Another Trip To The Boom
Today I used one of my gift certificates to pick up three new CDs from the Sonic Boom:
- Fiery Furnaces - EP - I'm hoping that this will turn out to be as good as Blueberry Boat, but I can already recommend it based on hearing the extended version of "Single Again", "Here Comes the Summer", and the reworked "Tropical Ice-Land". It's also worth checking out the Pitchfork review which is quite funny.
- Magnolia Electric Company - Trials and Errors - Limited to 10,000 copies, this is a live CD recorded in Brussels in 2003. It features three old songs from Songs:Ohia as well as a bunch of new stuff from Jason Molina. I picked it up after listening to a few of the tracks on one of the listening machines in the store. The songs I heard reminded me a lot of Neil Young, so I figured it would be worth checking out. It looks like Secretly Canadian has a couple of tracks from the CD available as MP3 downloads on their site.
- Lyrics Born - Later That Day - This was released awhile ago, but I never got around to picking up a copy. I first heard of Lyrics Born from his work with Blackalicious, but he is better known as half of Latyrx. Mostly I bought this for "Callin' Out" which is a fun song that they often feature on KEXP (on the live version he even gives a shout out to his Seattle crew).
Random side note: while looking on the Secretly Canadian site, I saw that Damien Jurado has a new CD scheduled for release on April 5th. Woo Hoo!
1 Comments:
Thanks for the heads up. I do in fact have the new Saul Williams and agree that it's quite good, although I have to say I liked his first album Amethyst Rock Star a lot more.
Wasn't Zack DeLaRocha supposed to have a solo album coming out at some point? It seems like it's been in the works for like 5 years now.
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