Two new albums jump out of the list this week demanding special attention from all cool people. First, Loretta Lynn has a new album produced in collaboration with Jack White. Early word on this has been positive.
Also, the Diana Krall album merits attention. I've never really paid much attention to the work of the new Mrs. Elvis, but The Girl in the Other Room has the distinction of all the songs being co-written by Elvis. A whole new album of Elvis compositions definitely rates a listen. Amazon buyers agree: This is currently the #1 selling CD at Amazon.com.
The Black Sabbath box is about $90 for nine discs. Suicide would certainly start to sound like a viable solution by about the middle of disc 3.
This weeks' major new album releases, from All Music Guide:
Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose Interscope
Styles: Alternative Country, Americana, Traditional Country, Progressive Country
Rockpile Seconds of Pleasure [Expanded] Columbia/Legacy
Styles: New Wave, Pop/Rock, Pub Rock, Rock & Roll
Diana Krall The Girl in the Other Room Verve
D12 D12 World Shady/Interscope
Styles: Hardcore Rap
John Abercrombie Quartet Class Trip ECM
Styles: Modern Creative, Structured Improvisation
Aron Quartett Schoenberg: String Quartets Preiser
Styles: Modern Chamber Music
Pete Belasco Deeper Compendia
Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Contemporary R&B
Black Sabbath Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970-1978 Rhino
Styles: Heavy Metal, British Metal, Album Rock
Glenn Branca Lesson No. 1 [Bonus Tracks] Acute
Styles: Instrumental Rock, Experimental, No Wave, Experimental Rock
Mary Chapin Carpenter Between Here and Gone Columbia
Styles: Contemporary Country, Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock, Country-Folk
Andrew Carwood Orlando Lassus: Quam Pulchera Es; Veni in Hortum Meum Gaudeamus
Styles: Renaissance Choral Music
Article comments
1 - Craig Lyndall
very small week in the underground:
evergrey-inner circle 4/27
morgion-cloaked by ages 4/27
nekromantix-dead girls don't cry 4/27
suffocation-souls to deny 4/27
2 - Eric Olsen
Craig, if you want, feel free to do a separate post on this each week.
3 - ClubhouseCancer
Al:
No, it's just another Krall record, I'm afraid. But instead of boring us with her under-considered versions of Porter and Gershwin, we get five or six Krall/Costello tunes plus covers of tunes by Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, and someone else, plus "Almost Blue."
My advice is to continue paying little attention to Mrs. Costello, whose pallid pleasantness always evokes yawns here. Or maybe it's just subtle, and I'VE NEVER BEEN GOOD AT SUBTLE!!!
Their song "Narrow Daylight" has some good lines, however.
4 - Shark
Krall needs to go the Britney route: more boobs, less music.
5 - ClubhouseCancer
She doesn't have far to go. The cover packaging of "The Look of Love" looks like a Victoria's Secret catalogue. And not in the Bob Dylan way, either.