the Charlatans have a new record deal with Sanctuary and will release a follow-up to 2004's 'Up at the Lake' (which didn't get a US release) in late 2005
Albums in 2005
Richard Ashcroft is rumored to have his new album out sometime this summer. Hopefully, a North American tour will follow in the fall with another stop at the 9:30.
Don't know if they have a new record coming out this year but thanks to fluxblog/whatevs, The Holy Fire hailing from Detroit are now on the 2005 radar screen. Fans of Idlewild, The Pixies, etc will dig em.
The Holy Fire
The Holy Fire
Originally posted by brennser:March 21 to be precise
British Sea Power - Spring 05
Open Season, the follow-up to the band's 2003 debut The Decline of British Sea Power, evidently gained its title only after a massive album-naming brawl held on the official BSP message board: Other popular suggestions included Germinal, Warnings of Gales in Viking North, and Bring Me the Head of British Sea Power (our personal favorite). The record's tracklist has also inspired a stunning variety of working titles and arguments, but it's evidently all settled now:
01 It Ended on an Oily Stage
02 Be Gone
03 How Will I Ever Find My Way Home?
04 Like a Honeycomb
05 Please Stand Up
06 North Hanging Rock
07 To Get to Sleep
08 Victorian Ice
09 Oh Larsen B
10 The Land Beyond
11 True Adventures
now THIS is good news
a new Go Betweens album, 'Oceans Apart' in April/May
a new Go Betweens album, 'Oceans Apart' in April/May
From Matador:
Stephen Malkmus
On May 24, Matador will be releasing the 3rd post-Pavement album from Stephen Malkmus, 'Face The Truth', on the every popular compact disc and phonograph long player configurations. 'Face The Truth', Stephen's first bona fide solo recording, captures our favorite singer-songwriter at the height of his creative powers. We can say with total confidence that some of SM's wittiest moments to date are found on this album, along with many of his most heartfelt. An album of staggering lyrical and musical range, 'Face The Truth' is unlikey to be supported by heavy touring (what with Stephen's pending dad-to-be status), but selected US dates are planned, along with a headlining appearance at Matador's SXSW event (March 18, The Parish, Austin).
the track listing is as follows:
1. Invisible Bodies
2. Baby C'mon
3. Horslip
4. Mmmmm…
5. Loud Cloud Crowd
6. No More Shoes
7. Mama
8. Malediction
9. Pencil Rot
10. It Kills
11. I've Hardly Been
Stephen Malkmus
On May 24, Matador will be releasing the 3rd post-Pavement album from Stephen Malkmus, 'Face The Truth', on the every popular compact disc and phonograph long player configurations. 'Face The Truth', Stephen's first bona fide solo recording, captures our favorite singer-songwriter at the height of his creative powers. We can say with total confidence that some of SM's wittiest moments to date are found on this album, along with many of his most heartfelt. An album of staggering lyrical and musical range, 'Face The Truth' is unlikey to be supported by heavy touring (what with Stephen's pending dad-to-be status), but selected US dates are planned, along with a headlining appearance at Matador's SXSW event (March 18, The Parish, Austin).
the track listing is as follows:
1. Invisible Bodies
2. Baby C'mon
3. Horslip
4. Mmmmm…
5. Loud Cloud Crowd
6. No More Shoes
7. Mama
8. Malediction
9. Pencil Rot
10. It Kills
11. I've Hardly Been
Is the Bloc Party album available yet?
Originally posted by Bags:Feb 8 in Europe.
Is the Bloc Party album available yet?
March 22 state side.
No one will care but me;)
Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer
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Release 3/29
Tracklist
1 Duck and Cover
2 Thankful
3 Courage
4 Released
5 Cleareyed
6 Falling
7 Half Life
8 True
9 Easier
10 Finally Fading
11 Simple
12 Gather
13 Don't Need Anything
Lost Highway release, Winter Pays for Summer, produced by John Fields.
"Thankful," the first single off of WPFS is now available at all digital media outlets including:
iTunes, Napster, Real
A bunch of people collaborated on the album, including Pete Thomas on drums.
Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer
<img src="http://app.topica.com/banners/template_content/6986/34362/709323/imgImage1.jpeg?1107298885" alt=" - " />
Release 3/29
Tracklist
1 Duck and Cover
2 Thankful
3 Courage
4 Released
5 Cleareyed
6 Falling
7 Half Life
8 True
9 Easier
10 Finally Fading
11 Simple
12 Gather
13 Don't Need Anything
Lost Highway release, Winter Pays for Summer, produced by John Fields.
"Thankful," the first single off of WPFS is now available at all digital media outlets including:
iTunes, Napster, Real
A bunch of people collaborated on the album, including Pete Thomas on drums.
it's about flippin' time…built to spill is in the studio recording the follow-up to 2000's ancient melodies. it's slated for release this fall.
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Just released and it's stunning. Having heard an early unmastered version of the record it's amazing what a difference mastering can make for the sound of a record.
Sugarplastic
Tallboy Records
Just released and it's stunning. Having heard an early unmastered version of the record it's amazing what a difference mastering can make for the sound of a record.
Sugarplastic
Tallboy Records
Josh Rouse leaves Nashville but records the record of his life just before he does. The fury that surrounds awarding a 10 out of 10 to a record actually supercedes that surrounding the 1 out of 10s that occasionally (or this month perhaps a little more than occasionally) adorn these pages, and brings with it claims ala GCSE results-day of slipping standards and quotas, but having spent the best part of the last two months with the record, itâ??s no understatement to say that the new album from Mr Rouse is indeed nothing less than a monster. Marking his departure from the city of Nashville after a decadeâ??s residency (in order to head for the relatively sunnier climes of Spain), itâ??s a record that consolidates all thatâ??s good about Rouseâ??s music while perfecting his strengths throughout. The fact that heâ??s leaving Nashville is obviously something thatâ??s significant for Rouse, and perhaps significantly sad in its own way, and this partly comes through from the fact that despite the press release attesting to the album highlighting the variety of musical styles that you can find in modern Nashville, itâ??s without a doubt the most alt-country leaning record heâ??s ever produced, with echoes of Dylan, Springsteen and even Parsons. â??Itâ??s the Nighttime,â? the album opener, is layered with lapsteel and all manner of instrumentation of the genre that Rouse has consciously set himself against in recent years, but you have to wonder why when you hear how well the whole thing hangs together â?? it feels far more cohesive and less forced than anything heâ??s ever done, including the acclaimed â??1972.â? Rouseâ??s reasons for leaving Nashville and indeed the US could be due to any number of things, but the vibe of the second track, the lead single from the record â??Winter in the Hamptonsâ? with its harrying against governments led by liars canâ??t, you imagine, be entirely co-incidental. Elsewhere on the record, there are real treasures to be found, including the Jeff Lynne-esque and staggeringly beautifully orchestrated â??Streelights,â? the Beach Boys harmonies of â??Carolinaâ? and the luxuriously emotional â??Sad Eyes,â? complete with strings that build and a chorus that rises higher and higher into sentiments that become almost overwhelming in their strength. That Rouse has always been supremely talented is not really in question, but it still comes as a surprise that heâ??s managed to make a record that feels so instantly essential and rewarding. 2005â??s first contender then for album of the year, and one that would take some beating in any year â?? Rouse has firmly found himself and, however hackneyed it sounds, created a genuine instant classic.
rhett - where is that review from?
New Pornographers will be finished their new album by mid-March and it will be in stores by September….
http://www.americana-uk.com/html/home.html
Americana UK - The UK Home for Alt-Country, Powerpop & Americana
Americana UK - The UK Home for Alt-Country, Powerpop & Americana
Originally posted by brennser:
rhett - where is that review from?
New Mountain Goats Album Out in April
Aaron Mandel reports:
Okay, who said, "a few […] critics whose experience with drugs has largely been limited to listening to Lou Reed albums have enjoyed claiming that I don't sound "convincing.' If I'd've known these guys were gonna front like that, I'd've sent them postcards from jail, but hindsight is 20/20, I guess"? Oh, shit, are we still printing the headlines bigger than the articles? Guess you figured it out, then– that's John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, talking to a Philadelphia paper last autumn about the move from writing fictional songs to basing his work on his own life.
Last year's We Shall All Be Healed portrayed a clique of young drug users and general miscreants struggling to get their crap together; the material on the upcoming The Sunset Tree seems to cover an even earlier part of his life, a childhood that involved a lot of pop music (good) and parental abuse (bad). Darnielle went into the studio last November along with Peter Hughes, John Vanderslice, Franklin Bruno, Scott Solter, and cellist Erik Friedlander, coming out with 13 songs that are presumably a lot more life-affirming than we're making them sound. According to Darnielle, these 13:
01 You or Your Memory
02 Broom People
03 This Year
04 Dilaudid
05 Dance Music
06 Dinu Lipatti's Bones
07 Up the Wolves
08 Lion's Teeth
09 Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?
10 Magpie
11 Song for Dennis Brown
12 Love Love Love
13 Pale Green Things
The album reportedly comes out April 26 in the U.S. and most of the world, a day earlier in the UK. This is the third Mountain Goats full-length to be released on 4AD Records, who no doubt signed the band solely to give their fellow Brits twenty-nine coveted hours of extra listening before East-Coast record stores open.
The phrase "the sunset tree" comes from an obscure 19th-century religious song, "The Tyrolese Evening Hymn"; Darnielle says he took it from a scene in Samuel Butler's semi-autobiographical novel The Way Of All Flesh, where a clergyman beats his young son bloody because of a speech impediment that prevents the son from enunciating clearly while singing the hymn. Maybe the songs aren't that life-affirming after all… If you're raring to hear these songs (and, based on the radio session the Mountain Goats did for the BBC recently, you should be), a couple live dates have been announced between now and the record's release, so hopefully you live here:
02-10 Los Angeles, CA - Echo Lounge
02-12 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
Aaron Mandel reports:
Okay, who said, "a few […] critics whose experience with drugs has largely been limited to listening to Lou Reed albums have enjoyed claiming that I don't sound "convincing.' If I'd've known these guys were gonna front like that, I'd've sent them postcards from jail, but hindsight is 20/20, I guess"? Oh, shit, are we still printing the headlines bigger than the articles? Guess you figured it out, then– that's John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, talking to a Philadelphia paper last autumn about the move from writing fictional songs to basing his work on his own life.
Last year's We Shall All Be Healed portrayed a clique of young drug users and general miscreants struggling to get their crap together; the material on the upcoming The Sunset Tree seems to cover an even earlier part of his life, a childhood that involved a lot of pop music (good) and parental abuse (bad). Darnielle went into the studio last November along with Peter Hughes, John Vanderslice, Franklin Bruno, Scott Solter, and cellist Erik Friedlander, coming out with 13 songs that are presumably a lot more life-affirming than we're making them sound. According to Darnielle, these 13:
01 You or Your Memory
02 Broom People
03 This Year
04 Dilaudid
05 Dance Music
06 Dinu Lipatti's Bones
07 Up the Wolves
08 Lion's Teeth
09 Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?
10 Magpie
11 Song for Dennis Brown
12 Love Love Love
13 Pale Green Things
The album reportedly comes out April 26 in the U.S. and most of the world, a day earlier in the UK. This is the third Mountain Goats full-length to be released on 4AD Records, who no doubt signed the band solely to give their fellow Brits twenty-nine coveted hours of extra listening before East-Coast record stores open.
The phrase "the sunset tree" comes from an obscure 19th-century religious song, "The Tyrolese Evening Hymn"; Darnielle says he took it from a scene in Samuel Butler's semi-autobiographical novel The Way Of All Flesh, where a clergyman beats his young son bloody because of a speech impediment that prevents the son from enunciating clearly while singing the hymn. Maybe the songs aren't that life-affirming after all… If you're raring to hear these songs (and, based on the radio session the Mountain Goats did for the BBC recently, you should be), a couple live dates have been announced between now and the record's release, so hopefully you live here:
02-10 Los Angeles, CA - Echo Lounge
02-12 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
markie is probably the only other one to have even a remote interest in this but Nick Kelly, formerly of The Fat Lady Sings just released his second solo album "Running Dog"
http://www.selfpossessedrecords.com/
http://www.selfpossessedrecords.com/
On May 9, Matador Records will be releasing the 5th album by Austin, TX's SPOON, 'Gimme Friction' (OLE 660-2,1 CD/LP), worldwide with the exception of North America. The album is coming out on May 10 in the US and Canada a via Merge.
the tracklisting is as follows :
The Beast and Dragon, Adored
The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
I Turn My Camera On
My Mathematical Mind
The Delicate Place
Sister Jack
I Summon You
The Infinite Pet
Was It You?
They Never Got You
Merchants of Soul
writes the band :
"Gimme Fiction is the wildest Spoon LP to date - it's also Jim Eno's favorite. It was put to tape from July 'til September 2004, and like our last two albums it was co-produced with Mike McCarthy in Austin at Jim's Public HiFi studio. What else. . .it begins with the sound of a nice, long inhale and ends with the Tosca Strings. It covers such topics as long distance relationships, the apocalyptic bent of certain American Southerners, neckrugs, emotional shutdowns, Ralph Reed Jr., a musical called The Stranger Dance, and Marquette, Michigan. Did I mention it's the longest Spoon record yet?
"In February we'll be playing the Saturday of All Tomorrow's Parties in Camber Sands, England, followed by a headlining show in London on Monday the 28th at the Garage."
the tracklisting is as follows :
The Beast and Dragon, Adored
The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
I Turn My Camera On
My Mathematical Mind
The Delicate Place
Sister Jack
I Summon You
The Infinite Pet
Was It You?
They Never Got You
Merchants of Soul
writes the band :
"Gimme Fiction is the wildest Spoon LP to date - it's also Jim Eno's favorite. It was put to tape from July 'til September 2004, and like our last two albums it was co-produced with Mike McCarthy in Austin at Jim's Public HiFi studio. What else. . .it begins with the sound of a nice, long inhale and ends with the Tosca Strings. It covers such topics as long distance relationships, the apocalyptic bent of certain American Southerners, neckrugs, emotional shutdowns, Ralph Reed Jr., a musical called The Stranger Dance, and Marquette, Michigan. Did I mention it's the longest Spoon record yet?
"In February we'll be playing the Saturday of All Tomorrow's Parties in Camber Sands, England, followed by a headlining show in London on Monday the 28th at the Garage."
Originally posted by brennser:Who I'm sure will blow Sleater-Kinney out of the water. Because pretty much anyone could. Fatboy Slim, Ashlee Simpson, Wesley Willis, the Black Cat-Black Cat guy, me, etc. If you want to see a bunch of old woman yowling off-key and lecturing the audience, visit a musical convent.
June tour to follow - support act rumored to be up and coming band called Talentless Dross…
However, the new New Pornographers disc is great news, so I can't be too upset. Besides, S-K's album will come out, they'll get a few articles in the East Coast media, and it will sell 271 copies before drifting into the cut-out bins.
for kosmo
Waxwings
â??Leave Less Waitingâ? b/w â??Skyâ??s A Mirrorâ?
Cass Records
Brendan Benson
â??What Iâ??m Looking Forâ?
V2 (download)
It should be noted that the Waxwings arenâ??t a singles band. These four corduroyed dudes have proven nothing if not how to make languid jangle stretch out over an entire record. Here, with two cuts plucked from the midsection of their latest full-length, Letâ??s Make Our Descent, the pop-perfecters have selected a pair of jams that, though bursting with trademark Byrdsian harmonies, plucky rhythms and psych-poetic ambiguity, fairly trip over themselves as the grooves unwind. â??Leave Less Waitingâ? has a cocksure swagger that never really finds an audience for its confidence. â??Skyâ??s A Mirror,â? while packed full of verve, is layered with a kind of chaos that canâ??t decide whether it wants to party or make you sit up and pay attention. The Waxwings are masters of the quick one as bracing tonic for the masterstrokes of languid, Rickenbacher and heavy-lidded-though-clear-headed pop land- and cloud-scapes. This double-shot simply doesnâ??t play to their strengths.
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Meanwhile, surfers to the V2 website can get a taste of the latest offering from the Waxwingsâ?? partner-in-pop Brendan Benson. In fact, Benson produced the aforementioned Waxwings tracks at his Grand Studio, but we digress â?¦
â??What Iâ??m Looking Forâ? is a slight romp directly through the heart of Benson country inasmuch as its lyrics â?? as well as Bensonâ??s earnest, measured and half-heartbroken delivery â?? play expertly with that lost-boy line between ambivalence and braggadocio. He reminds us that â??I visit hell on a daily basis/And I see the sadness in all your faces.â? And then thereâ??s a little bass lick and heâ??s back wondering how he doesnâ??t know what heâ??s looking for, but heâ??s gonna look some more. Itâ??s an airtight and irresistible construction. And if itâ??s any indication of his forthcoming album, Alternative to Love, OC viewers and indie-pop fans alike should soon be getting wind of Benson.
Waxwings
â??Leave Less Waitingâ? b/w â??Skyâ??s A Mirrorâ?
Cass Records
Brendan Benson
â??What Iâ??m Looking Forâ?
V2 (download)
It should be noted that the Waxwings arenâ??t a singles band. These four corduroyed dudes have proven nothing if not how to make languid jangle stretch out over an entire record. Here, with two cuts plucked from the midsection of their latest full-length, Letâ??s Make Our Descent, the pop-perfecters have selected a pair of jams that, though bursting with trademark Byrdsian harmonies, plucky rhythms and psych-poetic ambiguity, fairly trip over themselves as the grooves unwind. â??Leave Less Waitingâ? has a cocksure swagger that never really finds an audience for its confidence. â??Skyâ??s A Mirror,â? while packed full of verve, is layered with a kind of chaos that canâ??t decide whether it wants to party or make you sit up and pay attention. The Waxwings are masters of the quick one as bracing tonic for the masterstrokes of languid, Rickenbacher and heavy-lidded-though-clear-headed pop land- and cloud-scapes. This double-shot simply doesnâ??t play to their strengths.
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Meanwhile, surfers to the V2 website can get a taste of the latest offering from the Waxwingsâ?? partner-in-pop Brendan Benson. In fact, Benson produced the aforementioned Waxwings tracks at his Grand Studio, but we digress â?¦
â??What Iâ??m Looking Forâ? is a slight romp directly through the heart of Benson country inasmuch as its lyrics â?? as well as Bensonâ??s earnest, measured and half-heartbroken delivery â?? play expertly with that lost-boy line between ambivalence and braggadocio. He reminds us that â??I visit hell on a daily basis/And I see the sadness in all your faces.â? And then thereâ??s a little bass lick and heâ??s back wondering how he doesnâ??t know what heâ??s looking for, but heâ??s gonna look some more. Itâ??s an airtight and irresistible construction. And if itâ??s any indication of his forthcoming album, Alternative to Love, OC viewers and indie-pop fans alike should soon be getting wind of Benson.