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I only recently got onto Flickr in the past week or so but already I’m addicted. It claims to the worlds best online photo management and sharing application and when teamed with Picasa 2, you have some powerful FREE(!) applications to store and share your photos. You can tag each image into your own or existing category, add favourites from other users or to groups, add comments, add notes onto the image for quick comments, etc’85 It also lets you add your images to your site as random thumbnails, which I’m going to implement onto the new site once it’s built. Check out my Flickr page here.

Heard three new highly-anticipated albums recently. The first is the new one from Moby called Hotel. Not a particularly huge leap forward from Play but it’s sure to please Moby fans. This one is actually even more mellow than Play but probably won’t be as memorable. Favorites so far are the tracks ‘Spiders’ and ‘Temptation’. There is also a special edition release which features 2 discs, the second being instrumental.

Human After All is the new album from French outfit Daft Punk and it’s a fairly crappy record. The title track isn’t too bad, but it feels like it belongs on their 2001 release ‘Discovery’. If you’re a die hard fan, you’ll probably be disappointed with this release and if attempting to be a Daft Punk convert, this album won’t do it. It’s repetitive as hell, pisses you off sometimes and doesn’t reward you in any way. Avoid it.

Finally we come to an album that could be hitting my top 10 this year. Doves have emerged with a stellar follow-up to ‘The Last Broadcast’ called ‘Some Cities’. It combines all the good elements of ‘Lost Souls’ and ‘The Last Broadcast’ to create a brooding yet sometime optimistic and energetic album that pleases the hell outta this fan. It’s interesting to see how this album fares in Australia since ‘Lost Souls’ was a more popular album here as opposed to the universally praised ‘The Last Broadcast’. I still rate ‘The Last Broadcast’ as their best effort but it’s early days still.

But two albums I’ve been hearing the most over the past few weeks are from US singer-songwriter Bright Eyes. I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning is my favourite of the two (the other being Digital Ash in a Digital Urn). It’s indie folk music at its most depressingly best. Bound to turn up in my (and everyone else’s) top 5 albums of 2005. ‘Digital Ash in a Digital Urn’ has some heavy Depeche Mode influences and it’s still a very listenable effort but it’s a less impressionable release. Bright Eyes isn’t exactly music you’d bring out at a party, but if you want the ‘album experience’, he’s an artist to watch out for. He’s touring here in April with REM but also doing a solo show at the Prince of Wales. Probably a gig worth investing in.