Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week

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For those not following along, Largehearted Boy brings us this list of interesting CD releases every week....

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's sophomore album, Some Loud Thunder, sees its official release date today. EPs from Beirut, the Love of Diagrams, and Lavender Diamond round out the discs that I plan to pick up tomorrow for myself.

For my friends with children, Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of The Ramones will find its way into birthday and care packages throughout the year (as will the similar disc of U2 lullaby tunes).

What new releases are you buying this week?

CD releases:

Alkaline Trio: Remains (with bonus DVD) [cd]
Beirut: Lon Gisland EP [cd]
Bill Kirchen: Hammer of the Honkey-Tonk Gods [cd]
Bracken: We Know About The Need [cd]
Brand New Heavies: Elephantitis: The Funk and House Remixes [cd]
Busdriver: RoadKill Overcoat [cd]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder [cd]
Finches: Human Like a House [cd]
Hella: There's No 666 In Outer Space [cd]
Jill Scott: Jill Scott Collaborations [cd]
Lavender Diamond: Cavalry of Light EP [cd]
Lewis Taylor: Lost Album [cd]
Lily Allen: Alright, Still (US release) [cd]
Lisa Lampanelli: Dirty Girl [cd]
Lou Barlow: Mirror in the Eye EP [cd]
Love of Diagrams: Love of Diagrams EP [cd]
Lymbyc Systym: Love Your Abuser [cd]
Madonna: The Confessions Tour - Live from London (with DVD) [cd]
A Million Billion: Ready. Fire. Aim [cd]
Norah Jones: Not Too Late (with bonus DVD) [cd]
Paolo Nutini: These Streets [cd]
Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive II [cd]
RZA: Afro Samurai [cd]
Skinny Puppy: Mythmaker [cd]
The Time Flys: The Rebels of Babylon [cd]
Various Artists: Black Snake Moan (soundtrack) [cd]
Various Artists: Can't Stop It: Australian Post Punk 79-84 [cd]
Various Artists: Endless Highway - The Music Of The Band [cd]
Various Artists: Hip-Hop Tribute to Iron Maiden [cd]
Various Artists: Immortalized: The String Quartet Tribute to Evanescence [cd]
Various Artists: Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of The Ramones [dvd]
Various Artists: Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of U2 [cd]
The View: Hats Off to the Buskers [cd]
Wu-Tang Clan & Friends: Unreleased [cd]
Xavier Rudd: Food in the Belly [cd]
Young Love: Too Young to Fight It\ [cd]
Youth Group: Casino Twilight Dogs [cd]

My only DVD preorder was the CBC's hockey mockumentary, The Tournament, and I will probably also pick up Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven's First Annual Camp Out Live

[This month, all affiliate fees from this list go to The Dog Pound, where my wife and I adopted our puppy Lily.]

posted at 1:58 PM on January 29, 2007 in music | new releases | Comments (22)

Comments (22)

some loud thunder is the best record so far this year. give it the chance it deserves - it's in the same league as Kid A

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 2:13 PM

the long awaited Pitchfork review. A respectable 7.2:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/40757/Clap_Your_Hands_Say_Yeah_Some_Loud_Thunder

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 2:15 PM

youth group's record is the best you could buy out of this bunch. an outstanding album.

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 2:21 PM

the new cyhsy album is complete rubbish. they rushed the album because of so much hype and they should learn from a band like arcade fire that you need at least two years to get together to make a "great album". to be a great artist you need to have the ability to make solid albums year after year. the most recent person i can say who has done this is Beck.

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 2:38 PM

RZA's "Afro Samurai" soundtrack is out this week. I can't say I'm all too thrilled about the new release from the "it" band of the moment, er, CYHSY.

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 2:44 PM

Some Loud Thunder is already the worst album of the year. The word suck does not come close to describing this crap.

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 2:49 PM

i think some loud thunder is good too but, the same league as Kid A??? are you high?????

Posted by george | January 29, 2007 3:01 PM

look at all the idiots who don't get it....it's so cute.

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 3:02 PM

you might not think it's as GOOD as Kid A, but it's at least in that league - an absolute home run of a departure.

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 3:08 PM

Kid A is a really groundbreaking album if you forgot to listen to music from approximately 1985-2000. Clap Your Hands Say Douchebag!

Posted by Boo-ya! | January 29, 2007 3:21 PM

another brooklynvegan poster with poor reading comprehension? who would've thought?

i wrote "an absolute home run of a departure.". get it? probably not, but that's why you don't get Some Loud Thunder either....you're just not smart.

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 3:24 PM

At least it's better than the first album, still not great though.

Posted by Tommy Tutone | January 29, 2007 3:39 PM

Compared to the Shins' new record, the new CYH is a fucking masterpiece.

Which isn't saying much because the new Shins album SUCKS soooo bad! They had so long to come up with at least a very good record--instead they dropped a below-average wank.

Posted by eggshells | January 29, 2007 3:55 PM

Agreed. For a band of the Shins' caliber, the album is stunningly mediocre and even makes a few forays into awful.

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 4:01 PM

Wow... apparently anyone who doesn't like the latest from CYHSY isn't smart, is an idiot, etc. Are you people on their street team or just friends?

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 4:26 PM

I think that the real question here is:
Will the blipsters like it?

Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 4:35 PM

new release to buy: Mancino - "Manners Matter"

Posted by EF Matt | January 29, 2007 5:24 PM

I liked Some Loud Thunder, but it seemed to get a little too far off track for me at some points, and some songs never really hit their mark. I think this weeks best release would probably be either Alright, Still or RoadKillOverCoat. As for the worst, I really didn't get There's No 666 In Outer Space. It was mind-numbingly repetitive. But RoadKillOverCoat is excellent. Of course, Busdriver will probably stay just as under appreciated as he is now. You gotta hate seeing guys like him go unnoticed while all the other "hip-hop artists" earn millions for writing a song that Busdriver could run circles aroud. I guess thats just the way things are, eh?

Posted by Kyle | January 29, 2007 7:14 PM

I love music fans

Posted by Justin | January 29, 2007 8:10 PM

this list of upcoming releases is prrrretty, prrretty, prrrretty exciting (curb):

http://www.culturecloud.com/Articles/00001777/New_Releases_From_Yo.aspx

Posted by julianne | January 30, 2007 2:01 AM

Whew... this Lily Allen record is a flaming piece of garbage. I tried to listen with an open mind, and maybe I just don't "get it," but how, again, is this any different than Kelly Clarkson? Because she's British and she swears from time to time? Please.

Posted by Anonymous | January 30, 2007 10:22 AM

What about Katharine McPhee's debut album!!!!!!!

Posted by the soul patrol | January 30, 2007 5:52 PM