I've resumed my 80 minute round-trip commute to work, so there's been plenty of time to test out some new music. Here's the best of the new:
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
I’m not ready to get on the “this is absolute best album of 2006” bandwagon quite yet, but Return to Cookie Mountain, a clear contender for one of the worst album names, should certainly find its place somewhere in the top ten best albums of the year. It’s multilayered, complex, intelligent and super-rad.
If I were to make you a mixed tape in a teenage attempt to woo you with my impossible coolness I would lead with: “Wolf Like Me”
Matt Nathanson – At the Point
I’ve appreciated Matt Nathanson for a while, but I guess never enough I buy an entire album. I’m now wondering if I should go back and get some of the back catalog because I have a crazy crush on this live performance. Matt Nathanson has figured out the magic formula for wooing women: sing plaintive songs all alone with your guitar and fill the spaces in between songs with very funny stories and self-deprecating comments. He must have to fight them off with a stick, I swear. The album is available on e-music, and although it’s 17 downloads, it’s worth getting the whole thing, even the dialogue tracks. You know, for the experience.
If I were to throw a small, intimate party and it was the tail-end of the evening and we wanted something to sing along to with our eyes closed I’d play: “More Than This”
Hotel Lights – Hotel Lights
I downloaded this album awhile ago, but forgot about it until recently. Although there are sunny-pop moments, as a whole Hotel Lights is a beautiful, wistful album. It helps to be in a certain mood to listen to it, but when I’m feeling melancholy it hits the spot.
If I were gazing out the window, lost in my own deep, deep thoughts, being all sad and shit, I’d play: “Stumblin’ Home Winter Blues”
Maritime – We, the Vehicles
Interweb tells me that this band was formed by former members of The Dismemberment Plan and Promise Ring. Interweb also tells me that their first album wasn’t very good. I don’t know of that, but We, the Vehicles is a very, very good indie-pop album.
If you and I were to steal a car, get in it and drive West, play the tape real loud and when the tape ends, get out and get into a fight, then get back into the car and then drive to the most prestigious club of all time – The Morrison Hotel, the song that we’d play between Doors songs would be: “Parade of Punk Rock T-Shirts”
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
I’m not ready to get on the “this is absolute best album of 2006” bandwagon quite yet, but Return to Cookie Mountain, a clear contender for one of the worst album names, should certainly find its place somewhere in the top ten best albums of the year. It’s multilayered, complex, intelligent and super-rad.
If I were to make you a mixed tape in a teenage attempt to woo you with my impossible coolness I would lead with: “Wolf Like Me”
Matt Nathanson – At the Point
I’ve appreciated Matt Nathanson for a while, but I guess never enough I buy an entire album. I’m now wondering if I should go back and get some of the back catalog because I have a crazy crush on this live performance. Matt Nathanson has figured out the magic formula for wooing women: sing plaintive songs all alone with your guitar and fill the spaces in between songs with very funny stories and self-deprecating comments. He must have to fight them off with a stick, I swear. The album is available on e-music, and although it’s 17 downloads, it’s worth getting the whole thing, even the dialogue tracks. You know, for the experience.
If I were to throw a small, intimate party and it was the tail-end of the evening and we wanted something to sing along to with our eyes closed I’d play: “More Than This”
Hotel Lights – Hotel Lights
I downloaded this album awhile ago, but forgot about it until recently. Although there are sunny-pop moments, as a whole Hotel Lights is a beautiful, wistful album. It helps to be in a certain mood to listen to it, but when I’m feeling melancholy it hits the spot.
If I were gazing out the window, lost in my own deep, deep thoughts, being all sad and shit, I’d play: “Stumblin’ Home Winter Blues”
Maritime – We, the Vehicles
Interweb tells me that this band was formed by former members of The Dismemberment Plan and Promise Ring. Interweb also tells me that their first album wasn’t very good. I don’t know of that, but We, the Vehicles is a very, very good indie-pop album.
If you and I were to steal a car, get in it and drive West, play the tape real loud and when the tape ends, get out and get into a fight, then get back into the car and then drive to the most prestigious club of all time – The Morrison Hotel, the song that we’d play between Doors songs would be: “Parade of Punk Rock T-Shirts”
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