Listening too long - to one song

I'm sure I sent most of our regular readers an email announcing my new radio show on Resonance FM, and some of you have even listened in (audition, 9.30pm on Sunday nights, listen again facility soon to be available at our website). Those of you who did tune in (and/or any of you who've ever heard my Toshi Nakamura CDs) will have bemoaned the lack of tunes and may even have wondered whether I like this stuff out of spite and perhaps have something against harmony and melody.

Au contraire. I love proper pop songs too, it's just that I find little in the current scene that interests me. But I'm raving about my latest discovery.

If you read Pitchfork or Stylus (or for all I know, Mojo) you'll probably be familiar with them, but The New Pornographers hit me like a bolt from the blue. Or more precisely, the towering pop genius of "Sing Me Spanish Techno", a track from their latest album, "Twin Cinema", did. It is the catchiest thing I've heard in years. I heard it by accident, as I happened upon Liz Kershaw's show on BBC7 one bored Saturday . I downloaded an MP3 of it onto my pc and had it looping on my RealPlayer over and over and over. It stuck in my head for days. I found myself singing "Listening too long - to one song!" in the weirdest places. And yet I still haven't "listened too long" to it.

My order for the album is in at Amazon. And you can hear the track in question in full by clicking on the title in the paragraph above. MP3 blogging comes to The Lock In!

This is the band, a Canadian super group no less:

And here's a picture of singer Neko Case in her underwear.