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February 06, 2007
New Album Releases, 2-6-2007: Rickie Lee Jones, Fall Out Boy, Patty Griffin There's a little for everyone in this week's new album releases.
The top pick for cool people this week is Rickie Lee Jones, with her new Sermon on Exposition Boulevard. It sounds like our sister has took a sharp left turn with this batch of Christian messages that she has described as being influenced by the Velvet Underground. It sounds exceptionally freaky. Note that for about an extra $1.50, the deluxe 2 disc version includes a 40 minute DVD on the making of the album, and an SACD mix of the album.
Folks what dig smart chicks could also get up on some Patty Griffin. I wouldn't have thought that she was a big deal commercially, but Children Running Through is currently #4 at Amazon.
Little girls and Mark Foley get a new Fall Out Boy album, Infinity on High.
Finally, masochists and fans of truth in advertising might take an interest in the Yoko Ono album called Yes, I'm a Witch. This appears to involve not just re-mixing but re-arranging vintage Yoko. Among those attempting to make silk purses here are such luminaries as Hank Shocklee and the Flaming Lips.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new releases, courtesy AMG:
The Apples in Stereo New Magnetic Wonder Yep Roc Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Rock
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City Vice/Atlantic Indie Rock
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High Island Alternative Pop/Rock, Emo, Punk-Pop
Patty Griffin Children Running Through Ato Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop
Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block [US Bonus CD] Almost Gold Recordings Indie Rock, Swedish Pop/Rock
Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go Sonic Unyon Indie Rock
Daníel Agust Swallowed a Star One Little Indian Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Rock
Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Me Desperation Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Bayside The Walking Wounded Victory Emo, Punk-Pop
Duster Bennett Complete Blue Horizon Sessions Blue Horizon British Blues, Blues-Rock, R&B
Jason Michael Carroll Waitin' in the Country Arista Nashville Contemporary Country
The Cat Empire Two Shoes Virgin Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Ska Revival, Reggae-Pop
Chicken Shack Complete Blue Horizon Sessions Blue Horizon British Blues, Blues-Rock
Alan Curtis Handel: Fernando Virgin Baroque Opera
Deerhunter Cryptograms Kranky Indie Rock
The Doobie Brothers The Very Best of the Doobie Brothers Wea Album Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Boogie Rock, Pop/Rock, Soft Rock
Champion Jack Dupree Complete Blue Horizon Sessions Blue Horizon New Orleans Blues, Piano Blues, New Orleans R&B, R&B, Chicago Blues, Acoustic Chicago Blues
Joe Ely Happy Songs from Rattlesnake Gulch Rack 'Em Americana, Progressive Country, Singer/Songwriter
Maynard Ferguson On a High Note: Best of the Concord Jazz Recordings Concord Jazz Modern Big Band, Standards
Mick Harvey Motion Picture Music 1994-2005 Mute Spy Music, Movie Themes, Original Score, Film Music, TV Soundtracks
Impious Holy Murder Masquerade Metal Blade Scandinavian Metal, Death Metal/Black Metal, Thrash
Rickie Lee Jones Sermon on Exposition Boulevard New West Folk-Rock, Garage Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Rock & Roll
Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Phantom Punch Astralwerks Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Lifetime Lifetime Fueled By Ramen Hardcore Punk, Emo, Punk Revival
Richard Lloyd Field of Fire [Deluxe] Reaction/Parasol Hard Rock
Loney, Dear Loney, Noir Sub Pop Swedish Pop/Rock, Indie Pop
Love Arcade Love Arcade Atlantic Punk-Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
George Michael Twenty Five Sony BMG Music/Aegean Dance-Pop, Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Urban
Mnemic Passenger Nuclear Blast Progressive Metal, Industrial Metal, Heavy Metal, Thrash
Yoko Ono Yes, I'm a Witch Astralwerks Experimental Rock, Experimental, Pop/Rock, Avant-Garde
Baiba Skride Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1; Janacek: Violin Concerto Sony Classics Modern Violin Concertos
Xue Fei Yang Romance de Amor EMI Guitar Masterworks
Over the Rhine Discount Fireworks Back Porch Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
The Postmarks The Postmarks Unfiltered Indie Pop
Public Enemy Fight the Power: Greatest Hits Live! Titan / Pyramid Golden Age, Political Rap, Hardcore Rap, East Coast Rap, Hip-Hop
Sarah Shannon City Morning Song Minty Fresh Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway [Bonus CD] Caldo Verde Dream Pop, Folk-Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Indie Pop
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul Barsuk Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Neo-Psychedelia, Alternative Country-Rock
Teddybears Soft Machine Big Beat/Atlantic Indie Electronic, Alternative Dance
Therion Gothic Kabbalah Nuclear Blast Power Metal, Scandinavian Metal, Neo-Classical Metal, Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal, Prog-Rock/Art Rock
Ashley Tisdale Headstrong Warner Bros. Teen Pop, Dance-Pop
Titan A Raining Sun of Light and Love Tee Pee Stoner Metal, Progressive Metal, Neo-Psychedelia
The Used Berth Reprise Post-Hardcore, Emo, Screamo
Various Artists Live from El Paso Pro-Musica Delos Chamber Works Featuring Cello
John Waters A Date with John Waters New Line Novelty, Obscuro, Pop/Rock
