New Album Releases, 11-28-2006: Public Enemy, Ying Yang Twins

I'm surely missing some obscure gem, but this week's new releases look weak. I'm not seeing a single thing in this whole batch to catch my interest. Twenty years after anyone would care, there's Public Enemy with Beats and Places. Past that, it's down to Ying Yang Twins' Chemically Imbalanced.

For what they're worth, here's the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG

The Figgs Follow Jean Through the Sea Gern Blandsten
Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop Underground

Our Lady Peace A Decade Columbia
Post-Grunge, Alternative Pop/Rock

Claudio Abbado Tchaikovsky: The 6 Symphonies Sony
Romantic Symphonies

Big Sir Und Die Scheibe Andert Sichimmer Gold Standard Laboratories
Indie Electronic, Post-Rock/Experimental

The Cassettes Neath the Pale Moon Buddyhead
Indie Pop

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Julian Anderson: Book of Hours NMC
Contemporary Orchestral & Choral Music

Clipse Hell Hath No Fury Re-Up Gang/Star Trak/Jive
Hardcore Rap, East Coast Rap, Gangsta Rap

Eighth Blackbird Strange Imaginary Animals Cedille
Contemporary Chamber Music

David Gilmour On an Island [CD/DVD] Columbia
Album Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Blues-Rock

Incubus Light Grenades Epic/Immortal
Rap-Rock, Alternative Metal, Funk Metal, Heavy Metal, Rap-Metal

Mark Kozelek Little Drummer Boy Live Caldo Verde
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter

Midlake Milkmaid Grand Army Basement Front
Indie Rock

Tenebrae Allegri: Miserere Signum UK
Choral & Vocal Works

Maria Zadori Thomas A. Arne: Solo Cantatas Centaur
Classical Vocal Works

Pilot Speed Into the West Wind-up
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock

Public Enemy Beats and Places SLAMjamz
Political Rap, Hardcore Rap, East Coast Rap

Rachid Taha Diwan 2 Wrasse
Rai

Too Short The Mack of the Century... Too Short's Greatest Hits Jive/Zomba
Dirty Rap, West Coast Rap, G-Funk, Golden Age

Ying Yang Twins Chemically Imbalanced TVT
Party Rap, Southern Rap, Dirty South

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