Highly Anticipated Music of 2007
Monday, January 22nd, 2007 - 4:29am
I found myself trying to defend 2006 as a good year for albums recently, and it was. But compared to the monstrous amount of good material released in 2005 and, now that I've checked out the Upcoming Releases portion of MetaCritic, the potential albums coming out in 2007, I find myself already forgetting the moderate numbers of gems from yesteryear.
Some highlights in the realm of my musical tastes:
January
Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
The Shins Wincing The Night Away
February
The Aliens [Title TBA]
March
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists Living With The Living
Low Drums And Guns
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
April
Blonde Redhead 23
Bright Eyes Cassadaga
Dntel Dumb Luck
May
Wilco Sky Blue Sky
Smashing Pumpkins [Title TBA]
The Breeders [Title TBA] Spring 2007
Architecture In Helsinki [Title TBA] Spring 2007
Rilo Kiley [Title TBA] Spring 2007
Spoon Stroke Their Brains Spring 2007
Alkaline Trio [Title TBA] Summer 2007
British Sea Power [Title TBA] Summer 2007
New Pornographers [Title TBA] Summer 2007
Wolf Parade [Title TBA] Summer/Fall 2007
The Go! Team [Title TBA] August 2007
Iron & Wine [Title TBA] August 2007
Cursive [Title TBA] Fall 2007
Interpol [Title TBA] 2007
Islands [Title TBA] 2007
The Pixies [Title TBA] 2007
The Postal Service [Title TBA] 2007
Stars [Title TBA] 2007
Sigur Ros [Title TBA] 2007-2008
I mean, holy crap.
What else is everybody looking forward to? Come on, admit it. I know there's someone checking the mail every day to see if their pre-ordered copy of "Chinese Democracy" has finally arrived.
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The B-52s should have an album coming out at some point this year. That should be interesting. Also, call me crazy ("You're crazy!!!"), but I'm really looking forward to Norah Jones's new album coming in a week.
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A new Radiohead album will quite likely be showing up this year. I'm definitely picking that one up.
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2007, you're shaping up nicely. Also, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder drops 1/30/07
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kaostheory wrote:
I think i recognize 2 of those bands in the original post. Oh god, I'm old and uncool!
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Fixed.
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Is rock dead? I don't know any of those bands. Do they rock? Maybe Sigur Ros, which sounds like really depressing emo music to me.
The last album I wanted to come out was Chinese Democracy.
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Uh, new NIN drops in April sometime. I think the title is "Year Zero", or so i've read.
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That's about it for me, too.
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I'm going through an indie phase, though the Breeders and the Pixies are pretty rocking.
Sigur Ros is some amazing music. They're from Bjorkland. The first time I heard one of their albums I couldn't tell if he was just making up sounds or speaking in another language (turns out, he's done both. One of their albums involves a completely made up language, the others are in Icelandic.) But not knowing what they're saying doesn't affect your enjoyment of the music at all, because whatever they're doing, you can feel it.
Watch some of the videos on their uk site. http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/dldvideo.php
I recommend definitely checking out the one for Glosoli. I love that song.
A friend of mine describes Sigur Ros as being amniotic. She thought it felt like being back in the womb, protected and amazed. It's a pretty good way of describing it.
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You left out Bloc Party, which drops in Feb.
Otherwise, looks like a great year for music.
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New Jesu album, Conqueror is out in February. Beautiful heavy shoegazing guitars - highly recommended. Also, a chap named Elvis Perkins (his real name - he's actor Anthony "Psycho" Perkins' son) releases his debut album Ash Wednesday, also in February. Check out his myspace page and listen to the title track.
I only recognize 1, and I don't really like the Smashing Pumpkins anymore.
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I love that list. When does the The Shins album drop?
I still need to bring myself to plunk down the chunk o' change for that Tom Waits boxed set that recently came out.
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A new Erasure album will come out sometime this year.
Sweet!
New Meshuggah will be out some time this year. And the new Rush.
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The Shins-Wincing The Night Away, Jan 2007
Smashing Pumpkins [Title TBA]
Interpol [Title TBA]
The Postal Service [Title TBA]
Stars [Title TBA]
Sigur Ros [Title TBA] 2007-2008
Rufus Wainwright-Release The Stars, May 2007
Air-Pocket Symphony, March 2007
Blur [Title TBA]
The Cure [Title TBA]
Ladytron [Title TBA]
Massive Attack-Weather Underground
Moby [Title TBA]
UNKLE-War Stories
I think that's it.
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At least Porl is playing on the new album, which should make it interesting. I still think Jason is the worst drummer ever, and Robert's singing has gone downhill over the last 10 years. But I'm a sucker and I'll still get it when it comes out.
TOMORROW
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.
That's the only one I'm anticipating at the moment.
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I read that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's new album is due out in May. Last years's Howl was one of my all-time favorites.
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It's fun to try to figure out where the band name ends and the album name begins!
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If you like The Postal Service I'd give Dntel a chance. He's the guy who does the music portion of TPS. He's already got one album out, Life Is Full of Possibilities, and it's pretty good, and the Deathcab guy even guests on a track or two (off the top of my head, at least the track called "This is the Dream of Evan and Chan" so it even feels like Postal Service B-Sides at times.
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Anyone who says the Pixies aren't rockin' needs a good caning, yeah. Although I'm pretty leery of the new album. Heroes should stay dead. Only way to not get disappointed.
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March 13th
Type O Negative - Dead Again
April something
Nine Inch Nails
MaxShrek .. The reason you keep falling, is there is no bottom.
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kaostheory wrote:
I'm looking forward to the new Modest Mouse and NIN, possibly the new Smashing Pumpkins.
Also, LiquidMantis, the new Waits boxed set is very good. You can get it for a good price on Amazon. Only $28.97.
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Lies. I smell like daisies man, DAISIES!
There were extra spaces before I copy/pasted it, and I thought about going back and putting them in again. But I'm lazy. And it is kind of funny how they run together.
Anyway, I know I have music tastes slightly tangential to the mainstream, but I was mostly interested in what everyone's looking forward to, stuff that I might have missed or bands I just never got around to checking out. Like I had no idea a new NIN album was on the way. I wasn't a fan of "With Teeth" though, it was too high school poetry/dogeared copy of a rhyming dictionary for me, but Trent can always step up and release another solid record.
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On April 16 the band will release their new full-length album, "Year Zero", which ostensibly will be halo 23. In Trent Reznor's words, the album will sound very different from everything he's done until now and there is a fair possibility that some of the fans will dislike the new material. This most probably will happen, as it happened with every NIN studio album to date.
Trivia:
*Trent Reznor's first name is Michael.
*Trent is only 5'6" (167cm)
*Prior to NIN, Trent played in bands such as Option 30 and Exotic Birds.
*Trent Reznor appeared in the 1987 Michael J Fox film "Light of Day" playing in a band.
*Trent's favorite candy is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
*Contrary to popular belief, "Suck" is technically a cover and not an original. The song was originally performed by the band Pigface off the album "Gub"(1991), in which Trent is given vocal and writing credits. The song was later re-recorded for the Nine Inch Nails EP Broken (1992) as a hidden track.
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