music round-up

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After cashing in some PROTRADE bucks for a $10 Amazon gift certificate, i purchased The Polyphonic Spree's The Fragile Army and Battles's Mirrored.  Both are solid and better than i expected; the Spree's previous efforts would get bogged down occasionally with repetitiveness and that "songs start to sound the same after a while" thing, and Battles's album is polished and has just a modicum of math rock wank.

Papa Ellis linked to a Pitchfork page with a video of St. Vincent's "Paris is Burning" (available here if you want to spare yourself Pitchfork's self-important, albeit somewhat informative, indie blather).  After viewing her other video on imeem, i've thrown her album into my wishlist.