Official new albums thread

[Swallow]

Hello all.

British Sea Power's "Open Season" is the finest indie-pop record this year. Graham Sutton aka Bark Psychosis production is excellent, a lot more expansive than on Delays' record.

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Steve Vai
Real Illusions: Reflections

Decent album, this is coming from someone who isn't a Vai fan. Track #7, 'Lotus Feet', had me saying to myself "Holy ****! That was live!??" at the end.

Check it out if you're unlike me and into widdly guitar stuff.

(Vai did the Bungie intro guitar bit for Halo 2 and most of the guitar samples in-game)

I love this album, it's fantasitc I mean, how does he do it? I couldn't even dream up some of it in my head let alone play it. Absolutley outstanding like whoa!

[stroppa]

Head Automatica : Decadence

I didn't realise this was out. I first noticed them a couple of months ago on mtv2 late at night, 'beating heart baby' being the track in particular. I immediately recognised the front man from glassjaw, but I tried to check with other people, but they'd never heard of glassjaw! Never mind, I trust the album is good from your review, might pick up a copy...based on 'beating heart baby' alone i'd assume it's a bit good for a listen to.


anyway...Tom Vek - We Have Sound....my personal recommendation for the moment. Excellently arranged tracks, guitars with some beats and some raw-edgy sounding vocals, all done by just the man himself.

[Ady]

Long time no see, Stroppa!

Death From Above 1979 : You Are a Woman, I Am A Machine - Wow. This is everything all the NME-Darlings of the Moment (you know the bands I mean...) were reported to be, but so obviously weren't; raw, edgy, energetic and powerful. This is Rock 'n Roll. With just a bass, drums and a few analogue synth embellisments, Death From Above rock harder than a lot of bands with a more 'complete' setup. So much so, it's almost embarrassing. The album is very short (weighing in at a little over 30 minutes), but that's fine - it would get boring otherwise. Anyway, I'm not even going to bother with wordy, flowery descriptions, all I wil say is GET THIS. Now! 9/10

[stroppa]

you should get the above album with the bonus disc...just for the remix of romantic rights.

[Ady]

I did!

[Bleeders]

This isn't anything like the ****e garage rock perpertuated by the likes of The White Stripes (sorry, don't like em') is it chaps?

[Ady]

Do you think I'd buy it if it was?

[AllYourBase]

if it was like the white stripes it'd be ace!

[stroppa]

it's nothing like the white stripes.

thank god...the key word here is...explosive, like at the drive in explosive, but minus the political sentiment.

[Bleeders]

Do you think I'd buy it if it was?

Good point.

[Ady]

Heh. anyway, you can make up your own mind here:

http://www.vice-recordings.com

It's half way down the page and available for streaming. It obviously sounds quite 'lo-fi' on the stream, but you'll get the general idea...

[Bleeders]

Went and bought it and... wow, for the noise these two blokes make, some bands would be hard pushed to rock as hard as this lot do.

[Baseley09]

Not new, and completely out of the blue I gave Dannii Minogue's last album NEON NIGHTS a whirl after remembering hearing a great single off it, which was then only played in the remixed w/ Madonna (Holiday?) version.........I listened to the whole thing, and then couldn't resist buying it.

Classy for sure, Roger Sanchez & Frenchie Niemo (sp?) on production, if you like french styled electro pop, you can't go wrong, tracks "On the loop" & "Piece of time" are some of the best hard pop ive heard in years.

[dug]

Death From Above 1979 : You Are a Woman, I Am A Machine - Wow. This is everything all the NME-Darlings of the Moment (you know the bands I mean...) were reported to be, but so obviously weren't; raw, edgy, energetic and powerful. This is Rock 'n Roll. With just a bass, drums and a few analogue synth embellisments, Death From Above rock harder than a lot of bands with a more 'complete' setup. So much so, it's almost embarrassing. The album is very short (weighing in at a little over 30 minutes), but that's fine - it would get boring otherwise. Anyway, I'm not even going to bother with wordy, flowery descriptions, all I wil say is GET THIS. Now! 9/10

Yeah, I've been listening to this a lot recently. It's pretty damn good, although I think it could have done with a bit more variety in the sound. There's plenty of musical variation, but the distortion is almost exactly the same on every track. I start to get a bit bored by the last couple of songs. They do rock hard though. 8/10 for me.