Update.

Lately I've been having trouble sleeping unless I'm both 1) under the influence and 2) listening to ambient/electronic music.  The first part has been with me for a while, but after a day or two I snap out of it.  The latter I don't mind having as a crutch, because later on in life it'll be cheaper than getting addicted to ambien or something.  So, as a result of this, I've been listening to Troum's Seeing-Ear Gods a lot at night.  I've been doing this pretty regularly the past couple of years, ever since I first heard it.  I never tire of this album for some reason.  It's really minimal but a bit industrial sounding at times, too.  It's the only record I've ever heard that actually made me think it was affecting my subconscious (well, there was that time I was sick and I listened to Tom Waits' VH1 Storytellers set and basically tripped...but that's different).  

Jóhann Jóhannsson's Englabörn, his newest, is one of those electronic albums I've really been into lately as well as Sigur Rós' Hlemmur.  Both of these records utitlize orchestration well, so it's very soothing and relaxing, but still with some of that experimental "oddness" that both of these artists flirt with.  Thumbs up.

The new Cult Of Luna record, Eternal Kingdom, is surprise for me.  It's not phenomenal or anything, but it's probably their best.  It's actually pretty close to a mediocre release, but it stays just close-AND-far enough from being another Isis-clone album that I find it's intriguing.  There are some interesting ideas on the record they put to good use to avoid the cookie-cutter modern faux-sludge/doom metal format.  

Neurosis' A Sun That Never Sets is still one of the best records of all time.

I've been listening to a lot of Lil' Wayne mixtapes recently, too.  But I always am it seems.  I grabbed some ones I haven't heard before that are pretty sick, like Lil' Weezyana Mixtape Vol. 1 which is with some Young Money rappers and Blood, Sweat & Tears Vol. 2 which is a mixtape for Lil' Wayne & The Game.  I have to say that I actually like The Game.  West coast, holla atcha boy.

Not sure what else is new really.  I'm still rocking The Black Keys constantly, and the new Roots record Rising Down is getting a lot of play.  It's cool to hear a record that, while overall possessing a darker sound, has a variety of MCs like the more gangster Saigon and Styles P to the more positive/spiritual Mos Def and Talib Kweli.  Nice job.