Three of the people in the picture above are dead. The past is so far away… no, you can’t touch it… sorry. Anyway, I took the boring bastards at Pitchfork’s summer releases, deleted what didn’t interest me, and posted it below. But before that…
1. Is it hypocrital to steal somebody’s material all the time and still hate em? I really can’t take Pitchfork. Maybe it’s jealousy but whatever is, I fucking loath their self-satisfaction
2. Also, what I hate about em you can’t see here, but what I hate about em as an editor is their musical choices, and as a writer their writing. Saxon commented, after I dismissed him for a naff Dylan Junior (ps if Jakob is so self-sufficient why didn’t he call himself Jakob Zimmerman?) opening line, “what’s worse a rock critic or a critic of a rock critic?” What’s worse is somebody who isn’t a writer first, last, and everything in between. Rock criticism, my rock criticism, is writing by other means.
Here is the list:
07-06
Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty [Def Jam]
Delphic: Acolyte [Dangerbird] [U.S. release — out now in UK]
Kelis: Flesh Tone [will.i.am Music Group/Interscope]
Kylie Minogue: Aphrodite [Astralwerks/EMI]
07-13
Admiral Radley: I Heart California [self-released]
Danger Mouse / Sparklehorse: Dark Night of the Soul [Capitol] [U.S. release]
M.I.A.: / / / Y / [N.E.E.T./Interscope]
Superchunk: “Digging for Something” b/w “February Punk” single [Merge]
Kula Shaker: Pilgrim’s Progress [Strange Folk]
07-20
All Saints Day: “It’ll Come Around” single [Art Fag]
Amanda Palmer: Amanda Palmer Plays the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele self-released]
Jeff the Brotherhood: “Mellow Out / Heavy Days” 7” [Suicide Squeeze Records]
Rick Ross: Teflon Don [Maybach Music Group / Def Jam]
07-27
Best Coast: Crazy for You [Mexican Summer]
Dean & Britta: 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests [Double Feature]
The Coral: Butterfly House [Deltasonic]
The Postelles: The Postelles [Astralwerks/Capitol]
08-03
Arcade Fire: The Suburbs [Merge] [U.S. release]
Bun B: Trill O.G. [Rap-A-Lot/Asylum]
Freddie Gibbs: Str8 Killa EP [Decon]
The Magic Numbers: The Runaway [Heavenly]
Squeeze: Spot the Difference [XOXO]
Versus: On the Ones and Threes [Merge]
08-10
Lee “Scratch” Perry: Revelation [Megawave/MVD Audio]
Yeasayer: “Madder Red” single [Secretly Canadian]
08-17
Chromeo: Business Casual [Atlantic]
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: Let It Sway [Polyvinyl]
T.I.: King Uncaged [Grand Hustle/Atlantic]
08-24
Eels: Tomorrow Morning [E Works]
Jenny Wilson: Hardships! [Gold Medal] [U.S. release, already out in Europe]
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard: Old Devils [Bloodshot
Mogwai: Burning OST/Special Moves [Rock Action]
Ra Ra Riot: The Orchard [Barsuk]
Royal Trux: Cats and Dogs [Drag City] [reissue]
Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin [Walt Disney]
Ciara: Basic Instinct [LaFace]
Fitz & the Tantrums: Pickin’ Up the Pieces [Dangerbird]
08-31
Brackles: Songs for Endless Cities [!K7 / Cool in the Pool]
Grinderman: “Heathen Child” single [Anti]
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition [Rounder] [reissue]
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: Legacy Edition [Rounder] [reissue]
Jenny and Johnny: I’m Having Fun Now [Warner Brothers]
Phil Selway: Familial [Nonesuch] [U.S. release]
Richard Thompson: Dream Attic [Shout! Factory]
SEPTEMBER
09-07
Interpol: Interpol [Matador]
09-14
Elf Power: Elf Power [Orange Twin]
Fucked Up: “Year of the Ox” single [Merge]
Robert Plant: Band of Joy [Rounder]
Mavis Staples: You Are Not Alone [Anti]
Superchunk: Majesty Shredding [Merge]
Superpitcher: Kilimanjaro [Kompakt]
The Vaselines: Sex With an X [Sub Pop]
Justin Townes Earle: Harlem River Blues [Bloodshot]
Brandon Flowers: Flamingo [Island]
Of Montreal: False Priest [Polyvinyl]
Scamels: Tempest [File 13]
09-27
Tricky: Mixed Race [Domino] [UK release]
10-05
Corin Tucker: TBD [Kill Rock Stars]
Weezer: Pinkerton: Deluxe Edition [Geffen/UMe] [reissue]
Mark Ronson and The Business Intl: Record Collection [RCA]
10-12
Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights [Secretly Canadian] [U.S. release]
10-19
Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology [Numero Group] [box set]
NOVEMBER
11-16
Stereolab: Not Music [Drag City]
Due some time in 2010:
Kanye West: Good Ass Job [Roc-A-Fella]
The Orchids: The Lost Star [Pebble]
Pull in Emergency: Pull in Emergency [Mute]
The Velvet Underground: The Quine Tapes [Sundazed] [LP box set]