This weeks releases
Well, I thought about maybe rambling about some of the items hitting US shores this week:
1. Natasha Bedingfield (sister to Daniel), whose slightly more squeeky-clean image compared to Pink, but who writes and sounds in some ways quite similar to Pink is getting the stateside release of Unwritten after being out in the UK for quite some time. The video for the lead track, These Words is different from the UK version (albeit an amusing concept involving busking on the beach and sentient boom-boxes), and the album itself has a different track order. Which is sad, because the one great track from the UK version, I'm a Bomb is left off the US release. My guess is that is will do modestly well, but not to the extent that it has elsewhere.
2. The ever pointless group from Biloxi, 3 Doors Down has a new dual-disc release in 17 Days (no relation to the Prince b-side I assume, since I doubt these idiots would know to cover anything that cool). After hearing Kryptonite I realized that these fellows should have followed a vocation more suited to their abilities, like gas-station attendants or golf-course lawn groomers.
3. Cooking Vinyl, a label which recently drew cool points for reissuing Killing Joke's Pandemonium and Democracy albums, will be releasing an acoustic live set by The Church, whose Gold Afternoon Fix album is still enjoyed by this writer here. Apparently it will also feature some new tracks, but no word on whether they are also acoustic or full studio.
4. Macy Gray is releasing a live album/DVD, and while I doubt it will revive her flagging fame, I am sure it will still be of the kind of quality (read: pretty good) I would expect from her. She is not the stuff of greatness, but she is a solid sounding songwriter and singer (limited as her voice is).
5. On the must have list is Charlie Hunter, Bobby Previte and DJ Logic putting out Longitude out on the Thirsty Ear label (which also released the sophomore Yohimbe Brothers album, The Tao Of Yo!, of which DJ Logic is also a member). That is an a-list trio folks. I do beleive another of Mr. Hunter's projects, the Garage a Trois group, also releases something right around now.
6. Another must have is Soft Dangerous Shores by Chris Whitley. Having in the last few years created a bevy of solid albums with contributions from people like the folks from Medeski Martin and Wood, and Dave Matthews (Whitley's Rocket House appeared on DM's boutique label not too long ago), will most likely stick to the stark, moody material he has been mining as of late.
7. In the must have...been stupid category, we have a new album by Babyface. Yes, Babyface. For a guy who must be pushing 40, I think a name change is due, especially if your new album is called Grown & Sexy. Maybe you need to retitle it Tired & Stupid.
1. Natasha Bedingfield (sister to Daniel), whose slightly more squeeky-clean image compared to Pink, but who writes and sounds in some ways quite similar to Pink is getting the stateside release of Unwritten after being out in the UK for quite some time. The video for the lead track, These Words is different from the UK version (albeit an amusing concept involving busking on the beach and sentient boom-boxes), and the album itself has a different track order. Which is sad, because the one great track from the UK version, I'm a Bomb is left off the US release. My guess is that is will do modestly well, but not to the extent that it has elsewhere.
2. The ever pointless group from Biloxi, 3 Doors Down has a new dual-disc release in 17 Days (no relation to the Prince b-side I assume, since I doubt these idiots would know to cover anything that cool). After hearing Kryptonite I realized that these fellows should have followed a vocation more suited to their abilities, like gas-station attendants or golf-course lawn groomers.
3. Cooking Vinyl, a label which recently drew cool points for reissuing Killing Joke's Pandemonium and Democracy albums, will be releasing an acoustic live set by The Church, whose Gold Afternoon Fix album is still enjoyed by this writer here. Apparently it will also feature some new tracks, but no word on whether they are also acoustic or full studio.
4. Macy Gray is releasing a live album/DVD, and while I doubt it will revive her flagging fame, I am sure it will still be of the kind of quality (read: pretty good) I would expect from her. She is not the stuff of greatness, but she is a solid sounding songwriter and singer (limited as her voice is).
5. On the must have list is Charlie Hunter, Bobby Previte and DJ Logic putting out Longitude out on the Thirsty Ear label (which also released the sophomore Yohimbe Brothers album, The Tao Of Yo!, of which DJ Logic is also a member). That is an a-list trio folks. I do beleive another of Mr. Hunter's projects, the Garage a Trois group, also releases something right around now.
6. Another must have is Soft Dangerous Shores by Chris Whitley. Having in the last few years created a bevy of solid albums with contributions from people like the folks from Medeski Martin and Wood, and Dave Matthews (Whitley's Rocket House appeared on DM's boutique label not too long ago), will most likely stick to the stark, moody material he has been mining as of late.
7. In the must have...been stupid category, we have a new album by Babyface. Yes, Babyface. For a guy who must be pushing 40, I think a name change is due, especially if your new album is called Grown & Sexy. Maybe you need to retitle it Tired & Stupid.
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