Albums you are looking forward to in 08!!!

[ggw]

It's not an album, but the new Jay Reatard 7" is now for sale through Matador.

[walkonby]

i looking forward to j. kicking everybody out of dinosaur again, and making some more fog.

[Relaxer]

My impressions of a couple new releases:
 
 Sun Kil Moon "April" -- Have tried to get into this guy's stuff, whether SKM or Red House Painters and have always been put to sleep. But this is hitting very well, mostly because of the first song. Liking this a lot.
 
 Black Keys "Attack & Release" -- Good, and getting better. Some of the songs feel like classics after only 2-3 spins. Probably won't stick around the rotation for very long, but it'll get a few weeks.
 
 Howling Rain "Magnificant Friend" -- Good, but I struggle to listen to this and not lament the hiatus/split of Comets on Fire. First HR album was really mellow but this has more rawk elements.
 
 Panic at t!he Disco -- Tried to give this an objective listen, and I've had chemical romances with cheese bands in the past. But this just isn't very good. Sounds too much like they did the Alicia Keys routine of listening to a lot of classic albums and then writing songs that sound just like them. But even the Beatles didn't go straight from Please Please Me to Sgt Peppers.
 
 Dodos "Visitor" -- This is okay, kind of neat, but sounds too much like boring bands like Shins, Modest Mouse, Spoon etc.
 
 These New Puritans "Beat Pyramid" -- Other than SKM, probably my favorite of the new batch. Sounds kind of a combo of Art Brut and Bloc Party. Jagged, sorta-electronic pop with very British declaration-style vocals.

[Relaxer]

Death Cab for Cutie's new one is twixt the waves, if you're into that crapass band.

[azaghal1981]

Just put on Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior.
 
 
 Been meaning to get to this for a while.

[azaghal1981]

This is nowhere near as dark and plotting as most dubstep I've heard. It's way more upbeat. Also has a slightly funky downtempo tinge. I like so far.

[Kriemelmeyer--DJ K]

Tobacco "Fucked Up Friends"
 Boris "Smile"

[azaghal1981]

Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light just leaked.
 
 And it's krautrock-tastic!

[azaghal1981]

Hey Snailhook...
 
 
 Brethren of the Free Spirit (James Blackshaw & Jozef Van Wissem) - All Things are from Him, through Him and in Him
 
 Holy shit that pairing sounds promising. Putting it on next. I'm excited.

[NilThree]

Billy Howerdel of A Perfect Circle has a solo project with an album coming out next week, Keep Telling Myself It's Alright. The album leaked today - like Portishead you might not find it on private sites cuz it's only 160kbps. It's pretty good but no Thirteenth Step. The best song is probably the single, The Stone, which despite being in the Top 10 rock radio tracks I have never heard on DC101.

[azaghal1981]

New Booka Shade is nice.

[azaghal1981]

So has this thread become my new blog or something?
 
 
 About to give this a listen:
 
 Limited factory-pressed �??real�?? CD album from Tara Burke aka Fursaxa, packaged in marbled, psychedelic card slipcases and wraparound inner sleeves and released
 on her own label. Recorded in Pennsylvania and Florida and mastered by Norm Fetter and Michael Gibbons of Bardo Pond. The whole disc has a heavy Judee
 Sill feel that hasn�??t really been so apparent in her back catalogue until now but the combination of bells, hypnagogic choral settings and distant, sunbleached
 fidelity immediately conjures a similar dark, devotional air to Sill�??s masterful �??The Donor�?�. As usual with Fursaxa there is a heavy, ritualistic feel
 to much of the material, but some of it is so dilated and weirdly-arranged - with hypnotic, F/X mutated spoken word and huge sighs of almost Penderecki/Crumb-esque
 vocal smears - that it touches on the outer-space hysteria of Euro-heads like Zweistein or Catherine Ribeiro and Alpes more than any contemporary US �??drone�??,
 albeit refracted through early music and madrigal stylings. It all ends with one of the most spell-binding movements in her entire catalogue, with a chaos
 of vocal hiss functioning as a long, slow pan through the kind of fog-bound territory previously mapped by Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann as Mirror.
 One of her darkest and most otherworldly set of space-whispers to date. Highly recommended.

[Relaxer]

Parts & Labor's Mapmaker is pretty awesome, has this epic noisy anthem element to it.

[azaghal1981]

Skimmed that a while ago. Guess I need to go back and give it more attention.
 
 
 This Fursaxa is just as spooky and medieval-sounding as the rest of her stuff.

[kmb187]

Ladytron and My Brightest Diamond, though the latter already leaked.