New Release Tuesday: Bad Veins & Wild Beasts
Wild Beasts are a quartet hailing from Leeds, UK, featuring above all else an enormous, show-stopping falsetto from vocalist Hayden Thorpe. There's lush, dynamic pop tunes -- all bearing fruit -- on Two Dancers, but there's no denying the centerpiece. Moaning, yelping and cooing about girls, the night's dirty underbelly and the pretty things that destroy our innocence, Thorpe offers a sort of answer to The The's desperate Dusk; he trills and woos the dangerous side of attraction and temptation with boyish charms. At times, his voice sails into truly soprano territory, making the sexual undertones even more exotic, blurring the lines between male and female boundaries. Sure, it's Brit-pop, but it's murky and seedy and all together taboo. Highly recommended.
Wild Beasts [MySpace] [Official] ["Hooting & Howling" (video)]
Bad Veins have been making Cincinnati proud since 2006, performing as a duo birthed from a dusty attic deep in the Midwest. Listening to the record reveals a broader vision, however, as strings, horns and layers of vocals sweep over the songs. There's quite a bit of Okkervil River here (particularly on album opener "Found") and some National dramatics as well. These are compliments, but more than anything they're indications of a band that's on its way to something great. Stay tuned.
All Tiny Creatures: Segni (vinyl)
Amanda Blank: I Love You (vinyl)
Anchor & Braille: Felt
Anjulie: Anjulie
Antony and the Johnsons: Aeon (vinyl)
AssJack: AssJack (vinyl with CD)
Bad Veins: Bad Veins (vinyl)
Beatallica: Masterful Mystery Tour
Brian Bonz & The Dot Hongs: From Sumi to Japan
Brian Wilson: What Love Can Do
Cale Parks: To Swift Mars EP
Catie Curtis: Hello Stranger
Cornershop: Judy Sucks A Lemon for Breakfast
Desolation Wilderness: New Universe (vinyl)
diskJokke: Discolated
The Duke & the King: Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Fruit Bats: The Ruminant Band (vinyl)
Greymachine: Disconnected
Guided by Voices: Under The Bushes Under The Stars (vinyl reissue)
Helado Negro: Awe Owe
Holiday Shores: Columbus'd The Whim
Iron Age: The Sleeping Eye
Japandroids: Post-Nothing (vinyl)
Jay Reatard: Watch Me Fall (vinyl)
Joe Pernice: It Feels So Good When I Stop
Julian Plenti: Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper (vinyl)
Kings of Leon: Notion EP
Lightning Dust: Infinite Light (vinyl)
Mac McAnally: Down By The River
Magnolia Sisters: Stripped Down
Maplewood: Yeti Boombox (vinyl)
Marmoset: Tea Tornado
Medeski Martin & Wood: Radiolarians III
Miles Davis: The Classic Prestige Sessions 1951-1956
Modest Mouse: No One's First, and You're Next EP
Monty Python: Monty Python's Flying Circus (reissue)
Nodzzz: True To Life (vinyl)
The Noisettes: Never Forget You/Saturday Night (vinyl)
Nurses: Apple's Acre (vinyl)
Oasis: Be Here Now (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: Definitely Maybe (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: Don't Believe the Truth (vinyl reissue)
Oasis: Heathen Chemistry (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: The Masterplan (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2-LP vinyl reissue)
Oasis: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (2-LP vinyl reissue)
The Ocean: Fluxion
Owen: Split EP
Pansonic/Haino Keiji: Shall I Download A Blackhole and Offer It To You
Pictureplane: Dark Rift
Plastiscines: About Love
Robert Wyatt: Box Set (8-CD box set)
Sian Alice Group: Troubled, Shaken etc. (vinyl)
Solillaquists Of Sound: No More Heroes
Soul-Junk: 1960
Sunn 0))): Che/13 Crosses 16, Blazin Skulls/Goodbye Darling (vinyl)
thecocknbullkid: Querelle EP
Throw Me The Statue: Creaturesque (vinyl)
The Twang: Jewellery Quarter
The Used: In Love And Death (vinyl reissue)
Various Artists: An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008 (4-CD box set)
Various Artists: Horse Meat Disco
Walter Trout: Unspoiled by Progress
Watermelon Slim & The Workers: Escape from the Chicken Coop
We Were Promised Jetpacks: These Four Walls (vinyl)
Wild Beasts: Two Dancers
YACHT: See Mystery Lights
Yim Yames: Tribute To EP (vinyl)
The Young Accuser: Unsound (vinyl)
