As I've mentioned in the land of previously, Bishop Allen's releasing a four-song EP every month for the next twelve. I got my copy of the second EP, appropriately title "February," in the mail the other day, only it had a big old fractalated crack in it, thus rendering it unplayable. I fired an email off to the fine folks at Bishop Allen (1/2 of whom are named Christian) and, without question, complaint or comment, they sent me off a replacement, which arrived today.
The music on February (and the music on January, although I didn't stop to mention it earlier) is awesome. However I'm finding the whole thing tantalizingly frustrating, a sort of hot, musical strip-tease. The four songs are good, after all. Pretty damn good, actually. But just when you're getting into the groove -wham!- there ends the EP. The listening will be much easier when the next two or three months' EPs come out, I imagine; I'll put them all in the stereo at once and listen to them in as if they were but one album, with only the tiny whirring of the multi-disc changer spinning in a circular fashion every 15 minutes or so to give lie to the illusion.