Albums in 2006

[beetsnotbeats]

<img src="http://www.mutablemusic.com/images/archaea.jpg" alt=" - " />
  Yes, that Dan Joseph (9353):
 
 "Mutable Music is pleased to announce the debut release by composer and hammer dulcimer virtuoso Dan Joseph. Entitled Archaea, the recording consists of three recent extended chamber works performed by The Dan Joseph Ensemble: Tom Chiu (violin), Michael Lowenstern (clarinet), Danny Tunick (percussion), Marija Ilic (harpsichord), Loren Dempster (cello) and the composer on hammer dulcimer. Influenced most directly by the first generation minimalists, Joseph's works bring a welcome new voice to the idiom with his unique sense of timbre, intricate rhythms and unexpected formal turns. Equal parts East coast and West coast, Appalachian and Balkan, rock and baroque, his style is characterized by its immediate beauty, positive spirit and exhilarating drive."
 

[Reod Dai]

The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely (August 22)
 This will probably be in my top five albums of the year.
 
 Now It's Overhead - Dark Light Daybreak
   

Now It's Overhead has more than once evoked the term "dreamy." Dark Light Daybreak is not exactly an exception â?? it's awash in the band's signature moody layers and wall of guitar. But if the previous two records were dream-like, Dark Light Daybreak is more akin to waking up.
 
 Providing by one turn a desert-highway soundtrack, by another, a heartrending nostalgia for a moment just past the edge of memory, Dark Light Daybreak is sharp around the edges, with each song's elements being as distinct as the whole. A syncopated beat pops against an insistent bass line. The comforting patter of a keyboard is unsettlingly punctuated by overdriven, discordant voices. And throughout, Andy LeMaster's reedy vocals, as diverse an instrument as any on the album, are as true in a fragile harmony as they are on a soaring, cathartic chorus. Whether delivering an acidic indictment or a hopeful sentiment, voice combines with lyrics to speak the collective experience of individuals.
 
 Now Itâ??s Overhead's latest offering sees LeMaster's seasoned production skills synthesizing songwriting and recording; letting space and clarity serve as a thread of tension that runs through the album, unifying songs that range from stark to symphonic, buoyant to tragic. The range of Leverett's drumming and the variations of Taylor and Fink's vocals shine through, adding to each song the expertise of musicians who stand back, listen, then bring exactly what needs to be there. Dark Light Daybreak runs the songwriting gamut, leaving not a moment to be missed.

Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth (September 5)
 I'm probably the only one on here looking forward to this album. ^_^
 
 M. Ward - Post-War (August 22)
 
 Gin Blossoms - Major Lodge Victory (August
 
 The Damnwells - Air Stereo (August 15)

[brennser]

Fuck Yeah!!!!
 
 New Cathal Coughlan Album Sept 21
 
 http://cathalcoughlan.com/news/

[ggw]

Stream the new Black Keys tune:
 
 Your Touch
 
 Edit:  Stream a few of 'em

[Darth Ed]

Originally posted by brennser:
  Fuck Yeah!!!!
 
 New Cathal Coughlan Album Sept 21
 
  http://cathalcoughlan.com/news/

Think he'll play around here? I'd go see him.

[ggw]

XTC's Partridge Combs Archives For Mammoth Box
 
 August 28, 2006, 3:45 PM ET
 
 Greg Prato, N.Y.
 XTC leader Andy Partridge recently combed his vaults and discovered an exorbitant amount of rarities and outtakes, resulting in the Oct. 10th release of the nine-disc box "The Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album." Spanning Partridge's career, the set features alternate versions of many XTC favorites, unreleased tracks and also unfinished material that Partridge revisited and completed for this release.
 
 "Working on this stuff took many years," Partridge tells Billboard.com of the box, due via his own Ape House label. "I just kept writing -- who knows what's going to fall out? It was recorded in spare bedrooms, the kitchen, the attic and of course my now infamous garden shed. Pop songs, radio jingles, film and TV music, or just plain old goofing about."
 
 Partridge rediscovered many forgotten tracks in the process. "'I Don't Want To Be Here' for one," he says. "Lots of folks love this song but XTC was pretty democratic, so if someone didn't go for a tune, it got binned. 'Everything' was another. One of the most touching lyrics I ever wrote -- in the toilet. 'The Bland Leading the Bland' -- so proud of this autobiographical rallying call to end that boring donut mentality. You can kind of see why I just didn't want these songs collecting dust and going unheard. We threw away better material than most bands made a career out of."
 
 Among his other favorites: "Wonder Annual" ("I always thought XTC should have recorded this surprisingly structured psychedelic slice"), "End of the Pier" ("It would have made a great out-of-season seaside companion piece to 'Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her'") and "2 Rainbeau Melt" ("Some of my favorite-ever lyrics matched to a trippy improvised soundscape. It arrived too late for the 'Wasp Star' album").
 
 Partridge also helped assemble the packaging, which he modeled after a child's stamp album. "How better to represent a large and diverse set of home recordings than to depict them as a series of imaginary stamps?," he says.
 
   
 The artist has a number of other projects in the works, the first of which will be "a double-disc set of purely improvised music called 'Monstrance.' My partners in one-take, overdub-free, unrehearsed crime are Barry Andrews -- ex-XTC keys man from way back -- and [drummer] Martyn Barker. Let's face it, nothing short of capital punishment is going to stop me making music."
 
 
 http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003053983

[grotty]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Stream the new Black Keys tune:
 
 Your Touch
 
 Edit:  Stream a few of 'em

Strange Desire is a GREAT BKs tune.

[brennser]

Originally posted by Darth Ed:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  Fuck Yeah!!!!
 
 New Cathal Coughlan Album Sept 21
 
   http://cathalcoughlan.com/news/  

Think he'll play around here? I'd go see him. [/b]

alas, the chances are slim to none, in fact live appearances by CC are few and far between these days - he does have a US label, Stop Pop and Roll and played a gig in Boston and one in NYC a few years ago so never say never

[definitivedoodle]

Classic right here...
 
  THE ROOTS
 
 game theory
 
  <img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c53/bboydesigner/gametheory_thumb.jpg" alt=" - " />

[ratioci nation]

Here is a track from Robert Pollard's second post-gbv solo album, Normal Happiness.  Due out October 10th.
 
  Supernatural Car Lover

[bearman🐻]

Anyone hear the new Blowoff record yet? Thoughts?

[Reod Dai]

[amnesiac]

Wowee Zowee: The Sordid Sentinels Edition
 On November 6 we will be releasing the third in our biannual Pavement deluxe reissue series: Pavement's third album, 'Wowee Zowee,' expanded per our previous deluxe double packs, with a thick perfect-bound booklet and much, much more to be announced shortly (along with a complete track listing and a special surprise).

[BookerT]

Originally posted by amnesiac:
  Wowee Zowee: The Sordid Sentinels Edition
 On November 6 we will be releasing the third in our biannual Pavement deluxe reissue series: Pavement's third album, 'Wowee Zowee,' expanded per our previous deluxe double packs, with a thick perfect-bound booklet and much, much more to be announced shortly (along with a complete track listing and a special surprise).

this is going to be all kinds of awesome. the first two reissues were fantastic and everybody konws that WZ is the best pavement record. actually, very few people know that, but i'm one of the enlightened ones.

[brennser]

from Torr...
 
 Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) will release his solo album in mid-Nov in the UK - no US release date
 
 hes also playing some shows in Ireland and England including 2 night at the Point Depot in Dublin which amzes me - I had no idea he was that 'big' to have two nights at the Point (8,500 capacity)