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»Album Reviews For Release Date: 04.27.10
by Joshua Krage

I’ll call this week for the imported releases. Every domestic band out this week just isn’t doing anything for me, but the world beat and UK rock releases on the roster have serious promise and surprising versatility. Don’t just take my word for it, check it for yourself:

Avi Buffalo

Balkan Beat Box, Blue Eyed Black Boy – a beat-heavy intersection of all sorts of genres, this now rather large New York collective makes crowds dance in any setting and with any style they feel like tackling. Great horn arrangements, strong world flavor, fervent rhymes from the charismatic MC Tomer Yosef and a bricktastic bag of rhythms which never fails to surprise or to motivate. This is a multicultural and multi-genre powerhouse of political and polyrhythmic muscle, with a devastating live show and as diverse an amalgamation of sounds as you could ever hope to hear, let alone dance to.

B.o.B.
Jim Brickman
Bullet For My Valentine
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Miranda Cosgrove
Daddy Yankee
Reema Datta
Drowning Pool
Melissa Etheridge
Peter Frampton
Gogol Bordello
Hole (actually just Courtney Love using the “Hole” name, but why split doll hairs?)
The Juan MacLean – DJ-Kicks
Lali Puna
The Lodger
Jesse Malin
Shannon McNally
Jo Dee Messina
Mono – live
The Mynabirds
Anders Osborne
Brian Posehn
Small Black
Something Corporate – best of
Sons of Sylvia
Spose

Trashcan Sinatras, In the Music – so I guess this LP has been out for almost a year across the pond, but stateside we can only now get our hands on this new batch of mellow atmo-rock from this two-decades-strong Scottish troupe. A bit slight at times, perfect for rainy afternoons or long daytime drives.

Two Door Cinema Club, Tourist History – brilliant, long-awaited debut from Northern Irish post-punk indie rockers who have been making remix waves and blog buzz for over a year with their sharp, angular guitars and smartly dynamic electronics. Frontman Alex Trimble’s youthful tenor recalls a less-pretentious Brandon Flowers, and their rhythmic interplay is beguiling and surprising for such a young band. Great debut, and great promise.

VA – Punk Goes Classic Rock
Velvet Underground & Nico – rarities
Wuthering Heights

Next week will be a big hipster hooray with the new LP from Canadian supercollective Broken Social Scene, so expect lots of your fashionable friends to be inquisitively sampling it at great length before declaring it “not as good as their early stuff,” and I’ll have that and much more for your perusing pleasure. Until then…

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