This Saturday is Record Store Day. Independent record stores around the country will have events and unique albums to celebrate the day. However, if you want to pick up some other albums this week, here are The Wheel’s Still In Spin’s suggested new releases.
Death Cab for Cutie – The Open Door [EP] | CD
I will confess that I am not a huge Death Cab for Cutie fan, but The Open Door is a solid piece of work. In fact, I find these 5 tracks to be more engaging than Narrow Stairs, the album for which these songs were recorded but not used. With the band’s full-length albums, my attention usually wanes. But I thoroughly enjoy this EP from start to finish.
Ida Maria – Fortress ’Round My Heart | CD
Download “Oh My God” (mp3)
This punk influenced indie album was released last year around the world, but an expanded edition finally gets proper distribution here in the States. The Norwegian crooner catchily grinds were way through these 3-minute, edgy pop songs with a combination of aggressiveness and enticement.
Pomegranates – Everybody, Come Outside! | CD
Download “Corriander” (mp3)
If you enjoy delving deeply into the lyrics and story of an album, Everybody, Come Outside! has a lot to offer. It unravels into the story of a man who steps out and is abducted by a time traveler. However, if you simply enjoy listening to an album for its musical content, the sophomore Pomegranates album is a set of diverse and catchy art-pop songs.
Risto – Sähköhäiriöön | CD
Risto is from Finland and led by singer and keyboardist Risto Ylihärsilä. The band has a fleshed out psychedelic-pop-rock sound with guitar, bass, and drums. The lyrics are completely in Finnish, so I have no idea what he is singing. But I am drawn to the album.
After the jump, watch the video to “Putoan kaivossa,” the album's closing track of piano and vocals. It plays like a dark comedy with an alluring soundtrack.
Also after the jump, there is a list of more new releases from this week.
Video for “Putoan kaivossa” from Sähköhäiriöön:
Other releases from 14 April 2009:
Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse | CD
Altar of Plagues – White Tomb | CD
Amen Dunes – Dia | CD
Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs | CD
Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information, Vol. 3 | CD
Awesome New Republic – Rational Geographic Vol. I | MP3
Big Business – Mind the Drift | CD
Black Eyed Dog – Rhaianuledada (Songs to Sissy) | CD
Kevin Blechdom – Gentlemania | CD
Broadcast the Nightmare – Twenty Twelve | CD
Bronnt Industries Kapital – Hard for Justice | CD
Brutal Truth – Evolution Through Revolution | CD
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle | CD
Chatham Singers – Ju Ju Claudius | CD
Circus Devils – Gringo | CD
Crippled Black Phoenix – 200 Tons of Bad Luck | CD
Tamela D’Amico – Got a Little Story | CD
The Datsuns – Head Stunts | CD
Day26 – Forever in a Day | CD
Death Cab for Cutie – The Open Door [EP] | Recommended above
Dengue Fever – Sleepwalking Through the Mekong | CD/DVD
John Doe and the Sadies – Country Club | CD
Linda Draper – Bridge and Tunnel | CD
Dredd Foole & Ed Yazijian – That Lonesome Road Between Hurt and Soul | CD
Eat Skull – Wild & Inside | CD
Escarlatina Obsessiva – Blossomy Parks | CD
Mike Evin – Good Watermelon | CD
FACT – FACT | CD
Farewell to Freeway – Only Time Will Tell | CD
Fastball – Little White Lies | CD
Freddy Jones Band – Time Well Wasted | CD
Josh Freese – Since 1972 | CD/DVD
The Freezing Fog – The Freezing Fog | CD
Gollum – The Core | CD
Grand Duchy – Petits Fours | CD
The Handsome Family – Honey Moon | CD
Nicole Hart – Treasure | CD
Harvestman – In a Dark Tongue | CD
I See Stars – 3D | CD
In Flagranti – Brash and Vulgar | CD
Jeniferever – Spring Tide | CD
Juan MacLean – The Future Will Come | CD
John Paul Keith and One Four Fives – Spills and Thrills | CD
Last Vegas – Whatever Gets You Off | CD
The Life and Times – Tragic Boogie | CD
Life on Earth! – A Space Water Loop | CD
Ida Maria – Fortress ’Round My Heart | Recommended above
Meat Raffle Road – Eaten By Crows | CD
Medeski, Martin & Wood – Radiolarians II | CD
Metric – Fantasies | CD
Mount Eerie – Live in Copenhagen | Vinyl
New Nobility – Blue Butterfly (revolution) | CD
No-Neck Blues Band – At 6 AM We Become the Police | Vinyl
nolongerhuman – Antipathy | CD
Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want | CD
Pomegranates – Everybody, Come Outside! | Recommended above
Patrick Porter – A Swan at Smiley’s | CD
Prefuse 73 – Everything She Touched Turns Ampexian | CD
Project Jenny, Project Jan – The Colors [EP] | CD
Prymal Rhythm – Take Back Your Freedom | CD
Radio Moscow – Brain Cycles | CD
Risto – Sähköhäiriöön | Recommended above
Rufus Huff – Rufus Huff | CD
Billy Sheehan – Holy Cow | CD
Jake Shimabukuro – Live | CD
Silversun Pickups – Swoon | CD
Jill Sobule – California Years | CD
Soulive – Up Here | MP3
Spokes – People Like People Like You | CD
Suckers – Suckers [EP] | CD
Sun City Girls – Napoleon & Josephine: Singles, Vol. 2 | CD
Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years | CD
Teenagers from Outer Space – Summer in Space | CD
Thick as Blood – Embrace | CD
Mia Doi Todd with Andres Renteria – Morning Music | CD
Trigger the Bloodshed – The Great Depression | CD
Two Fingers – Two Fingers | CD
Valina – A Tempo! A Tempo! | CD
Venetian Snares – Filth | CD
Bernie Williams – Moving Forward | CD
Wooden Shjips – Dos | CD
Woods – Songs of Shame | CD
Phil Woods – The Children’s Suite | CD
Yonlu – A Society in Which No Tear is Shed is Inconceivably Mediocre | CD
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