New music today is featuring the sophomore full length from indie rockers Bishop Allen. The band made a name for themselves last year by releasing new music each month and have now released their first full album in 4 years.
This is the first full length album from the band since 2003’s Charm School.
The album is being released on Dead Oceans Records, a sister label to Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian Records.
The album plays like a greatest hits from their ambitious “EP A Month” project from 2006.
Here are some reviewers quotes about the new album.
” The strength of Bishop Allen’s songwriting lies in the band’s ability to imbue their songs with universal appeal.” - Popmatters
“While managing to side-step both preciousness and predictability, The Broken String pulls together the long-anticipated and full-fledged follow-up that fans deserve, at the same time aptly defining where Bishop Allen is now: all over the map.” - Prefix Magazine
“It really is great, striding confidently from one high point to the next, with expansive yet homemade-sounding folk-rock songs.” - The Onion
New Music focuses on an album recently added to the WOXY.com playlist, although the debut from Justice was added some time ago, I would like to focus in on it in a bit more detail today.
Justice is comprised of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, a French duo formed in 2004.
This debut disc was released overseas through Ed Banger’s label, and is on Vice here in the states.
Here are some reviewers quotes about the new album….
“Admirably random samples dug up from underground sources like ’70s Italian prog-rockers Goblin, combined with a reckless abandon and an adherence to melodic hooks, makes Cross one of the most interesting electro-crossovers since Ratatat” - All Music Guide
“At its core, Cross is loud, restless, and daring. A creative tour de force, Justice have unleashed an era-defining album for the children of acid house.” -Obeserver Music
“Cross is an album that applies a modern Big Beat aesthetic to an army of ‘80s keyboards. Because of this, the album never sounds dated, but always familiar.” - Popmatters
New music focuses in on an album recently added to the WOXY.com playlist, up next is a more detailed look at the new one from Tegan & Sara, titled The Con.
The new album was produced by Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla
Some guest instrumentalists include Kaki King, Weezer’s Matt Sharp and AFI’s Hunter Burgan
Here are some reviewers quotes about the new album…..
“Somehow The Con is even more obsessive sounding than Tegan and Sara’s earlier work, and it’s probably even better; it could well be one of the year’s best albums.” - New York Times
“Better than anything they’ve done to date.” - NOW Magazine
“The record’s most interesting bits–a keen sense of melody–disappear too quickly and can’t carry the album over its production bumps.” - Pitchfork
New music focuses on an album or EP recently added to the WOXY.com playlist. Today we focus in on the new EP from the NY band, Yeah Yeah Yeahs titled, Is Is.
The material for this new EP was written during the Fever To Tell tour.
Much of this material was debuted on the band’s 2004 DVD Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow.
Is Is was produced by Australian Nick Launay (who recorded Gang of Four, Killing Joke, and Public Image Ltd)
Here are some reviewers quotes about the new EP.
“Is Is may be their most instantly accessible release, which is not a critical dig but just a way of saying it finds a good balance between alienating and inviting, between song and performance.” - Pitchfork
“Is Is is over in eighteen minutes, not one is wasted.” - Stylus Magazine
“Is Is will especially appeal to fans who found “Show Your Bones” a little soft. On the other hand, this release should appeal to any and all Yeah Yeah Yeahs aficionados.” - Lost At Sea
New Music focuses in on an album recently added to the WOXY.com playlist, today we zero in on the new one from UNKLE, titled, War Stories.
This is the third full length album from the duo comprised of James Lavelle and Richard File
Collaborations on the album include Josh Homme from Queens Of The Stone Age, Ian Brown and The Duke Spirit.
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
“Some songs are intensely gripping, like the instrumental rave-up “Chemistry,” which drives along like Mogwai never happened. Others are plain weird.” - Onion AV Club
“The result is a stormy set of dark, synth-streaked psych-rock jams that carries a whiff of tomorrow while looking back to the stomping proto-metal of Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer.”- LA Times
“So, once again UNKLE have produced another good rather than great album that sounds ahead of the curve.” - Dot Music
New Music focuses on something just added to the WOXY.com playlist. Today the spotlight is on the new album from The Cribs titled, Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever.
This is the third full length album from the three brothers from Yorkshire.
This album is the first of the Cribs records to be produced by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand
Men’s Needs is also the major label debut for the band
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
“The Cribs have taken a different approach for their third album, Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever, opting for a bunch of songs that don’t hit you over the head, but, instead, worm their way into your heart with strong hooks and Ryan Jarman’s warm vocals.” - Newsday
“The production is clear and effective, marrying layers of droning, buzzing and stinging guitars to vocals that grow stronger as the album presses on, and lyrics that grow richer on repeated listening”- BBC
“This record improves on the band’s earlier work and might even score them a stateside breakthrough.” - Prefix Mag
New Music focuses on something just added to the WOXY.com playlist. Today the spotlight is on the new album from Ulrich Schnauss, Goodbye.
While not a farewell for Schnauss, Goodbye does mark the last in a trilogy of albums which also include Far Away Trains Passing By and A Strangely Isolated Place.
Rob McVey, the singer from Longview, appears on the song, “Shine.”
Schnauss may be better known for his more electronic works, but Goodbye sounds like more of a shoegazy effort than previous albums.
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
“throughout, Schnauss effectively creates his own little futuristic universe” - Village Voice
“Goodbye contains both the best and the worst of Schnauss’ output until now.” - Stylus
“Ulrich Schnauss returns with more lush, ambient music fitting for any chill-out session or long summer drive with the windows down.” - Billboard
New Music focuses on something just added to the WOXY.com playlist. Today the spotlight is on the new album from Editors, An End Has A Start, which is in stores today in the US.
This is the second full length album from the band Birmingham, England and follows up their debut album, The Back Room.
The band met studying Music Technology at Staffordshire University and officially formed and began playing together in 2004.
Lead singer Tom Smith on the new album “We’ve definitely moved on, it’s definitely not the same record again. It’s much more ambitious. We never felt like we were going through any kind of difficult second album nonsense. We never hit any wall of ‘we don’t have enough singles’ or ‘that sounds shit’. It was all very natural and easy-going.“
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
“An End Has A Start actually sounds like it was crafted as ten quite individual chapters of a long-running saga; surprisingly, though, it ultimately works better than its predecessor as a cohesive, flowing album. ” - Drowned In Sound
“they concoct a gentler, dreamier atmosphere with less apparent anxiety, and create a shadowy veil of sadness, shot through with hopeful transcendence.” - Uncut
“The songs get puffed and fluffed up but lose the wiry edge of “Munich,” burying Chris Urbanowicz’s guitar until it all sounds like Coldplay. Nice tunes, but louder, please.” - Rolling Stone
New Music focuses on something just added to the WOXY.com playlist. Today the spotlight is on the new album from Pharoahe Monch, Desire.
2nd full length album from the Queens born MC but the first since 1999’s Internal Affairs.
Monch’s sophomore release was held up due to the Rawkus/Geffen label debacle.
Desire includes collaborations with Erykah Badu, Dwele, and Tower Of Power and also has a cover of Public Enemy’s “Welcome To The Terrordome.”
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
“Monch combines several skill sets into a seamless package: A vivid narrative imagination and the control to bring it to life, a knack for dizzying extended metaphors and haymaker punchlines, and a complex moral sense.” - Pitchfork
New Music focuses on something just added to the WOXY.com playlist. Today the spotlight is on the new album from Page France, ….And The Family Telephone.
Third album for the quintet from Maryland. This marks their proper debut for the Suicide Squeeze label, who re-released their last CD Hello, Dear Wind.
Lead singer and songwriter Michael Nau has brushed aside assertions that Page France is a Christian band, saying that he is often unaware of any perceived religious symbolism in his lyrics until someone points it out. The band’s songs include a song titled “Jesus” from Hello, Dear Wind.
The band played two shows with Fields in NYC last weekend. They’ll hit the road for four weeks of dates starting June 14th at The Red & Black in Washington DC.
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
” Of course, like the fairy tales, Bible stories, and lullabies to which Telephone is clearly indebted, external sinister forces lurk just beyond the flower patches. Page France keep them at bay, partly with a miniature army of sunny guitars, glockenspiels, and the merry harmonies of Whitney McGraw, but also by motivating the more potent force of simple, blissful naivete.” - Pitchfork
“…And The Family Telephone is like hearing a joke you’re not really in on, or hearing your girlfriend say “Sore-y” for the umpteenth time. It was sweet at first but now it all seems somehow tainted.” - Stylus Magazine
“Page France creates using a whimsical musical palette; think dreamy and surreal shades of folk-pop, tied together with the string that is leader Michael Nau’s songwriting.” - Live Daily
