If I didn't like them I wouldn't have bought the album would I? I'm a loyal fan of artists just like my sports teams but that doesn't mean I will accept substandard product and look the other way just because I'm a fan (like my opinion of the Pumpkins new album for instance). It's a better album than A Thousand Suns and honestly I find Burn It Down a very catchy tune but the overall vibe of the album is kind of depressing and syrupy outside of three or four songs. Personally I find nothing experimental about their new music (the first two albums were cutting edge) as Linkin Park is actually very savvy tailoring their music to what sells and rock really isn't selling so going pop makes sense financially.
Victimized isn't even really a song at more of just a minute and a half mash so I wouldn't call it a heavy song as outside of Chester screaming "Victimized" at the top of his lungs it's not a heavy instrumental. This does bring me to one positive though and that's the short length of the songs in general. This does make the album easier to listen to than say Oceania that drags out some of the slow material far longer than the songs merit.
Bottom line it that it's my opinion and it's perfectly fair as it's my opinion.
I completely agree, they have made some real radio friendly music and yeah, have gone to the pop side the last couple of albums. I really only had issue with you assuming they've "sold out" by going this route. I don't think that's a fair statement.
You weren't in on the production or the writing, you have no idea what there thought process was when writing their new album. You have your assumptions and in my opinion, those assumptions are pretty unfair.
You can come back and say, "how do you know they didn't", and you'd be right to a certain extent. All I have to go off of is their word and nothing they've said in interviews in the months leading to this release would lead me to believe they "sold out" as you put it.
Redd Kross is back and delivering their signature brand of genuine rock 'n' roll with a vengeance. On August 7, Merge Records will release Researching the Blues, the first new album from Redd Kross in 15 years.
Those familiar with the decades-spanning oeuvre of Bob Mould—from his pioneering early ’80s work with Hüsker Dü to his solo work in singer-songwriter, electronic, and rock modes, to the deafening pop sparkle of Sugar—might expect a new album bearing the title Silver Age to be a somber and reflective set in the mode of his last album, 2009’s Life and Times…and they’d be way off the mark.
Silver Age is an intense and concise ten song blast far more reminiscent of Bob’s latter-day Hüsker Dü output.
“I’d been batting around the idea of another aggressive pop record for some time,” Bob says, “especially as the 20th anniversary of Copper Blue kept getting closer." It’s no surprise, then, that Silver Age careens out of the speakers with a sense of exhilaration that reflects the excitement with which Bob and his live band cranked out the record in a tight whirlwind of a window in early 2012.
Sub Pop is pleased to share release details for Dum Dum Girls’ End of Daze EP, due out September 25th on CD, LP and digitally. The EP features the single “Lord Knows,” as well as the tracks “Mine Tonight,” “I Got Nothing,” Season in Hell," and a cover of Strawberry Switchblade’s “Trees and Flowers”. “Mine Tonight” and “I Got Nothing,” were written immediately following the Only In Dreams session and were recorded in New York City with Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes in February 2011, as was the Strawberry Switchblade cover of “Trees and Flowers”.
Dave Mathews Band will release "Away From the World" on September 11, 2012. Produced by Steve Lillywhite who did the first three studio albums. I'm looking forward to it, in fact, I already pre-ordered. Their last album was outstanding after a couple of disappointing efforts in a row.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
A ways back we shared the track “Burroughs” from Thurston Moore’s new group, Chelsea Light Moving, hinting at more tunes to follow. Here’s the second track from the group, “Groovy & Linda“
This magical new album from composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Mike Keneally is the highly anticipated result of a songwriting union between the famed rock experimentalist and legendary XTC tunesmith Andy Partridge.
Their collaboration produced eight new songs, combining Partridge’s innate sense of angular pop melody and beautifully intelligent poeticism with Keneally’s experimental bent and surrealist tendencies. For Partridge fanatics, the album will be a trove of rare new material from a songwriter who’s released precious little new work over the past decade. For Keneally enthusiasts, Wing Beat Fantastic represents his most melodic and pop-oriented release ever, while still maintaining the rich, detail-studded arrangements, love of sonic adventurism and superb musicianship for which he is renowned. More than any other Keneally album, Wing Beat Fantastic has an emotional resonance that engages the heart as adeptly as it does the mind.
Here's an incomplete list of the subjects dealt with on Passion Pit's second album, Gossamer: immigration, alcoholism, economic disparity, suicide, mental illness, drugs, domestic abuse. So when Michael Angelakos sings, "I'm so self-loathing that it's hard for me to see," that should come across like a tremendous understatement. But two lines later, he cries "no one believes me, no not a single thing." That part cuts deep, since Passion Pit's 2009 debut LP, Manners, was an often dark and troubled record a lot of people chose not to take seriously due to its sugar-smacked synth pop and countless product placements. So it's no wonder that Angelakos' next words are "my brain is racing and I'll feel like I'll explode!" Three difficult years in the making, Gossamer is an overwhelming album about being overwhelmed, a bold and ultimately stunning torrent of maximalist musical ideas, repressed anger, and unchecked anxiety.
Frank Zappa[Various reissues] The first dozen of what should eventually be 60 Zappa album reissues arrive this week: Freak Out (1966), Absolutely Free (1967), Lumpy Gravy (1968), We're Only In It For the Money (1968), Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968), Uncle Meat (1969), Hot Rats (1969), Brunt Weeny Sandwich (1970), Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970), Chunga's Revenge (1970), Filmore East, June 1971 (1971), and Just Another Band From L.A. (1972)
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Like many bands got a lot more press in Europe than N. America. Blur have some great material, well beyond their "2 hits". Damon Albarn doesn't seem to stop, even his success with Gorillaz has been pretty remarkable.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
Frank Zappa[Various reissues] The first dozen of what should eventually be 60 Zappa album reissues arrive this week: Freak Out (1966), Absolutely Free (1967), Lumpy Gravy (1968), We're Only In It For the Money (1968), Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968), Uncle Meat (1969), Hot Rats (1969), Brunt Weeny Sandwich (1970), Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970), Chunga's Revenge (1970), Filmore East, June 1971 (1971), and Just Another Band From L.A. (1972)
The man was prolific.
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I strongly recommend Storm Corrosion's self titled debut. Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) and Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) make sweet musical love to your face. And your ears. OK, mostly your ears.
It came out a couple months ago but I don't see it mentioned here.
Who knew the recent Sugar reissues were just leading up to Bob Mould totally reclaiming his former glory and ripping it up FU:EL style again? Who even thought that was possible? “The Descent” is the first track to be released from Mould’s forthcoming Silver Age, and it’s everything you want from a Bob Mould song: fast, heavy, sweeping, tight; all glide guitars and sweetly layered vocals and Elvis Costello hooks. I’m seriously going to listen to this thing a dozen times in the next hour. You should, too.
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I'm a loyal fan of artists just like my sports teams but that doesn't mean I will accept substandard product and look the other way just because I'm a fan (like my opinion of the Pumpkins new album for instance). It's a better album than A Thousand Suns and honestly I find Burn It Down a very catchy tune but the overall vibe of the album is kind of depressing and syrupy outside of three or four songs. Personally I find nothing experimental about their new music (the first two albums were cutting edge) as Linkin Park is actually very savvy tailoring their music to what sells and rock really isn't selling so going pop makes sense financially.
