Albums, albums, everywhere I turn all I find is albums…
Let’s consumer guide em and see where that gets us…
Your Future Our Clutter – The Fall
Timeless industrial rock with ill tempered Mancunian spitting and syllabelling. The North did rise again. But that was our clutter. Grade: B+
Burrrprint 2 (HD)
Gucci Mane – Some taped in prison, some taped before, some well wishers, some speaking, some great great great songs. No it ain’t Burrrprint I, it ain’t Blueprint 3 either. Grade: A-
Heaven is Whenever – The Hold Steady
Sinks towards the end and some of the slower stuff is heretical but the soft center still finds Chris Finn wondering at when Chruch and State of relationships come together, A little bit wiser and deeper in debt. Grade A-
What We Lose In the Fire, We Gain In The Flood – The Mynabirds
Holds together but not thematicly and when the songs slack, not often in this shortish album worth of faux-soul. But who is the audience except rock crits, bloggers, and advertising men? Grade: A-
Treats – Sleigh Bell
The girl can sing, the boy can program and shred when nessary and they both write real good songs sometimes dance and sometimes pop. Grade: A
Feats of Strength – Titus Andronicus
There was no reason not to include “Waking Up Drunk” , wouldn’t have minded some of that Whitney debacle on tape, or the Vice gig, but that’s nitpipping. WTF THIS INCLUDES A SONG BY SEIZING ELIAN (pre-Titus Stickles). And it’s free. Grade: A
All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu – Rufus Wainwright
The sonnets I can do without and the opera an acquired taste but the songs about his mother’s battle with cancer are completely devastating and brilliant. Grade: A-
Storage – Wesley Wolfe
A Marshall Crenshaw for another era: a pop sophisticate with a scruffs valor. And sales? Like I said, it’s another era. Grade: A