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Hello, I'm Alternative Press music editor Scott Heisel and welcome to the 11th 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:
Metric's Fantasies
THE SCOOP: Up until this disc, I've never been a fan of Metric (it might have something to do with a former AP editor playing them incessantly and our office having paper-thin walls), but Fantasies has completely won me over. Gone are the brash, bratty moments on their previous full-lengths; instead, there's more dreamy keyboards, powerful vocals from Emily Haines and just the right amount of rocking out. I dig. I totally dig.
CRUCIAL JAMS: "Stadium Love," "Sick Muse," "Help I'm Alive," "Gimme Sympathy"
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), 
(digital)
GOT MORE CASH? SNAG THIS NEXT:
Silversun Pickups' Swoon
THE SCOOP: I enjoyed SP's first release, Carnavas, but it also had a weird habit of putting me to sleep whenever I played it -- partially due to its bloated runtime, partially due to frontman Brian Aubert's eerie falsetto vocals. Swoon still has plenty of the latter, but is definitely more focused; there's still plenty of room for soaring vocals, ethereal keyboard layers and some seriously chunky guitar riffs, but they're all reeled in ever so slightly from Carnavas's sprawl. Ironically, Swoon is only four minutes shorter than its predecessor, but you can totally tell.
CRUCIAL JAMS: "Panic Switch," "Catch And Release," "The Royal We," "There's No Secrets This Year"
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)
ANYONE CAN SEE THE ROAD THAT THEY WALK ON IS PAVED IN USED COPIES OF THEIR BREAKOUT ALBUM:
Fastball's Little White Lies
THE SCOOP: Yup, Fastball is still together. Yup, that Fastball, the "The Way" one. To put it into perspective, I bought just about every one-hit wonder in the alt-rock spectrum in the '90s, and even I avoided picking up a copy of All The Pain Money Can Buy. Plain White T's, if you're reading: This is your future. Invest wisely.
CRUCIAL JAMS: I'll take "the rapists" for $200, Alex.
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)
ALSO OUT TODAY: As I Lay Dying's This Is Who We Are DVD, Fact's Fact, I See Stars' 3D, Peelander-Z's P-Pop High School, Agoraphobic Nosebleed's Agorapocalypse, Graf Orlack's Destination Time Today, Farewell To Freeway's Only Time Will Tell, Catherine's Inside Out
What did you buy today? Leave a comment and tell us!
IF YOU BUY ONE THING TODAY, PLEASE LET IT BE:
Metric's Fantasies
THE SCOOP: Up until this disc, I've never been a fan of Metric (it might have something to do with a former AP editor playing them incessantly and our office having paper-thin walls), but Fantasies has completely won me over. Gone are the brash, bratty moments on their previous full-lengths; instead, there's more dreamy keyboards, powerful vocals from Emily Haines and just the right amount of rocking out. I dig. I totally dig.
CRUCIAL JAMS: "Stadium Love," "Sick Muse," "Help I'm Alive," "Gimme Sympathy"
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)GOT MORE CASH? SNAG THIS NEXT:
Silversun Pickups' Swoon
THE SCOOP: I enjoyed SP's first release, Carnavas, but it also had a weird habit of putting me to sleep whenever I played it -- partially due to its bloated runtime, partially due to frontman Brian Aubert's eerie falsetto vocals. Swoon still has plenty of the latter, but is definitely more focused; there's still plenty of room for soaring vocals, ethereal keyboard layers and some seriously chunky guitar riffs, but they're all reeled in ever so slightly from Carnavas's sprawl. Ironically, Swoon is only four minutes shorter than its predecessor, but you can totally tell.
CRUCIAL JAMS: "Panic Switch," "Catch And Release," "The Royal We," "There's No Secrets This Year"
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)ANYONE CAN SEE THE ROAD THAT THEY WALK ON IS PAVED IN USED COPIES OF THEIR BREAKOUT ALBUM:
Fastball's Little White Lies
THE SCOOP: Yup, Fastball is still together. Yup, that Fastball, the "The Way" one. To put it into perspective, I bought just about every one-hit wonder in the alt-rock spectrum in the '90s, and even I avoided picking up a copy of All The Pain Money Can Buy. Plain White T's, if you're reading: This is your future. Invest wisely.
CRUCIAL JAMS: I'll take "the rapists" for $200, Alex.
BUY IT NOW: Amazon
(physical), (digital)ALSO OUT TODAY: As I Lay Dying's This Is Who We Are DVD, Fact's Fact, I See Stars' 3D, Peelander-Z's P-Pop High School, Agoraphobic Nosebleed's Agorapocalypse, Graf Orlack's Destination Time Today, Farewell To Freeway's Only Time Will Tell, Catherine's Inside Out
What did you buy today? Leave a comment and tell us!
Labels: fastball, metric, silversun pickups
