A few of these releases kind of snuck up on me. Or completely caught me off guard. I didn’t even know Lovedrug, Bloc Party and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez were working on new albums. And a Rodrigo y Gabriela live album? Yes please!

And all the releases I’ve already heard aren’t impressing me (yet): Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Emery and Ruth. I’m especially hoping Cardinology grows on me, because I have a big fat Ryan Adams man-crush.

Other stuff I’ll probably check out: Jesse Malin, Crystal Stilts, Deerhunter, Snow Patrol and — to prevent the wrath of Sean and Blake — Starflyer 59.

:: Abigail Williams , In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns (Candlelight)

:: Akimbo, Jersey Shores (Neurot)

:: Arthur Russell, Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika)

:: Beneath The Massacre, Dystopia (Prosthetic)

:: Bloc Party, Intimacy (Atlantic) [full album stream]

:: Burning The Masses, Mind Control (Mediaskare)

:: caUSE co-MOTION!, It’s Time! (Slumberland)

:: Cobra Verde, Haven’t Slept All Year (Scat)

:: Crystal Stilts, Alight of Night (Slumberland)

:: The Cure, 4:13 Dream (Suretone/Geffen)

:: Cynic, Traced In Air (Season of Mist)

:: Darling Downs, From One to Another (Carrot Top)

:: David Benoit, Jazz For Peanuts - Charlie Brown TV Themes (Peak)

:: Deerhunter, Microcastle (Kranky)

:: DJ Babu, Duck Season 3 (Nature Sounds)

:: Dog Fashion Disco, Beating A Dead Horse To Death… Again (Rotten)

:: Dreamend, The Long Forgotten Friend (Graveface)

:: Eagles of Death Metal, Heart On (Downtown) [full album stream]

:: Emery, While Broken Hearts Prevail EP (Tooth & Nail)

:: Exodus, Let There Be Blood (Nuclear Blast)

:: Fear Before, Fear Before (Equal Vision)

:: Fight Bite, Emerald Eyes (self-released)

:: Fredrik, Na Na Ni (Kora)

:: Funeral For A Friend, Memory And Humanity (Victory)

:: I Am Robot and Proud, Uphill City (Darla)

:: It’s a Musical, Music Makes Me Sick (Morr Music) [full album stream]

:: Jesse Malin, On Your Sleeve (One Little Indian) [full album stream]

:: John Legend, Evolver (Sony) [full album stream]

:: Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash’s America (Sony Legacy)

:: Juliette Commagere, Queens Die Proudly (Aeronaut)

:: Kaiser Chiefs, Off With Their Heads (Motown)

:: KaiserCartel, Okay…and Other Things We Feel EP (Bluhammock)

:: Langhorne Slim, When the Sun’s Gone Down (Narnack)

:: Loreena McKennitt, A Midwinter Night’s Dream (Quinlan Road)

:: Lovedrug, The Sucker Punch Show (Militia)

:: Manual, Confluence (Darla)

:: Marillion, Vol. 1-Happiness Is the Road: Essence (Racket)

:: Marillion, Vol. 2-Happiness Is the Road: the Hard Shoulder (Racket)

:: Marykate O’Neil, mkULTRA (71)

:: Matthew and the Arrogant Sea, Family Family Family Meets the Magic Christian (Nova Posta Vinyl)

:: Matthew Dear, Body Language Vol. 7 (Get Physical)

:: Matthew Herbert Big Band, There’s Me and There’s You (!K7)

:: Metallica, And Justice For All vinyl reissue (Warner)

:: O’Death, Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin (Kemado) [full album stream]

:: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus (Infrasonic)

:: Pink, Funhouse (La Face) [full album stream]

:: Red Eyed Legends, Wake Up, Legend (File 13)

:: Red Snapper, Pale Blue Dot (Lo)

:: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Live in Japan (ATO)

:: Ruth, Anorak (Tooth & Nail)

:: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Cardinology (Lost Highway)

:: School of Seven Bells, Alpinisms (Ghostly International)

:: SCSI-9, Easy as Down (Kompakt)

:: Snow Patrol, A Hundred Million Suns (Geffen)

:: Squarepusher, Just a Souvenir (Warp)

:: Starflyer 59, Dial M (Tooth & Nail)

:: Susan Tedeschi, Back To The River (Verve Forecast)

:: The Twang, Love It When I Feel Like This (Arena Rock)

:: Those Poor Bastards, Satan is Watching (Tribulation)

:: Tom Gabel Aga, Heart Burns EP (Reprise)

:: Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power and the Amorphous Strums, Dark Developments (Orange Twin)

Did I miss anything important? Post it in the comments, dudes and dudettes.

6 Responses to “New Releases: Starflyer 59, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Lovedrug”

1. On 10/28/08 10:21 AM, tAlex said:

   

   Looks like maybe just the Lovedrug album for me. I need more new music.

2. On 10/28/08 10:51 AM, magnumforce2006 said:

   

   *Traced IN Air

   

3. On 10/28/08 11:20 AM, Jay DiNitto said:

   

   Brutal Truth - some live album

   But, Cynic FTW. Although, I heard somewhere the release was delayed?

4. On 10/28/08 12:23 PM, Jordan said:

   

   The new Emery is their best so far. I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed The Question but wanted more intensity.

   that sounded really lame… uh yeah just check it out if you have a few extra bucks laying around. now that gas is about to drop below $2.00 per gallon that should mean all of us.

5. On 10/28/08 12:49 PM, rojas said:

   

   Rodrigo y Gabriela, Live in Japan (ATO)

   Definitely on my list..RodandGab are amazing live.

6. On 10/28/08 1:28 PM, Jay DiNitto said:

   

   “Rodrigo (Sanchez) and Gabriela (Quintero) are two fast-fingered, Dublin-based, Mexicans”

   *head essplodez*

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