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Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
Wilco's latest album, Sky Blue Sky, is out today (along with its 5.2 review at Pitchfork).
Rhino releases Genesis: Genesis 1976-1982, a box set, this week, including the remastered Abacab, And Then There Were Three, Duke, A Trick of the Tail, and Wind & Wuthering, complete with bonus DVD discs.
Two Clash-related discs are noteworthy: the soundtrack to the Joe Strummer biopic, The Future Is Unwritten, and the Clash tribute album, The Sandinista! Project.
Among other releases, I can recommend Rufus Wainwright's most political effort yet, Release The Stars, YACHT's I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real, Utah Carol's Rodeo Queen, Great Northern's Trading Twilight for Daylight, Efterklang's Under Giant Trees, and Au Revoir Simone's The Bird of Music, and am looking forward to sampling many more of this week's releases (list below).
What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend (or warn against)?
This week's interesting CD releases:
Au Revoir Simone: The Bird of Music [cd]
Avalanches: Ski Surfin' [cd]
Avett Brothers: Emotionalism [cd]
Balkan Beat Box: Nu Med [cd]
Beatlejazz: All You Need [cd]
Betty Davis: Betty Davis (reissued with bonus tracks) [cd]
Betty Davis: They Say I'm Different (reissue with bonus tracks) [cd]
Bruce Robison: It Came from San Antonio [cd]
The Contrast: Underground Ghosts [cd]
Dolores O'Riordan: Are You Listening? [cd]
Dungen: Tio Bitar [cd]
Efterklang: Under Giant Trees [cd]
The Exies: A Modern Way Of Living With The Truth [cd]
Fennesz / Sakamoto: Cendre [cd]
Flash Hawk Parlour Ensemble: Plastic Bag in a Tree [cd]
Genesis: Abacab (remastered with bonus DVD) [cd]
Genesis: And Then There Were Three (remastered with bonus DVD) [cd]
Genesis: Duke (remastered with bonus DVD) [cd]
Genesis: Genesis 1976-1982 (box set) [cd]
Genesis: A Trick of the Tail (remastered with bonus DVD) [cd]
Genesis: Wind & Wuthering (remastered with bonus DVD) [cd]
Girl in a Coma: Both Before I'm Gone [cd]
Great Northern: Trading Twilight for Daylight [cd]
Gretchen Wilson: One Of The Boys [cd]
Guided By Voices: Live from Austin Texas [cd]
The High Strung: Get the Guests [cd]
The Horrors: Strange House [cd]
Ian Hunter: Shrunken Heads [cd]
Jeff London: The Bane of Progress [cd]
Jefferson Airplane: Sweeping Up the Spotlight: Jefferson Airplane Live at the Fillmore East 1969 [cd]
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten [cd]
Joseph Arthur: Let's Just Be [cd]
Linkin Park: Minutes To Midnight [cd]
Linkin Park: Minutes to Midnight (CD/MVI DVD special edition) [cd]
Megadeth: United Abominations [cd]
My Teenage Stride: Ears Like Golden Bats [cd]
The Narrator: All That to the Wall [cd]
Pink Martini: Hey Eugene! [cd]
Plants: Photosynthesis [cd]
The Race: Ice Station [cd]
Rufus Wainwright: Release The Stars [cd]
Steve Nieve, Muriel Teodori: Welcome to the Voice [cd]
Three 4 Tens: Down the Way [cd]
Up the Empire: Light Rides the Super Major [cd]
Utah Carol: Rodeo Queen [cd]
Various Artists: David Bowie Acoustic Tribute [cd]
Various Artists: High Fidelity (2006 Original Broadway Cast) [cd]
Various Artists: Music With a Twist [cd]
Various Artists: Pick Your Poison: The Bluegrass Tribute to Poison [cd]
Various Artists: Pickin' on Kelly Clarkson: The Bluegrass Tribute [cd]
Various Artists: The Sandinista! Project (Clash tribute) [cd]
Various Artists: Shrek the Third (soundtrack) [cd]
Velella Velella: Bay of Biscay [cd]
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky [cd]
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky (CD/DVD special edition) [cd]
YACHT: I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real [cd]
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Comments (14)
lewis & clarke!
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42887-lewis-clarke-deliver-iblastsi-with-man-man-rachels
Posted by Anonymous | May 14, 2007 4:26 PM
Deifnitely picking up Rufus' new CD. Heard it on AOL this morning and is very solid. New Dolores O'Riordan failed to keep me interested beyond the second tune. Avalanches has a new CD? gotta own it!
Posted by Anonymous | May 14, 2007 4:36 PM
Anyone else think that Pitchfork reviews are kinda whack? They're so god damn inconsistent. Not that I've thoroughly listened to the new Wilco CD yet, but I just don't put any weight into their reviews. I think I stopped reading when they hated on the Cold War Kids (and their album) for being too "Christian Rock"...That's when I stopped taking them seriously.
Posted by Drugs Delaney | May 14, 2007 4:42 PM
Rufus, Wilco and not Au Revoir Simone
Posted by Eduardo | May 14, 2007 4:48 PM
New Dungen out today? Ypperlig!
Posted by Jason | May 14, 2007 5:17 PM
Girl in a Coma are an all-woman trio from San Antonio whose record is being put out by Joan Jett's Blackheart Records. http://www.girlinacoma.com http://www.myspace.com/girlsinacoma
Posted by Anonymous | May 14, 2007 5:41 PM
Rufus.
Posted by Anonymous | May 14, 2007 7:31 PM
the wilco review on pitchfork is absolute sh!t. the album is outstanding.
Posted by Anonymous | May 14, 2007 8:27 PM
Great Northern's CD is REALLY great! You can stream it on Virb. That's where I heard it and it's really worth buying...
Posted by Tanya | May 14, 2007 8:55 PM
here's the virb URL, sorry for the double:
www.virb.com/greatnorthern
Posted by Tanya | May 14, 2007 8:56 PM
I really have to disagree with the WILCO review. The more I listen to that album, the more I love it. And i have been listening to it a lot. I've been a WILCO fan since day one, hell I was an Uncle Tupelo fan from way back. This album is mellower than anything they have done, but the guitar jams on it are just beautiful. The buildup on "Impossible Germany" is superb. To me, I here a bit of Steely Dan in it.
I bought the deluxe edition earlier this evening, and I plan on finally listening to the real, non-bootleg compressed mp3 version tomorrow in all its glory, and watch the DVD too.
Posted by Kurt C | May 15, 2007 12:20 AM
Drugs Delaney,
Funny that you should mention the Pitchfork Review of Cold War Kid's Robbers and Cowards because that is the very same review that totally turned me off to listening to anything Pitchfork had to say. The Cold War Kids album is amazing, and their live shows are even better, but the Pitchfork review make them sound more like Creed than the amazing and inspired musicians that they are.
Pitchfork does get it right a lot of the time, but I feel like their self-absorbed staff of writers sits around circle jerking over stuff that is challenging to listen to, and often immediately recoil at anything that has simple and profound musical appeal, which I have a feeling will be exactly what I love about the new Wilco album.
Posted by Lawns | May 15, 2007 12:19 PM
I have to agree with the wilco review at pitchfork, the album sucks. Extremely professional, but just bad. A song like shake it off has no business ever being written in the first place.
Posted by bill | May 15, 2007 3:55 PM
yup....same what i thinking..
Posted by yiesmart | May 22, 2007 5:57 PM