Earth - Phase 3 Thrones and Dominoes

After loving The Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull I thought I'd try this album out as a replacement for a James Blackshaw and Lute recording that I bought on the assumption that it'd be good like his other stuff. Sadly I was left very disappointed with this, it's got lots of noise on it but none of the development and exciting minimalism of recent stuff. Oh well, such is life.

Mastodon - Blood Mountain

I've been listening to Mastodon's latest for a little while and getting more and more in to it. So I bought this off the back of that. It's pretty good, screamy, clear sounding metal. Couple of silly talky bits in it, and a ridiculous last secret track which is a bit pointless. Cracking artwork.