4 1/2 hours remaining: Favourite CDs of 2002:

• Club 8, Spring Came Rain Fell. Very nice indie-pop from Sweden, with just enough electronica.
• Victor Lancaster, Mr. Mention Yes, the guy who plays the plastic bucket drums in Melbourne. And, with the attention of local remixers, this disc is better than you'd expect.
• New Order, Here To Stay (single). New Order back in fine form.
• Ninetynine, The Process. Their best album so far; quirky, sophisticated and with all the energy of their live sets.
• Parsley Sound, Platonic Rate (single). Very laid-back and mellow.
• Stereolab, Sound-Dust. It's Stereolab. Naught More Terrific Than Man is probably my favourite cut.
• Various Artists, Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-1982. Contains a wealth of stuff from proto-synthpop to Dadaist noise to jangly guitar-pop.

Honourable mentions: Sigur Rós, (), Letraset, Snowy Room, Architecture in Helsinki, Like a Call (single) (especially Jeremy Dower's remix), Qua, Forgetabout (the title track is great, though much of the rest is a bit too generically laptop for my tastes), Season, 2,551,446 seconds, Pipas, A Cat Escaped, The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

CDs I meant to get but didn't manage in time for this list: Happy Supply, Crucial Cuts, GY!BE, Yanqui U.X.O., Ivy, Guestroom, some local spoken-word/electronica thing titled Every Third Breath.

Older CDs I listened to a lot in 2002:

• Belle & Sebastian, The Boy With The Arab Strap
• The Field Mice, Where'd You Learn To Kiss That Way (yes, again; I just can't leave it alone, honestly I cannot...)
• FourPlay, The Joy Of
• Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, Bavarian Fruit Bread. Very nice.
• Lush, Split.
• Mogwai, My Father My King. Intense, immersive noise.
• Radiohead, OK Computer, and I Could Be Wrong
• Slowdive, Pygmalion. I travelled a bit, and it made excellent music for journeys.
• The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead. This is becoming my favourite Smiths album.

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