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Aereogramme
My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Never Go
After reemerging in North America with two releases in 2006, the Seclusion mini-album and their In The Fishtank collaboration with Isis, Scotland's Aereogramme return with their most accomplished studio effort to date. Entitled My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go, Aereogramme’s third full-length album is an ambitious, cinematic and beautiful beast. Trading in the sludgey, metallic heaviness that filled half of Seclusion for a more serene, pensive feel, My Heart... explores the quieter side of the group's musical landscape. Shortly after the album's release in February, the band will return to North America for their first tour of these parts in four years, something that will undoubtedly be just as monumental as the album itself. -CP
Release Date: 02/06/07
Label: Sonic Unyon
Genre/Style: Post Rock
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Apples in Stereo
New Magnetic Wonder
The Apples in stereo mark their first release in five years, as well as their fifth official full length album, with New Magnetic Wonder. The first release on Yep Roc Records' joint venture with Elijah Wood's newly formed record label, Simian Records, New Magnetic Wonder was produced by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Sebadoh, Sean Lennon) and is surely the most elaborate Apples production to date. Clocking in at 53 minutes, the album contains 14 songs, 12 additional "link tracks," and an Apples first -- the newly invented "Non-Pythagorian Music Scale" included in both digital sound files and an in-depth video description on the enhanced portion of this multimedia CD. New Magnetic Wonder includes such fist pumping anthems as "Can You Feel It," the 70's AM radio-esque "Same Old Drag," and the Mellotron majesty of "Energy." It's The Apples in stereo doing what they do best -- it's a New Magnetic Wonder. -CP
Release Date: 02/06/07
Label: Yep Roc
Genre/Style: Pop
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Aughra / Mosh Patrol
Is There Anyone Else Outside?
The ambient/avant monikers for Brent Eyestone (Forensics) and Chris King (This Will Destroy You), Aughra and Mosh Patrol (respectively) can both be described as the glorious head-on collision between our digital "sophistication" and our primordial longings. Massive aural soundscapes and delicate, contemplative melodies permeate this split collaboration, eliciting trance-like introspection upon repeated listening. -CP
Release Date: 02/06/07
Label: Magic Bullet
Genre/Style: Experimental / Ambient
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Bloc Party
Weekend In the City
The follow-up to their smash debut, "Silent Alarm", is every bit as bright, powerful, and catchy, with the addition of more muscle, attitude, depth, and a bit of polish courtesy of their producer, Jacknife Lee (U2, Snow Patrol). Inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls "the living noise of a metropolis", this record captures every detail of daily life in a modern city from the ebullient to the mundane. From the quiet desolation of commuting to casual sex, from going out on a Friday night to the long ride home early in the morning, these are songs desperate to understand the meaning that pulses under the moments of our every day. -CP
Release Date: 02/06/07
Label: Vice
Genre/Style: Post Punk / Dance Punk
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Bracken
We Know About the Need
We Know About the Need is the debut album from Bracken, the shrouded-in-mystery solo venture from Chris Adams (vocalist and co-sound designer behind Leeds, UK legends Hood). It's a blunt introduction. Bracken walks that rarely tread turf between the electronic and the organic, where complex arrangements sound free and easy and every sound finds its rightful place.
The head-nodding beat and aqueous guitar plucks of opener "Of Athroll Slains" sound like lost transmissions from Wu Tang Clan's 36 Chambers picked up on CB radio. Bloops, beeps, squelches of strings and heavy dub bass reign supreme with Adams' wonderfully wrecked, world-weary voice right at home in the mix.
Lead single "Heathens" opens with a breathy, ethereal voice before catching melody and bouncing down a hallway of deep dub bump. "Fight or Flight" is a gorgeous six-minute exercise in musique concrete that recalls both the organic chemistry of The Books and the spaciousness of Boards of Canada.
We Know About the Need is full of songs like this. The rolling keys of "Safe Safe Safe" anchor a chorus of stereo-scoping vocals, hollow tones mimic a monks choir on "Music for Adverts," and "Evil Teeth" is a minor masterwork meticulously crafted from a chaotic jumble of freewheeling drums, screeching strings, gnashing metallic teeth, insectoid droning and the cry of a single sustained cello. Elsewhere a combination of field recordings, piano, voice and clarinet mingle serenely ("Many Horses") and slow-moving beats, 808 bass thump and uncut guitar create the kind of heaviness that lingers for weeks on the epic closer "Back on the Calder Line."
Frequently We Know About the Need rockets into the unknown, at other times its heavy hands come to rest on something far too human and familiar. As such, it's a perfect addition to the Anticon oeuvre. -CP
Release Date: 02/06/07
Label: Anticon
Genre/Style: Electronic / Experimental
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Lifetime
Self-Titled
The highly influential hardcore band are reunited and armed with a new record. This is their first new full-length since the release of their sophomore full-length, "Jersey's Best Dancers", in 1997. Includes members of Kid Dynamite and Zero Zero. -CP
Release Date: 02/07/07
Label: Decaydance
Genre/Style: Punk
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Loney, Dear
Loney, Noir
Multi-instrumentalist and home-recording phenom Emil Svanängen lives in Sweden and he makes records and plays shows under the somewhat inscrutable name of Loney, Dear. In either his tiny Stockholm studio apartment or the basement of his parents’ house, and with a dedication bordering upon manic, Emil discreetly builds Loney, Dear songs using a modest home studio set-up. In this way he has recorded and then released himself on CD-R four albums in the last two or three years. He has managed to sell several thousand of these, pretty much on his own. The music of Loney, Dear has been aptly described as, “soulful indie folk with a powerful mini orchestra.” Layer upon layer, adding instrumentation and vocals, these songs seem to bloom like time-lapse photography, depicting glimpsed scenes of modern disaffection and timeless yearning. When performing live, Loney, Dear becomes the band Emil conjures alone in his home studio, and mutates into a full, five-member band complete with guitar, sax, drums, organ and clarinet, shouts and claps. Loney, Noir is the most recently recorded Loney, Dear album. It is at once effervescent and resigned, exhilarating and melancholy, joyous and confessional. And we are under its spell.-CP
Release Date: 02/06/07
Label: Sub Pop
Genre/Style: Chamber Pop
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Yoko Ono
Yes, I'm A Witch
Exciting new project from Yoko Ono. Yoko sent off her 1977 album "A Story" to be re-worked and re-mixed by some select artists including The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Le Tigre, The Apples In Stereo, Sleepy Jackson, Peaches, etc. The results a genre defying, unique album!-CP
Release Date: 02/06/07
Label: Astralwerks
Genre/Style: Pop
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Peter, Bjorn & John
Writer's Block
As an album, Writers Block shares these new lovers singular focus. Paris 2004 is a classical guitar tinged travelers ballad in the manner of John Cales near perfect Andalucia, exchanging Cales studied ambiguity for sentimental bedazzlement Erikksons Start to Melt, flickers with amazed adoration and Morén's Objects of My Affection, combines the dramatic flair of an uncharacteristically upbeat Morrissey with the nasal vocals and ringing acoustic guitars of a post Loveless Like a Rolling Stone. -CP
Release Date: 02/07/07
Label: Almost Gold
Genre/Style: Pop
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Sun Kil Moon
Ghosts of the Great Highway
Caldo Verde Records will re-issue Sun Kil Moon's Ghosts of the Great Highway. Originally released in 2003, the album received superlative reviews, moved quickly to #1 on college radio and has become one of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek's most loved and best selling albums in a 13 album career. This reissue will include re-worked packaging and a 6-song bonus CD containing two versions of Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere," alternative versions of "Carry Me Ohio" and "Salvador Sanchez," a radio recording of "Gentle Moon" recorded in Portugal, and the previously unreleased instrumental "Arrival," which was recorded for the movie The Girl Next Door. -CP
Release Date: 02/06/07
Label: Caldo Verde
Genre/Style: Pop
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Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
Like, Love, Loust & The OPen Halls of the Soul
A sprawling album, deep with musical and lyrical texture. There's a timeless quality to this record; its rocking guitar solos and driving rhythms could easily be a lost gem cut by Crazy Horse between takes with Neil, but it retains the fragile beauty of much of Sykes' earlier work as well. From lilting to waltzing sway to hallucinatory psychedelia, this record finds Sykes and her band exploring new sounds with a confident ease. Guest appearances from Nicolai Dunger, jazz keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, and avant garde violinist/composer Eyvind Kang. -CP
Release Date: 02/06/07
Label: Barsuk
Genre/Style: Art Rock / Post Punk
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