FLEETWOOD MAC - Say You Will (Warner)

Didn't have much to say about this or Modest Mouse's new one (both decent records by bands whose old ones I hadn't absorbed quite enough to feel sure I needed more of the same); wasn't going to write. Then during Buckingham's "Miranda" I literally forgot which of the two albums I was listening to and couldn't convince myself of the singer's identity for several lines. A clue to something I'd failed to recognize in either of them?

FRENTE! - Labour Of Love EP (Mammoth)

Looking back, Angie Hart should have been the duchess of guilty pleasures (and since Frente were the THIRD band to cover "Bizarre Love Triangle" in more or less the same indiepop female-vocal style, they may not have been very original but nor could they have been blamed for some kind of new cultural contamination, as people seemed to think the cover constituted back then). But the same currents that brought this cute little band to temporary fame elevated a few too many other bands with similar surfaces, and so Frente! sounded worst, contextually speaking, right when they had their moment in the sun. Good EP. Very short songs. I just wish it was a little bit more succulent, because I have the energy to like them as a guilty pleasure, and not quite enough to like them as a lost cause.