Good day.

Won’t spend long typing here as my keyboard’s batteries are looking resolutely unlikely to last the pace of a long essay, but I knocked up a review in my lunch hour, and here is the result. There’s a reason that I usually spend longer on these as will be evidenced, but it’s a unique take, at least.

And I quite like the album.

Hello all, I’ve just returned from a holiday. This has given me plenty of time to write reviews and take in music and games promos, so there should be a sudden flurry of activity before the grating 9-5 stifles my flow once more.

To begin with, here’s a rather pleasant folky offering from Athena - Pretty Things.

I didn’t know who Amy Studt was until last week. Misleadingly labeled as a singer songwriter in the press release, she’s actually more of a former pop princess turned semi-serious Tori Amos imitator. It’s pretty telling that from listening to the album once, I could accurately guess the kind of Avril Lavigne wannabe content she was coming out with before she went all Syliva Plath on an unsuspecting world’s collective arse.

The one bright thing to come out of the hours of my life lost on listening to it is that, if Wikipedia is to be believed, the album is download only. This means the promo I so callously laid into may quite valuable one day. I have no idea who to, though, as you’ll tell from my review.

As Phil pointed out in the previous entry’s comments, my latest games review has actually been up for a few days. I’ve either been too damned lazy to ‘blog it, or I wanted to give the illusion of a steady stream of content. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

Anyway, filling the massive void in content comes a fast blue hedgehog and a morbidly obese (yet surprisingly flexible) plumber, on a mediocre DS mini game spree. Does it deserve its position at the top of the charts? No, but read on to find out why…