In the Internet age we're getting a rush of albums way earlier than is to be expected. As such I have pulled the wheat from the chaff and have my recommendations and theories about some albums that will rub lovingly against your ear drums this fall.
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil No surprise here one of my most anticipated albums of the coming months does not disappoint. Thank god. I'd spent so much time talking these guys up in the past few months that anything less than a one band new garage rock moment was going to leave me looking pretty foolish. One of the top 10 garage rock albums this decade, no question.
The high light of the album is track three,
"Veni Vidi Vici". Yes a modern garage rock band has used that reference again this decade. (Can these guys seem less self aware?) It's a ballad of sorts and sure to incite slow ass sing-alongs from all corners of the indie community.
M.I.A - Kala I had curbed my expectations for the follow up to an innovative rap classic coming out on a major label. This sort of skepticism has proved ludicrous and is probably bad for my over all disposition.
The high light of this album is the penultimate track
"Paper Planes" a smooth verse beat leads to a great hum along chorus complete with guns cocking and cash registers erm.. caching-ing.
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover This comes as a surprise. I found
Shut Up I'm Dreaming to be somewhere below the Postal Service and the Raconteurs as a side project worth paying attention to. Sure there was good songs but the middle of the album was mucky and I couldn't groove much passed the killer opener over the long haul. Not so with this one that seems bludgeon you with a boat load of melody and musical fireworks in an incredibly manageable period of time.
The high light is once again the killer opener
"The Mending of the Gown". It twists you in all the ways you liked about the last album but seems to do it in a punchier less obstructive way. If that makes any sense.
Albums I am currently indifferent to include Animal Collective's
Strawberry Jam and The Go! Team's
Proof of Youth. The albums I'm still dying for are Jens Lekman's
Night Falls Over Kortedala(which has apparently leaked) and Les Savy Fav's
Let's Stay Friends. As far as albums I'm excited but skeptical about Kanye West's
Graduation should cause no shortage of hair pulling over the next couple of weeks.
Labels: Animal Collective, Black Lips, jens lekman, les savy fav, m.i.a., sunset rubdown, the go team
