Fancy that.

[S. Alexander Reed]

Ask and ye shall receive:

Qntal was just signed in the US by Dancing Ferret Discs, and their 
latest album, III, will be released soon domestically.  Their first 
two records are also quite good and feature that wicked rad pianist 
guy from Deine Lakeinen.  At any rate, with this new signing, things 
should be much less of a pain in terms of getting them.

As far as Iris goes, I actually just played their new single, "Sorrow 
Expert" at 'Ceremony last night.  They've left the ADD label and are 
now self-releasing, and their album "Awaken" is really really solid. 
The guy who used to do their programming left, but his replacement, 
whose name escapes me, produced the Alpha Conspiracy and has done 
remix work for Delerium.  Very good material.  The new stuff is not 
quite as overtly poppy as "Annie", but the album has more depth to 
it.  They've played in Philadelphia and Wisconsin in the last few 
months.

Hope this helps.

-Alexx
ThouShaltNot
www.thoushalt.net