My current love affair...

It's rare if I find one album a year I like enough to buy. Last year it was Paulo Nutini's "These Streets"--New Shoes was my mantra. This year I thought it was Kate Nash's "Made of Bricks"--hello Shit Song and Pumpkin Soup?

But whoa! Wait up, friends! There might be a *second course to this musical feast of mine.

*Excuse the extra cheesy analogies.... I'm excited...

Seriously. I know this prolly gets old to those who check in daily. But honestly, Estelle's new album "Shine" is so ridiculously good, I can't even begin to explain it. Go out and buy it, or at least hit up your library (like me) and borrow it.

Every morning I climb into Yaris, turn to track one, unroll my windows and blare the CD all the way to the library. And at 5:00 I get back in, finish the record, and go back through for replays of the songs I like most (Wait Just a Minute, No Substitute Love, American Boy, So Much Out the Way, and You Are...) It's honestly like her lyrics are speaking about me.

Sigh.

I heart Estelle.