I’ve never been a cocaine user, but I love music that helps me imagine what a coke binge might feel like. Alive & Amplified fits squarely into this category. As the seventh track on the high-energy album states so eloquently, it makes you want to get “loose and juicy.” I never knew it until now, but I DEFINETLY want to get loose and juicy.

This could be an album review for Peach Pit’s excellent new project, You and Your Friends. I could tell you about the moving descriptions of troubled love woven throughout the first seven songs. I could tell you about my favorite songs (“Black Licorice;” “Camilla, I’m At Home;” “Second Life with Emily”). I meant to. I even took serious notes. But then I made it back to the song that brought me to the album in the first place. “Live At The Swamp.”

With each album Real Estate releases, the more and more each work begins to sound like Martin Courtney’s solo album, Many Moons. The Main Thing, @realestateband’s most recent album fits perfectly into this mold, featuring music that makes you feel like you’re wondering in an isolated meadow awash in moonlight at midnight, all while fairies dance and flit around you.

Bloc Party’s debut album, Silent Alarm will be turning 15 on February 2nd. Bloc Party completed a tour last year celebrating the 15 years since their recording sessions in June and July of 2004.