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One of my favourite recent finds in the music sphere is Planningtorock. I think this is a performance artist originally from the UK. She recently released an album called Have It All, which I bought through eMusic. It is a really unusual, exotic, hilarious, deranged, baroque album, reminding me of The Residents, Aphex Twin, Kate Bush, Lydia Lunch, Moloko, Kurt Weill, Goldfrapp, and Bjork, often all at the same time in one song. It's a while since I've heard something so outrageously inventive, especially in how the vocals are layered and manipulated. Well worth a listen.

Here are some of her videos on YouTube:

• Changes (a rather lovely video, this one)
• The Havers
• When Are You Gonna Start
• Bolton Wanderer
• Think That Thought (someone described the video as "surrealist hip-hop", which kind of fits)