more awesome CDs.

I don't want to go to bed yet, so I'm going to discuss a few CDs we've gotten lately that are totally awesome*:

(or at least a little awesome):

Oxbow's Love That's Last: a psychodrama filtering in and out of your transom at lo-fi, psychedelic and epic proportions--sometimes all at once, but usually split up. "Insylum" is by far the best song.

Grizzly Bear's Sorry For the Delay: totally lo-fi, moody bedroom recordings. I don't really know that much about the band, but we're working on that...

Thee More Shallows' Monkey Vs. Shark: emo Lou Reed would be a little too innacurate. Maybe emo Yo La Tengo? (worst album name ever, however)

Release the Bats (A 31G Tribute to The Birthday Party): um, Year Future, Cattle Decapitation, Get Hustle, Celebration, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, Ex Models, Some Girls, Kill Me Tomorrow, Das Oath, Melt Banana...have you had enough?

Islands' Return to the Sea: Two of the Unicorns return for some collective country-ish fun with Busdriver and Subtitle. mmm...

Home's Sexteen: Somebody's been listening to uncle Jason's They Might Be Giants collection...and smoking weed.

Voices and Organs' Orphanage: Pastiche-y absurdly created dreamscape recordings with pretty, distorted vocals. That's pretty and distorted. Not pretty distorted.

Chas. Mtn.'s Hugs: Intense, hypnotic folk. They're really, really good.

Magik Markers' A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand: Sure it's noise, and I'm not the biggest noise fan. But I love Elisa Ambrogio's vocals.


*It must be noted that this high concentration of awesome comes with bad news: The new Dresden Dolls is actually worse than I expected it'd be. Also, given this amount of good stuff, I'm anticipating a very large drought later this year. But maybe not.

We also got a CD by a psycho named Angel Corpus Christi who released an entire album of Lou Reed covers and covers of songs about/dedicated to Lou. It scares me.