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May 13, 2008
New CD Album Releases, 5-13-2008: Death Cab for Cutie, Foxy Brown I'm sure I'm missing something, but I don't see one damned thing in this week's new album releases that looks like much. The big release and current Amazon #1 CD is Narrow Stairs by Death Cab for Cutie. Can't blame a band that's doing good at selling records for continuing to make them, but I completely don't see the appeal of this group. I know I've heard them, and seen them on SNL, but I can't remember not one song nor lick of their music.
I've just dutifully listened to samples of every song from this new album, and it just doesn't sound like anything. Now, I can't really review an album that I haven't fully heard, but I didn't hear anything that would even vaguely approximate a hook. This just sounds like utterly generic mopey modern rock. Yuck.
Brooklyn's Don Diva is the latest from Foxy Brown. I'm not big on a lot of half-assed rap, but she made a permanent little spot in my pantheon with the classic "Letter to the Firm." On the one hand, she starts out here in the first track with sampled news audio about her being in jail. This gives her street cred and all. Pause while I roll my eyes. Still, the bits of this new album I've heard sound like this might be listenable at least once or twice. It's a lot more promising than Death Cab.
Here's the listing of this week's new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs Atlantic/WEA Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
Duffy Rockferry Mercury Neo-Soul, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Jason Mraz We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things Atlantic/WEA Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Pop/Rock
Old 97's Blame It on Gravity [Deluxe] New West Alternative Country-Rock, Americana, Pop Underground
Abysmal Dawn Programmed to Consume Relapse Death Metal/Black Metal, Heavy Metal
Botticellis Old Home Movies Antenna Farm Indie Pop, Chamber Pop
Cleo Brown Complete Recorded Works Document Swing, Boogie-Woogie, Stride, Jive
Foxy Brown Brooklyn's Don Diva Koch Hardcore Rap, East Coast Rap
Ryan Cabrera The Moon Under Water Papa Joe Pop/Rock
Arthur Conley More Sweet Soul Collectors' Choice Music Deep Soul, Southern Soul, Soul
Arthur Conley Soul Directions Collectors' Choice Music Deep Soul, Southern Soul, Soul
Robert Cray Live at the BBC Mercury Contemporary Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Soul-Blues
Dokken Lightning Strikes Again Rhino Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Dave Douglas & Keystone Moonshine Green Leaf Post-Bop
The Feeling Join with Us Island Pop Underground, Alternative Pop/Rock
Fretwork Birds on Fire: Jewish Music for Viols Harmoni Mundi Renaissance Chamber Music
Bill Frisell History, Mystery Nonesuch Chamber Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde, Modern Creative, Standards, Avant-Garde Jazz
Marc-Andre Hamelin In a State of Jazz Hyperion Jazz-Influenced Piano Music
Hesperion XX Estampies & Danses Royales [Hybrid SACD] Alia Vox Spain Medieval Vocal and Choral Music
Jools Holland Best of Friends [CD/DVD] WEA/Rhino Alternative Country-Rock, Country-Rock, Boogie-Woogie, Rock & Roll, Retro Swing, Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock
Lars Hollmer Viandra Cuneiform Avant-Prog, Classical Crossover, Experimental Rock, Modern Composition, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Neo-Classical
Iron Maiden Somewhere Back in Time: The Best of 1980-1989 Sony British Metal, Heavy Metal
Local H 12 Angry Months Shout! Factory Post-Grunge, Alternative Pop/Rock
Mason Proffit Come & Gone One Way Folk-Rock, Country-Rock
John Miles Zaragon Arista Album Rock, Soft Rock, Pop/Rock
Mink DeVille Where Angels Fear to Tread Collectors' Choice Music New York Punk, Rock & Roll, Roots Rock
Musica Pacifica Fire Beneath My Fingers Dorian Baroque Chamber Music
Xuefei Yang 40 Degrees North EMI Classics Modern and Contemporary Guitar Music
I've just dutifully listened to samples of every song from this new album, and it just doesn't sound like anything. Now, I can't really review an album that I haven't fully heard, but I didn't hear anything that would even vaguely approximate a hook. This just sounds like utterly generic mopey modern rock. Yuck. 
Foxy Brown
Dokken