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Posted in music | new releases on September 21, 2009
Monsters of Folk's debut album is out Tuesday on CD, and the collaborative project of Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogis is one of the year's most pleasant musical surprises. Catch them on tour in October and November.
Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill is one of the year's best tribute albums, and includes contributions from Beth Orton, Bill Callahan, and Final Fantasy (who is touring with the Mountain Goats in November).
Other albums I have heard and can recommend this week include Amy Millan's Masters of the Burial, Castanets' Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts, Hallelujah the Hills' Colonial Drones, Le Loup's Family, Owen's New Leaves, Rose Melberg's Homeade Ship, and Vic Chesnutt's At the Cut.
Reissues of note this week include the Beastie Boys' remastered Hello Nasty (complete with bonus disc of rarities) and three Mudhoney discs on vinyl (Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney, and Superfuzz Bigmuff ),
What new music can you recommend this week? What's on your shopping list?
This week's interesting CD releases:
Alice Donut: Ten Glorious Animals
The Almighty Defenders: The Almighty Defenders (vinyl)
Amy Millan: Masters of the Burial (vinyl)
Basement Jaxx: Scars
Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty (remastered with bonus disc) (vinyl)
The Big Pink: A Brief History of Love
Brand New: Daisy
Brother Ali: Us
Castanets: Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts (vinyl)
David Gray: Draw the Line (2-CD edition)
Deadmau5: For Lack of a Better Name
Early Day Miners: Treatment (vinyl)
Elvis Costello: Extreme Honey: The Very Best Of The Warner Bros. Years (reissue)
Elvis Costello: Mighty Like a Rose (reissue)
Elvis Costello: Spike (reissue)
Five Finger Death Punch: War Is The Answer
Geoff Muldaur: Texas Sheiks
Girls: Album (vinyl)
Green Day: Shenanigans (vinyl reissue)
Guy Clark: Somedays The Song Writes You
Hallelujah the Hills: Colonial Drones
Hornet Leg: Ribbon of Fear (vinyl)
Insomnium: Across the Dark
Islands: Vapours
J Dilla: Jay Stay Paid (vinyl)
John Fahey: Twilight on Prince Georges Avenue: Essential Recordings
Jonathan Richman: Vampire Girl: Essential Recordings
Joshua James: Build Me This
Julie Peel: Near the Sun
L.T.J. Bukem: Fabriclive.46
LCD Soundsystem: 45:33 Remixes
Le Loup: Family (vinyl)
Lisa Germano: Magic Neighbor
Los Lobos: Los Lobos Goes Disney
Madonna: Celebration
Mae: (m)orning
Mantles: Mantles
Merzbow: 13 Japanese Birds, Vol. 9
Mika: The Boy Who Knew Too Much (CD & DVD)
Monsters of Folk: Monsters of Folk
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (vinyl reissue)
Mudhoney: Mudhoney (vinyl reissue)
Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff (vinyl reissue)
Mum: Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: White Lunar (soundtrack)
Noisettes: Wild Young Hearts (vinyl)
One Eskimo: One Eskimo
Owen: New Leaves (vinyl)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Higher Than The Stars EP (vinyl)
Pastels/Tenniscoats: Two Sunsets
Pearl Jam: Backspacer
Rain Machine: Rain Machine
Richard Hawley: Truelove's Gutter
Rollercoaster Project: Revenge
Rose Melberg: Homeade Ship (vinyl)
Rufus Wainwright: Milwaukee at Last!!!
Sea Wolf: White Water, White Bloom (vinyl)
Sean Kingston: Tomorrow
Sissy Wish: Beauties Never Die
Spiral Beach: The Only Really Thing
Tears For Fears: Raoul and the Kings of Spain (remastered with bonus tracks)
Times New Viking: Born Again Revisited (vinyl)
To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie: Marlone
Tom Brosseau: Posthumous Success
Twilight Sad: Forget the Night Ahead (vinyl)
U2: I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Various Artists: Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill
Various Artists: New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets (vinyl)
Various Artists: Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965 - 1968 (4-CD box set)
Vic Chesnutt: At the Cut
Volcano Choir: Unmap (vinyl)
Vowels: The Pattern Prism
Wallpaper: Doodoo Face (vinyl)
Ween: Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live '90-'98 (reissue)
Ween: Pure Guava (reissue)
WHY?: Eskimo Snow
Willie Nelson: Phases and Stages (vinyl reissue)
Yoko Ono Plastic Onon Band: Between My Head and the Sky
Yura Yura Teikoku: Hollow Me/ Beautiful
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This is such a pointless weekly column. There is honestly nothing valuable, interesting, or insightful ever written. It's a fucking list.
Plus, the whole "Largehearted Boy" thing.....maybe that's the problem. Maybe I could deal with "Interesting CD Releases This Week", but why force an opinion. Maybe just steal the release list from his site (or from hundreds of other places), cut out the 10 words of opinion, and call it "CD Releases This Week".
And plus, despite what I think about them, the dude didn't write anything about the GIRLS album, and this is Brooklyn Vegan. That's sacrilege.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2009 9:46 AM
But 9:46, what can you recommend this week? What's on your shopping list?
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2009 10:01 AM
9:46 drinks his own pee
Posted by Funderburgh | September 22, 2009 10:01 AM
@10:01am (either)
Besides a new ice cube tray to make piss ice cubes to go with the glass of my own piss, the WHY? album is estremely good, Vic Chesnutt's new album is one of my favorite's thus far, I bet the new mum album sucks, and Beastie Boys should never have reissued Hello Nasty, not even for cancerous reasons.
I don't understand the point of this column. There's not even any words suitable for MEHing.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2009 10:07 AM
Yet again, no Handsome Pheasants!!!!
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2009 10:22 AM
Large Hearted Boy doesn't even know the Handsome Pheasants have a new album which makes me wonder why anybody bothers reading his column?
Posted by Rocky Napoli | September 22, 2009 11:16 AM
Perhaps LHB has never seen a Cukar and thus is unaware just how handsome a pheasant can be.
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2009 11:23 AM
I think you need a bit more of a story with this as this isn't really a news story in its current form. Perhaps you could write about why you like Michael so much?
Posted by louis | October 17, 2009 11:59 AM