Album of the week Jan 25 2006

So at the minute I’m listening to Samiam, and specifically, their album Astray. Really good album, really good band, but I didn’t realise until I did a bit of digging a few minutes ago, that that album in particular is now over five years old, and that the band haven’t done much new material recently… until now. New album planned for some time this year, which is excellent news. Also while digging around their site, I found this band linked to and mentioned a lot - I think this might be what some members of Samiam have been getting up to recently, although I’m not totally sure of the history, either way you can listen to some tracks on the site, and they sound pretty good.