The Divine Comedy - BANG Goes the Knighthood
I downloaded this based purely on the album artwork, with no prior knowledge of the artist or album. It turned out to be a delight. Each song is a narrative, the stuff you'd find on the soundtrack to a cheesy movie about a fifties metropolitan city. It's very enjoyable
Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
One of the few openly irreligious bands I know of (Muse being another), I decided to give their stuff a spin after my friend who goes to UCLA told me the frontman is actually a professor at his school. I'd always written off BR as crappy punk, but now I realize it's quality stuff and the guy's a genius