Buy this now
I've been listening to this CD obsessively for about a month now: Tehillim / The Desert Music by Steve Reich (performed by Alarm Will Sound and Ossia). I came across it while looking for more things performed by Alarm Will Sound after getting their also excellent (if a little uneven) acoustic covers of Aphex Twin songs album.

Usually when I get a CD and like it on the first listen, it's an infatuation that soon fades. Conversely, the ones that endure as my long-term favorites are frequently ones that I didn't like at first, but grew on me after I listened to them enough. It's rare to have an immediate and sustained love for an album. The other night on the elliptical trainer at the gym I ended up not even opening my book because I was enjoying concentrating on The Desert Music so much; no further distraction was required.

18 January 2007 • 8:05 am • link