With the second week of the year, things are beginning to pick up. Here are The Wheel’s Still In Spin’s suggested new releases for this week:
Friendly Foes – Born Radical | CD
Download “Couch Surfing” (mp3)
Born Radical was released digitally last year, but it sees the physical CD get wide distribution today. The three-piece band puts together a great set of aggressive and compact rock songs that mix pop sensibility with an alternative influence.
Leopold and His Fiction – Ain’t No Surprise | buy directly from band
Download “Ain’t No Surprise” (mp3)
Download “Come Back (Now That I’m Here)” (mp3)
This San Francisco trio has a sound that is similar to stripped down version of These United States or a power trio version of The White Stripes. This is blues rock music that combines of grit, soul, and intelligence.
Download “World/Inferno Vs. The End of the Evening” (mp3)
Franz Nicolay is the mustachioed keyboardist from The Hold Steady and accordion/piano player for The World/Inferno Friendship Society. The opening track, “Jeff Penalty (with Demander),” has the high energy assault of a Hold Steady song. After that, the album becomes more diverse and eclectic, drifting into some cabaret punk sounds before careening back to Craig Finn-like vocals.
Ugly Duckling – Audacity | CD
This hip hop group has an old school sound, similar to De La Soul and Licensed to Ill-era Beastie Boys. The beats on this album, the 4th full-length from the trio, are tight and addictive, and full of a diversity of drum heavy and rock instrument samples. The scratches are well placed and skilled. The MCs push this album to being one of the best hip hop albums I’ve heard in a while.
Ugly Duckling – “I Won’t Let It Die” from Audacity:
After the jump, there is a list of more new releases from this week.
Other releases from 13 January 2009:
Bang Camaro – Bang Camaro II | CD
The Bastard Noise – Rogue Astronaut | CD
The Beauvilles – Whispering Sin | CD
Kristin Scott Benson – Second Season | CD
Peter Bernstein Trio – Monk | CD
Beware of Safety – Dogs | CD
Blue Giant – Target Heart [EP] | MP3
Ravi Coltrane – Blending Times | CD
Dead Pleasures – A Chorus of Corpses | CD
Dead Vampires – The Day After Halloween | CD
Diluvian – Inhumanity Remains [EP] | CD
Down for the Count – Battle Royale [EP] | CD
Eighteen Wheels Burning – Tweak’d Out, Strung Up & Redlined | CD
Elder – Elder | CD
Eliane Elias – Bossa Nova Stories | CD
The Endless – Somniloquy | CD
Evacuate – Evacuate | CD
Fires of Rome – You Kingdom You | CD
Friendly Foes – Born Radical | Recommended above
Frost* – Experiments in Mass Appeal | CD/DVD
Fugitive Kind – You’re Being Watched | CD
Gruesome Boys – Songs from the End of the Rope | CD
(hed) p.e. – New World Orphans | CD
Scott Hull – Audiofilm I | CD
Syleena Johnson – Chapter 4: Labor Pains | CD
Kreator – Hordes of Chaos | CD/DVD
Late of the Pier – Fantasy Black Channel | CD
Leopold and His Fiction – Ain’t No Surprise | Recommended above
Myka9 – 1969 | CD
Jeb Loy Nichols – Parish Bar | CD
Franz Nicolay – Major General | Recommended above
The Kris Norris Projekt – Icons of the Illogical | CD
Novalima – Coba Coba | CD
Other Weapons – Basis to Break This | CD
Quatre Tete – Art of the State | CD
Joshua Redman – Compass | CD
Royal Bliss – Life In-Between | CD
Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees – Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees | MP3
Saxon – Into the Labyrinth | CD
This Will Destroy You & Lymbyc Systym – Field Studies [split album] | CD
Too Pure to Die – Confess | CD
Rokia Traoré – Tchamantché | CD
Derek Trucks Band – Already Free | CD
Ugly Duckling – Audacity | Recommended above
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I just got Syleena Johnson's new album Chapter 4: Labor Pains from iTunes and its off the chain! Support R&B's Best Kept Secret and cop that album! Remember, it will be available in stores and online January 13, 2009!
Posted by: m1c7 | 13 January 2009 at 09:47 PM