It's a good thing I work with a sinister cabal of superior writers or I'd have even less to say about this week's crop of new releases.
We'll start with the latest from Motion City Soundtrack, My Dinosaur Life. This one wasn't on my radar until I read Holly Hughes' review of it and now I'm making a point to at least check out a few tracks before deciding whether or not to make the purchase. She's given it her seal of approval. I might have to get back to you all on this one.
We also have new music from Eels. I haven't given them nearly enough consideration although I still think "Novocaine For The Soul" is catchy, clever, and brilliant. They released a compilation not long ago and our own EL Bicho reviewed it. If he writes up End Times, we'll link to it here.
Beyond that, it's a slim week this week. Sony has released a Greatest Hits package for Gretchen Wilson, and it seems pretty clear her 15 "redneck" minutes are up. We also have new music from Editors, who've had much more success in the UK than in the US.
Here's the full list:
Editors
In This Light and on This Evening
Eels
End Times
RJD2
The Colossus
Spoon
Transference
Various Artists
Crazy Heart
The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet
Crazy 8's
Aziz Ansari
Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening
Danny Barnes
Pizza Box
Blue Highway
Some Day: The Fifteenth Anniversary Collection
Alfred Brendel
The Farewell Concerts
Coal Porters
Durango: April 17-April 30
Cold War Kids
Behave Yourself
Dinowalrus
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Josephine Foster
Graphic as a Star
Barbara Hannigan
Bart Visman: Sables, Oxygène; New Heaven!; Septet
Maura Kennedy
Parade of Echoes
Lindstrøm & Christabelle
Real Life Is No Cool
Alexander Lingas
Peter Michaelides: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Motion City Soundtrack
My Dinosaur Life
Michael Martin Murphey
Lone Cowboy: Live & Solo
Raphael Wallfisch
C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos
The Len Price 3
Pictures
Surfer Blood
Astro Coast
Valkyrja
Contamination
Keb Darge/Paul Weller
Lost & Found: Real R'N'B & Soul
Gretchen Wilson
Greatest Hits
Article comments
1 - Mark Saleski
i have no Eels, which needs to be remedied. you have no NRBQ (i think), which also must be fixed....but you can start with The Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet.
2 - Tom Johnson
Spoon's Transference is the one you probably should have had on your radar. That's the one that's going to be making some waves this week, if something is going to get any awareness. It's not as great as their last one, but I'm giving it a chance to redeem itself before I write it off as Spoon spinning their wheels while trying to be the indie Wilco 2.0.
3 - zingzing
nrbq... i've tried to get into them a few times, but have never had any luck. "back of my car" (or whatever) just doesn't do it for me... but maybe there's something else.
4 - El Bicho
thanks for the mention, but the new Eels album is not currently on the docket
5 - Mark Saleski
no NRBQ zing? i guess i have a soft spot for bar-type bands. i could listen to "Me & the Boys" and "I Love Her, She Loves Me" at least once a day. twice, if i wuz in a bad mood.