Tuesday, February 23, 2010

New Music Tuesday: Joanna Newsom, Xiu Xiu, Shearwater, Phantogram & Past Lives



Damn fine day to be a person that enjoys new music. Corncopia of albums I doubt you even have enough money to buy they all. I am not saying you are poor, just frugal. If you were only able to buy like 3 or 4 (because of alleged money problems) I would recommend Joanna Newsom's TRIPLE album Have One On Me, Xiu Xiu's Dear God, I Hate Myself, Shearwater's The Golden Archipelago, and Phantogram's Eyelid Movies.Now you are obviously an adult or at least a savvy enough child to be reading such a high class music blog so by all means click on some of the other albums below (after break) and check their sounds out on Amazons thoughtfully provided 30 second clips, and make some decisions for yourself for once in your life. (Run on sentence and insults provided courtesy of our sponsor Amazon.com)

Alkaline Trio: This Addiction
Andrew W.K: I'm a Vagabond (vinyl)
Balmorhea: Constellations
Blind Man's Colour: Wooden Blankets
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Who Killed Sgt Pepper (vinyl)
Butch Walker: I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
Clem Snide: The Meat of Life
Daniel Merriweather: Love & War
Deadstring Brothers: Sao Paulo
Efterklang: Magic Chairs
Electric President: Violent Blue
Fang Island: Fang Island
Holly Miranda: The Magician's Private Library
Hot Chip: One Life Stand (vinyl)
Jack Rose: Luck In the Valley
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me
Johnny Cash: American VI: Ain't No Grave
Joy Kills Sorrow: Darkness Sure Becomes This City
LoneLady: Nerve Up
Nick Thune: Thick Noon
Okapi: Love Him
Past Lives: Tapestry of Webs
Phantogram: Eyelid Movies
Picastro: Become Secret
Quasi: American Gong
Rob Swift: The Architect
Rocky Votolato: True Devotion
Sambassadeur: European
Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago
Shellshag: Rumors in Disguise (vinyl)
Shout Out Louds: Work
Stafraenn Hakon: Sanitas
Tracy Shedd: EP88
Various Arists: Acoustic Tribute to Death Cab for Cutie
We Are Wolves: Invisible Violence
White Hills: White Hills
Wolf People: Tidings
Xiu Xiu: Dear God, I Hate Myself
Zeus: Say Us