Go Lorde! Congratulations!

Awesome result for Lorde at the 56th Annual Grammys! Fantastic effort on winning the "Best Pop Solo Performance", and with co-writer Joel Little "Song Of The Year"! Royals was certainly the song of the summer when I was in the USA in September & October, and I've really enjoyed listening to "The Love Club EP", and now the subsequent album "Heroine". The former is still my favourite at this stage.

  

Congratulations Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor. Will be great to see where she goes in the future - she looks to be a true individual, and someone to watch for something different and original!

  

"Trauma" by Cœur de pirate

My newest album addition a week or so ago was "Trauma" by Cœur de pirate (Béatrice Martin) which is available on Bandcamp as a 16bit 44.1kHz download in FLAC or ALAC; its also available in VBR MP3 or AAC lossy files, or Ogg Vorbis format. You can also access it using Bandcamp's free mobile access. Released on 14 January 2014 I believe this is Cœur de pirate's only album since Blonde (here second album released in November 2011), so it's been a while coming...

  

This is an album of covers - which a slightly eclectic selection of songs, but very much in keeping with the atmosphere the album is intended to generate (see below), and nevertheless something I'm finding enjoyable and just a little different from Béatrice Martin's other work.