After quite a long absence, the Graboid is back and this time around with a proper title. As much as I liked the original ‘The Daily Graboid’ title, in the grand scheme of things it just never really made much sense considering it had always been a weekly post. I’ve always meant to have the change eventually, but considering how long it’s been since I’ve last put this up, it just felt right to start back anew with this different title.

So with that being said, you can expect to see this every Tuesday since I know a lot of you actually do your music shopping on the actual day of releases. I know that I probably will now since I actually live near some record shops.

This week brings an abundance of excellent releases from the likes of Air, The Clientele, Kurt Vile, The Dutchess & The Duke, Mission to Burma, The Mountain Goats, The Raveonettes, and current blogger favorites The XX (my opinion on them has soften a bit, but I still don’t think they’re that great).

As always, if there is anything I may have missed, feel free to recommend it to us.

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Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, Air, Alela Diane featuring Alina Hardin, Betty Davis, Built to Spill, Califone, Daniel Johnston, Glorytellers, Gossip, Harmonia, Headlights, Kurt Vile, Lou Barlow, Mike Doughty, Mission of Burma, Music Go Music, No Age, Noah and the Whale, Octoberman, Orenda FInk, Osso, Sufjan Stevens, Supercluster, The Black Heart Procession, The Black Hollies, The Cinematics, The Clientele, The Dutchess & the Duke, The Mountain Goats, The Very Best, The Weekly Graboid, The XX, Vic Chesnutt

The abundance of wonderful songs for summer continues with the opening track from The Clientele’s forthcoming fifth album Bonfires on the Heath, due out in early October on Merge.  Kind of a little cheery compared to a lot of band’s more recent output, most notably, the very great 2007’s God Save the Clientele.  It has a bit of a cheery jazz slant to it with the horns and guitar, along with Alasdair MacLean’s breathy vocals, who just sounds better than ever.

I’m curious if the rest of the record follows suit, but I guess we’ll have to wait and find out!  Though, Stereogum seems to say otherwise in regards to that statement.

MP3: The Clientele :: “I Wonder Who We Are”

Tags: The Clientele