September 14, 2010

New Releases: Weezer, Les Savy Fav, Of Montreal

Weezer has returned with an unfortunately titled and designed album.

Les Savy Fav has returned with more post-punk, beardy, large-guy-with-no-shirt goodness.

Of Montreal are back with more drugged-out dance pop.

Azure Ray and Superchunk have returned.

Bill Hicks has a box set. (RIP)

Brandon Flowers of The Killers has a solo piece.

DOOM has a new one that will inevitably be the chillest and most absurd hip-hop album of the year.

Dragonforce have a double album, which is the only way all their solos would fit.

Eluvium has a new EP.

And the great Robert Plant is back and ready to rock.

:: The Absence, Enemy Unbound (Metal Blade)

:: Aids Wolf, March To the Sea (Skin Graft)

:: Altar Eagle, Mechanical Gardens (Type)

:: Amusement Parks on Fire, Road Eyes (Filter)

:: Azure Ray, Drawing Down the Moon (Saddle Creek)

:: The Bad Plus, Never Stop (E1)

:: Bear in Heaven, Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes)

:: Beneath the Massacre, Marée Noire (Prosthetic)

:: Bilal, Airtight’s Revenge (Plug Research)

:: Bill Hicks, The Essential Collection CD/DVD box set (Rykodisc)

:: The Black Angles, Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon)

:: Black Mountain, Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar)

:: Blonde Redhead, Penny Sparkle (4AD)

:: Brandon Flowers, Flamingo (Island)

:: Buke & Gass, Riposte (Brassland)

:: The Chapin Sisters, Two (Lake Bottom)

:: The Charlatans UK, Who We Touch (The End)

:: Chilly Gonzalez, Ivory Tower (Arts & Crafts)

:: Chocolate Genius Incorporated, Swansongs (One Little Indian)

:: Chromeo, Business Casual (Atlantic)

:: Cloud Cult, Light Chasers (Earthology/The Rebel Group)

:: Crocodiles, Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)

:: Dawn of Ashes, Genocide Chapters (Metal Blade)

:: Death Angel, Relentless Retribution (Nuclear Blast)

:: Dirge Within, Eulogy (E1)

:: DOOM, Expektoration (Gold Dust)

:: Dragonforce, Twilight Dementia (Roadrunner)

:: The Drums, The Drums (Downtown)

:: Dungen, Skit I Allt (Mexican Summer)

:: El Guincho, Pop Negro (XL)

:: Electric Sunset, Electric Sunset (K)

:: Elf Power, Elf Power (Orange Twin)

:: Eluvium, Leaves Eclipse the Light EP (Temporary Residence)

:: Grinderman, Grinderman 2 (Anti-)

:: Infantree, Would Work (Vapor)

:: Islaja, Keraaminen Paa (Fonal)

:: J. Tillman, Singing Ax (Western Vinyl)

:: James, The Morning After The Night Before (Mercury)

:: Jen Wood, Finds You in Love (New Granada)

:: Jimmy Edgar, XXX (!K7)

:: Junip, Fields (Mute)

:: Justin Townes Earle, Harlem River Blues (Bloodshot)

:: Kim Richey, Wreck Your Wheels (Thirty One Tigers)

:: Les Savy Fav, Root for Ruin (Frenchkiss)

:: Linkin Park, A Thousand Suns (Warner Bros.)

:: Lonely Drifter Karen, Fall of Spring (Crammed Disc)

:: The Lonely Forest, Arrows (Trans)

:: Major Organ & the Adding Machine, Major Organ & the Adding Machine (Orange Twin)

:: Masters of Reality, Pine / Cross Dover (Mascot)

:: Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone (Anti-)

:: Megafaun, Heretofore (Hometapes)

:: Mice Parade, What It Means to Be Left-Handed (FatCat)

:: Michelle Branch, Everything Comes and Goes (Warner Bros.)

:: The Moondoggies, Tidelands (Hardly Art)

:: The Murdocks, The Distortionist

:: Oceansize, Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up (Superball Music)

:: Of Montreal, False Priest (Polyvinyl)

:: Olof Arnalds, Innundir Skinni (One Little Indian)

:: Prince Rama, Shadow Temple (Paw Tracks)

:: Restless People, Restless People (IAMSOUND)

:: Robert Plant, Band of Joy (Rounder)

:: Sara Radle, Four (Jeez Louise)

:: Screaming Females, Castle Talk (Don Giovanni)

:: Selene Vigil-Wilk, That Was Then (Tuck and Roll Music)

:: She Has a Fashion Vice, Stop Talking, Start Sweating (Static Age)

:: Steve Reich, Double Sextet/2×5 (Nonesuch)

:: Superchunk, Majesty Shredding (Merge)

:: Superpitcher, Kilimanjaro (Kompakt)

:: System Divide, The Conscious Sedation (Metal Blade)

:: Tamaryn, The Waves (Mexican Summer)

:: Teengirl Fantasy, 7AM (True Panther)

:: Terror, Keepers of the Faith (Century Media)

:: Tides of Man, Dreamhouse (Rise)

:: Trey Anastasio, Tab at the Tab (Red)

:: Underworld, Barking (Cooking Vinyl)

:: Valient Thorr, Stranger (Volcom)

:: The Vaselines, Sex With an X (Sub Pop)

:: The Walkmen, Lisbon (Fat Possum)

:: Weezer, Hurley (Epitaph)

:: Weird Weeds, Help Me Name Melody (Autobus)

:: Your Youth, Aloha (Gigantic Music)

Did I miss anything important? Post it in the comments!

8 Responses to “New Releases: Weezer, Les Savy Fav, Of Montreal”

  1. On 09/14/10 11:01 AM, sammy said:

    I listened to the new Weezer album and thought there were some pretty decent songs on it. They lyrics are just as ridiculous as they’ve always been (why does not one ever mention how ridiculous the lyrics on the Blue Album and Pinkerton are?).

    That new DOOM is a live album, so who knows if it’s actually him. I’m stoked about new Grinderman (get to see them in Memphis soon!), Dungen, Black Angels, and Black Mountain. Definitely wanna check out the new Superchunk, Junip, and Robert Plant.

  3. On 09/14/10 12:40 PM, travis j. lee said:

    @sammy: because tired of sex and getchoo, along with lines such as “i’m dumped she’s a lesbian, i thought she was the one. we where good as married in my mind, but married in my mind is no good” are pretty much the most profound words us men will ever hear.

  5. On 09/14/10 12:43 PM, travis j. lee said:

    also, the new les savy fav kills. i mean KILLS.

  7. On 09/14/10 1:06 PM, luke said:

    man, you got my hopes up. i thought it was a new doom cd, not a live one. either way i’m convinced he records his tracks laying down on a couch smoking a blunt half asleep.

  9. On 09/14/10 1:06 PM, Sean Cannon said:

    yeah, i was surprised that there were a couple of weezer songs that might be on par with green album quality stuff.

    and the les savy fav…totally kills.

  11. On 09/14/10 1:48 PM, Sean Cannon said:

    and don’t hold me to this, but i think it might also be because those early lyrics at least seemed to come from a more innocent place. after a certain time, rivers (who even seems to admit it in some songs) was writing ridiculous lyrics because he knew people would eat them up.

  13. On 09/14/10 4:03 PM, sammy said:

    I think it baffles me more that people bash his current lyrics. Some lyrics from the new album are pretty witty, however silly they may be. He delivers things in a very decent package. I mean, the whole part about KISS in “In the Garage” is super silly, but one of my favorite parts to sing along to.

  15. On 09/15/10 12:08 PM, Sergio Hernandez said:

    Blue and Pinkerton are awesome, everything else ranges from alright to downright horrid.

    Let’s not get things twisted.

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