So after about three days, we have a first for The Daily Graboid: A Saturday edition! Believe me, this was not my intention at all, as I meant to have this up by Thursday at least. But, you know how sometimes you just put off something, and continue to do so to the point where you completely lose interest in it altogether.
Now that it’s the weekend, maybe you’ve already bought your albums this week. Got the new Death Cab For Cutie? Great! Still, there’s reason enough to check all of the other great releases that may have slipped under your radar; including my personal choice this week: The Submarines’ second full-length, Honeysuckle Weeks. This was actually released digitally a while back, but this week marks it’s physical release. I have a feeling that a lot of people are falling asleep on this album, and I have no idea why. It’s a great pop record that avoids the sophomore slump, plus you’ve got one of the best songs of 2008 so far in “You, Me, & The Bourgeoisie.”
Some other albums I would definitely recommend include Dosh’s Wolves and Wishes, The Black Angels’ Directions To See A Ghost, The Botticellis’ Old Home Movies, and Young & Sexy’s The Arc. Have any of you heard the new Old 97s album? I was surprised to see something new from them, considering I didn’t even know they had anything coming out…
The Balustrade Ensemble :: Capsules
MP3: “The Drowning Calm”
The Black Angels :: Directions To See A Ghost
MP3: “Doves”
The Botticellis :: Old Home Movies
MP3: “Old Home Movies”
Death Cab For Cutie :: Narrow Stairs
MP3: “I Will Possess Your Heart”
Dosh :: Wolves and Wishes
MP3: “If You Want To, You Have To”
Duffy :: Rockferry
MP3: “Rockferry”
The Hospital Bombers :: Footnotes
MP3: “The Devil’s Music”
The Instruments :: Dark Smaland
MP3: “Sounds Electric”
Kassin+2 :: Futurismo
MP3: “Samba Machine”
Lau Nau :: Nukkuu
MP3: “Lue Kartalta”
Local H :: 12 Angry Months
MP3: “The One with ‘Kid’”
Nick Jaina :: The 7 Stations
MP3: “Maybe Cocaine”
Old 97s :: Blame it on Gravity
MP3: “Dance With Me”
Pomegranates :: Everything Is Alive
MP3: “Whom/Who”
The Presets :: Apocalypso
MP3: “My People”
The Submarines :: Honeysuckle Weeks
MP3: “You, Me, & The Bourgeoisie”
The Woods :: The Woods
MP3: “Baleen Plate Lullaby”
Tobias Froberg :: Turn Heads
MP3: “Just Behind a Brickwall”
We Are Scientists :: Brain Thrust Mastery
MP3: “After Hours”
Young and Sexy :: The Arc
MP3: “The Fog”
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I’m liking the new DCFC, especially because I was afraid they’d go poppier after Plans and that success. Personally, Death Cab is a band that I don’t think will ever put out a year-topping great album, but I can always count on them for really solid indie pop, and they have yet to disappoint me.
And, the Submarines album is definitely worth getting (but you all already knew what I think on that subject)…