Originally posted by thirsty moore:Murray Street is decent.
I know Sonic Youth is coming out with a new one, but that's nothing this board will get all giddy about;)
Albums in 2004
Bjork's website says she's working on new songs. That'll be nice to hear. It might be hard to top Vespertine and Homogenic though.
Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat::mad:
Originally posted by mark e smith:I'm looking forward to The Coral album too. Get it quick because it's a limited edition.
I am looking forward to the third coral album……
Plus the libertines should be able to knock something out, ready for next year.
Cinerama, seem to be hitting one a year too…… I wonder if it could be as good as the last one?
Plus the Lambchop double release was scheduled for March or something……. YAY!
Also looking forward to Razorlight, Libertines, The Stands, The Zutons and The Basement. And I'm grateful that Coldplay, BRMC, The Strokes, Travis and The Stereophonics shouldn't be releasing anything this coming year!
Neil & Tim Finn (of Split Enz/Crowded House fame) 2nd brothers album.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&ncid=768&e=2&u=/nm/20031230/music_nm/music_finn_dc
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&ncid=768&e=2&u=/nm/20031230/music_nm/music_finn_dc
Originally posted by thirsty moore:Like I can pick and choose my nationality at will? I have at least 7 years to enjoy before I can become fully naturalized.
British again?
And for those that are interested the coral third album can be found right here……… Amazon in Great Britain. I wonder where I am going to be able to get this inexpensively? CD whorehouse or CDwow.net?
For all the use it will do me, I might as well talk to myself.
I think I will order mine tonight from CDwow.net be sure its the .net site.
I think I will order mine tonight from CDwow.net be sure its the .net site.
I know how you feel Markie, now that daylight and computers together aren't part of my life. Sorry, but have to go now. I love after work naps. Happy New Year's to you and Lulu. ;)
Liam, were you at the Brian Jonestown Massacre show in Baltimore the other month?
Liam, were you at the Brian Jonestown Massacre show in Baltimore the other month?
"I like to go to all their shows to check out how often they rip me off" <img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/685000/images/_685155_liam_gallagher300.jpg" alt=" - " />
Originally posted by Jaguär:Cool, have a good 'un…. I am sure we will be seeing you soon.
Happy New Year's to you and Lulu. ;)
in flames (hopefully better than RTR)
Originally posted by El Tee:http://www.nadasurf.com/news/index.php
Isn't Nada Surf releasing a cd in early 2004?
"Nada Surf will begin recording Album #4 this January in Seattle. Behind the board will be labelmate/tourmate/friend/producer extraordinaire Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie. Fingers crossed for a Fall 2004 release. "
i need to update it but some of you might enjoy my page which is mostly poached from other sites but has a few pieces of "exclusive info."
http://howisya.tripod.com/f2k.html
sorry, not much indie rock on there, but you'll find something you like. for me there's a ton of good music i'm looking forward to.
http://howisya.tripod.com/f2k.html
sorry, not much indie rock on there, but you'll find something you like. for me there's a ton of good music i'm looking forward to.
Shouldn't Spoon be releasing another album sometime soon?
Originally posted by thirsty moore:i'm stoked. hopefully a tour will follow…
I hope to hear a new Fugazi album in 2004, or at least a word on what they're up to as a band. I know Sonic Youth is coming out with a new one, but that's nothing this board will get all giddy about;)
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:oh yeah, I forgot, John Vanderslice's web site use to say that Spoon was going in to his studio to record their next album, but I don't see it any more and www.spoontheband.com is down, breaking up? or web problems?
Shouldn't Spoon be releasing another album sometime soon?
The Charlatans should have a new one out in 04 as well
Originally posted by homeboyfromthefuture:Yeah, you do have to update that list. But I am looking forward to DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Mum. Possibly even Portishead.
i need to update it but some of you might enjoy my page which is mostly poached from other sites but has a few pieces of "exclusive info."
http://howisya.tripod.com/f2k.html
sorry, not much indie rock on there, but you'll find something you like. for me there's a ton of good music i'm looking forward to.
I feel compelled to mention that Idlewild has a new album coming out in 2004… I'm also looking forward to many that have already been listed(Liars, Charlatans, Doves, etc).
Here are a couple reviews from the Jan. 3rd NME that some may find interesting:
The Coral - Nightfreak And The Son Of Becker
After a year overflowing with the surreal (Blaine in a box; sudden rugby 'mania'; the rise of The Darkness) it seems only fitting that 2004 should kick off with the unscheduled arrival of a third album from The Coral. Sounding like it was recorded in a leaky cowshed over a week in Wales (which, as it turns out, it was), and so called thanks to the sprog-creating conquests of teutonic tennis bore Boris, 'Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker' is a low-key classic from a group grappling with the demands of fame.
Bearing more than a passing simlarity to the Super Furries' genius tossed-off 'Mwng' and clearly intended as a means of clearing the band's creative tubes prior to their third album 'proper', it provides an insight into the mindset of a band who've gone from BMX-riding curios to the oddest residents of the Top Ten for years. Be warned though, those expecting the radio-friendly jangle of 'Pass It On' should approach with caution. 'Nightfreak…' sees the Hoylake Six reject the gloss that made 'Magic And Medicine' feel, at times, like a fizzy glug of Coral-lite, and return to the darker grog of their debut.
Paranoia stalks every chorus: 'I Forgot My Name' is a bad-tempered rockabilly rumble which ends in a burble of TV static; the fearsome 'Migraine' ("I got to parties and I just freeze/I think I'm infected with a social disease") takes the rattle of 'Talkin' Gypsy Market Blues' and hardwares it to a gnarled terrace chorus; and the priceless 'Auntie's Operation' ("She'll want your sympathy/She'll never let you be/Sniffing at your food/Before it's even chewed) manages to make light of domestic strife and sum up the parlous state of the NHS all in two minutes and 23 seconds. The contrary spirits of everyone from The Kinks to The Specials must be looking down from the heavens approvingly.
Pop songs emerge from the murk. 'Sorrow Or The Song' is a gloomy, funkier cousin of 'Don't Think You're The First'. 'Venom Cable' reprised the limescaled disco shuffle of the outro to 'Skeleton Key', and 'Song Of The Corn' manages to include the lines "I hard a commotion one late afternoon/Someone was singing a funeral tune" and still sound like Radio 2 fodder.
Things inevitably go off the boil. A funny-at-the-time 'Why Does The Sun Come Up?" is a stoned interlude inspired by their US tour habit of recording random snippets of cable TV, and 'Precious Eyes' and a final 'Lover's Paradise' should have been left to scrap it out on a B-sides collection. No matter.
'Nightfreak…' is here to provide us with a gauge of where The Coral are two years in. If James Skelly's lyrices are growing increasingly bleak, then the band matches him stride for stride musically. Throughout, Paul Duffy's bass buzzes with cocksure intent, which Bill Ryder-Jones and Lee Southall's guitars twang and thrash without ever sounding like we're eavesdropping on some unscripted muso horrowshow. When they all combine in a splurge of chronic-coated G-funk on 'Grey Harpoon' it's so spot-on you half expect the Snoop of 'Doggy Style' to show up for a duet on the joys of life on the Wirral frontline.
In short, the threats of implosion or creative exhaustion which seem to haunt their peers seem notable only by their absence. Their label must be delighted. With the weirdness purged, the scene seems set for The Coral to produce future pop triumphs still formulating in the recesses of James Skelly's mind.
For the rest of us, 'Nightfreak…' serves as a reminder that in a climate where pop celebrity is based on constantly repeating a winning formula, The Coral are defiantly off-message. Striving to be more than just grist to the CD:UK mill, they're fighting to retain their integrity and also poke fun at the process.
It's the difficult third album alright, but only because they wanted it to be. Paul Moody
7/10
Ballboy - The Sash My Father Wore
They may be fronted by a primary school teacher, but Edinburugh indie four piece Ballboy have far more guts than your average outfit. Having already charmed the residents of his homeland with the 'I Hate Scotland' EP, singer Gordon McIntyre adds injury to insult with this album's title track, a scathing attack on knuckleheaded Rangers FC fans that delights in the chorus "you're a big fat bigoted arsehole".
The band's past EPs and debut album have favoured jaunty indie pop and sumptuous orchestration, but this record sees them stripped back to just McIntyre, some sparse acoustics and those searing lyrics. A subtle reworking of Bruce Springteen's 'Born In The USA' brings stark humanity to the song's oft-overlooked anti-war sentiments while the more romantic 'Past Lovers' and 'Tell Me' are starkly heartstopping. Just pray that this album doesn't earn all concerned a good post-match kicking. Ian Watson
6/10
The Coral - Nightfreak And The Son Of Becker
After a year overflowing with the surreal (Blaine in a box; sudden rugby 'mania'; the rise of The Darkness) it seems only fitting that 2004 should kick off with the unscheduled arrival of a third album from The Coral. Sounding like it was recorded in a leaky cowshed over a week in Wales (which, as it turns out, it was), and so called thanks to the sprog-creating conquests of teutonic tennis bore Boris, 'Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker' is a low-key classic from a group grappling with the demands of fame.
Bearing more than a passing simlarity to the Super Furries' genius tossed-off 'Mwng' and clearly intended as a means of clearing the band's creative tubes prior to their third album 'proper', it provides an insight into the mindset of a band who've gone from BMX-riding curios to the oddest residents of the Top Ten for years. Be warned though, those expecting the radio-friendly jangle of 'Pass It On' should approach with caution. 'Nightfreak…' sees the Hoylake Six reject the gloss that made 'Magic And Medicine' feel, at times, like a fizzy glug of Coral-lite, and return to the darker grog of their debut.
Paranoia stalks every chorus: 'I Forgot My Name' is a bad-tempered rockabilly rumble which ends in a burble of TV static; the fearsome 'Migraine' ("I got to parties and I just freeze/I think I'm infected with a social disease") takes the rattle of 'Talkin' Gypsy Market Blues' and hardwares it to a gnarled terrace chorus; and the priceless 'Auntie's Operation' ("She'll want your sympathy/She'll never let you be/Sniffing at your food/Before it's even chewed) manages to make light of domestic strife and sum up the parlous state of the NHS all in two minutes and 23 seconds. The contrary spirits of everyone from The Kinks to The Specials must be looking down from the heavens approvingly.
Pop songs emerge from the murk. 'Sorrow Or The Song' is a gloomy, funkier cousin of 'Don't Think You're The First'. 'Venom Cable' reprised the limescaled disco shuffle of the outro to 'Skeleton Key', and 'Song Of The Corn' manages to include the lines "I hard a commotion one late afternoon/Someone was singing a funeral tune" and still sound like Radio 2 fodder.
Things inevitably go off the boil. A funny-at-the-time 'Why Does The Sun Come Up?" is a stoned interlude inspired by their US tour habit of recording random snippets of cable TV, and 'Precious Eyes' and a final 'Lover's Paradise' should have been left to scrap it out on a B-sides collection. No matter.
'Nightfreak…' is here to provide us with a gauge of where The Coral are two years in. If James Skelly's lyrices are growing increasingly bleak, then the band matches him stride for stride musically. Throughout, Paul Duffy's bass buzzes with cocksure intent, which Bill Ryder-Jones and Lee Southall's guitars twang and thrash without ever sounding like we're eavesdropping on some unscripted muso horrowshow. When they all combine in a splurge of chronic-coated G-funk on 'Grey Harpoon' it's so spot-on you half expect the Snoop of 'Doggy Style' to show up for a duet on the joys of life on the Wirral frontline.
In short, the threats of implosion or creative exhaustion which seem to haunt their peers seem notable only by their absence. Their label must be delighted. With the weirdness purged, the scene seems set for The Coral to produce future pop triumphs still formulating in the recesses of James Skelly's mind.
For the rest of us, 'Nightfreak…' serves as a reminder that in a climate where pop celebrity is based on constantly repeating a winning formula, The Coral are defiantly off-message. Striving to be more than just grist to the CD:UK mill, they're fighting to retain their integrity and also poke fun at the process.
It's the difficult third album alright, but only because they wanted it to be. Paul Moody
7/10
Ballboy - The Sash My Father Wore
They may be fronted by a primary school teacher, but Edinburugh indie four piece Ballboy have far more guts than your average outfit. Having already charmed the residents of his homeland with the 'I Hate Scotland' EP, singer Gordon McIntyre adds injury to insult with this album's title track, a scathing attack on knuckleheaded Rangers FC fans that delights in the chorus "you're a big fat bigoted arsehole".
The band's past EPs and debut album have favoured jaunty indie pop and sumptuous orchestration, but this record sees them stripped back to just McIntyre, some sparse acoustics and those searing lyrics. A subtle reworking of Bruce Springteen's 'Born In The USA' brings stark humanity to the song's oft-overlooked anti-war sentiments while the more romantic 'Past Lovers' and 'Tell Me' are starkly heartstopping. Just pray that this album doesn't earn all concerned a good post-match kicking. Ian Watson
6/10
Originally posted by brennser:http://nme.com/news/107217.htm
Ash should have a new one out