Lots of great stuff this week, as the new album Middle Cyclone from Neko Case certainly comes out on top with having both excellent songs and equally good cover art.  Honestly, she could release an album of her just reading from a phone book and I would probably buy it.  I’m sure we can all agree on this one.

A couple of other albums that I would personally recommend have been released digitally on iTunes: The Boy Least Likely To’s The Law Of The Playground and Fanfarlo’s Reservoir. Other releasese worth checking out include Marissa Nadler’s (god she has a gorgeous voice) Little Hells, Say Hi’s Oohs & Aahs, Wild Light’s Adult Nights, and The Soundtrack Of Our Lives’ Communion (if only because I haven’t heard from these guys since their debut so many years ago).

As always, feel free to recommend anything that may have slipped past our radar.

Bell X1
Blue Lights on the Runway
MP3: “Defector Single”

The Bitter Tears
Jam Tarts in the Jakehouse
MP3: “Starlight”

The Boy Least Likely To
The Law Of The Playground (iTunes only)
MP3: “I Box Up All The Butterflies”

Bosque Brown
Baby
MP3: “Went Walking”

Boston Spaceships
Planets Are Blasted
MP3: “Big O Gets an Earful”

De Rosa
Prevention
MP3: “Nocturne For An Absentee”

Emma-Lee
Never Just A Dream
MP3: “Never Just A Dream”

Extra Golden
Thank You Very Quickly
MP3: “Anyango”

Fanfarlo
Reservoir (iTunes only)
MP3: “I’m a Pilot”

Justin Townes Earle
Midnight at the Movies
MP3: “What I Mean To You”

Marissa Nadler
Little Hells
MP3: “River of Dirt”

Neko Case
Middle Cyclone
MP3: “Middle Cyclone”
MP3: “People Got a Lotta Nerve”

Say Hi
Oohs & Aahs
MP3: “November Was White, December Was Grey”

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Communion
MP3: “Flipside”

U2
No Line on the Horizon
full album stream

Wild Light
Adult Nights
MP3: “California on My Mind”