New Music Roundup: 5/1/09
Original Illustration by Ryan Blomberg (ryanblomberg.wordpress.com)
As always, I’ve valiantly taken some time out of my work week to listen to a number of new CDs this week and let you know which are worth your time and which wouldn’t even be suitable to using as frisbees.
Full list, in descending order of awesomeness, below the fold:
REALLY AWESOME:
Artist: The Boy Least Likely To
Album: The Law of the Playground
Who the hell are they?: The platonic form of twee
Sounds like a combination of: Badly Drawn Boy and The Archies
For Example: Every Goliath Has Its David
Recommended?: For being so optimistic that you shit yourself
Release Date: April 20
Artist: Deerhunter
Album: Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Who the hell are they?: Psychedelic Atlanta-based garage revivalists
Sounds like a combination of: The Rivieras and Beach House
For Example: Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Recommended?: Yes.
Release Date: June 9
Artist: Drug Rug
Album: Paint The Fence Invisible
Who the hell are they?: Folksy Cambridge boyfriend/girlfriend band ups the hooks.
Sounds like a combination of: Badfinger and Wings
For Example: Nothing available yet, but check out this gem from their debut
Recommended?: For any activity that would actually involve wearing a drug rug.
Release Date: July 18 (It will be here before you know it.)
Artist: The Legends
Album: Over and Over
Who the hell are they?:Stockholm fuzz-pop
Sounds like a combination of: The Raveonettes and The Caesars
For Example: Seconds Away
Recommended?: Very highly, though I do wonder what would happen sans distortion.
Release Date: June 16th
Artist:The Vaselines
Album: Enter The Vaselines/The Way of The Vaselines
Who the hell are they?: Scottish lo-fi pop pioneers celebrated on two-disc reissues
Sounds like a combination of: The Velvet Underground and The Moldy Peaches
For Example: Son of a Gun
Recommended?: Yes, though “The Way of…” is more essential than “Enter the…”
Release Date: May 5
Pretty Awesome:
Artist: Caruso
Album: Boy Noises
Who the hell are they?: Shoegazing North Carolina homo
Sounds like a combination of: Go! Team and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
For Example: Retarded
Recommended?: For Grizzly bear fans thirsting after more melodic homos
Release Date: Feb. 14th
Artist: Freeland
Album: Cope
Who the hell are they?: New side project of DJ Adam Freeland
Sounds like a combination of:LCD Soundsytem and The Presets
For Example: Under Control.
Recommended?: For the synthiest frat party ever.
Release Date: June 9
Artist:The Morning After Girls
Album: Alone EP
Who the hell are they?: A rock band who, surprisingly, has a male vocalist
Sounds like a combination of: Garbage and Pink Floyd
For Example: The General Public
Recommended?: For rekindling your old crush on Shirley Manson
Release Date: Summer ’09
Artist: Solid Gold
Album: Bodies of Water
Who the hell are they?: Downbeat Minnesota electropop band
Sounds like a combination of:Portishead and Goldie
For Example: Bible Thumper
Recommended? Yeah.
Release Date?: Out Now!
Artist: The Gary
Not Awesome at All:
Artist: Fritz Helder and The Phantoms
Album: Greatest Hits
Who the hell are they?: The musical equivalent of American Apparel
Sounds like a combination of: Fischerspooner and 2gether
For Example: Making a Scene.
Recommended?: Literally, from the bottom of my heart, for nothing.
Release Date: July 7
Album: Chub EP
Who the hell are they?:Yet another damn Austin band.
Sounds like a combination of: Galaxie 500 and The Toadies
For Example: Damn Machines
Recommended?: For being very bored in a canoe
Release Date: April 7
Artist: Quest for Fire
Album: Alone
Who the hell are they?: Loud n’ lazy Toronto foursome
Sounds like a combination of:Tool and Nyquil
For Example: Bison Eyes
Recommended?: For Garth Algars’s funeral
Release Date: June 9.
Artist: White Rabbits
Album: It’s frightening
Who the hell are they?: Who cares?
Sounds like a combination of: Peter, Bjorn and John and Counting Crows
For Example: Percussion Gun
Recommended?: Meh
Release Date: May 19
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the legends sans distortion = the first record which is sunny pop, the second record moody joy division, and the third record full on new order. this new one is very jamc, but there is less distortion than the single hinted at. if you like them you should check out his other bands, club 8 (the girl singing on the record), acid house kings (a band with his brother), and pallers (his electronic side project, reminiscent of the 2nd and 3rd legends records). hell anything on labrador records is good (especially radio dept.)
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