I mentioned it before, but Titus Andronicus' album "The Monitor" has been popular with me on this project. The album seems to get flat somewhere around track 6, but that is still a half hour of guitar wreckage, good drums, and lyrics that range from Bruce Springsteen to Civil War anthems and speeches from Abe Lincoln and a quote from abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
You should definitely check it out if you like this first track.
Just loving the new She & Him album "Volume 2" today. Reminds me of a warm, southern California day and my parents' stereo lazily playing some classic 70's album.
It is only $4.99 on Amazon today. Thanks, David.
Wow, this band. Their new album comes out this week and I'm really liking it! I am so happy I'm finding music I really like. That was the point of this project and it's turning out nicely.
Here's their last album on Lala, I haven't listened to it but I'm assuming it's not much different:
I mentioned it earlier, but I acquired the unreleased Frightened Rabbit album that's due in March. One song is in almost constant rotation.
I'm still listening to those two Ted Leo songs. I played them for my wife and she said, "Is this Jawbreaker?!" and I said, "God I wish!" "Bottled In Cork" does get very Jets To Brazil at one point. Really loving these two songs right now.
Today I was listening to a band and it occurred to me: I have no freaking clue who this band is. Is it Radio Dept? Is it Frightened Rabbit? Is it Yeasayer? I had no idea.
I decided to get serious about the new Ted Leo and found two tracks ("The Mighty Sparrow", "Bottled In Cork") and I am very happy just playing those two on loop. I cannot wait until this album gets released.
Hey, I just found this album and I really like it. Here's a song sample.
It reminds me of one of my favorite albums in 2001 by a band called Arlo. Here's a song sample from that album. Totally underrated.
Before today I only had some idea who Jay Reatard was. I'd seen a live performance on Pitchfork (them again!) when they had launched their video site and then never thought about him again.
When I heard he passed away earlier today I figured I'd check and it turns out his last album was released in 2009—so I gave it a listen. Ooops! This is good stuff. I am a dope!
“I like simple music,” he says, “—songs that that are broken down to a few elements. A lot of people say, ‘You do that because you’re dumb.’ But it’s a choice. I’m trying to write something that you can immediately decide whether you like or not.” — Jay Reatard, Death + Taxes Magazine
Leonard pointed me towards a band called Sleigh Bells that I've been listening to on my walk to work. Here's a Stereogum introduction with some mp3s.
By the way, a rule of thumb for reading music blogs: The end of the page is marked with the phrase "post a comment below".
The first part of this project is simply looking back at 2009 and seeing what I missed. Since it's going to be hard to only listen to music released in January of 2010 I've allowed myself to listen to anything from last year for the first month.
Pitchfork Media being the 800lb gorilla that it is, I had to start with their year end lists, and the first album I came across seemed worth getting.
I'm only a couple songs in and I do like it. It feels like a bunch of friends got together and recorded an album. We'll see how it goes.
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