It's all been leading up to this week. After countless quiet Tuesdays of less-than-notable releases, the motherlode hits tomorrow. Brace yourselves because there's a metric shitton of records demanding your attention that are being released this week. You've been warned.
Probably one of our three most anticipated releases of the year (so far) along with Beach House's excellent Teen Dream and Band Of Horses' Infinite Arms in May. Frightened Rabbit's sophomore record, The Midnight Organ Fight was the best album of 2008 and worked in large part due to head Rabbit Scott Hutchison's fierce breakup anger that manifested itself in lines like, "It takes more than fucking someone you don't know to keep warm," or "Why won't our love keel over as it chokes on a bone." Judging by "Swim Until You Can't See Land" and "Nothing Like You," the vitriol is still in great supply, which can only be a good thing.
After rumors that 2005's Demon Days was to be Gorillaz's swan song, they return five years later with Plastic Beach. Lead single "Stylo" seems to suggest more of a late night vibe than their previous two records had. This will also be the first Gorillaz release without a top-flight producer at the helm as Dan The Automator and Danger Mouse were at the boards for albums one and two, respectively.
"Stylo" Video On YouTube
And speaking of Danger Mouse... his latest project (one of roughly 289 different collaborations he has running right now) with James Mercer of The Shins, called Broken Bells, drops their debut LP. Pretty much everything these two touch turns to gold lately so expectations are high for this one.
Other Releases:
New Young Pony Club/ The Optimist
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/ Beat The Devil's Tattoo
Pavement/ Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement
Zola Jesus/ Stridulum (EP)
Lemonade/ Pure Moods
Free Energy/ Stuck On Nothing
Liars/ Sisterworld
The Besnard Lakes/ The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Gonjasufi/ A Sufi And A Killer
Tanlines/ Settings (EP)
jj/ jj no3
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists/ The Brutalist Bricks
Jason Collett/ Rat A Tat Tat
Titus Andronicus/ The Monitor
The Morning Benders/ Big Echo
Four Year Strong/ Enemy Of The World
The Bundles/ The Bundles
Via Audio/ Animalore
DVDs
Granted, we've only seen 40% of the nominees for this year's Best Picture (The Hurt Locker? Really?) but this would have been our pick for last night's top prize. George Clooney shines as usual and Anna Kendrick gives a breakout performance. Highly recommended.
Mo'Nique, Oscar winner. Let that one sink in for a minute.
The sequel to a cult movie that no one realizes actually sucks. Gotta applaud the fan fervor that resulted in this film getting made but couldn't we spend that energy on a more deserving movie next time? Thanks in advance. Love, The Dirtywhirl
Everyone who bought a ticket to see this movie please go run into oncoming traffic. Watching Robin Williams in something like World's Greatest Dad is part of what makes garbage like Old Dogs so infuriating. That and the fact that we have a functioning brain.
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