Now I should really preface this post by saying I'm usually not a big fan of electro-anything. Not snobbish, just doesn't do much for me. However, this album has struck a chord, as it were.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/richardsmonica -- This site has samples of the album.

I won't call it the greatest work I've ever heard, nor one of the best albums released this year. I will call it interesting, though. I could try to sum up its contents by saying it's an album where she...

Well, now it isn't. I hope you didn't come here expecting any sort of fantastic diatribe or compelling revelation into the workings of the universe.

I can talk about Diatribe, of course, or maybe Red Temple Spirits or Pagans, or possibly even A Certain Ratio. I know music, so I might just do that. Plus it'll get Ymir's blood and Watser? to comment and recommend more music. It just might be a diabolical plan in the making.

But for right now I'm happily sitting at...