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Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster (2008)
Los Campesinos Hold On Now, Youngster Release Date: Feb. 25, 2008 Label: Wichita
Tracklist 1. Death To Los Campesinos! 2. Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats 3. Don't Tell Me To Do The Math(S) 4. Drop It Doe Eyes 5. My Year In Lists 6. Knee Deep At ATP 7. This Is How You Spell "Hahaha, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics" 8. We Are All Accelerated Readers 9. You! Me! Dancing! 10. ... And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison 11. Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks 12. 2007, The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)
Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? Release date: Sept. 9, 2008 Label: Hydra Head/Daymare
Tracklist 1. Farewell 2. Blind And Faithless 3. Why Are We Not Perfect 4. Farewell [Alternative Version] 5. Why Are We Not Perfect [Alternative Version]
Skeletal Lamping is the title of the ninth studio album by Athens, Georgia-based band Of Montreal. Kevin Barnes said about the title: "This record is my attempt to bring all of my puzzling, contradicting, disturbing, humorous...fantasies, ruminations and observations to the surface, so that I can better dissect and understand their reason for being in my head. Hence the title, Skeletal Lamping. Lamping is the name of a rather dreadful hunting technique where, hunters go into the forest at night, flood an area in light, then shoot, or capture, the animals as they panic and run from their hiding places." The new album is set to be released on October 7, 2008 on Polyvinyl.
High Places High Places Release date: Sept 23, 2008 Label: Thrill Jockey
Tracklist 1. The Storm (2:50) 2. You in Forty Years (1:33) 3. The Tree with the Lights in It (2:44) 4. Vision's the First... (3:40) 5. Gold Coin (3:52) 6. Papaya Year (1:42) 7. Namer (4:03) 8. Golden (2:04) 9. A Field Guide (3:58) 10. From Stardust to Sentience (3:34)
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)
i think i've posted this album about 10 different times on many a deleted blog...
Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Release date: Jan 23, 2007 Label: Polyvinyl
Tracklist 1. "Suffer for Fashion" – 2:58 2. "Sink the Seine" – 1:04 3. "Cato as a Pun" – 3:02 4. "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse" – 3:18 5. "Gronlandic Edit" – 3:24 6. "A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger" – 4:54 7. "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" – 11:52 8. "Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider" – 3:51 9. "Faberge Falls for Shuggie" – 4:31 10. "Labyrinthian Pomp" – 3:21 11. "She's a Rejecter" – 4:02 12. "We Were Born the Mutants Again with Leafling" – 4:57
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is the eighth album from indie pop band Of Montreal. It was released January 23, 2007. The album was written, performed, and recorded by Kevin Barnes, with assistance from friends and family: prominent Elephant Six members Bryan Poole, Jamey Huggins and Heather McIntosh, as well as Barnes' wife Nina Twin, and daughter Alabee Blonde. Credits also feature Georgie Fruit, a glam rock alter-ego of Barnes.
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens (2008)
David Byrne & Brian Eno Everything That Happens Today Will Happen Today Release date: Aug 18, 2008 Label: Self-released
Tracklist 1. Home – 5:06 2. My Big Nurse – 3:21 3. I Feel My Stuff – 6:25 4. Everything That Happens – 3:46 5. Life Is Long – 3:45 6. The River – 2:30 7. Strange Overtones – 4:17 8. Wanted for Life – 5:06 9. One Fine Day – 4:55 10. Poor Boy – 4:19 11. The Lighthouse – 3:46
Talkdemonic Eyes At Half Mast Release date: Sept. 16, 2008 Label: Arena Rock Recording
Tracklist 1. Leaving Light 2. Ending The Orange Glow 3. Duality Of Deathening 4. Shattered Into Dyes 5. Tides in Their Grave 6. Civilian 7. Black Wood Crimson 8. March Movement 9. Dim Sky 10. Shallow Doldrums 11. Dust And Heat 12. Huancayo Orchestrelle 13. Dream By Heart 14. A Hundred Faces In The Neon Forest
Product Description Speakers everywhere this fall will rejoice with the arrival of Eyes at Half Mast, the third record from Talkdemonic. The Portland, Oregon duo of Kevin O'Connor and Lisa Molinaro have been playing together since 2003; she plays the viola and cello, while he plays everything else, including, but not limited to: drums, synths, and acoustic instruments. The result is an intoxicating blend of symphonic strings and explosive percussion; achingly beautiful music.
Eyes at Half Mast is the band's high water mark. The album teems with moments of spirited beauty, (especially on "Duality of Deathening" and "March Movement") and of haunting elegies (as exemplified by "Tides in Their Grave" and "Dust and Heat"). There are passages filled with raw dissonance on the record, such as the release and tension offered by "Civilian", There is a sense of loss and memory running through many of these songs, but the tone of the record is ultimately one of hope, a satisfyingly dark vitality that embraces melodic confidence.
Talkdemonic continue to expand the range of emotion that they are able to evoke without words. The band is emerging in terms of composition, song structure and recording, and the sound crystallizes here. Talkdemonic hit a stride in songwriting with tunes like "Ending the Orange Glow" and "Black Wood Crimson", which feature complex arrangements, layers and harmonies. It's worth noting that O'Connor mixed thirteen of the fourteen songs from this set.
Audiences admire Talkdemonic for their uncompromisingly cathartic and bewitching live sets, as they witness the co-mingling of O'Connor's rhythmic prowess and Molinaro's tempestuous craft. It becomes a welcome contagion, to know Talkdemonic, as they remind us continue to treat music as something of crucial importance and endless amazement.
Metallica - The Day That Never Comes [CDS] (2008)
Metallica The Day That Never Comes Release date: Aug 21, 2008 Label: Warner
"The Day That Never Comes" is the fortieth single by American heavy metal band Metallica, and the first from the band's upcoming studio album, Death Magnetic. "The Day That Never Comes" was released to the radio and internet on Thursday August 21st, 2008 at 11 am PDT.
In an interview with the creators of the music video game Rock Band in October 2007, it was stated that Metallica had given the rights to MTV Games, the game's publisher, to have the first single off Death Magnetic available for playability on the game before the album's release. On August 1, 2008, that first single was ultimately revealed to be "The Day That Never Comes."
Pitchfork (8.5/10) Despite the enormous fluffy clouds of grain and reverb, the album never stops moving-- even the loosest of their bass lines work like billows to keep blowing things forward. (Occasionally, the funk is more obvious: "Floating Points" borrows its boompty from !!!'s "Me and Guiliani...", surprising as it may sound.) But they leaven their momentum with tentativeness, never simply pushing the beat toward climax but stopping to explore the little loopholes in time and psychoacoustic space. "Jet", the album's highlight, wants to have it all ways at once: a compact funk bass line below, misty pads on top, and then a nimbly twisting arpeggio that goes shooting through it all like a giant's vine. A high-pitched, trombone-like sound melts like hot plastic from unseen heights, and everything feels at once within reach and incredibly far away. Readers of Alice in Wonderland will recognize this symptom as micropsia, which might make sense: Allien and Apparat have burrowed one of the most magical rabbit-holes you'll explore this year.
Damon Albarn Monkey: Journey to the West Release date: Aug 18, 2008 Label: XL
Tracklist 1. Monkey's World 2. Monkey Travels 3. Into The Eastern Sea 4. Living Sea 5. Dragon King 6. Iron Rod 7. Out Of The Eastern Sea 8. Heavenly Peach Banquet 9. Battle In Heaven 10. O Mi To Fu 11. Whisper 12. Tripitala's Curse 13. Confessions Of A Pig 14. Sandy The River Demon 15. March Of The Volunteers 16. White Skeleton Demon 17. Monk's Song 18. I Love Buddha 19. March Of The Iron Army 20. Pigsy In Space 21. Monkey Bee 22. Disappearing Volcano
Amazon.co.uk Review You could never accuse Damon Albarn of resting on his laurels. Whether it's forming supergroups (The Good, The Bad & The Queen), working with cult animators (The Gorillaz) or making music with musicians from Mali, the former Blur frontman has nurtured a restless, questing spirit not normally encountered in Britop stars. As if to underline his diverse interests, he now turns his attention to Chinese theatre. Monkey: Journey to the West is a theatrical collaboration between Albarn (music), Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz fame (designs, costumes) and Chinese opera specialist Chen Shi-Zheng. The show itself is an explosive 90-minute circus featuring Chinese acrobats, martial arts experts and contortionists, though the album condenses the experience into 22 songs lasting an hour or so.
Recorded in London and Beijing with a mix of European and Chinese musicians, Monkey ... is a genuine attempt at East-West fusion. Featuring a dizzying array of instrumentation--rock guitars, electronics, harps, mandolins, drum machines, strings, plinky-plonk keyboards, giggling girls, chants, even pigs--it's the sort of project that could so easily have gone awry. Yet Albarn, who allegedly mastered the Chinese pentatonic scale, seems to have made it work. Songs like the fluttery "Heavenly Peach Banquet" and the wistful "The Living Sea" are utterly beguiling, and stand in stark contrast to guitar-heavy behemoths like "Battle in Heaven" and the climactic "Monkey Bee." These longer songs are punctuated with incidental pieces such as "Iron Rod", "Into the Eastern Sea" and "Out of the Eastern Sea". While such interludes may distract from a 'normal' album experience, there's enough melodious charm and imaginative whimsy scattered throughout to satisfy even ardent skeptics.
The Glass Passenger is the upcoming second studio album by American rock band Jack's Mannequin, set to be released by Sire Records on 30 September 2008 in the United States. It will be the band's first studio album on Sire Records, after Everything in Transit (2005) was released through Maverick Records. Sire released two of the album's new songs on the The Ghost Overground EP, on 5 August 2008, along with "The Resolution" as the album's first single.
Lead singer Andrew McMahon was diagnosed with a form of cancer in 2005, on the day they finished mastering the last song for their debut album. Jack's Mannequin didn't return to playing shows until the end of that year, and didn't begin writing until after the summer of 2007. The Glass Passenger was recorded by producer Jim Wirt in November-December 2007, and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge. It experienced a series of delays, originally being given a tentative April 2008 release, now being pushed back five months to September.
The Ghost Overground EP 1. "The Resolution" - 3:06 2. "Bloodshot" - 3:54 3. "Holiday from Real" (live from SIR) - 3:48 4. "Kill the Messenger" (live from Rock Xentral) - 3:31
The Ghost Overground is an EP that was released by Jack's Mannequin on August 5, 2008 by Sire Records as an iTunes Store exclusive. It contains two songs from the upcoming album The Glass Passenger (September 30, 2008) and two live tracks from their debut album Everything in Transit.
The Verve Forth Release date: 25 Aug 2008 Label: Parlophone
Tracklist 1. Sit And Wonder 2. Love Is Noise 3. Rather Be 4. Judas 5. Numbness 6. I See Houses 7. Noise Epic 8. Valium Skies 9. Columbo 10. Appalachian Springs
Description Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential bands in British music, this is the fourth album by Wigan's The Verve, and their first full set of original material since the career defining, 1997 commercial breakthrough, 'Urban Hymns'. 'Forth' is a strong and varied release, combiningguitarist Nick McCabe's sonic experiments with frontman Richard Ashcroft's Britpop-esque balladry. The anthemic single,'Love Is Noise' is included.
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom (2008)
Mt. Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire Lost Wisdom Release date: Oct 7, 2008 Label: P.W. Elverum & Sun
Tracklist 1. Lost Wisdom (4:14) 2. Voice in Headphones (2:15) 3. You Swan, Go On (1:24) 4. Who? (2:23) 5. Flaming Home (2:28) 6. What? (2:06) 7. If We Knew... (1:37) 8. With My Hands Out (1:38) 9. O My Heart (3:17) 10. Grave Robbers (1:47)
Ten songs recorded quickly and quietly during a surprise visit by Julie Doiron, keeper of the world’s greatest and saddest voice, and Fred Squire, hidden guitarist of the floating riff, in a small wooden room in Anacortes, Washington before they returned home to eastern Canada. Songs with the expression of the face of a baby in a burning world, in the swirling dust. They hang on a theme of impermanence and destroying forces. The river is revealed to be going right through the house, the river of inevitable chaos, sorrow and love.
Mount Eerie - Dawn (2008)
Mount Eerie Dawn Release date: Nov. 4, 2008 Label: P.W. Elverum & Sun
Tracklist 01 It Wasn't the Hunting 02 Cold Mountain 03 Moon Sequel 04 I Have Been Told That My Skin Is Exceptionally Smooth 05 I Say "No" 06 Moon, I Already Know 07 With My Hands Out 08 A Show of Hands 09 Woolly Mammoth’s Mighty Absence 10 My Burning 11 Great Ghosts 12 Climb Over 13 We Squirm 14 Voice in Headphones 15 Who? 16 Dead of Night 17 See Me 18 Log in the Waves 19 Goodbye Hope
Dawn is an archival core sample from an intensely creative period, the winter of 2002/2003 spent alone in a cabin in arctic Norway, wrestling with ghosts, gathering wood, acting out the myths; a kind of “lost album” finally properly recorded on just guitar and singing. It is being released in 2 pretty different forms. This one, a white vinyl LP, is meant to accompany the other, a book of the same name to be published by Buenaventura Press later this year. It comes with a special booklet of scary self portraits done in the dark window reflection in overflowing ink, vaguely corresponding to the overflowing darkness in the 19 songs. They have become known over the past few years at live shows and in other forms but never have they appeared all together like this, sung in the same way they were written, acoustic alone.
Tilly and the Wall O Release date: 17 Jun 2008 Label: Team Love
Tracklist 1. Tall Tall Grass 2. Pot Kettle Black 3. Cacophony 4. I Found You 5. Alligator Skin 6. Chandelier Lake 7. Dust Me Off 8. Falling Without Knowing 9. Poor Man's Ice Cream 10. Blood Flower 11. Too Excited
Pitchfork (7.6/10) Despite the evolution of their sound, Tilly and the Wall haven't forgotten about what made them appealing in the first place: bright co-ed harmonies, rousing choruses, and their overall open-hearted good nature. And so they lure you into this rich, multi-dimensional collection with opener "Tall Tall Grass", which wouldn't have sounded out of place on their debut. The soaring acoustic number starts out spare, but uses the dreamy interplay between Alarid and Neely Jenkins' sweetly sassy sopranos to take flight amidst a stately piano line and a surprisingly reverb-heavy guitar solo. And elsewhere the band gives in to their penchant for big, sing-along hooks and glorious, celebratory noise. Both "Jumbler", which is built on handclaps and off-kilter piano melodies and is studded with horn slides, and the aptly named "Cacophony", which makes the most of the band's wealth of vocal talent by layering tangy three-part harmonies over Pressnall's galloping rhythms and some revival tambourines, will remind listeners why they fell in love with this charming band: Because Tilly and the Wall aren't jaded or studiously cool or blasé. Because they know it feels good to stomp your feet and scream at the top of your lungs. Because they haven’t lost their connection to the emotional freedom of childhood-- that moment in time when you feel the rawness of your emotions, but haven't learned to be ashamed of them yet.
Mark Kozelek - 7 Songs Belfast (2008)
Mark Kozelek 7 Songs Belfast Release date: July 1 2008 Label: Caldo Verde
Tracklist 1. Michigan 2. Around and Around 3. River 4. Gentle Moon 5. Carry Me Ohio 6. San Geronimo 7. Tonight in Bilbao
Ponytail Ice Cream Spiritual Release date: 21 Jul 2008 Label: We Are Free
Tracklist 1. Beg Waves 2. G Shock 3. 7 Souls 4. Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came From an Angel) 5. Late For School 6. Sky Drool 7. Small Wevs 8. Die Allman Bruder
Pitchfork (8.4/10) While Japanese noise-rock or latter-day indie prog come to mind, the band I keep thinking about while listening to Ice Cream Spiritual-- and this even without proper tunes-- is the Pixies. Something about the twists and turns these songs take-- the way they don't quite work like they're supposed to and so wind up working better-- has the feel of Surfer Rosa/Doolittle at their most chaotic. At times it seems like Ponytail took the second half of "Tame", the point where Frank Black is reduced to heavy breathing and throat-shredding screams while Kim Deal lets out her "Ah-ah-ah" sighs, and extended that minute-long section to album length. And you could see these guys writing something about a superhero named Tony.
Kimya Dawson - Alphabutt (2008)
this is a kids album, btw.
Kimya Dawson Alphabutt Sept 8, 2008 Label: K
Tracklist 1. Little Monster Babies (1:27) 2. Alphabutt (0:55) 3. Bobby-O (1:50) 4. Louie (2:25) 5. Smoothie (2:13) 6. I Like Bears (1:09) 7. Seven Hungry Tigers (1:59) 8. Happy Home (Keep On Writing) (3:34) 9. Wiggle My Tooth (1:37) 10. I Love You Sweet Baby (2:02) 11. Pee-Pee In The Potty (0:29) 12. Uncle Hukee's House (0:54) 13. We're All Animals (2:22) 14. Little Panda Bear (1:00) 15. Sunbeams And Some Beans (3:45)
Little Man Tate - Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy (2008)
Little Man Tate Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy Release date: Sept. 15, 2008 Label: Skint/Yellow Van Records
Tracklist 1. Money Wheel 2. What Your Boyfriend Said' 3. Reflection In His Sunglasses 4. Shot At Politics 5. Hey Little Sweetie 6. Joined By An iPod 7. Face On A Wall 8. A Little Heart 9. Time For Anything 10. Back Of The Pub Quiz 11. London Skies London Eyes
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement (2008)
The Last Shadow Puppets The Age Of The Understatement Release date: 21 April 2008 Label: Domino
Tracklist 1. The Age Of The Understatement 2. Standing Next To Me 3. Calm Like You 4. Separate and Ever Deadly 5. The Chamber 6. Only The Truth 7. My Mistakes Were Made For You 8. Black Plant 9. I Don't Like You Any More 10. In My Room 11. Meeting Place 12. The Time Has Come Again
The Age of the Understatement is the debut album by The Last Shadow Puppets, featuring Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane of The Rascals and Simian Mobile Disco member James Ford. It was released on 21 April 2008 in the UK, following the release of their eponymous single in the previous week. It entered the UK Album Chart at #1 on 27 April 2008. The album has so far sold 128,358 copies in the UK and was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize.
Durutti Column - Treatise on the Steppenwolf OST (2008)
let the downloading frenzy begin!
The Durutti Column Treatise on the Steppenwolf Release date: Aug. 11, 2008 Label: LTM
Tracklist 1. A Beautiful Thought (Pt 1) (3:46) 2. The Mothers & The Fathers (5:52) 3. A Wolf Of The Steppes (5:11) 4. Interlude (3:53) 5. The Title On The Cover (3:27) 6. Divided (2:59) 7. Magic Theatre (2:38) 8. Soul Track (4:27) 9. Harry Dreams The Dream (4:00) 10. A Beautiful Thought (Pt 2) (3:40) 11. Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 1) (4:02) 12. Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 2) (6:47) 13. Lullaby (Live) (4:58) 14. Mello (Live) (2:54)
Little Man Tate About What You Know Release date: Jan 29, 2007 Label: V2 Records
Tracklist 1. Man I Hate Your Band 2. European Lover 3. Sexy In Latin 4. This Must Be Love 5. House Party at Boothy's 6. Who Invented These Lists? 7. Court Report 8. Little Big Man 9. 3 Day Rule 10. This Girl Isn't My Girlfriend 11. Down on Marie 12. What? What You Got? (Hidden Track)
Amazon.co.uk Review You can teach attitude for interviews, you can stage and tweak it expertly for photo shoots, but Little Man Tate – and particularly gobby frontman John Windle – don't leave it that long. "Don't talk to me about money, don't talk to me about fame, don't tell me about your lyrics because your songs are all the same," he chirrups intently, taking out most of his peers in one fail swoop seconds in, "you've got to understand, man I hate your band!". His uncorked belligerence is infectious, driven hard by that honest, witty northern twang previously heard rebounding off the likes of I Am Kloot, The Cribs and, yes, yes, those Arctic Monkeys. His gall at ripping apart the London A&R scene's pretentiousness on their opening three and a half minutes has surely won more friends than it might had it not been attached to such a belter of a tune.
As right as he might be, he's probably not entirely immune to its criticisms. They slam into the record with such a head full of steam and testosterone that they were always bound to be winded by the end of its 11 tracks. But while it lasts it really is enormous fun. The choruses to 'European Lover' and 'Sexy In Latin', and the holler-along outro to 'House Party' are furiously sweet like a confectionary box featuring The Jam truffles, brandy snap Buzzcocks and mostly Libertines choc chip creams. Not exactly for savouring, hardly a delicacy, more just treats to chomp right down.
Bonnie Prince Billy - Is It the Sea? (2008)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy with Harem Scarem and Alex Neilson Is It the Sea? Release date: Oct. 20, 2008 Label: Domino
Tracklist 1. Minor Place 4:41 2. Love Comes To Me 4:19 3. Bed Is For Sleeping 3:52 4. Arise Therefore 3:25 5. Wolf Among Wolves 4:45 6. Ain't You Wealthy? Ain't You Wise? 4:46 7. Cursed Sleep 7:51 8. Molly Bawn 7:33 9. Birch Ballad 4:45 10. New Partner 4:39 11. Is It The Sea? 6:31 12. My Home Is The Sea 7:30 13. Master And Everyone 3:30
