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If ACL fest hasn't caused you to hate music, you might want to check out this week's new releases:
DJ Shadow The Outsider (Universal)
DJ Shadow's latest offering has certainly managed to garner (perhaps more than) its fair share of critique, and for fans of Shadow who have been listening since Entroducing, it's fairly easy to see why. Outsider is, for the most part, DJ Shadow's most straightforward foray into hip-hop, and features an overwhelming amount of "featurings" and a lot more rapping than you might be used to, but this doesn't make it a bad record. Shadow's brand of esoteric hip-hop still shines through, but in harder-to-find places in between easier to swallow dance numbers.
DJ Shadow (Official)
DJ Shadow MySpace
DJ Shadow "Enuff" (QT Video)
Joseph Arthur Nuclear Daydream (Megaforce)
Nuclear Daydream picks up where Come to Where I'm From left off, with sweeping vocal arrangements and luminous melodies providing a jaunty and elegantly assembled collection of gems. Look for Arthur on tour this fall supporting the album, and prepare for the onslaught of Arthur inclusions in all your favorite WB dramas.
Joseph Arthur (Official)
Joseph Arthur MySpace
Bonnie Prince Billy The Letting Go (Drag City)
Indie country/folk hero Will Oldham has to be one of the most prolific songwriters of our time, as on the heels of his collaboration with Tortoise and this summer's EP The Cursed Sleep we have The Letting Go. Utilizing a twin-guitars-and-rhythm lineup with layers of backing vocals and orchestration, the album still haunts in the minimalistic and lonely way that all good Oldham creations do, and an even bigger feat will be the album's surround sound version, Oldham's first adventure in "well-rounded" recording.
Bonnie Prince Billy (Official)
Commercial for The Letting Go (YouTube)
Sleeper of the Week:
Whitest Boy Alive Dreams
Erlend Øye (Kings of Convenience) started Whitest Boy Alive back in 2003 as an electronic project, but it has evolved into a full-on band without any programmed elements. Their latest, Dreams, features electro-funk Rhodes instrumentation and DJ-friendly dance numbers as well as post-punk influences. How they haven't exploded is anyone's guess, but we're predicting it's the soundtrack to fall at places like Beauty Bar.
Whitest Boy Alive (Official)
Whitest Boy Alive MySpace
Whitest Boy Alive "Music Sounds Better With You" (Live in Germany) (YouTube)
Locally:
The Summer Wardrobe release their new album and will celebrate this Friday, September 22 at Ruta Maya with Buttercup and The Onlys.
As always, follow the jump for the complete list.
- 1090 Club: Shipwrecked on Shores (Sidecho)
Alias & Tarsier: Plane That Draws a White Line (Anticon)
Angelo Badalamenti: Wicker Man [Original Score] (Silva)
The Art of Noise: What Have You Done with My Body God? (ZTT UK)
The Avett Brothers: 6 Song CD (Ramseur Rec.)
Ben Kweller: Ben Kweller (Red Ink)
The Big Sleep: Son of the Tiger (French Kiss)
The Black Crowes: Freak 'N' Roll... Into the Fog (Eagle)
Billy Martin: Starlings (Tzadik)
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: Thug Stories (Koch)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Letting Go (Drag City)
Bound Stems: Appreciation Night (Flameshovel)
Buddy Holly: Gotta Roll: Early Recordings 1949-1955 (Rev-Ola)
Canada: This Cursed House
The Cardigans: Super Extra Gravity (Nettwerk)
Celly Cel: Wild West (Real Talk Ent)
Cerys Matthews: Never Said Goodbye (Rough Trade)
Charlie Parker: To Go (Verve)
Chingy: Hoodstar (Capitol)
Clay Aiken: Thousand Different Ways (RCA)
Cut Copy: Fabriclive.29 (Fabric)
Dan the Automator: Presents 2K7: The Tracks (DeCon Inc)
Darkel: Darkel (Astralwerks)
Dave Douglas: Meaning and Mystery (Koch)
DJ Cam: Revisited By [Inflamable] (Inflamable)
DJ Shadow: Outsider (Umvd Labels)
DJ Ti�sto: Live at Innercity (Black Hole)
Elton John: Captain & the Kid (Interscope)
Elvis Presley: Complete Million Dollar Quartet
Evan Parker: Time Lapse (Tzadik)
Eyehategod: Preaching the Endtime Routine (Season Mist America)
Fear Before the March of Flames: Always Open Mouth (Equal Vision)
Fergie: Dutchess (Interscope)
Forward Russia: Give Me a Wall (Mute U.S.)
Free: Live at the BBC (Universal International)
Genius: Words From the Genius (Traffic Ent.)
Guther: Sundet (Morr Music / M.M.)
Hall & Oates: Platinum Collection (WEA International)
Hate: Victims (Metal Mind)
Hugh Masekela: 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Hip-O)
Ice Cube: Death Certificate/AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (EMI)
Indigo Girls: Despite Our Differences (Hollywood)
Jane's Addiction: Up from the Catacombs: The Best of Jane's Addi (Rhino)
Jedi Mind Tricks: Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell (Babygrande)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin': Best of Jerry Lee Lewis (Metro)
Jesse McCartney: Right Where You Want Me (Hollywood)
Joseph Arthur: Nuclear Daydream (Mega Force)
Kasabian: Empire (RCA)
Kenny Rogers: Country Collection (United States Dist)
Lennon: Damaged Goods (John Galt Ent.)
Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby [30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (RCA)
Luc Ferrari: Far-West New (Episodes 2 & 3) (Blue Chopsticks)
Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor (Atlantic / Wea)
Makaveli Presents Muszamil: Reparation Is Due (Cleopatra)
Marvin Gaye: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing (United States Dist)
Master P: Ultimate Master P (Koch)
Missy Elliott: Respect M.E. (WEA International)
Natalie: Everything New (Umvd Labels)
New Found Glory: Coming Home (Geffen)
New York Dolls: Manhattan Mayhem: A History of the New York Dolls (Freud)
Nitzer Ebb: Body Rework (EMI)
North Mississippi Allstars: Early Years (Compendia)
Nump: Nump Yard (Sick Wid It)
Original Soundtrack: My Name Is Earl: The Album (Shout! Factory)
Outerspace: Blood Brothers (Babygrande)
Pere Ubu: Why I Hate Women (Smog Veil)
Pete Rock: Underground Classics (Rapster)
Phil Lesh & Friends: Instant Live: Tweeter Center- Mansfield, MA 7/6/06 (Instant Live Rec.)
Planes Mistaken for Stars: Mercy (Abacus)
Plastic Little: She's Mature
Prophet Omega: Natural World (Astralwerks)
Ras Kass: Eat or Die
Ray Charles: Mastercuts (Mastercuts / Artist)
Red Sparowes: Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun (Neurot)
Redd Foxx: You Gotta Wash Your Ass (Collectors' Choice Music)
Relay: Still Point of Turning (Bubble Core)
Ryan Star: Songs from the Eye of an Elephant (Koch)
Seb Fontaine: Type 02 (Thrive)
Shawn Lee: Soul Visa (BBE)
Stan Getz: To Go (Verve)
Too Short: Pimpin' Incorporated (Oarfin)
Triple Six Mafia: Smoked out Music's Greatest Hits (Hypnotize Minds)
Ween: Shinola, Vol. 1 (Music Video Distributors)
The Whigs: Give 'Em All a Big Fat Lip (ATO)
Whitest Boy Alive: Dreams
Winter Flowers: Winter Flowers (Attack 9)
Wolverine Brass: Wicked Witch (Revelation)
Woven Hand: Mosaic (Sounds Familyre)
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