Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

This sounds better than ever (see link), and I'm getting to like the slow songs. I still haven't got into proper soul yet, though.

Bartok - String Quartet No 3

I really enjoyed this, much better than No 2. It's very taut and compact. The first time I ever heard any Bartok (it was the Violin Sonata), I pigeonholed him as (horrid) modern music. But actually modern is completely wrong - much of this is primitive.

Beethoven - String Quartet No 7, op 59 no 1 (Rasumovsky No 1)

This is fantastic. But the final movement seems a bit underpowered to me, not enough to overcome the tragedy of the slow third movement. Perhaps it was meant to be like that?

Radiohead - In Rainbows

I'm listening to music again, perhaps not as much or as enthusiastically as before, but I am getting back into the habit. Listening to this, I started feeling the same as before (see link), a bit "ho-hum, this is all right but it doesn't really engage me". And then "Reckoner" really got to me. This really is a fine record, I underestimated it last time.