With Radiohead’s In Rainbows being the current talk of the music world and all that jazz, let’s not forget there were some great new album releases this week. One album in particular that i’ve been really quick to praise ever since I received an advanced copy a while back is Jens Lekman’s Night Falls Over Kortedala. Really solid, but it’s kind of been lost in the shuffle as of late with all of these other releases. I also happened to check out Beirut’s The Flying Club Cup, which took me forever to even acknowledge it’s existence, let alone listen to it for reasons i’ll explain in a later post possibly. As usual though, I was wrong to ignore the album as it’s a huge improvement over Gulag Orkestrar.
I haven’t really had a chance to check out anything else, but three albums i’m really looking forward to digging into soon are the Fiery Furnaces’ Widow City, The Octopus Project’s Hello, Avalanche and Band Of Horses’ Cease to Begin. Have any of you heard either of these? What do you think? Lots of other nice stuff to sample as well, so hopefully you find something here that you enjoy.
Band Of Horses | Cease to Begin
Beirut | The Flying Club Cup
Cass McCombs | Dropping the Writ
Celebration | Modern Tribe
Cut Off Your Hands | Shaky Hands
Doveman | With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead
Enon | Grass Geysers…Carbon Clouds
The Fiery Furnaces | Widow City
Ham1 | The Captain’s Table
“I Had A Good Idea, But it Passed My Mind”
Jens Lekman | Night Falls Over Kortedala
“Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo”
Johnossi | Johnossi
Loch Lomond | Paper the Walls
Mariee Sioux | Faces in the Rocks
The Octopus Project | Hello, Avalanche
Robert Pollard | Coast To Coast Carpet of Love
Robert Pollard | Standard Gargoyle Decisions
The Silver Seas | High Society
“The Country Life”
Sunset Rubdown | Random Spirit Lover
“Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days”
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I don’t think i’ll ever get tired of using that puppy picture. I think I read somewhere though that the dog is blind
Ahhh, i’m just talking to myself…
Too….many….new…..things!!!! My brain asplode! I really do wish i could listen to and process 4 albums at the same time.
ps…i bet the dog’s eyes work just fine, he just can’t see through all that fuzz! That’s the first time i remember seeing that picture though…too cute.
Random Spirit Lover is not only album of the week, it is album of the year. Much better then In Rainbows. I also love The Flying Club Cup and Cease to Begin.
Excellent albums this week, In Rainbows and Sunset Rubdown’s latest work are god!
i know its out quite a while now (and theres even a more recent one just released) but robert pollards coast to coast (carpet of love) is really great. Really on form he is for this one…..