We at the Lipster are lucky cats. Nice press people are sending us stuff on the daily. And that is lovely, obviously. But sometimes we get a bit tired and make arbitrary decisions on what we will spend an hour listening to, and what we will not. THIS IS WHY the album cover is very important...

This week in our pile of plastic we had the new Department Of Eagles long player. On their MySpace, they describe themselves as 'Indie/Experimental' - a worryingly pitfalled category if we ever heard one. But do you know, they are quite good, in a wonky Monkees sort of way.

The problem, readers, is their album cover. It has trees on it. And the thing is, when one is faced with a pile of CDs, the one with the comedy hip-hopper/fluoro colours/smiling NY kiddies tends to win out. But because we are generous, time-rich sorts, we have gone to the immense trouble of reworking their artwork. Because if it was like we have re-imagined it, we might have listened to it a bit sooner.

First up, the unadorned, real deal. This is what we got in the post:

And now, here are three things that Becca would have preferred to moonlit trees:

And now it is Wendy's turn. She would like to have seen these on the cover:

Finally, here is the cover with all our hot mess on it:

Much better, we think you'll agree. While we are here, has anyone else only been able to think of some weird office peopled only by our fine-feathered friends since hearing the band's name? Bird Bureaucracy would be better than 'Department Of Eagles'. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Etc.

Department Of Eagles' MySpace. They only have two songs on there so listen to No One Does It Like You - it is very jaunty, a bit Devendra, weirdly a bit Marc Bolan and not bad at all.