Blue States - First Steps Into… (Amazon, iTunes), Disrupt - Foundation Bit (Amazon, Boomkat), Faithless - Forever Faithless: The Greatest Hits (Amazon, iTunes), Faithless - To All New Arrivals (Amazon, iTunes), The Future Sound of London - From the Archives Vol. 1 (Amazon, Boomkat), Iron & Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog (Amazon, iTunes), Lusine Icl - Language Barrier (Amazon, iTunes), Mum - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy (Amazon, iTunes), Radiohead - In Rainbows (homepage), Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (Amazon, iTunes).

Biosphere - Dropsonde (Amazon, iTunes), Brazilian Girls - Talk to La Bomb (Amazon, iTunes), Clogs - Lantern (Amazon, iTunes), Ensemble - Ensemble (FatCat, iTunes), Johann Johannsson - Dís (Amazon, iTunes), Englabörn (Amazon, TouchShop) and IBM 1401, A User’s Manual (Amazon, iTunes), Kiln - Vaporbend EP (Boomkat, iTunes), Max Richter - Songs from Before (Amazon, Homepage)

Spook Country is William Gibson’s first new novel in four years. It comes out next week, so I pre-ordered my copy yesterday. It is set in the present day like his last novel, Pattern Recognition which I recommend. A few years ago I re-read his seminal cyberpunk thriller Neuromancer and hope to do the same for his other novels. Thing is, I may have to interrupt my current reading of the complete Harry Potter series (I’m halfway through book 3 right now), since I always find Gibson’s novels un-put-down-able.

Make note of these recent and upcoming album releases:

• Enon - Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence
• New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
• Dining Rooms - Experiments in Ambient Soul
• Bonobo - Live Sessions
• Royksopp - The Understanding
• Esthero - Wikked Lil’ Grrrls