What I’m Listening To – May 2010
The much anticipated, new Band of Horses album came out in May. Seeing them in concert at the end of April and hearing songs on their website made me even more excited for the release. I ended up getting the album about a week and a half early when their promotion company sent it to a friend at the station (YAY!). Also in May I was still playing catch-up from the CD drive debacle; which worked out well since I missed 6 weeks of my radio show working a temp job and wasn’t burning new music.
Band of Horses – Infinite Arms These boys would have to put out something pretty crappy for me not to like it. Although Infinite Arms was very different from their first two albums, I still loved it. This album is more poppy and country then the first two, but still has the original Band of Horses feel.
Phantogram – Eyelid Movies The lead singer in Phantogram sounds a lot like Karen O, but it doesn’t sound like a Yeah Yeah Yeah record. Electronic rock, not bad.
Quasi – American Gong Another Quasi record that sounds just like every other Quasi record. I know that sounds mean, but they aren’t bad so doing the same thing over and over hasn’t really hurt them. The lead singer has an intriguing voice and they are fun.
Rouge Wave – Permalight For some reason this is the first Rouge Wave album I’ve heard, even though it’s their fourth. Some songs are really poppy and danceable, while other are more mellow. Zach Rouge has an great voice, sometimes sounding like Jason Lytle.
Surfer Blood – Astro Coast Unfortunately when it came time to write this post, I couldn’t recall a single Surfer Blood song I had heard this month. I guess I burned the CD since they are a Florida band. They are alright, but it’s only the first album. We’ll see how they progress.
Field Music – Measure This album is quite long with 20 songs lasting 67 minutes. Again not one song stuck out for me. I just don’t have time these days for long albums with mediocre songs. It’s one of those albums that you wouldn’t mind hearing on shuffle with other albums, but all together it’s a little boring.
The Bird & The Bee – Interpreting the Masters Vol 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates The Bird & The Bee covering Hall & Oates songs. I don’t have much else to say about this album. If you’ve heard The Bird & The Bee, you know why.
Xiu Xiu – Dear God I Hate Myself How could I not burn an album by that name? But dear God I hated this album! I don’t like to be overly mean so I’ll just leave it at that.
