The 2010 Albums Thread

What I've heard in the last week…
Hot Chip: first half is solid, 2nd half was unlistenable to me.

Silver Mt. Zion: very Spiritualizedish as odd as that sounds. Nice listen.

Pantha Du Prince: Good background music. Not much more.

Jack Rose: beautiful album front to back. Hard to listen to and not think about the inevitable success for which he was bound. :(

Retribution Gospel Choir: strong effort. Mostly a straight-up rocker of an album. About as far from Low as can be (don't get me wrong; I very much enjoy me some Low).

Owen Pallett: listened to roughly the first half last night; very pleasant. More use of electronic instruments on this album than the previous two.

A New RGC album?  Must get as soon as I get back to the East Coast.

And yeah, they are not Low, but i still dig them.

The guitars on it make it sound like it was produced by J Mascis.

Lali Puna
"Our Inventions"

Release Date: April 1, 2010

Efterklang!
Magic Chairs

This should be good.

This is actually amusing

The Hot Rats - Turns Ons

Released on

US 1/19/10
UK 2/1/10

azaghal1981 wrote:
The guitars on it make it sound like it was produced by J Mascis.

Very nice.  Ill grab it today when i get back to the east.  I have a lot of music to catch up on.

Boooooo…The first two tracks of the Efterklang album are uninteresting bland crap. I turned it off and put Parades on. Much better…

Jaguar wrote:
Sennen will release their new album in March of 2010. They play British Rock with a few Gaze elements mixed in.

Sadly, this sucks. All the gaze is gone and has been replaced with cheap cheesy crap. Boo!

However, this:

Jaguar wrote:
Malory
"Pearl Diver"
January 11th

is FANTASTIC!!!

The Dolly Rocker Movement
"Our Days Mind The Tyme"
On Bad Afro Records

Available for Download on Feb. 22, 2010

Fun Garage Pop Psychedelia from Australia.

Getting ready to prepare several songs to upload to the station.

Hot Rats leaked.

Monster Movie
"Everyone Is A Ghost"

Seems that I read that the release date is April 5, 2010

*Monster Movie is Sean Hewson and Christian Savill (ex-Slowdive)

^Nice.

Loving the hell out of this new Citay album. I remember reading good things about their previous release but never listened to it.

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sergeant Pepper?:
Very weird and all over the place thus far. Dancier than their other work. It's like they're trying to pull a Primal Scream and do a cross-over album a la Screamadelica. Not sure if it's working all that well.

azaghal1981 wrote:
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sergeant Pepper?:
Very weird and all over the place thus far. Dancier than their other work. It's like they're trying to pull a Primal Scream and do a cross-over album a la Screamadelica. Not sure if it's working all that well.

but will it make for a good show? ;D

Good question. Guess we'll find out.

your comment "Dancier than their other work" gives me hope.

Some tracks will surely make for a dance party. It's just that I don't know how well a dance party will go over at a BJM show.

In 2005 (a.k.a. the Golden Age of music sales), Starbucks' then cutting-edge Hear Music label poured millions and millions of marketing dollars into thinking up a fantastic name for their first Valentine's Day compilation CD of Indie LITE artists covering classic love songs… then they looked down at some of those candy hearts or something and decided to just call the damn thing Sweetheart instead… then they realized that they had no business trying to sell their own new music in their stores and kinda stopped doing a lot of that… then last year, they released a sequel to the series anyway… and now, with the economy doing better than it ever has in history, Starbucks has dropped yet another Sweetheart album.

This time around, they're really hoping that your lady is totally INTO covers of songs she's never heard before unless she's a music person and owns the songs already. Killer strategy, right? The Shins' James Mercer collaborates with his brother Robert on a version of Bob Dylan's "Spanish Harlem Incident," Spoon take on The Damned's "Love Song," Yo La Tengo try out The Zombies' "You Make Me Feel Good," (okay, that actually sounds awesome) and José González contributes his version of Kylie Minogue's "Hand on Your Heart" (yeah, man, digging deep here). Elvis Perkins, Grand Archives, Mates of State, The Long Winters, and The Avett Brothers also make some Starbuxianly (I just made that up) non-offensive appearances.

But the best part? Dude, the comp's for sale on iTunes RIGHT THE HELL NOW. Valentine's Day shopping = all done, man. Now we can hit up the In-N-Out Burger, get some burgers, some beers, have a few laughs or whatever…. Your former troubles are over, dude.

Sweetheart 2010:

01. José González: "Hand on Your Heart" (Kylie Minogue)
02. Grand Archives: "Cupid" (Sam Cooke)
03. James Mercer & Robert Mercer: "Spanish Harlem Incident" (Bob Dylan)
04. Spoon: "Love Song" (The Damned)
05. Elvis Perkins: "Teneme en Tu Corazon (Keep Me in Your Heart)" (traditional)
06. The Long Winters: "Give Me All Your Lovin'" (ZZ Top)
07. Yo La Tengo: "You Make Me Feel Good" (The Zombies)
08. Céu: "Eu Amo Você (I Love You)" (Tim Maia)
09. Diane Birch: "I Go Crazy" (Paul Davis)
10. Jason Collett and Zeus: "Every Night" (Paul McCartney)
11. The Avett Brothers: "I Love" (Tom T. Hall)
12. Mates of State: "Long Way Home" (Tom Waits)
13. Angelique Kidjo: "Ne Me Quitte Pas (If You Go Away)" (Jacques Brel)
14. Hey Marseilles: "True Love Will Find You in the End" (Daniel Johnston)

the reason why radiohead is playing that haiti benefit in LA is because they are currently recording their next album there.  no release date on it yet, but it'll be out this year.