Staff pick of the week...
This week...Michael picks it!

Artist: Sukilove Title: Sukilove Catalog#: AHA!055 Price: $11.50	Tracks on this CD:
	Time To Go
	Hang On (Windows Media)
	Shame You Never Worry
	Computing Beauty
	Just A Lazy Day
	Talking In the Dark
	Did You Ever Feel So Lonely?
	As Long As I Survive Tonight (Windows Media)
	Unforgivable
	Please Don't Ever Change
	Man (Ain't Man Enough) (Windows Media)
	There's A Light
	Good Blood Will Prevail

I love the staff pick concept. We here at Parasol have the opportunity and privilege to hear promos, advance releases and imports by little known artists and sometimes we discover albums that we would have never heard otherwise. All previous staff picks chosen by my colleagues were titles outside the Parasol Label Group. It’s a good policy because YOU want to know that if WE say we like it, we really like it. I wrote up a totally different staff pick and realized I DON’T LIKE IT AS MUCH AS I LIKE THIS SUKILOVE ALBUM on Hidden Agenda. This Sukilove album is going to be toward the top of my year-end list and I want you to know about it now. Some reviewer described Sukilove as a mix of Sgt. Peppers and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and that’s the most accurate I’ve read. I think there’s some T-Bone Burnett and Daniel Lanois touches here but the whole does sound a bit like Wings through an Americana prism. Add sharp wit plus unexpected melodic turns and you have a difficult to categorize debut full-length conceived by Belgian Pascal Deweze. The band will be touring with Bettie Serveert this autumn and has a spot on the Parasol Night bill at this year’s CMJ marathon. An upcoming Starbuck’s/Hear Music sampler includes Sukilove’s “Hang On” amidst tracks by Cat Power, Clem Snide, Yo La Tengo, The Jayhawks and Nada Surf. Sukilove is a perfect fit with that group, and my Staff Pick o’ the week.