Most exciting release news of the year is that the first of May will bring, along with the completely awesome month of May obviously, a new album from Barbara Morgenstern. (Warning: her site is flash-heavy and scroll-impaired, though it may work fine in IE. Why an electronic artist would "optimize" her site for the highly useless, almost-quaintly-obsolete-if-it-weren't-so-damned-pernicious IE is completely beyond me and frankly pisses me off a little.) Her last album, Nichts Muss, is one of my favorite albums of this century so far and sounds especially sweet through headphones in motel rooms in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, if this morning's experiences can be taken as generally indicative of things.