The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love

1. Prelude
2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queen's Approach
7. Isn't it a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Rake's Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. Margaret in Captivity
15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

The Decemberists' Hazards of Love, their second album for major label Capitol, is something of a rock opera about a girl named Margaret, her lover William, a lecherous rake, and a scary forest queen. So, basically, it's only slightly weird for the Decemberists.

 

Hazards is the follow-up to the Portland band's The Crane Wife, an album based on a Japanese folk tale, and features 17 songs and guest appearances from Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, Jim James, and Robyn Hitchcock. The band had initially hoped to stage the album as a play, but lead singer Colin Meloy decided it was unstageable. Instead, the band has mentioned doing a tour where they play the album front to back. 

The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind

1. Forever 

2. Honey, I Don’t Know Why 

3. Don’t Forget The Sun 

4. Lost My Head 

5. Do You Love Me? 

6. Summer Air 

7. If You Go 

8. In The Country 

9. Safe Distance 

10. Hold Me Tight 

11. Last Kiss 

12. Freedom Wind

Freedom Wind is The Explorers Club’s debut album. The Beach Boys are the obvious touchstone, but dig a bit deeper and you’ll hear flourishes of Paul McCartney,The Byrds, Emitt Rhodes, ELO and doo-wop. Embracing a pop blueprint from a time when great songs were played on the radio and everybody loved them all, The Explorers Club has produced one of the sweetest pop records you're likely to hear this year. Whether it's the soaring harmonies of “Forever,” the playful psychedelia of “In the Country,” or the classic choruses of “Do You Love Me?” or “Last Kiss,”  
The Explorers Club consistently displays a knack for writing undeniably catcy pop songs that drip with youth and exuberance. The lush arrangements and cushy four-part harmonies are complemented here by an ensemble of guitars, accordion, banjo, mandolin, organs, piano, lap steel guitars and more.The Explorers Club hails from Charlestown, South Carolina. Twenty-six-year-oldJason Brewer does the songwriting and arranging, while the complex vocal harmonies come courtesy of James Faust, Wally Reddington, and David Ellis. Filling out the instrumental sound of The Explorers Club on organ and drums, respectively, areStefan Rogenmoser and Neil Thomas.

Ben Lee - Rebirth Of Venus (2009)

Since the ripe old age of 15, Aussie Ben Lee has been writing some of the catchiest pop tunes in the world.  On February 10th fans will be treated to Lee's latest studio collection Rebirth Of Venus. Rebirth Of Venus has everything you've come to expect from a Ben Lee album.  The lyrics are clever.  The vocals are layered and melodic.  And I'll be damned if it's not rife with hooks! "Surrender" -MOG.com

CD1 

01. What’s So Bad (About Feeling Good)? 
02. Surrender 
03. Sing 
04. I Love Pop Music 
05. Rise Up  
06. Yoko Ono 
07. Boy With A Barbie 
08. Bad Poetry 
09. Blue Denim 
10. I’m A Woman Too 
11. Families Cheating At Boardgames 
12. Song For The Divine Mother Of The Universe 

CD2
01. New Wave (Originally By Against Me!) 
02. Rock Boys (Originally By The Grates) 
03. Ben Lee (Originally By Ataris) 
04. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World (Originally By John Lennon) 
05. Kids (Originally By MGMT)

06. Throw Your Arms Around Me (Originally By Hunters And Collectors)

Love is All - Nine Times that Same Song

01. Talk Talk Talk Talk

02. Ageing Had Never Been His Friend

03. Turn The Radio Off

04. Used Goods

05. Busy Doing Nothing

06. Make Out Fall Out Make Up

07. Felt tip

08. Spinning & Scratching

09. Turn The TV Off

10. Trying Too Hard

White Shoes and the Couples Company - White Shoes and the Couples Company (2007)

“White Shoes & the Couples Company, a Jakarta-based six-piece, have parlayed not only a musical but sartorial fascination with their nation’s pop culture into a sound and look that have seen them hailed as one of the most “crush worthy” bands of 2006…” - Time Magazine




1. Simple Overature
2. Nothing To Fear
3. Tentang Cita
4. Windu & Defrina
5. Runaway Song
6. Sunday Memory Lane
7. Brother John
8. Senandung Maaf
9. Senja
10. Nothing To Fear
11. Topstar
12. Kapiten Dan Gadis Desa

Asobi Seksu - Citrus

This New York City band's second album cements the appeal that put them near the top of the neo-shoegaze heap. The secret is that Asobi Seksu's generous use of effects (reverb, wah, delay, feedback) is not a typical masking device, but rather a complement to great pop craftsmanship and chops. They're not just one of those loud bands that sound cool despite being melody-challenged. Hook-laden high points like "Thursday" and the almost overwhelming "Red Sea" best demonstrate Asobi Seksu's firm grasp of their chosen style. And Yuki Chikudate (who sings in both Japanese and English) is served well by a dense mix that pushes her vocals back into the sonic thick of it. -newburycomics

1. Everything Is On
2. Strawberries
3. New Years
4. Thursday
5. Strings
6. Pink Cloud Tracing Paper
7. Red Sea
8. Goodbye
9. Lions and Tigers
10. Nefi + Girly
11. Exotic Animal Paradise
12. Mizu Asobi 

Lykke Li - Youth Novels

Excluding the kind of ambition and open defiance of convention that could only come from an artist just barely out of her teens, Youth Novels, while not without its share of bumps, is an extraordinary first album. With famed Swedish pop producer Lasse Marten assisting (the guy behind Kelly Clarkson's ingenious mainstream-to-indie poptimist crossover smash 'Since U Been Gone'), Lykke Li and Yttling have created a surprisingly stark-sounding album, an enticing blend of Robyn's unpretentious dance-pop and El Perro del Mar's introspection and tenderness. For a record whose thematic center is the hormonally-enhanced, bipolar passion of one's teenage years, it's remarkably mature-sounding. -popmatters

1	Melodies & Desires
2	Dance, Dance, Dance
3	I'm Good, I'm Gone
4	Let It Fall
5	My Love
6	Tonight
7	Little Bit
8	Hanging High
9	This Trumpet In My Head
10	Complaint Department
11	Breaking It Up
12	Everybody But Me
13	Time Flies
14	Window Blues

Jane Birkin - Enfants d'Hiver

1. Prends Cette Main

2. Periode Bleue

3. A La Grace De Toi

4. Madame

5. Oh Comment Ca Va

6. Maison Etoilee

7. 14 Fevrier Etoilee

8. Enfants D'Hiver

9. Il Fait Nuit

10. Pourquoi

11. Aung San Suu Kyi

12. Je Suis Au Bord De Ta Fenetre

The Russian Futurists - Our Thickness

1. "Paul Simon"

2. "Sentiments vs. Syllables"

3. "Our Pen's Out of Ink"

4. "Still Life"

5. "Hurtin' 4 Certain"

6. "Why You Gotta Do That Thang?"

7. "It's Over, It's Nothing"

8. "Incandescent Hearts"

9. "These Seven Notes"

10. "2 Dots on a Map"

Perfect As Cats - A Tribute to The Cure

CD 1 

01 Xu Xu Fang - Fascination Street
02 Bat For Lashes - A Forest
03 Hecuba - Killing An Arab
04 Indian Jewelry - The Walk 1
05 Geneva Jacuzzi - The Walk 2
06 Astrid Quay - The Caterpillar
07 Rainbow Arabia - Six Different Ways
08 We Are The World - Why Can't I Be You
09 BlackBlack - Inbetween Days 1
0 Aquaserge - 10.15 Saturday Night
11 Gangi - Fire In Cairo
12 Rio En Medio - Pictures Of You
13 Joker's Daughter - Kyoto Song
14 Caroline Weeks - The Drowning Man
15 Ex Reverie - The Hanging Garden
16 Voyager One - M
17 Devastations - All Cats Are Grey

CD 2

01 The Dandy Warhols - Primary
02 Veil Veil Vanish - The Upstairs Room
03 Wolfkin - Charlotte Sometimes
04 Army Navy - Jumping Someone Else's Train
05 The Muslims - Grinding Halt
06 Lemon Sun - The Exploding Boy
07 Kaki King - Close To Me
08 Les Bicyclettes Blanches - Hot Hot Hot
09 Buddy - Sugar Girl
10 Katrine Ottosen - The Love Cats
11 Mariee Sioux - Lovesong
12 Corridor - The Kiss
13 Tara Busch - Let's Go To Bed
14 Jesu - The Funeral Party
15 Sarabeth Tucek - Three Imaginary Boys
16 Lewis & Clarke - Disintegration

Faded Paper Figures - Dynamo

1 North by Nort
2 B Film
3 Logos
4 Polaroid Solution
5 Future Self
6 Metropolis
7 I Fell Off My Name
8 Geneva's Gone
9 The Persuaded
10 Being There
11 Speeches
12 Red State

Tahiti 80 - Activity Center

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Where does the title of your new album come from?
Xavier: It's the name of a Fisher Price toy for kids! The Fisher Price Activity Center is this big plastic panel for kids complete with moving wheels, dials, dingers and all sorts of special sound effects. We figured our studio looks pretty much the same with all our consoles and all the instruments we've amassed over the years. We can just turn up and record ourselves there whenever we like. And we felt the title suited the way we produced the new album, all four of us tucked away behind closed doors.http://www.rfimusique.com

01. 24×7 Boy


02. Unpredictable


03. All Around


04. Brazil


05. Fire Escape


06. One Parachute


07. Tune In


08. Dream On


09. White Noise


10. Come Around


11. Whistle


12. Ear to the Ground

Helios - Caesura

1. Hope Valley Hill
2. Come With Nothings
3. Glimpse
4. Fourteen Drawings
5. Backlight
6. The Red Truth
7. A Mountain Of Ice
8. Mima
9. Shoulder To Hand
10. Hollie

Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

01.      Ways to Make It Through the Wall

02.      Miserabilia

03.      We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

04.      Between an Erupting Earth and an Exploding Sky

05.      You’ll Need Those Fingers for Crossing

06.      It’s Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song for the Other Kurt)

07.      The End of the Asterisk

08.      Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1

09.      Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time

10.      All Your Kayfabe Friends

El Perro del Mar - Look! It's El Perro Del Mar!

1 Candy
2 Sad
3 Party
4 Dog
5 Coming Down the Hill
6 People
7 Shake It Off
8 This Loneliness
9 It's All Good
10 I Can't Talk About It
11 Here Comes That Feeling

Loveninjas - The Secret Of The Loveninjas

1. I wanna be like Johnny C
2. Care
3. Do Me
4. It's Ok!
5. She broke his Penis in Two
6. Little Black Friends
7. It's been a Long Time
8. Earl Grey with Honey
9. The End of a Dream
10. My Lust is Dead
11. I want to be your man
12. I'm really sorry
13. Keep your love
14. Meet me here
15. Once there was a girl and a boy
16. Sweet geisha love
17. The Way
18. When is our time?

Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

1 Nonpareil of Favor 
2 Wicked Wisdom 
3 For Our Elegant Caste 
4 Touched Something's Hollow 
5 An Eluardian Instance 
6 Gallery Piece 
7 Women's Studies Victims 
8 St.Exquisite's Confessions 
9 Triphallus, to Punctuate! 
10 And I've Seen a Bloody Shadow 
11 Plastis Wafers 
12 Death Is Not a Parallel Move 
13 Beware Our Nubile Miscreants 
14 Mingusings 
15 Id Engager