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Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week

this is two weeks worth of posts…

rolling stoneSThe Rolling Stones Box Set collects 13 remastered post-1971 albums from the band, with space for next year’s release of the remastered Exile on Main Street.

In a slow week for marquee releases, I have heard and can recommend Starflyer 59’s Ghosts of the Past, Howling Bells’ Radio Wars, Kevin Hearn’s Havana Winter, and Kieran Kane’s Somewhere Beyond the Roses.

Putumayo continues to put together amazing world music compilations and this week releases Putumayo Kids Presents: Picnic Playground and Putumayo Presents: Brazilian Cafe

Three Elbow albums are reissued this week: Asleep in the Back, Cast of Thousands, and Leaders of the Free World. The UK band plays All Points West on Sunday.

fiery furnacesThe Fiery Furnaces released I’m Going Away last week, my favorite album among many worthwhile CDs that hit store shelves on 7/21. Their August tour includes a show at the Williamsburg Waterfront.

Self-titled albums by the Bad Veins and Blue Roses are especially impressive debuts. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs release Under The Covers: Vol. 2, their second covers compilation.

Three remastered albums from folkie Bert Jansch (L.A. Turnaround, A Rare Conundrum, Santa Barbara Honeymoon) are the reissue highlights of last week.

Other albums I have heard and can recommend include Magnolia Electric Co.’s Josephine, Florence & the Machine’s Lungs, The Starlight Mints’ Change Remains, and Wye Oak’s The Knot.

Literary folks might find the Ice-9 Ballads interesting. A collaboration between author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and composer Dave Soldier, these two works feature Vonnegut’s own narration.

What new music can you recommend this week? What’s on your shopping list? Have I left any interesting releases off the list?

This week’s interesting CD releases:

10 Ft. Gangja Plant: Bush Rock (vinyl)
Amadou & Mariam: The Magic Couple
Anthem In: The Cloudbusting
Bad Secrets: Bad Secrets
Band of Skulls: Baby Darling Doll Face Honey (vinyl)
Bear McCreary: Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 (soundtrack)
Beardfish: Destined Solitaire
Berlin: Greatest Hits (vinyl)
Blur: Midlife: A Beginner’s Guide to Blur
Carla Bruni: Quelqu’un M’a Dit (reissue)
Circle Jerks: Golden Shower of Hits (remastered vinyl)
Deee-Lite: The Very Best of Deee-Lite (reissue)
Divine Heresy: Bringer of Plagues
Dogs Die in Hot Cars: Please Describe Yourself
Duke Special: Songs from the Deep Forest (reissue)
Elbow: Asleep in the Back (reissue)
Elbow: Cast of Thousands (reissue)
Elbow: Leaders of the Free World (reissue)
Elvis Presley: From Elvis in Memphis
Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood: Live from Madison Square Garden (vinyl)
Eureka: Shackleton’s Voyage
The Features: Some Kind of Salvation
Fred Hersch: Fred Hersch Plays Jobim
Gang of Four: Return the Gift (2-CD reissue)
George Thorogood & The Destroyers: The Dirty Dozen
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Umsindo
Howling Bells: Radio Wars
Iggy Pop: Iggy & Ziggy: Cleveland ’77 (vinyl)
Indukti: Idmen
Iron Horse: A Boy Named Blue: The Bluegrass Tribute to Goo Goo Dolls
John Adams: Dr. Atomic Symphony/Guide to Strange Places
John Entwistle: Rigor Mortis Sets In (reissue)
John Zorn: O’O
Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart (remastered vinyl)
Kevin Hearn: Havana Winter
Kid British: It Was This or Football: First Half
Kieran Kane: Somewhere Beyond the Roses
Laurent Korcia: Cinema (soundtrack)
Lou Reid & Carolina: My Own Set of Rules
Madness: The Dangermen Sessions, Vol. 1
Merzbow: 13 Japanese Birds, Vol. 7
Michael Jackson: The Stripped Mixes
Morphine: Yes (vinyl reissue)
Neil Young: Mystery Train (reissue)
Neon Horse: Haunted Horse: Songs of Love, Defiance…
The Octopus Project: Golden Beds
Opeth: Morningrise (vinyl reissue)
Opeth: My Arms, Your Hearse (vinyl reissue)
Os Mutantes: Os Mutantes (vunyl)
Owl City: Ocean Eyes (vinyl)
Porcupine Tree: Metanoia (reissue)
The Radio Dept.: David EP
The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones Box Set (13-CD box set)
Starflyer 59: Ghosts of the Past
Stina Nordenstam: The World Is Saved (reissue)
Subhumans: Time Flies/Rats (remastered)
Summer Cats: Songs for Tuesdays (vinyl)
Sun Ra & His Solar Research Arkestra: Helsinki 1971 – Complete Concert
Talking Heads: Rome Concert 1980
The Trashcan Sinatras: In the Music
Trevor Hall: Trevor Hall (vinyl)
The Twang: Barney Rubble
Ty Segall: Lemons (vinyl)
Various Artists: Adam (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Black Rio, Vol. 2: Original Samba Soul 1968-1981 (vinyl)
Various Artists: The Boat That Rocked (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Funny People (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Putumayo Kids Presents: Picnic Playground
Various Artists: Putumayo Presents: Brazilian Cafe
Various Artists: We’re Gonna Change the World! The 60’s Chicago Garage Sound of Quill Productions (vinyl)
Was (Not Was): Boo! (vinyl reissue)

Last week’s releases:

This week’s interesting CD releases:

Ana Popovic: Blind For Love
Bad Religion: Stranger Than Fiction (vinyl reissue)
Bad Veins: Bad Veins
Beat Farmers: Fulmination
Bert Jansch: L.A. Turnaround (remastered with bonus tracks)
Bert Jansch: A Rare Conundrum (remastered with bonus tracks)
Bert Jansch: Santa Barbara Honeymoon (remastered with bonus tracks)
Bettye LaVette: Change Is Gonna Come Sessions
Bill Frisell: Disfarmer
Birds of Avalon: Uncanny Valley (vinyl)
Bish: Surrounded by Mountains (vinyl)
Blue Roses: Blue Roses (vinyl)
Bo Diddley: Ride On: The Chess Masters, Vol. 3 – 1960-1961
Clint Mansell: Moon
Decoder Ring: They Blind the Stars & the Wild Team
Delbert McClinton: Honky Tonkin’ All Night
Discovery: LP (vinyl)
Dreaming In Stereo: Dreaming In Stereo
Eric B. & Rakim: Follow the Leader (vinyl reissue)
Eyedea & Abilities: By The Throat
The Fiery Furnaces: I’m Going Away (vinyl)
Floating Action: Floating Action (vinyl)
Florence & the Machine: Lungs
Frank Turner: Love Ire & Song
Generationals: Con Law (vinyl)
Greg Davis: Mutually Arising
He Is Legend: It Hates You
Her Space Holiday: Sleepy Tigers
Ian Hunter: Man Overboard
Jay-Z: D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) (vinyl)
Jeff Garlin: Young And Handsome: A Night With Jeff Garlin
Jefferson Airplane: Thirty Seconds Over Winterland (remastered)
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock (3-CD box set)
Johann Johannsson: Englaborn (vinyl)
John Phillips: Andy Warhol Presents Man on the Moon
Josh Mease: Wilderness
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Ice-9 Ballads
La Roux: Bulletproof
Lights : Rites (vinyl)
Lydia Lunch: Big Sexy Noise (vinyl)
Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine (vinyl)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz: C est La Derniere Chanson
Major Lazer: Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do
Mando Diao: Mean Street EP
Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs: Under The Covers: Vol. 2
Megafaun: Gather, Form And Fly (vinyl)
Michael Jackson: The Collection (5 Disc Set )
Neil Young: Fork In The Road (2-LP vinyl)
The Nerves: One Way Ticket (vinyl)
Netherfriends: Calling You Out
Nick Lowe: Brentford Trilogy Box Set (3-CD box set)
Patti Smith: Peace and Noise (reissue)
Peter Hammill: Thin Air
Portugal. The Man: The Satanic Satanist
Rainbow Arabia: Kabukimono
Ray Charles: The Genius of Ray Charles (remastered vinyl)
Riceboy Sleeps: Riceboy Sleeps
Robert Wyatt: Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981
Rx Bandits: Mandala (vinyl)
The Rural Alberta Advantage: Hometowns (vinyl)
School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms (with bonus tracks)
Sean Bones: Rings
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot: Bonnie and Clyde (vinyl)
Sinkane: Sinkane (vinyl)
The Skygreen Leopards: Gorgeous Johnny (vinyl)
Spindrift: The Legend Of God’s Gun (vinyl)
The Starlight Mints: Change Remains
Supersuckers: Split 10″ Christmas EP (vinyl)
Talbot Tagora: Lessons In The Woods Or A City (vinyl)
Television Personalities: And Don’t the Kids Just Love It (vinyl)
Television Personalities: Mummy Your Not Watching Me (vinyl)
U2: Rattle and Hum [Blu-ray] (dvd)
Various Artists: New York City Hardcore
Various Artists: Wild Thing: The Songs of Chip Taylor
Wheat: White Ink, Black Ink
The Working Title: Bone Island
Wye Oak: The Knot
Young Widows & My Disco: Young Widows Split Series Vol. 4 (vinyl)
Zak Sally’s Fear Of Song: Why We Hide

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