As best as this year as been for music, with all the leaks/rumors of albums for next year I am beginning to think that 2k10 might be even bester. Stereogum just posted their 25 most anticipated albums of 2010 and while their list is fantastic and and very blogcore, mine is a little different/personalcore. With few exceptions, all of the bands below hold onto the notion of an album as a cohesive and coherent form and are apt at producing music within the constraint. While some people are all worried about this particular form, I prefer simply to enjoy it and not worry about its sustainability. For this reason and in no particular order, I am looking forward to contributions from:
Los Campesinos! Do Things! Los Campesinos have been busy as ever recently and as always, we are invited along for the ride through their incessantly updated genius of a blog. First on the list is the replacement for their departed member Aleks Campesinos! who decided to go back to school. It turns out the replacement is none other than lead singer Gareth Campesinos!'s younger sister, Kim (aka the red head to the side). You can (and should) watch their hilarious football-draft-parody about it here. And, as previously reported, the Welsh septet is working on their third LP (in only 2 years!) which supposedly is about "shagging and death," which is great. The album is to be called There Are Listed Buildings. While there is no release date for the album as of yet (rumors suggest we have to wait until next year), we get a little taste of their recent work in the form of the single "The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future." The track finds lead singer/lyricist Gareth exploring darker themes and more distressed characters over the same energetic instrumentals that we have come to love the Campesinos! for. Overall the result is a more mature sound delivered as passionately and sincerely as ever, which bodes well for the future longevity of the band. The song will be available on a single sided 7" (the band is all about 7"s) on the bands upcoming tour of England, and for a limited time thereafter.
Here is also a video for the song, created by Ellen, the Campesinos!'s bass player.
Because releasing two albums last year is not enough for the Welsh band, Los Campesinos! are prepping to release their third album. According to lead singer Gareth Campesinos! the album is a little darker than their previous releases. It is also "about shagging and death." Brilliant. Read the interview here. Elsewhere in the land of LC! (that punctuation suddenly seems slightly less appropriate), Keyboardist-singer Aleks is leaving the band in order to return to go back to school. To quote the (ever witty P4K) "Her vocal counter-melodies often acted as a mellifluous foil to lead singer Gareth's manic musings on some of the band's best songs. She will be missed, but at least she will be smarter, too." Read LC!'s blog post about it here.
Friday is a day to crash. Crash meaning "to kick back and relax." And also, for me, meaning to violently burn to the ground in a heap of broken pieces because of all of the things that I have neglected to write about during the week. Since this happens pretty much every friday, I've resolved to go the way of the airplane and record everything in a tiny black box. Also, for your convenience I have decided to forgo the inevitable casualties usually associated with plane crashes. Cheers.
This Stereogum sponsored awesome-fest is in support of Housing Works, an NYC non-profit that has fought against both AIDs and Homelessness since 1990. It is set to go down like this:
In a brand new collaboration, Björk will perform music composed for her by David Longstreth. The suite, written for five voices, will pair Björk with Longstreth and Projectors' Amber Coffman, Angel Deradoorian, and Haley Dekle. The band will also perform material from Dirty Projectors' oeuvre, using only voices and one acoustic guitar.
If you happen to live in NYC (then why are you reading this blog and not this one?) the show is on Friday, May 8th, at 8PM at Housing Works Bookstore & Café (126 Crosby Street) in Manhattan. More via Sterogum.
Animal Crack Box sells, Then Doesn't Like we said, Animal Collective's Animal Crack Box was up on ebay for $2,425 which it eventually sold for. However, it turns out that the winner (loser) couldn't pay up, which seems like a mean thing to do to a charity. Catsup Plate's website says to keep looking at Catsup Plate's website for information about a relisting. ...................................................................................................................................
All Five of Death Cab's New EP available at Stereogum
As a redux to some certain strong opinions regarding the new Death Cab offering, The Open Door EP, here are links to all the tracks. The EP is available online at the end of the month on Atlantic.
Sunset Rubdown announces Third LP, Dragonslayer Spencer Krug is a busy person. Besides releasing two albums in the last two years with two different bands, he already has another album ready with another different band. Dragonslayer is out 6/23 via Jagjaguwar along with a picture disc 7" called Introducing Moonface that'll include "Coming To The Dawn" and "Insane Love Is Awakening." It's out in early April via Aagoo.
01 "Silver Moons" 02 "Idiot Heart" 03 "Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!" 04 "Black Swan" 05 "Paper Lace" 06 "You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)" 07 "Nightingale / December Song" 08 "Dragon's Lair"
The Album is out digitally in a couple days (on 30th March) and the album will be released physically, four weeks later, on 27th April. But if you can't wait, that is what myspace is for .
Alpha Media Group closed Blender magazine today, eliminating about 30 jobs and reducing its portfolio of titles to Maxim alone. The April issue of Blender out now will be its last. Not that I ever read the magazine. It is sad to see people lose their jobs. ...................................................................................................................................
"We’re about 7 tracks (probably about halfway) into our over-thought, over-long, over-the-top sophomore album, and I’m thinking this is probably going to be our 'Coke Album' what with the track-numbers piling up, egos a-flailing and a Gallagher-sized sense of misplaced belief in our own band. Sadly though (for you) there’s not a sniff of white powder in sight, so it might not be as bombastic as we’d all hope… (though i’m sure if we went searching in the cracks of the SSL board here at Carriage House we’d find enough to make Be Here Now 2). So it’s probably gonna be more of a 'Diet Coke Album'."
They are working with John Goodmanson for this record, who has produced both Blonde Redhead and Hanson. Maybe they can get sweet hookups with some Tinted Windows.
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