The first Athlete album – Vehicles and Animals, a spry quirky poppy addition to the tail end of Britpop – Westside, You Got The Style, El Salvador. Nice album. Promising debut. Bought. Seduced by perhaps having very young children at the time, and the lead single Wires being about a newborn in hospital, bought the second album in the pre-spotify days when you couldn’t listen easily to a whole album in advance. Utterly turgid sub sub sub Coldplay. One-paced, platitudinous drivel striving for entirely unearned epicness and meaning. So I have finally after a decade of it lurking in the A’s consigned it to the Oxfam pile. Where if I’m not mistaken it will join many other copies of Tourist. Come clean with your regretful purchases you’ve summoned up the courage to bin. I’m not going to post anything from Tourist…