The Decemberists are a band i love but am yet to actually love any of their CDs as a whole. If they ever release a best of CD it will be the best 'Best Of' CD to ever hit the market. This I promise you.

The Crane Wife follows the trend of their other CDs except I enjoy more of it this time around with only a couple songs in the middle slowing it down for me.

The title track is actually 3 songs over 2 tracks, The Crane Wife 1, 2, and 3. They are also the best songs on the disk and in my humble opinion the best the Decemeberists have ever written.

If you're a fan of off-beat folk then check these guys out. I highly recommend it.

So when Blink-182 broke up there was a bit of heartbreak for an era was ending. But Tom promised he had moved onto something bigger and better. What he claimed at one stage was going to be the best album he's ever written.

To sum it up, he was full of it.

This album is a wanky mess of samey songs, the only thing you will come away with from this album is a wasted 50 minutes.

If by some stretch you think this is good then you're probably also a U2 fan.

I can't be bothered writing anything more. Even huge Blink-182 fans should skip this and just pick up Boxcar Racer instead.

The other two members of Blink-182 (Mark, Travis) went off to form Plus 44 and well they ended up releasing one of my favourite albums of 2006.

Its pure pop-rock goodness. The album doesn't push that much new ground for the members involved but it delivers on every expectation anyone could have had for the album. I hadn't really heard about them much until I got the album so i was stoked off the bat.

There are a couple of songs I sometimes skip on the way through the disk but they're not enough to bring it down as a whole.

If you're missing Blink-182 and are sick of all the pop-rock bands that tried to steal their throne just grab this album and remember what good pop-rock is supposed to be.

FUN.