Has anyone every told you, Mr. Kaplan, that you tend to overplay your various roles rather severely?

[fr_defenestrato]

The current role, one that I overplay, um, egregiously (take a moment to hear James Mason render that word) is that of 'collector'. Pursuant (in part) to my recent inquiry about new music, I purchased and downloaded from Amazon eighteen albums, one of which (Joanna Newsom's latest) is triple-length.

• Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma
• The Radio Dept.: Clinging to a Scheme
• Caribou: Swim
• Gorillaz: Plastic Beach
• Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
• Anthony & the Johnsons: The Crying Light
• Fleet Foxes: eponymous
• The Mountain Goats: Tallahassee (ok, not new, but recommended by a couple people)
• Pearls Before Swine: One Nation, Underground (ok, really, really not new, but it was about time I got some PBS—many years ago I had These Things Too on vinyl and havenae list unto them since)
• Deerhunter: Cryptograms
• St. Vincent: Marry Me
• St. Vincent: Actor
• TV on the Radio: Dear Science
• Ralph Alessi: Cognitive Dissonance
• Sam Sadigursky: Words Project (Vol. 1)
• Stefano Bollani: Piano Solo
• Wild Beasts: Two Dancers
• Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth

I see that I missed The National. Even without, I've got some serious listening to do...