For this week’s new release recommendations, these short reviews will be metaphors pertaining to birthday parties. Here are The Wheel’s Still In Spin’s suggested new releases.
Comet Gain – Broken Record Prayers | CD
Download “Love Without Lies” (mp3)
When you were kids, every birthday party had games. There were piñatas, pin the tail on the donkey, capture the flag. This album represents those games. It’s a fun collection of singles and rarities from the British indie rock band. It is a great set of indie pop with influences from the ‘60s, punk, and more modern underground alternative pop. These songs are addictive and the album is expansive with 20 tracks.
Crystal Antlers – Tentacles | CD
Download “Andrew” (mp3)
No kid’s birthday party would be complete without the spastic friend. Maybe it’s the overdose of sugar, the freedom of being off the leash, or the festive nature of the party, but this kid explodes. Tentacles is that rambunctious album of garage punk music.
Bettye LaVette – Do Your Duty | CD
The candles on your birthday cakes always represented the year you were celebrating. Then there was that one year when the number of candles stopped equating your new age. While I don’t usually highlight reissues, this album is that birthday cake that signified a new milestone without a matching number of candles. It is sweet and sugary in its soul with great arrangements with warm horns. Its nostalgic but not aged. And there’s more than enough to share.
Telekinesis! – Telekinesis! | CD
Download “Coast of Carolina” (mp3)
If you had a great birthday party as a kid, there was a well-organized mom usually behind it. Planning and working out all the details, she is always the unsung hero. Just like mom, on this debut – a Merge debut nonetheless – Michael Benjamin Lerner is a one-man band. Lerner played drums, guitar, keyboards and vocals and creates a wall of indie pop with producer Chris Walla.
The Thermals – Now We Can See | CD
Download “Now We Can See” (mp3)
Of course the presents are the main presentation of the birthday party. Like the gift opening ceremony, a new Thermals album is an anticipated moment. There is a combination of expected and unexpected offerings. Like the Thermal’s last album, Now We Can See has an irreverent energy. But unlike The Body, The Blood, The Machine, TWSIS’s favorite album of 2006, this new release is a little more upbeat in its delivery.
After the jump, there is a list of more new releases from this week.
Other releases from 7 April 2009:
Jason Aldean – Wide Open | CD
Marc Antoine and Paul Brown – Foreign Exchange | CD
Antony and the Johnsons – Epilepsy is Dancing [EP] | CD
Arcade Fire – Miroir Noir | DVD
The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound – When Sweet Sleep Returned | CD
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns | CD
Bigger Lights – Fiction Fever | CD
Black Dice – Repo | CD
The Blinding Light – Junebug | CD
Alison Brown – The Company You Keep | CD
The Bulletmonks – Weapons of Mass Destruction | CD
Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond | CD
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Vs. Children | CD
Gavin Castleton – Home | CD
Chain and the Gang – Down with Liberty… Up with Chains | CD
The Coathangers – Scramble | CD
The Color of Violence – Youthanize | CD
Comet Gain – Broken Record Prayers | Recommended above
Crystal Antlers – Tentacles | Recommended above
Billy Ray Cyrus – Back to Tennessee | CD
John Daly – Sea & Sun | CD
Darling – Burned by the Sun [EP] | CD
Del the Funky Homosapien – Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) | FREE Download
Doves – Kingdom of Rust | CD
Druglords of the Avenues – Sing Songs | CD
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – A Stranger Here | CD
The Ettes – Danger Is [EP] | CD
Eulogies – Here Anonymous | CD
The Felice Brothers – Yonder Is the Clock | CD
William Fitzsimmons – The Sparrow and the Crow | CD
Flowers of Hell – Come Hell or High Water | CD
The Formula Project – Concrete Competition | CD
Gliss – Devotion Implosion | CD
Grails – Acid Rain | DVD
Jimmy Greene – Mission Statement | CD
Halloween, Alaska – Champagne, Downtown | CD
Hammer No More the Fingers – Looking for Bruce | CD
Alexis Harte – Big Red Sun | CD
Here Holy Spain – Manic | CD
The Hold Steady – A Positive Rage [Live] | CD
Hurt – Goodbye to the Machine | CD
I Was a King – I Was a King | CD
It Hugs Back – Inside Your Guitar | CD
Jadakiss – The Last Kiss | CD
Joker’s Daughter – The Last Laugh | CD
Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care | CD
Kero One – Early Believers | CD
Lady Sovereign – Jigsaw | CD
Bettye LaVette – Do Your Duty | Recommended above
Left Alone – Left Alone | CD
Living with Lions – Dude Manor [EP] | CD
Lost Country – When We Danced | CD
Dan Mangan – Roboteering [EP] | CD MP3
Duff McKagan’s Loaded – Sick | CD
Melvins and Brian Walsby – Manchild 4/Pick Your Battles | CD + Book
Mexican Institute of Sound – Soy Sauce | CD
Micachu – Jewellery | CD
MIMS – Guilt | CD
Rakalam Bob Moses – Father’s Day B’Hash | MP3
Bob Mould – Life and Times | CD
Mumiy Troll – Comrade Ambassador | CD
Cyril Neville – Brand New Blues | CD
Océano – Depths | CD
Miles Okazaki – Generations | CD
Old Wainds – Death Nord Kult | CD
Paper Moon – Only During Thunderstorms | CD MP3
Pele – A Scuttled Bender in a Watery Closet | CD
Pontiak – Maker | CD
Rascal Flatts – Unstoppable | CD
The Red Barons – My First Love | CD
Ruins – Cauldron | CD
Samael – Above | CD
Richard Shindell – Not Far Now | CD
Single File – Common Struggle | CD
Sleeping in Gethsemane – Burrows | CD
Storsveit Nix Noltes – Royal Family-Divorce | CD
Superchunk – Leaves in the Gutter [EP] | CD
The Sway Machinery – Hidden Melodies Revealed | CD
Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean | CD
James Taylor – Other Covers | CD
Telekinesis! – Telekinesis! | Recommended above
Vienna Teng – Inland Territory | CD
The Thermals – Now We Can See | Recommended above
Thieves Like Us – Play Music | CD
Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers – Pandemonium Ensue | CD
Toubab Krewe – Live at the Orange Peel | CD
Tower of Power – Great American Soulbook | CD
The Tragically Hip – We Are the Same | CD
Various Artists – Score! 20 Years of Merge Records | CD
The Veils – Sun Gangs | CD
Sara Watkins – Sara Watkins | CD
Andy Werth – Burn the Maps and Bury the Compass | CD
Wetton/Downes – Icon 3 | CD
Young Widows with Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Young Widows Split Series Vol. 1 | Vinyl
David Wilcox – Open Hand | CD
Cassandra Wilson – Closer to You: The Pop Side | CD
Wrekmeister Harmonies – Recordings Made in Public Spaces Volume One | CD/DVD
Neil Young – Fork in the Road | CD
Jenny Owen Youngs – Let to the Sea [EP] | MP3
Youth Group – The Night is Ours | CD
Zoé – Reptilectric | CD
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Posted by: KHA | 21 April 2009 at 09:46 PM