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Day Eighty Six (Year Three)

Seeing as most of S's music is over here now (we have until the end of the month to integrate the rest of the stuff from her place over here, so there may be more music, I don't know), I have started the process of going through it all.  It's so fun to have a bunch of giant cases full of music just sitting in the dining room, it's like I went on a giant music buying binge, and I didn't have to pay for any of it!

Some part of this process involves going through all of the cases, and seeing if the CD inside matches the case.  Or, in some cases, if there actually is a CD inside the case.  That will be the interesting part, as this process slowly continues, setting aside the empty cases, and seeing how many of them get music put into them as we go along.  S. has already told me that it will be good for the safety of her music collection that we're married, because as much as she loves music, I'm better at taking care of it than she is.  I will take up that mantel gleefully.  I think maybe I'll have business cards printed up that have my name on them, and the phrase "in charge of all the music for my household."  Okay, so I'm not really going to do that, but still.

One of the albums I stumbled across the other day that was in its own case was a record by a band I've always heard a lot of good things about, but never really heard.  (The preceding sentence needs to have a blog post of its own at some point (or more likely, a series of posts).  Anyway, it was a record called The Dust Of Retreat, and it's the debut album by Margot & The Nuclear So & So's.  They get classified as "indie rock" by a lot of people, and I can definitely see that, but in listening to bits and pieces of their debut, the nerdy musical catchphrase that came to mind for me was "chamber pop," with some completely acoustic moments thrown in for good measure.  I'm not fully qualified yet to give a complete review, but based on the bit of listening I did do, I'm really curious to hear their other stuff.  

Still not sure how we're going to be able to meld the two music collections together yet, but that can be another project for another day, as most of it still needs to be sorted out.

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