Franz Ferdinand

This band rocks.

Music

A few recordings I came upon recently and would enthusiastically recommend:

Jane Birkin, Arabesque (Narada World)
Lester Young, The Complete Aladdin Sessions (Definitive Records)
Stanley Turrentine, Never Let Me Go (Blue Note)
Magnetic Fields, i (Nonesuch)
Alfred Brendel and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Franz Schubert/Winterreise (Philips)
Vienna Art Orchestra, The Minimalism of Erik Satie (hatART)
Irshad Khan, The Magic of Twilight (Naxos World)

And five, among many, I need to hear:
m83, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Mute)
Mr. Lif, I Phantom (Definitive Jux)
Asian American Jazz Orchestra with Steve Lacy, Monk's Moods (EMusic)
Jackie-O Mofo, Fig. 5 (Road Cone)
Miles Davis, The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (Columbia)