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LB's Interesting CD Releases This Week ++ Why Obama?

Since July 23rd, Largehearted Boy has been running a feature on his own site where he asks musicians to answer the question, “Why Obama?”. If you haven’t already (or lately), check that out before continuing with his listing of this week’s new music releases…

TravisOde to J. Smith, the latest album by Travis, sees its US release tomorrow.

Though there may be a shortage of marquee releases this week, there is no shortage of quality music. From the promos I have already sifted through, I can recommend Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Drippers EP, Cale Parks’ Sparklace, Dragonette’s Galore, Eulogies’ Tempted to Do Nothing, Grampall Jookabox’s Rope Chain, Little Joy’s self-titled debut (which features the Strokes’ Fabrizio Moretti), The Music Lovers’ Masculine Feminine, and Wilderness’s (k)no(w)here.

If you were waiting for the vinyl, Ryan Adams’ Cardinology, The Streets’ Everything Is Borrowed, and Prototypes’ Synthetique are all in stores tomorrow.

Merge Records has the week’s two outstanding reissues. Both Magnetic Fields’ Get Lost and Polvo’s Celebrate The New Dark Age EP have been remastered and are available tomorrow on vinyl. Camera Obscura’s Underachievers Please Try Harder is also finally available on vinyl.

Lou Reed’s Coney Island Baby and Berlin are available as a two-for-one reissue at a bargain price, as is Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. & The Wild, The Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle.

Any recommendations from the week’s music release list?

This week’s interesting CD releases:

Aviette: The Way We Met
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones: Jingle All the Way (vinyl)
Billie Holiday: Essential Collection (import 3-CD box set)
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Drippers EP
Black President: Black President
Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs – Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
Bohren & der Club of Gore: Dolores
Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J./The Wild, The Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle (reissues)
Cale Parks: Sparklace
Camera Obscura: Underachievers Please Try Harder (vinyl reissue)
Castanets Vs. Ero: Dub Refuge (vinyl)
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman (remastered with bonus disc)
Cat Stevens: Teaser and the Firecat (remastered with bonus disc)
Charlatans: Oh Vanity (import single)
Civet: Hell Hath No Fury (vinyl)
Cocteau Twins: Head Over Heels (vinyl remaster)
Crystal Antlers: EP (vinyl)
CSS: Move
Curumin: Japanpopshow
Darling Downs: From One to Another (vinyl)
Datarock: Computer Camp Love (import single)
Dead Can Dance: Dead Can Dance (vinyl remaster)
The Dead Trees: King of Rosa (vinyl)
Deadmau5: Random Album Title
Department of Eagles: In Ear Park (vinyl)
Desolation Wilderness: White Light Strobing (vinyl)
The Dickies: Live Destruction
Doug Paisley: Doug Paisley (vinyl)
Dragonette: Galore
Drew Andrews: Only Mirrors
Drew Danburry: This Could Mean Trouble, You Don’t Speak For The Club
The End of the World: French Exit
Eulogies: Tempted to Do Nothing
Frederick: Na Na Ni
Frida Hyvonen: Silence Is Wild (vinyl)
Future Clouds & Radar: Peoria
Gamma Ray: Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome: Live In Montreal
George Carlin: Carlin on Campus (reissue)
Glenn Gould: Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven (import)
Grampall Jookabox: Rope Chain (vinyl)
Harry Connick Jr.: What A Night! A Christmas Album
Hinder: Take It to the Limit (CD/DVD deluxe edition)
The Hours: Narcissus Road
Hushpuppies: Silence Is Golden
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Stiff Singles Promo Videos the Peel Session (import 9-disc box set)
Ida Maria: Oh My God (import single)
Illa J: Yancey Boys (vinyl)
Jackie-O Motherf*cker: Blood of Life (import)
James Yorkston: When The Haar Rolls In
Johann Johannsson: Fordlandia
K-The-4??? : Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Kings of Leon: Only By The Night (vinyl)
Lady Gaga: The Fame (vinyl)
Lady Gaga: Poker Face (import single)
Last Shadow Puppets: My Mistakes Were Made for You (single)
Little Joy: Little Joy (vinyl)
Lou Reed: Berlin: Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse (vinyl)
Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby/Berlin (reissue)
The Lucksmiths: First Frost
Lukestar: Lake Toba
Magnetic Fields: Get Lost (vinyl remaster)
Mahjongg: Free Groove Rider (vinyl)
Marco Beltrami: Max Payne (soundtrack)
Mark E Smith & Ed Blaney: Smith & Blaney (import)
Matt Alber: Hide Nothing
Mavis Staples: Live: Hope At The Hideout
Max Richter: 24 Postcards in Full Color (vinyl)
MC Frontalot: Final Boss
Megapuss: Surfing (vinyl)
Micah Blue Smaldone: The Red River (vinyl)
The Music Lovers: Masculine Feminine
No Age: Teen Creeps (vinyl)
OhGr: Devils In My Details (vinyl)
One Day As A Lion: One Day As A Lion (vinyl)
Past Lives: Strange Symmetry(vinyl)
Paul Weller: At the BBC (import)
Paul Weller: Sea Spray/22 Dreams (import single)
The Piano Creeps: Future Blues (For Me and You)
Polvo: Celebrate The New Dark Age (vinyl remaster)
Prototypes: Synthetique (vinyl)
Q-Tip: The Renaissance (vinyl)
Red Box: The Circle & The Square (reissue with bonus tracks)
Rewiring Genesis: A Tribute to the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Rudy Ray Moore: Dolemite For President (reissue)
Ryan Adams: Cardinology (vinyl)
Shiny Toy Guns: Season of Poison
Skatalites: Stretching Out (2-LP vinyl remaster)
Skeletons: Money
The So So Glos: Toursim/Terrorism
The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed (vinyl)
Thompson Twins: Product of/Set (reissues with bonus tracks)
Thunder Power: Love Yourself
Thursday / Envy: Split 12″ (vinyl)
Tom Gabel: Heart Burns (vinyl)
Travis: Ode to J. Smith
Various Artists: Celtic Tribute to U2
Various Artists: Changeling (soundtrack)
Various Artists: City of Ember: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists: Here Comes… Santa Claus!
Various Artists: Hushabye Baby: Country Lullaby Renditions of Johnny Cash
Various Artists: The Mighty Super Funk: Rare 45s And Undiscovered Masters 1967-1978
Various Artists: Santa’s Christmas Collection (import 10-CD box set)
Various Artists: Twilight (soundtrack)
Wallpaper : On The Chewing Gum Ground (vinyl)
Warship: Supply and Depend
The Wedding Present: How the West Was Won (import 4-CD box set)
Wild Beasts: Limbo, Panto (vinyl)
Wilderness: (k)no(w)here (vinyl)
Wino: A Bottle of Pills With A Bullet Chaser
ZZ Top: Live from Texas

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