Not sure what albums to spend your hard-earned cash on this week? Well, my friends, this is exactly what the Daily Graboid is all about! Take a sample of the new releases this week, and maybe you’ll find something you didn’t expect to discover.

This week’s highlights include new records from The Bird and the Bee, Loney Dear, and Cotton Jones (Michael Nau of Page France). Or maybe you would be interested in something more familiar like Bruce Springsteen’s or Franz Ferdinand’s latest. Let us know what you’re excited for this week, and feel free to recommend anything we may have missed.

A. Armada
Anam Cara
MP3: “The Moon Shifts The Sea The Sea Shapes The Shore The Shore Shakes The Sand The Sand Sinks The Ship”

The Bird and the Bee
Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
full album stream
MP3: “My Love”

Cotton Jones
Paranoid Cocoon
full album stream
MP3: “Blood Red Sentimental Blues”

Franz Ferdinand
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
video: “Ulysses”

Freezepop
Form Activity Motion EP
MP3: “FrontLoad (Designer Drugs Remix)”

Golden Boots
Winter Of Our Discotheque
MP3: “Love is in the Air”

In-Flight Safety
We Are an Empire, My Dear
MP3: “Actors”

Loney Dear
Dear John
full album stream
MP3: “Airport Surroundings”

Mark Olson & Gary Louris
Ready For The Flood
full album stream
MP3: “Doves And Stones”

The Middle States
Happy Fun Party
MP3: “No Curse, No Drunk, No Fight”

Of Montreal
Jon Brion Remix EP
full album stream
MP3: “First Time High (Reconstructionist Remix of “An Eluardian Instance”)”

The Phantom Band
Checkmate Savage
MP3: “Folk Song Oblivion”

Volcano Suns
All-Night Lotus Party
full album stream
MP3: “White Elephant”

Volcano Suns
Bright Orange Years
MP3: “Jak”

The Voyeurs
Well Known Drag
MP3: “Things People Say”

As I was walking to my car to go grocery shopping, I happened to catch a glimpse of what looked like nearly every child that lives in my apartment complex flying kites. It was such a comforting sight that I stayed around for almost 15 minutes sitting on the curb just watching all the different kites just floating everywhere.  Ah, to be a child — carefree, without any sort of responsibility.

That little story goes hand in hand with this recently released video of “An Eluardian Instance” from Of Montreal’s latest album Skeletal Lamping, which features a lot of kite-flying and some nice stop motion animation. It’s probably the most accessible song on the record, as it’s one I seem to always keep coming back to the most out of the entire thing.  This almost makes me want to attempt to make a kite.

MP3: Of Montreal :: “An Eluardian Instance”