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So I broke down and bought Mike Doughty's new album, "Haughty Melodic":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=revjimnet-20&creative=9325&camp=1789&link_code=ur2&path=tg/detail/-/B00080EV7A/ref=pd_sim_music_5?v=glance%26s=music, from Amazon because it lets me hear the album now, despite the fact that it's not released yet.

It's phenomenal! It's everything that I ever felt was amazing about Soul Coughing, with it's own fresh edge and meaning. The music is incredible. Mike's percussive voice is beautiful, and soothing, and awakening at all the right times. The lyrics are moving, and meaningful.

My only complaint is in regard to Amazon's Digital Locker. The items that I can listen to from Amazon seem to only be playable under Windows. Despite the huge annoyance involved there, it's even worse because, once I play it in windows I can't seem to find any way to download it. So, I can only listen to it on a windows computer. There's no way to move it to my Linux box, play it on my TiVo, or enjoy it in the car on the way home. Luckily, the real album will be in my hot hands in a week or so. I can't wait.

As of right now with my brief introduction to this new album, "His Truth is Marching On" is striking a strong chord with me so I'll leave you with a few lyrics from it (and I apologize if they are wrong):

bq. They say that God is great. They say that God is love. And I believe them. Don't fear the random fate. I trust the hand of the almighty and the infinite. His truth is marching on. Let me know your enormity and my tininess. And help me see your infinity and my finiteness. I'm frickin' starved for love. I deeply need to feel connection with the infinite. I want the nourishment and I need to drink it just like water and it will sustain me. — Mike Doughty / His Truth is Marching On / Haughty Melodic

Buy this album!