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This week’s albums ft Four Tet, Beach House and The Magnetic Fields
This week’s albums ft Four Tet, Beach House and The Magnetic Fields
lukowski by Andrzej Lukowski January 25th, 2010

Aloha! Here are some records that – in the ever-shifting world of indie release dates – could be deemed to be out today. No Spotify list this week, alas, as virtually nothing here is on it, but a decent turn out for We7. Reviews of many of the rest of these records to come in next couple of days - bate that breath!

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Animal Collective – Campfire Songs (reissue) – Avey and Panda humbly resubmit this mid-period oddity.

Paul Davey’s 6/10 review HERE.

Beach House – Teen Dream – Lustrous dream soul from the Bella Union-signed duo. Though the debut album was DEFINITELY BETTER, yeah?

Free music - Teen Dream

Andrzej Lukowski’s 7/10 review HERE.

David Bowie – David Bowie (deluxe edition) – Yeah... well it’s better than Never Let Me Down, anyway.

Free music - David Bowie (Deluxe Edition)

Alexander Tudor’s 6/10 review HERE.

Basia Bulat – Heart of My Own – Second full length from endearing Canadian folkstress.

Free music - Heart Of My Own

Cave In – Planets of Old – Yay! They’re alive! We thought Dave Grohl had eaten them or something.

David Pott-Negine’s 8/10 review HERE.

Chicago Underground Duo – Boca Negra – Musos being musos, furiously.

Nick Neyland’s 7/10 review HERE.

Citay – Dream Get Together – Bong tastic choral psyche pop from the San Francisco collective.

Free music - Dream Get Together

Durutti Column – Paen To Wilson – In which Vini Reilly pays tribute to his friend, the late great Tony Wilson.

Erland and the Carnival – Erland and the Carnival – Whole empires have collapsed at the mere whisper of the phrase ‘post-Verve folk pop project’, but actually these gents are rather fun.

Free music - Erland And The Carnival

Aaron Lavery’s 7/10 review HERE.

FM Belfast – How To Make Friends – Yes, yes, the Icelandic electro funsters recorded this sometime around 1842, but today marks its official release in the UK, okay? OKAY?

James Lawrenson’s 8/10 review HERE.

Fool’s Gold – Fool’s Gold – Delirious world-dance stylings from LA’s latest cadre of great white hopes. Best sampled live.

Brianna Saraceno’s 7/10 review HERE.

Former Ghosts – Fleurs – Dementedly reverb saturated new project from the man the (minor, indie) legend Jamie Stewart.

Four Tet – There is Love in You – Consolidatory but entirely awesome new set from Mr K Hebden.

Free music - There Is Love In You

Sean Thomas’s 9/10 review HERE.

Fucked Up – Couple Tracks – Compilation attempting to enforce a modicum of order onto the actually-quite-loveable Canadians’ billion and one 7-inches.

Free music - Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009

Amanda Farrah’s 7/10 review HERE.

Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM – In which the star of that genital mutilation scene teams up with Beck to write an album about MRI machines. Sort of.

Kevin EG Perry’s 6/10 reviewHERE.

Hadouken! – For the Masses – Remember when this lot were a reasonably liked band on the Leeds scene? Sigh. Pendulum + Linkin Park + ATTITOOD = For The Masses.

Free music - For The Masses

William Grant’s 3/10 review HERE.

Harvey Milk – Harvey Milk – Wherein Hydra Head finally get around to issuing the Milk’s farcically disaster-struck debut album.

Jaga Jazzist – One Armed Bandit – Awesome Norwegian jazz-proggers release latest set for Ninja Tune.

Anna Kashfi – Survival - Not a solo set from Marlon Brando’s dead ex-wife, but rather a dreamily bleak alt country duo from Manchester, unleashing their first record.

Magnetic Fields – Realism – Stephin goes folk. Sort of.

Free music - Realism (Standard)

Hannah Gregory’s 8/10 review HERE.

The Mary Onettes – Islands – Much improved second set from these Cure-humping Swedish dream poppers.

Moonface – Dreamland – This EP consists of just one (brilliant) track called ‘Marimba and Shit Drums’ and constitutes Spencer Krug’s nine billionth official musical outlet.

Free music - Dreamland EP: Marimba And Shit-Drums

Pit er Pat – The Flexible Entertainer – Bonkers avant r’n’b, um, thing from these good chums of the Fiery Furnaces.

Richard Hanscomb’s 7/10 review HERE.

Skullflower – Strange Keys To Untune God’s Firmament – Oh yes, it’s a double drone psyche album. Requires special lifting gear.

Stanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures – Stanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures – If you’re French, it’s probably quite fun changing your name to Stanley.

Luke Slater’s 7/10 review HERE.

The Sticks – The Sticks – Garage rock LULz from these Upset the Rhythm signed Brightonians.

Talk Normal – Sugarland – UK release for this no-fi-ish pair.

Free music - Sugarland

Tindersticks – Falling Off A Mountain – On which Stuart Staples appears to cheers up, fractionally.

Dom Gourlay’s 7/10 review HERE.

White Rabbits – It’s Frightening – More ambitious but essentially successful eclecticism from the Brooklynites, this time with Spoon’s Britt Daniel twiddling things.

Free music - It's Frightening

Yeti Lane – Yeti Lane - Album of the week over at Rough Trade and we at DiS towers have NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.

Free music - Yeti Lane

Dom Gourlay’s 7/10 review HERE.

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And there we go. If you’re a PR or somesuch and you had an album out and it didn’t get mentioned, please drop me an email at andrzej@drownedinsound.com and we'll do our best to make things right again, I swear.



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