I was wondering what everyone favorite albums were that just recently came out, I was thinking of picking up a couple like The Killers and The Mars Volta. What are your favorite recent albums?
Blueberry Boat by the Fiery Furnaces and Funeral by Arcade Fire. The first takes a little patience because it's extremely ambitious. Long songs that take several complete turns in directions, but very rewarding if you soak it all in. The second got a ton of album of the year type press and is very good. The main singer has a touch of David Byrne in his voice, and the songs are emotionally charged.
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Both are great.
Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart (The) Game - The Documentary Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak _________ I've been meaning to DL Bright Eyes and I keep forgetting that Mars Volta has new stuff out ~ think i'll go ahead and take care of that now...
some girl completely ruined Bright Eyes for me by forcing me to listen to it/singing it to me @ extreme volume now that I ripped my ears off I think you're hot... yeah
Wow, seriously, I have never heard of any of the albums mentioned in this thread up to this point. Right now I'm listening these that came out fairly recently: Dio - Master of the Moon Black Label Society - Hangover Music Volume 1 Jon Oliva's Pain - Tage Mahal
i like the firey furnaces - blueberry boat too. i dont think its for mass consumption though. its really wierd and prog-rocky. very oddball lyrics. that new mercury rev album sucks ass. they used to rule and now they do too much heroin and their music blows.
i can't stop listening to wide awake. didn't really love it at first as i bought the matt sweeney/bonnie prince billy album (superwolf) and found it more earnest and mature. the bright eyes disc suffered a bit by comparison. well, i changed my mind. i threw it on for the first time in more than a week and i got it- it hit me just right, great songwriting, great melodies. thinking about buying digital ash next.
The Arcade Fire-Funeral They put on a bang of a show at Emos (Austin) a few weeks ago...very talented band but maybe not for everyone. Two of the dudes grew up in the Woodlands before moving to Canada The Black Keys-Rubber Factory Trash-can blues from the industrial heart of Ohio. This album will please just about everyone MF Doom-Mm...Food. Maybe the MC blessed with the most wit in recent memory. This album is a recreation of many past works but remains fresh even to long time Doom fans. This ain't bravado or bling rap Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place Lookin' for an album to fit in the background as the cookies pile up? This is it...
Recent as of 2 years ago, The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic IS one of the best punk/powerpop albums in the past 20 years. Too bad 3/4 of the band died in a van accident.
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones News of the World - Queen The Who Sell Out - The Who Revolver - The Beatles
Low - The Great Destroyer The Postal Service - Give Up Interpol - Antics (Not as good as their first one, but really picks up steam midway through.)
Green Day - American Idiot Velvet Revolver - Contraband Ludacris - The Red Light District Most wanted: 50 Cent - The Massacre
