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May 10, 2010
This Week's Interesting Music Releases - May 11, 2010
Two of 2010's most anticipated albums are released this week, and both The National's High Violet and CocoRosie's Grey Oceans are worthy of the hype that surrounds them (and highly recommended).
Jack White's side project The Dead Weather also returns this week with its second album , Sea of Cowards.
Kris Kristofferson's Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 showcases the singer-songwriter's stripped down demo recordings and emphasizes his songwriting strengths.
Of the new albums released this week, I can definitely also recommend Hosannas' Then & Now & Then, Phosphorescent's Here's To Taking It Easy, and especially the Salteens' latest effort, Moths.
At the top of my shopping list this week is the vinyl reissue of a personal favorite album, The Amps' Pacer (you can never have enough Kim Deal vinyl). Other reissues of note include seven Fela Kuti double album sets.
What new music can you recommend this week? What's on your shopping list?
This week's interesting CD releases:
65daysofstatic: We Were Exploding Anyway
Adam Green: Musik for a Play (vinyl)
The Amps: Pacer (vinyl reissue)
Biffy Clyro: Bubbles
Boards of Canada: Hi Scores
Capitol Steps: Liberal Shop of Horrors
CocoRosie: Grey Oceans (vinyl)
Dan Deacon: Woof Woof (vinyl)
The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards (vinyl)
Delorean: Subiza
Detroit Cobras: Love Life & Leaving (vinyl)
Detroit Cobras: Mink Rat Or Rabbit (vinyl)
Elizabeth Cook: Welder
Everest: On Approach
Fela Kuti: Alagbon Close / Why Black Man Dey Suffer (reissue)
Fela Kuti: Excuse-O & Monkey Banana (reissue)
Fela Kuti: He Miss Road / Expensive Shit (reissue)
Fela Kuti: Kalakuta Show / Ikoyi Blindness (reissue)
Fela Kuti: Noise For Vendor Mouth / Everything Scatter (reissue)
Fela Kuti: Unnecessary Begging & Johnny Just Drop (reissue)
Fela Kuti: Yellow Fever / Na Poi (reissue)
Foals: Total Life Forever (vinyl)
Gayngs: Relayted (vinyl)
Harper Blynn: Loneliest Generation
Haunted George: American Crow (vinyl)
Holy F**k: Latin
Hoodoo Gurus: Purity of Essence
Hosannas: Then & Now & Then
Household Names: Stories, No Names
Indian Jewelry: Totaled
Japandroids: No Singles (2-LP vinyl with digital download)
Jennifer Knapp: Letting Go
Jim Lauderdale: Patchwork River
Judas Priest: British Steel: 30th Anniversary Edition (remastered with bonus tracks)
Keane: Night Train
Kris Kristofferson: Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 (vinyl)
The La's: Callin' All (4-CD box set)
Lali Puna: Remember (vinyl)
Male Bonding: Nothing Hurts (vinyl)
Manatee: Indecision
Marco Benevento: Between The Needles & Nightfall
matt pond PA: Starting (vinyl)
Michael Giacchino: Lost: Season 5 (soundtrack)
Mike Rep and the Quotas: Stupor Hiatus (vinyl)
The National: High Violet (vinyl)
Otis Taylor: Clovis People, Vol. 3
Pantha du Prince: Diamond Daze
Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City (2-CD & 2-DVD edition)
Peter Wolf: Midnight Souvenirs (vinyl)
Phish: Phish: 11/19/1992 (Vermont 1992)
Phosphorescent: Here's To Taking It Easy (vinyl)
Portugal. The Man: American Ghetto
Princeton: Shout It Out (vinyl)
Puffy Areolas: In The Army 1981 (vinyl)
Rachel Grimes: Book of Leaves (vinyl)
Real Estate: Reality EP (vinyl)
Sage Francis: Li(f)e (vinyl)
Salteens: Moths
Sun Ra: Live at The Paradox
Taproot: Plead the Fifth
Thee Oh Sees: Warm Slime (vinyl)
Train: Hey Soul Sister
Trembling Bells: Abandoned Love (vinyl)
UNKLE: Where Did the Night Fall
Various Artists: American Idol - Season 9
Various Artists: Kitsune Maison 9 (vinyl)
Various Artists: Michael Jackson Karaoke
Various Artists: Next Stop Soweto 2 (vinyl)
Villagers: Becoming a Jackal (vinyl)
Wax Fang: La La Land (vinyl)
Zs: New Slaves
also at Largehearted Boy:
weekly CD & DVD release lists
Try It Before You Buy It (music from this week's CD releases)
