The Creatures - (misc)

True enough, most songs sound pretty much like Siouxie and the Banshees, if just because of her voice. And many of them are just as amazing.

• "Pluto Drive"
• "Don't go to sleep without me" (almost - but not at all - a Bond song)

Dan Mangan - "Blacksmith"

Though particularly the first couple of songs of this album are not terribly special, I keep returning to this singer-songwriter album (musically more advanced than man-with-guitar.)

Is it just the latter songs (the slow "War Spoils"?) that mean more to me, or is the build-up so good that even while working I pick up the intensifying mood as the album progresses?

Definitely the final "New Skies", full nose-diving trumpets and harrowing vocals.

Tim Minchin - "If I didn't have you"

Even though I am fiscally consistantly pitiable
And considerably less Brad Pitt than Brad Pitiful

...

And if I may conjecture a further objection, love is nothing to do with destined perfectionThe connection is strengthened, the affection simply grows over time
Like a flower
Or a mushroom
Or a guinea pig
Or a vine
Or a sponge
Or bigotry
... or a banana

...

But I'm just saying
I don't think you're special
I-I mean, I think your special
But you fall within a bell curve

Chasmaporthetes

Chasmaporthetes, also known as hunting or running hyena, is an extinct genus of hyenas endemic to North America, Africa, and Asia during the Pliocene-Pleistocene epochs, living from 4.9 million to 780,000 years ago, existing for about 4.12 million years.

Its name means "he who saw the canyon", because it was the only one of its kind to cross the Bering land bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasmaporthetes