Lucinda Williams West (Lost Highway)
West finds (as is apparent just by a brief scan of the track titles) Williams in a thoughtful and tender place musically, as her private life and its rough patches sort of overwhelm her toe-tappin' hay-covered dance floor capabilities. The death of her mother and the end of a relationship both factor into the context of the album, but that doesn't stop big guitars and generous bass drum from creeping into the fold. Though most of the songs are thinly veiled journal entries, the songs don't suffer in any sort of Sad Girl in the Coffee Shop sort of way: it's still our honky tonk queen, and she's still a badass, even if she's down and out.
Lucinda Williams Official
Lucinda Williams MySpace
Papercuts Can't Go Back (Gnomonsong)
While there's no shortage of one-room, one-man artists and less and less language to differentiate between them, it's hard to say why Can't Go Back has earned the right to be heard without dropping names. Jason Quever, the man behind the project, is going on tour opening for Grizzly Bear, and while you might not have heard of Gnomonsong before, the team of Devendra Banhart and Andy Cabic that run it hope that you'll learn, because they're oh-so-excited about Quever. In fact, Quever has collaborated with Vetiver and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone as well. The album promises to be a "a marriage of timeless songs, richly textured studio sounds, classic rock/pop hookery, and focused narratives" (-Gnomonsong), let us know if it disappoints.
Acoustic Ladyland: Skinny Grin (V2 UK)
Anais Mitchell: Brightness (Righteous Babe)
Brian McKnight: Ten
Cooper Temple Clause: Homo Sapiens EP (BMG Japan)
The Dark Romantics: Some Midnight Kissin' (Lujo)
Deep Purple: Live at the Nec 1993 (Sony / BMG Import)
DJ Green Lantern/Ludacris: Truth Shall Set You Free (Invasion GRP Canada)
The Doobie Brothers: Definitive Collection (Rhino)
Duke Ellington: Legendary Duke: In Memoriam (Collectables)
Dukedagod: Jr Writer: Writer's Block 4 (Diplomatic Man)
Duran Duran: Essential Collection (EMI)
Ella Fitzgerald: Very Best of the Cole Porter Songbook (Verve)
Ella Fitzgerald: Very Best of the Rodgers and Hart Songbook (Verve)
Essie Jain: We Made This Ourselves (Ba Da Bing!)
The Eternals: Heavy International (Aesthetics)
Field Music: Tones of Town (Memphis Industries)
The Flying Burrito Brothers: Honky Tonky Nights (Music Avenue)
G. Dep: Bad Boy (Siccness)
Gerald LeVert: In My Songs (Atlantic / Wea)
Ginuwine: I Apologize (Siccness)
Grace Jones: Inside Story (EMI)
The High Strung: Moxie Bravo (Park the Van)
Infamous Stringdusters: Fork in the Road (Sugar Hill)
Jae Millz: Time Is Now: Official Remix
Jason Donovan: Greatest Hits (EMI)
Jennifer Hall: Jennifer Hall Meets (Sea Breeze)
Joey McIntyre: Talk to Me (City Light)
Jokaman: In the Fast Lane (BCD Music Group)
Keak da Sneak: On One (Rex Recordings Inc)
Keak Da Sneak/P.S.D. Tha Drivah/Messy Marv: Da Bidness (SMC Recordings)
Lisa Gerrard: Best of Lisa Gerrard (4AD)
Louis Armstrong: Early Years: Recorded Live 1938-1949 (Collectables)
Lucinda Williams: West (Lost Highway)
Mike Post & Pete Carpenter: A-Team [Original Television Score/Soundtrack] (Silva)
Nicolai Dunger: Rosten Och Herren (V2 UK)
Nina Hagen: Fearless (Koch)
Original Soundtrack: Ghost Rider (Varese Sarabande)
Original Soundtrack: Death Row Archives: The Soundtracks (Death Row)
Original TV Soundtrack: Hills (Sony)
The Papercuts: Can't Go Back (Gnomonsong)
Peter Bjorn and John: Falling Out (V2 UK)
Peter Bjorn and John: Peter Bjorn and John (V2 UK)
Po' Girl: Home to You (Nettwerk)
Psycho Les: Psycho Therapy
Rudy Ray Moore: Petey Wheatstraw (Traffic Ent.)
Seafood: Paper Crown King (Cooking Vinyl)
The Softlightes: Say No to Being Cool -- Say Yes to Being Happy (Modular / Interscope)
T.I./DJ Drama: Leak Unloaded (BCD Music Group)
Talking Heads: Collection (Emi Gold Imports)
Tanakh: Saunders Hollow (Camera Obscura)
Vocokesh: All This and Hieronymous Bosch (Strange Attractors)
William Parker/Hamid Drake: First Communion/Piercing the Veil (Aum Fidelity)
Wiz Khalifa: Show and Prove
add to digg
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
email this
add to facebook
add to del.icio.us
Post a comment (Comment Policy)