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Posted in music | new releases on August 3, 2009

Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week

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JapandroidsThis week's music release list may be short, but it contains a surprising quantity of great music.

Of the week's releases, Japandroids' Post-Nothing has spent the most time in my CD player and is inching its way up my ever-changing albums of the year list. The Polyvinyl reissue of that disc is out this week. The band was in NYC last month when they played the Siren Festival in Coney Island.

My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James (under the moniker of Yim Yames) releases his solo EP of George Harrison covers Tuesday. You can catch Yim on tour this fall as part of Monsters of Folk. Tickets to their NYC shows are on sale.

This week Joe Pernice drops both his new novel, It Feels So Good When I Stop (called by Tom Perrotta, "a hard-boiled slacker chronicle of heartbreak and self-renewal") and its companion album of the same name.

Frrom what has already been sent my way, I can also recommend The Fruit Bats' The Ruminant Band, Julian Plenti's Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper, Lightning Dust's Infinite Light, and Throw Me The Statue's Creaturesque. Julian Plenti is otherwise known as the singer to Interpol.

Seven Oasis albums are reissued on vinyl this week: Be Here Now (2-LP), Definitely Maybe (2-LP), Don't Believe the Truth (1-LP), Heathen Chemistry (2-LP), The Masterplan (2-LP), Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2-LP), (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (2-LP)

Another vinyl reissue worth picking up this week is my favorite Guided By Voices album, Under the Bushes, Under the Stars.

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:

All Tiny Creatures: Segni (vinyl)
Amanda Blank: I Love You (vinyl)
Anchor & Braille: Felt
Anjulie: Anjulie
Antony and the Johnsons: Aeon (vinyl)
AssJack: AssJack (vinyl with CD)
Bad Veins: Bad Veins (vinyl)
Beatallica: Masterful Mystery Tour
Brian Bonz & The Dot Hongs: From Sumi to Japan
Brian Wilson: What Love Can Do
Cale Parks: To Swift Mars EP
Catie Curtis: Hello Stranger
Cornershop: Judy Sucks A Lemon for Breakfast
Desolation Wilderness: New Universe (vinyl)
diskJokke: Discolated
The Duke & the King: Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Fruit Bats: The Ruminant Band (vinyl)
Greymachine: Disconnected
Guided by Voices: Under The Bushes Under The Stars (vinyl reissue)
Helado Negro: Awe Owe
Holiday Shores: Columbus'd The Whim
Iron Age: The Sleeping Eye
Japandroids: Post-Nothing (vinyl)
Jay Reatard: Watch Me Fall (vinyl)
Joe Pernice: It Feels So Good When I Stop
Julian Plenti: Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper (vinyl)
Kings of Leon: Notion EP
Lightning Dust: Infinite Light (vinyl)
Mac McAnally: Down By The River
Magnolia Sisters: Stripped Down
Maplewood: Yeti Boombox (vinyl)
Marmoset: Tea Tornado
Medeski Martin & Wood: Radiolarians III
Miles Davis: The Classic Prestige Sessions 1951-1956
Modest Mouse: No One's First, and You're Next EP
Monty Python: Monty Python's Flying Circus (reissue)
Nodzzz: True To Life (vinyl)
The Noisettes: Never Forget You/Saturday Night (vinyl)
Nurses: Apple's Acre (vinyl)
Oasis: Be Here Now (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: Definitely Maybe (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: Don't Believe the Truth (vinyl reissue)
Oasis: Heathen Chemistry (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: The Masterplan (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (2-LP vinyl reissue)
The Ocean: Fluxion
Owen: Split EP
Pansonic/Haino Keiji: Shall I Download A Blackhole and Offer It To You
Pictureplane: Dark Rift
Plastiscines: About Love
Robert Wyatt: Box Set (8-CD box set)
Sian Alice Group: Troubled, Shaken etc. (vinyl)
Solillaquists Of Sound: No More Heroes
Soul-Junk: 1960
Sunn 0))): Che/13 Crosses 16, Blazin Skulls/Goodbye Darling (vinyl)
thecocknbullkid: Querelle EP
Throw Me The Statue: Creaturesque (vinyl)
The Twang: Jewellery Quarter
The Used: In Love And Death (vinyl reissue)
Various Artists: An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008 (4-CD box set)
Various Artists: Horse Meat Disco
Walter Trout: Unspoiled by Progress
Watermelon Slim & The Workers: Escape from the Chicken Coop
We Were Promised Jetpacks: These Four Walls (vinyl)
Wild Beasts: Two Dancers
YACHT: See Mystery Lights
Yim Yames: Tribute To EP (vinyl)
The Young Accuser: Unsound (vinyl)

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posted at 7:35 PM on August 3, 2009 in music | new releases | Comments (20)

Comments (20)

new ninjasonik release this wednesday..."Darth Baño"

party at happy ending on wednesday night. gonna be a free download.

Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 7:57 PM

i'm really annoyed by people with personal "album of the year lists."

Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 8:47 PM

I'm furious at anyone with an opinion.

Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 9:00 PM

ahhh... Under the Bushes Under the Stars... what a fuckin' masterpiece (like most of what GbV had released up to that point).

Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 10:40 PM

The Herbaliser Band

Posted by Dan | August 3, 2009 11:19 PM

New Jay Reatard is fucking awesome! I'm not sure about Japandroids yet though.

Posted by Nick | August 4, 2009 12:17 AM

japandroids...blech. grossly watered down "indie". bad voices, worse lyrics ("i quit girls"-really????). even no age is better than this band.

what does "no more allegiance to the queen" mean? honestly? i could turn on a tape recorder and whine "the boys are leaving town the boys are leaving town" incessantly, and unless a blog wrote about it, nobody would give a shit.

"i dont wanna worry about dying...i just wanna worry about....sunshine guurrlllllsss"

^VOMIT

Posted by dane | August 4, 2009 12:41 AM

yeah i tend to skip over "boys are leaving town" and "i quit girls" the rest is fairly enjoyable

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2009 1:15 AM

i cant even believe there is a song called "i quit girls" and people take this band seriously. i could have sworn THE brooklynvegan had better taste than this.

Posted by dane | August 4, 2009 1:20 AM

Dfactor asked me to write:

"New Dfactor songs from upcoming CD 'Slashing the Sunlight' coming WEDNESDAY at http://dfactor.me"

Signed,
Anonymous

:-)

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2009 2:30 AM

new bumpin tacos track up- Stoney Road. short but fun

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2009 9:07 AM

The Japandroids record is totally enjoyable for some, just like there are people who actually enjoy bullshit(to some) put out by other bands. They don't take themselves too seriously, and they obviously have a great time playing. Perhaps it's really difficult to watch a band onstage that actually smiles, and doesn't always look tortured or upset. Lighten up.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2009 9:49 AM

I like post nothing, but yea, I concede, the lyrics are vapid and borderline retarded.

so what? this is the age of apathy, at least they even put the bong down long enough to make a record.

Posted by Brian | August 4, 2009 10:29 AM

the shitty lyrics are my favorite part.

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2009 10:44 AM

ducktails - landscapes (vinyl)
&
julian lynch - orange you glad (vinyl)

go jersey!

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2009 11:20 AM

Lightning Dust

Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2009 11:42 AM

nick@12:17 - japandroids are fucking fantastic...see you at their next show.

Peter

Posted by destroy capitalism | August 4, 2009 1:38 PM

The new Handsome Pheasants album is really good. Rocky Napoli can highly recommend it: Mogwai meets Black Sabbath. Brilliant.

Posted by Rocky Napoli | August 4, 2009 3:00 PM

I love your site and the article is useful!

Posted by lv | October 17, 2009 9:43 PM

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