Akira Sakata & Jim O’Rourke with Chikamorachi & Merzbow – Flying Basket
Alabama – Southern Drawl
Atreyu- Long Live
Baio . The Names [Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio]
Battles – La Di Da Di
Blessthefall – To Those Left Behind
Bob Moses – Days Gone By
Chris Cornell – Higher Truth
CocoRosie – Heartache City
Crossfaith – Xeno
Darlene Love – Introducing Darlene Love
Darwin Deez – Double Down
Dave Rawlings Machine – Nashville Obsolete
David Gilmour – Rattle That Lock
Destruction Unit – Negative Feedback Resistor
Glen Hansard – Didn’t He Ramble
Keith Richards – Crosseyed Heart
Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon
Le Butcherettes – A Raw Youth
Lil Simz – A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons
Lucero – All A Man Should Do
Mac Miller – Good A.M.
Malevolent Creation – Dead Man’s Path
Mercury Rev – The Light In You
Metal Allegiance – Metal Allegiance [Mark Menghi, Alex Skolnick, Dave Ellefson & Mike Portnoy]
Metric – Pagans In Vega
Motion City Soundtrack – Panic Stations
Nicolas Godin – Counterpoint [Of Air]
Ought – Sun Coming Down
Phases – For Life
Robert DeLong – In The Cards
Robert Forster – Songs To Play [Of The Go-Betweens]
Rudimental – We The Generation
Skylar Spence- Prom King
Sporting Life – 55 5’s
Steven A. Clark – The Lonely Roller
Swim Deep – Mothers
Synkro – Changes
Telekinesis – Ad Infinitum
TesseracT – Polaris
The Black Dahlia Murder – Abysmal
The Front Bottoms – Back On Top
The Kickback – Sorry All Over The Place
XXI – Inside Out
Comment: A big week though I can’t see that one huge album, Of the big ones I am not impressed with, put Keith Richards at the top of the list and then add Chris Cornell, Mac Miller, Metric, The Front Bottoms who are emerging into one of the biggest disappointments, then moved to the maybes with Lana Del Rey, Motion City Soundtrack, Mercury Rev, Robert Forster, David Gilmour and Lucero. Finally, the battle for most intimating, intimate, and anticipated album of next week… no not Robert Delong or Darlene Love but RUDIMENTAL!!! If only because it includes one of Bobby Womack’s last vocals. And not only because of that either.