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October 5, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
The new Mountain Goats album, Life of the World to Come is in stores tomorrow. I often state that John Darnielle is my favorite songwriter working today, but what continues to amaze me is the continual growth in his songwriting. This may be his finest work yet.
On Sunday, John stopped by Housing Works in NYC to answer some questions after a screening of a new concert film that he is featured in. How was that?
This week's release list is filled with noteworthy albums, many of which will find their way on end of year best albums lists. A few of the week's outstanding releases I can recommend are Alela Diane's Alela and Alina, Built To Spill's There Is No Enemy, Daniel Johnston's Is and Always Was, Mission of Burma's The Sound The Speed The Light, The Raveonettes' In and Out of Control, and especially The Xx's Xx.
Built to Spill's entire new album is streaming at MySpace.
Reisuues of note this week include three remastered Black Sabbath albums (Black Sabbath, Vol. 4, Never Say Die!, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath), four remastered Kraftwerk albums (Autobahn, The Man-Machine, Radio-Activity, Trans Europa Express), and five remastered Jesus Lizard albums, each with bonus tracks (Down, Goat, Head, Liar, Pure).
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September 28, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
7 Worlds Collide's Sun Came Out is a unique album, a project by Neil Finn with original songs written and performed by Finn, Jeff Tweedy, Johnny Marr, KT Tunstall and others.
The Avett Brothers' I and Love and You is one of the year's musical highlights for me, I can't recommend this disc enough.
Other releases I can recommend this week include Cymbals Eat Guitars' Why There Are Mountains (which finally gets a label release), Ghostface Killah's Ghostdini the Wizard of Poetry, Hope Sandoval's Through The Devil Softly, Karen O's Where The Wild Things Are Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Original Songs By Karen O And The Kids, Langhorne Slim's Be Set Free, Princeton's Cocoon of Love, and Richmond Fontaine's We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River.
Genesis Live 1973-2007 is an 8-CD, 3-DVD box set that collects the four (now remastered) live albums the band put out in that period, each with bonus tracks.
Aside from the Genesis live box set, the only reissues worth mentioning this week are two from The Brian Jonestown Massacre (Love EP and This Is Why You Love Me EP) and Matthew Friedberger's 2006 double solo album, Winter Women/ Holy Ghost Language School.
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September 21, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
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 ),
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September 15, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
Keep An Eye On The Sky is a 4-CD box set of rarities from Big Star, and is in stores Tuesday. The band plays the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in November.
Another rarities compilation that stands out this week is Local Currency, an album that collects obscure tracks by singer-songwriter Franklin Bruno from 1992-1998. As an added bonus, buyers of Local Currency receive a download coupon for a covers EP of Franklin Bruno songs, with contributions by Lou Barlow, Laura Cantrell, Mac McCaughan, Jennifer O'Connor, and Mecca Normal.
The 7-disc Velvet Underground box set of 7"'s, The Singles 1966-1969 is incredibly tempting, even if I already own most of the songs in multiple formats.
New music I can recommend this week includes The Dodos' Time To Die, Grand Archives' Keep In Mind Frankenstein, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir's ...And The Horse You Rode in On, Simon Joyner's Out Into the Snow, and Slaraffenland's We're On Your Side.
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir are playing the Bloodshot BBQ in Brooklyn later this month.
Two remastered Sunny Day Real Estate (now reunited) discs, Diary and LP2, are available today. Other interesting reissues include six Doors albums on 180 gram vinyl and five New Order LPs.
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September 7, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
The big music news this week comes from the Beatles, with the release of a 17-CD box set of remastered albums along with 14 individual albums, not to mention Tuesday's release of The Beatles: Rock Band for your music videogaming pleasure.
Two bands return from lengthy hiatuses to release possibly their greatest albums yet, Polvo with In Prism and Prefab Sprout with Let's Change the World With Music.
I can also recommend Vivian Girls' sophomore album Everything Goes Wrong Damon & Naomi's compilation The Sub Pop Years, HEALTH's Get Color, Taken By Trees' East of Eden, and the new release I am most excited about, Visqueen's Message To Garcia.
Apart from the remastered Beatles box set and individual albums, there are several other quality reissues. The Stone Roses' seminal self-titled debut album's 20th anniversary edition sees its stateside release tomorrow in several editions, including a 3-CD 3-LP 1-DVD limited collector's edition. Two Feelies albums (Crazy Rhythms, The Good Earth) are reissued on CD, as is The Get Up Kids' Something to Write Home About (complete with bonus DVD).
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August 17, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
Richard Thompson's Walking on a Wire is in stores tomorrow. The career-spanning box set includes songs from his Fairport Convention Days, his albums with Linda Thompson, and his solo work.
Mid-summer means the music release list is a bit short, but quality music abounds this week. I can recommend Brendan Benson's My Old, Familiar Friend (check him out on tour), The Cave Singers' Welcome Joy, Choir of Young Believers' This Is For The White In Your Eyes, Mount Eerie's Wind's Poem, The Temper Trap's Conditions, and Ramona Falls' Intuit.
My favorite release of the week is (not surprisingly), Destroyer's Bay of Pigs EP. Destroyer is back in NYC in September.
My favorite Flaming Lips album, The Soft Bulletin, is reissued this week in a 2-LP and CD edition. Other reissues of note include four Musie vinyl albums (Muse: Absolution,, Muse: Black Holes and Revelations, Muse: Origin of Symmetry, and Muse: Showbiz) and The Antlers' Hospice.
If you are already looking to fill your Christmas mix CD, Stockings By the Fire (reissue) has also been reissued, and contains holiday songs by The Bird and the Bee, Hem, Aimee Mann, and others.
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August 10, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
This week is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, and the 6-CD em>Woodstock: 40 Years on: Back to Yasgur's Farm captures the best of the legendary music festival. The box set features 38 previously unreleased live recordings from The Grateful Dead, The Who, and many more artists.
If you are feeling nostalgic, the Jimi Hendrix Live 1968 Paris/Ottawa box set copmes with 2 CDs and a t-shirt.
As the summer gets hotter, the music release lists get shorter. Still, I can ecommend Anna Ternheim's Leaving On a Mayday, Box Elders' Alice and Friends, and Patrick Wolf: The Bachelor (which finally gets its stateside release) among this week's list of new releases.
The reissue of the week is definitely the UK legacy edition of The Stone Roses' self-titled debut album, but I can wait until September 8th for the 3-CD, 3-LP, & DVD US edition.
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August 3, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
DOWNLOAD: Julian Plenti - Fun That We Have (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Julian Plenti - Games for Days (MP3)
This 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.
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July 28, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
this is two weeks worth of posts...
The 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.
The 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.
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July 13, 2009
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
Jack White returns this week with Horehound from yet another band on his resume, The Dead Weather (where he is joined by The Kills' Alison Mosshart). Promotions for this album have been running high with a Third Man Records store even opening in NYC for two days, and a 'takeover' of online radio station WOXY by the band. You can listen to their one hour set from Monday HERE.
From the discs I have already heard, I can also recommend Baby Teeth's Hustle Beach, The Most Serene Republic's Expanding Universe, and New Roman Times: On The Sleeve.
Remastered albums from Neil Young (After the Gold Rush, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Harvest (remastered), Neil Young) and the Rolling Stones (A Bigger Bang (remastered), Bridges to Babylon, Dirty Work, Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge) highlight the week's reissues, along with a remastered edition of the Beastie Boys' Ill Communication (complete with bonus disc).
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