (High Fidelity style):

The Rocket Summer – Break It Out

Au Revoir Simone – Sad Song (irony makes up the majority of all good lists)

Janet Jackson – Together Again

The Rocket Summer – I’m Doing Everything For You (I know two appearances is laziness on my part)

Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky

Jamiroquai – Stillness In Time

damn..John Cusack makes that look so effortless. Also I wrote this, read it, critique it, go fuck yourself:

Delphic – Acolyte
Delphic’s Acolyte is the first, of hopefully many, seriously impressive debut albums to grace 2010. The band, who hail from Manchester, have obviously done their homework before releasing Acolyte, drawing influence from the successes of the Madchester scene and Factory Records, hints of New Order present themselves in the form of catchy synth riffs and delicately haunting vocals across the album.

The alternative-dance scene is a notoriously hard scene to break into and this reviewer can only name one or two bands that would register on a general scale, Pendulum and The Progidy anyone? However Delphic are different. Instead of bombastic, overblown dance tracks that bring the house down there is a much more relaxed, almost continental style to the ethereal arpeggiated beats – a fact that cannot be lost in the context of the ‘Sound of 2010’ list, in which fellow nominees HURTS possess a similar quality.

Stand out tracks on the 10 song debut include lead single ‘Doubt’ whose catchy chorus echoes through the mind long after the track has finished, whilst the opening refrain of ‘A, E, A, E, A, O…’ is a touch of brilliance. Whereas ‘Halcyon’ is a much more driven track whose erratic beat will have the indie masses dancing all night long in the coming months.

…Yeah Delphic are pretty sweet.