The Age of Adz will be out 10/12 on Asthmatic Kitty.
Stevens’s excellent All Delighted People EP can be heard, for free, here.
Mount Eerie’s Song Islands Vol. 2
is out October 19 2010 on P.W. Elverum & Sun, ltd.
Tracklist (from pitchfork.com):
01 Where?
02 Calf in Pasture
03 The Intimacy
04 I Whale
05 O My Heart
06 Instrumental
07 Where Is My Tarp?
08 Don’t Smoke
09 Get Off the Internet
10 Cooking
11 Give Totally Up
12 Do Not Be Afraid
13 Voice in Headphones (singers)
14 Cold Mountain
15 Cold Mountain’s Song #286
16 Heart Lake at Night
17 You Turn Me On
18 A Sentimental Song
19 Mystery Language
20 Waterfalls
21 This Is the Same Ocean
22 In the Rain
23 In Moonlight
24 Thanksgiving
25 Instrumental
26 Uncertainty
27 Limp Climbing
28 Grave Robbers
29 Lost Wisdom
30 (Wind Lyrics)
31 Small House
I’m excited (because I’m too poor to purchase these songs separately, but this I can swing).
Let Go, by Isaac Tayrien
Produced by Isaac Tayrien and Blake Cooper
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Blake CooperCopies will be available “next week-ish” via www.myspace.com/acacello
Listen:
Identity Theft (feat. The Instruments Band)
Wayfaring Stranger
Expo 86, by Wolf Parade
Out this summer on Sub Pop.
As someone who didn’t think this record would get made… I’m excited.
Four years after its release, Andrew W.K.’s “Close Calls With Brick Walls” is getting a US relase!
According to Pitchfork, Andrew W.K.’s 2006 Close Calls With Brick Walls is finally being released in the U.S. The album will be available, with a bonus disc, on February 23rd.
Since Close Calls is the album I always cite in my ongoing argument versus everyone re: the legitimacy of Andrew W.K., I’m understandably excited. Not only does this record mark the first measurable growth in his career (his music career, mind you; I’m not talking about his television career, motivational speaking, NYC club entrepreneurship, etc.), but it’s exponential. Yes, there are hard-hitting, hyper-positive party jams (“You Will Remember Tonight”), but there are also loads of oddities, from the (allegedly) drugged-out “Pushing Drugs”, to the album’s closing track, “The Moving Room,” which sounds like Born To Run-era Bruce Springsteen.
My two hopes for this release are that: (A) they do a better mix, because the international version of the record I have lacks the pumping immediacy and decidedly American amount of compression of his U.S. releases. Plus, I’m hoping the bonus disc will contain the four ridiculous (in a good way) tracks on the Korean limited-edition release, because hearing the Broadway-fueled absurdity of “This is My World” or the nonsensical “I Want Your Face” again will be phenomenal.
Everyone should buy this. And, if you happen to live in the NYC area, you should definitely attend Andrew’s town hall meeting about the record on 23rd at Santos Party House, the club that he co-founded (and, I’m assuming, got to name).
