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Hello, I'm Alternative Press music editor Scott Heisel and welcome to the 12th installment of Positive Jams, your guide to the best (and the rest) of the week's new music as selected by yours truly. Let's get to it!
IF YOU BUY ONE THING TODAY, PLEASE LET IT BE:
Manchester Orchestra's Mean Everything To Nothing
THE SCOOP: As of right now, this is the best album of 2009. I don't even know what else to write about how incredible this record is anymore; please, just listen to it. (I can't stop, myself.)
CRUCIAL JAMS: "Shake It Off," "I've Got Friends," "In My Teeth," "I Can Feel A Hot One"
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), 
(digital)
GOT MORE CASH? SNAG THIS NEXT:
Art Brut's Art Brut Vs. Satan
THE SCOOP: Welcome back, Eddie Argos & Co.! Art Brut's brilliant first album, Bang Bang Rock 'N' Roll, seemed to be a flash in the pan after 2007's capital-B boring It's A Bit Complicated was its follow-up. Thankfully, the band rediscovered just why they're so good (punky songs, noodly riffs, clever, sardonic lyrics) and they delivered big time on this disc. It's still not as good as Bang Bang Rock 'N' Roll (but not much is), however it's a solid four stars all the way. Jason Pettigrew's going to hate what I'm about to write, but Art Brut are essentially the English version of the Hold Steady.
CRUCIAL JAMS: "DC Comics And Chocolate Milkshake," "The Replacements," "What A Rush," "Summer Job"
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)
SUPERGROUP, SUPERFLOP:
Tinted Windows' Tinted Windows
THE SCOOP: I won't lie: When I first heard about this supergroup, featuring Adam Schlesinger of Fountains Of Wayne on bass, James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins on guitar and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick on drums, I got really excited. Then I found out Taylor Hanson from Hanson was singing, but I was okay with it, since the experience of the three veterans would almost ensure this record would be a pop masterpiece. I was so, so, so wrong. Tinted Windows is a bizarre teen-pop cash-grab record, copping most of its sound from the Jonas Brothers back catalog. It's truly unfortunate that the immense amount of talent in this band would set the bar so low for themselves on this release.
CRUCIAL JAMS: Fountains Of Wayne's Welcome Interstate Managers and Cheap Trick's Live At Budokan double disc
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)
ALSO OUT TODAY: As Cities Burn's Hell Or High Water, Chimaira's The Infection, Depeche Mode's Sounds Of The Universe, Earth Crisis' To The Death, Meg And Dia's Here, Here And Here, The Photo Atlas' To Silently Provoke The Ghost EP, The Secret Handshake's My Name Up In Lights, Westbound Train's Come And Get It
What did you buy today? Leave a comment and tell us!
IF YOU BUY ONE THING TODAY, PLEASE LET IT BE:
Manchester Orchestra's Mean Everything To Nothing
THE SCOOP: As of right now, this is the best album of 2009. I don't even know what else to write about how incredible this record is anymore; please, just listen to it. (I can't stop, myself.)
CRUCIAL JAMS: "Shake It Off," "I've Got Friends," "In My Teeth," "I Can Feel A Hot One"
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)GOT MORE CASH? SNAG THIS NEXT:
Art Brut's Art Brut Vs. Satan
THE SCOOP: Welcome back, Eddie Argos & Co.! Art Brut's brilliant first album, Bang Bang Rock 'N' Roll, seemed to be a flash in the pan after 2007's capital-B boring It's A Bit Complicated was its follow-up. Thankfully, the band rediscovered just why they're so good (punky songs, noodly riffs, clever, sardonic lyrics) and they delivered big time on this disc. It's still not as good as Bang Bang Rock 'N' Roll (but not much is), however it's a solid four stars all the way. Jason Pettigrew's going to hate what I'm about to write, but Art Brut are essentially the English version of the Hold Steady.
CRUCIAL JAMS: "DC Comics And Chocolate Milkshake," "The Replacements," "What A Rush," "Summer Job"
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)SUPERGROUP, SUPERFLOP:
Tinted Windows' Tinted Windows
THE SCOOP: I won't lie: When I first heard about this supergroup, featuring Adam Schlesinger of Fountains Of Wayne on bass, James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins on guitar and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick on drums, I got really excited. Then I found out Taylor Hanson from Hanson was singing, but I was okay with it, since the experience of the three veterans would almost ensure this record would be a pop masterpiece. I was so, so, so wrong. Tinted Windows is a bizarre teen-pop cash-grab record, copping most of its sound from the Jonas Brothers back catalog. It's truly unfortunate that the immense amount of talent in this band would set the bar so low for themselves on this release.
CRUCIAL JAMS: Fountains Of Wayne's Welcome Interstate Managers and Cheap Trick's Live At Budokan double disc
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)ALSO OUT TODAY: As Cities Burn's Hell Or High Water, Chimaira's The Infection, Depeche Mode's Sounds Of The Universe, Earth Crisis' To The Death, Meg And Dia's Here, Here And Here, The Photo Atlas' To Silently Provoke The Ghost EP, The Secret Handshake's My Name Up In Lights, Westbound Train's Come And Get It
What did you buy today? Leave a comment and tell us!
Labels: art brut, manchester orchestra, tinted windows
3 Comments:
I bought Mean Everything to Nothing :)
Manchester Orchestra...one word for that album...HOLYFUCK!!! Though I honestly feel that the new Silversun Pickups record is just tttthhiiiissss much ahead for it for best shit ive heard in ages. What a time to be alive!!!
I am completely touched by WeLikeTheMoon62's comment, "What a time to be alive." It significantly nullifies the memory of the Art Brut = Hold Steady theory.
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