Cantopop on a high in November

What's happening to the music scene in Hong Kong? Two excellent albums released within a span of one week in November. First we have the first Cantonese album of Sandy Lam in the past 9 years (unless you count "Encore" in 2002 as a proper album), and then there's Ivana Wong with her follow-up album, titled "I Love My Name", to her brilliant debut earlier in the year.

I'll write up a proper review in the next few days but both albums do not disappoint. So they are constantly on my CD player at the moment.

On the other hand, CDs released in the UK seem to have been a bit of a disappointment. The new Robbie Williams album "Intensive Care" sounds tired and boring - the first single "Tripping" off the album just didn't have the spark at all and sounded as if he was struggling with the singing. The Madonna album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" has been hailed as one of her best albums in recent years - I need to listen to this a few more times before making my judgement on this, but after the first pass it didn't seem to contain that magic that I was looking for. We'll see....