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some recent acquisitions:
Jay-Z 'The Blueprint' -- I've mentioned in other threads just how much I love this record, so no need to say too much more...
Solex 'Low Kick and Hard Bop' -- I'm a bit disappointed by this one...it's good, but not near as poptastic as her two previous albums, which I highly recommend to anyone into weird electronic pop a la Bjork, Laika, Moonshake, etc. great titles though: "You Say Potato, I Say Aardappel", "Honey, Amsterdam Is NOT L.A.!", "Ease Up You Fundamentalist", "The Dot on the I between the H and the T"...
Mercury Rev "All Is Dream" -- very impressive indeed.. It takes all the best parts of their previous album, and makes them better, and they don't allow any filler into the tracklist. Very solid pop...I'd say the best tunes are "Little Rhymes", "Lincoln's Eyes" and "The Dark Is Rising".
Grant Lee Phillips "Mobilize" -- This record is probably the weakest in his catalog, but still not that bad....it's just that the gulf of quality between this and a record as ineffably great as "Mighty Joe Moon" is vast. There's some really nice songs on this record, but like the final Grant Lee Buffalo LP "Jubilee", there's a feeling that it's made to be a little too glossy and hit-ready, as if he wants to buy a new car or something. 'Spring Released' is the big keeper on this album...
Fugazi "The Argument" -- I'm still getting used to this one. a lot of the songs veer all over the place. for example, "Full Disclosure" starts off with some really tense guitars launching into an evil groove that sounds a lot like some of the songs off of "Steady Diet of Nothing", then Guy starts screaming and howling incoherantly like he's in a great deal of physical pain... then he sings a bit of a pop bit with Ian singing a Beach Boys "whooo-hoooo" back up part, then back to the tense bit, the screaming bit, the pop bit, another chorus with three part harmony, then a really Eddie Van Halen sort of solo, then it turns into a violent sounding noise jam which makes me think of Sonic Youth's Confusion is Sex album, particularly "The World Looks Red". This is pretty indicative of this album, really. It's great, but you knew that already when you read the word "Fugazi". My favorites are "Life and Limb", "Cashout", and "Oh". (note- I got this off Audiogalaxy...the real album comes out on October 16th. I'm missing two tracks too...)
Bjork - Vespertine
It took me a while to get into this record, as I usually like upbeat Bjork more than slow introspective Bjork, but I can't help loving a lot of this record..I especially love "Cocoon", which is so beautiful and romantic and sexy... |
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You see, my CD buying budget has constricted like a scrotum in a freezing lake.