Lots of notable albums out this week, which include a couple of highly anticipated releases from Silversun Pickups and Metric. I’ve listened to the Metric record a few times, and I’m still not sure what to think about it. It still sounds a lot like Live It Out, which I didn’t care for at all. I look at what Yeah Yeah Yeahs did with It’s Blitz! and that’s more in line with what I would’ve liked Fantasies to be more in tune with.
Other releases include the latest from The Boy Least Likely To, Pomegranates, Papercuts, and Ida Maria. Also available this week is the self-titled EP from Brooklyn’s Suckers, who’ve been getting a lot of press lately from the likes of Stereogum, FADER, Pitchfork, etc.
If there’s anything we’ve missed, do let us know. And don’t forget about Record Store Day this Saturday!
Bill Callahan
Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
MP3: “Eid Ma Clack Shaw”
Black Eyed Dog
Rhaianuledada (Songs To Sissy)
MP3: “Honeysuckle Gal”
The Boy Least Likely To
The Law of the Playground [full album stream]
MP3: “Saddle Up”
Death Cab for Cutie
The Open Door EP [full album stream]
MP3: “Little Bribes”
Dengue Fever
Dengue Fever Presents: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong
MP3: “March of the Balloon Animals”
Dntel
Early Works For Me If It Works For You II
MP3: “Loneliness Is Having No One to Miss”
Grand Duchy
Petits Fours
video: “Luxembourg Special Time”
The Handsome Family
Honey Moon
MP3: “When You Whispered”
Ida Maria
Fortress Round My Heart [full album stream]
MP3: “Oh My God”
Jeniferever
Spring Tides
MP3: “Green Meadow Island”
The Juan Maclean
The Future Will Come [full album stream]
video: “One Day”
Medeski Martin & Wood
Radiolarians II [full album stream]
MP3: “Amber Gris”
Metric
Fantasies
MP3: “Help I’m Alive (acoustic)”
Papercuts
You Can Have What You Want
MP3: “Future Primitive”
Pomegranates
Everybody, Come Outside! [full album stream]
MP3: “Corriander”
Robert Gomez
Pine Sticks & Phosphorus
MP3: “Middle of Nowhere”
Silversun Pickups
Swoon
video: “Panic Switch”
Suckers
Suckers
MP3: “It Gets Your Body Movin’”
Telepathe
Dance Mother
MP3: “Lights Go Down”
Wooden Shjips
Dos
MP3: “Motorbike”
Yonlu
A Society in Which No Tear is Shed is Inconceivably Mediocre
MP3: “I Know What It’s Like”
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i’d much rather pop in siamese dream by the pumpkins than have to listen to another silversun pickups album. they’re so boring! and it’s been done! i don’t get why they’re so popular. and the singer’s voice annoys me. and it seems like i’m the only person who actually hates this band because of how boring they are and how popular they’ve become despite their unoriginality and boringness!!! /rant
bill callahan album is great. except for the last song which is kind of a snoozer after 3 minutes of it, the other tracks are lovely. relaxing music, good lyrics. i’ve never listened to him before, so his voice kind of surprised me, but i got used to it and it’s kind of nice now. super deep. like the national deep.
happy record store day
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