{"id":580,"date":"2006-09-08T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T12:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/08\/new-tune-followup\/"},"modified":"2006-09-08T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T12:44:19","slug":"new-tune-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/08\/new-tune-followup\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tunes Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, I asked people to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/audience_participation_friday_1.php\">pimp me new tunes<\/a>, and got a wealth of recommendations. I put in a big iTunes order not long after, and now I&#8217;ve had a chance to listen to most of those tracks, so I thought I should post a follow-up summary of what I bought and what I think of it (below the fold):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Bird, <cite>The Mysterious Production of Eggs<\/cite>. Very strange album, with odd song structures, strange lyrics,  and some vocals barely above a whisper. Good, though. Key tracks: &#8220;Sovay,&#8221; &#8220;Masterfade.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Chris Knight, <cite>Enough Rope<\/cite>. Bought after a plug on jefitoblog. Pretty much straight-up country, with some sharp songwriting. Key tracks: &#8220;Saved By Love,&#8221; &#8220;Jack Blue.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Editors, <cite>The Back Room<\/cite>. It turns out I had already heard a few of these songs, and just assumed it was Interpol. Very good, if you like Interpol. Key tracks: &#8220;Munich,&#8221; &#8220;Blood,&#8221; &#8220;Bullets.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Futureheads, <cite>News and Tributes<\/cite>. Solid alterna-pop. Key tracks: &#8220;Back to the Sea,&#8221; &#8220;Skip to the End.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Howe Gelb, <cite>&#8216;Sno Angel Like You<\/cite> Odd album, with sort of Leonard Cohen-esque vocals backed up by a full gospel choir. Very weird, very good. Key tracks: &#8220;Robes of Bible Black,&#8221; &#8220;Neon Filler.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Coulton, <cite>Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow<\/cite>. Jokey dork-pop, but sort of charming all the same&#8211; if They Might Be Giants were only one guy, he&#8217;d be the guy. He&#8217;d win the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2006\/09\/its_a_nerdoff.php\">nerd-off<\/a>, hands down. Key tracks: &#8220;Skullcrusher Mountain,&#8221; &#8220;The Future Soon.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Midlake, <cite>The Trials of Van Occupanther<\/cite>. &#8220;Roscoe&#8221; is a great track, but the rest is kind of vague. Key track: &#8220;Roscoe.&#8221;\n<li>\n<li>Richard Thompson, <cite>1000 Years of Popular Music<\/cite>. His show of songs from the last millennium, recorded live, but with all the patter cut out. Which is a pity, because I bet that&#8217;s the best part of the show. Key tracks: &#8220;1985,&#8221;  &#8220;I Live in Trafalgar Square.&#8221;\n<li>\n<li>Silversun Pickups, <cite>Carnavas<\/cite>. Sort of crunchy guitar driven spacey alternative music. Think Ride, without the harmonies. Key tracks: &#8220;Future Foe Scenarios,&#8221; &#8220;Lazy Eye.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Tom Petty, <cite>Highway Companion<\/cite>. Not as good as I had hoped, to be honest. You pretty much know what you&#8217;re getting, sound-wise. Key tracks: &#8220;Saving Grace,&#8221; &#8220;Down South.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We Are Scientists, <cite>With Love and Squalor<\/cite>. On the ragged side of pop-punk. Good stuff. Key tracks: &#8220;Inaction,&#8221; &#8220;This Scene Is Dead.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, I asked people to pimp me new tunes, and got a wealth of recommendations. I put in a big iTunes order not long after, and now I&#8217;ve had a chance to listen to most of those tracks, so I thought I should post a follow-up summary of what I bought and what&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/08\/new-tune-followup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Tunes Follow-Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}