Being adventurous in purchasing new music is sometimes easier said than done. Sometimes I find it difficult to spend my emusic credits on new stuff. (And then find it even harder to listen to anything I do download!).

A new site though could be a way of sorting some of the wheat from the emusic chaff.

Any Decent Music? is kind of an aggregator of music reviews, created by a team including  Ally from TV21. Individual reviews are rounded up, summarised and, perhaps the USP of the site, rated out of 10. Yep, even the ones without numerical ratings are awarded a value and included, although the creators are at pains to point out that this aspect is done by real humans rather than web-bots. And of course there are links to the reviews, song snippets and You Tube tunes.

What emerges is some sort of critical consensus on the hottest LPs around. Given that my Christmas music spend often has some relation to end of year charts, then ADM? seems like a good way of flagging up possible avenues for investigation on a more regular basis.

Now the site as it stands isn’t going to throw much light on, say the current Scottish underground scene, nor on more obscure artists. To illustrate this, my favourite three records of the year are under- represented. Only De Rosa’s ‘Prevention’ gets a mention whilst Lord Cut-glass and Lucas Renney don’t appear at all.

Nonetheless it has to be said that the site appeals to the musical geek in me and I can easily imagine myself losing hours and hours in here. In fact I’ve already started.

Have a look here and see what you think.