#09063 Bombay Bicycle Club

Bombay Bicycle Club – I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
UK: 6th Jul – Island

Stunning debut album from those teenagers who make music ahead of their life, Bombay Bicycle Club is the new hope of future Britian, with an album style ranging from Rock, Post-Punk, Indie & Ambient. Not the best this year but at least among the top five.

Outstanding tracks: ‘Dust On The Ground’ & ‘Evening/Morning’.

#09062 Múm

Múm – Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know
EU: 24th Aug – Morr

‘Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know’, the fifth studio album from Icelandic Experimental boys/girls group Múm, it’s the second album since the famous Valtýsdóttir twin left the band totally, which leads to some obvious changes from the band’s original style, male and female duet vocal, less in Techno or Post Rock, more to Champer Pop and Folk.

Outstanding track: ‘Sing Along’.

Back Catalogue:
Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (Fat Cat, 2007)
Summer Make Good (Fat Cat, 2004)
Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat, 2002)
Remixed (TMT, 2001)
Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK (TMT/Tugboat, 2001)

#09061 Tortoise

Tortoise – Beacons Of Ancestorship
US: 23rd Jun – Thrill Jockey

First Tortoise album in five years, on their sixth studio album, the Chicago Experiemental/Post Rock group mix everything they could use on through the whole album, from Rock to Electronica, that could be Post-Everything.

Back Catalogue:
A Lazarus Taxon (Thrill Jockey, 2006)
It’s All Around You (Thrill Jockey, 2004)
Standards (Thrill Jockey, 2001)
TNT (Thrill Jockey, 1998)
Remixed (Thrill Jockey, 1998)
Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey, 1996)
Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters (Thrill Jockey, 1995)
Tortoise (Thrill Jockey, 1994)

#09060 Wilco

Wilco – Wilco
US: 30th Jun – Nonesuch
UK: 29th Jun – Nonesuch

Seventh studio album from Chicago’s Alternative Country band Wilco, with a self title. This may not marks a new beginning for the band, but Wilco is still charming engough to make a mellow album to please your ears. Highlight for duet with Canadian Folk singer Feist on the track ‘You And I’.

Outstanding tracks: ‘Deeper Down’ & ‘I’ll Fight’.

Back Catalogue: (main releases)
Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch, 2007)
Kicking Television: Live In Chicago (Nonesuch, 2005)
A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch, 2004)
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch, 2002)
Summerteeth (Reprise, 1999)
Being There (Reprise, 1996)
A. M. (Sire, 1995)

#09059 Eels

Eels – Hombre Lobo – 12 Songs Of Desire
US: 2nd Jun – Vagrant
UK: 1st Jun – Polydor

The comeback of Mark E & the co, the first Eels album in four years. Hombre Lobo (Spanish for werewolf), as the title suggest, 12 Song Of Desire, with Mr. E’s beautiful blues every song tells a story. This is a simple and easy concept album comparing to the previous double disc one.

Outstanding track: ‘That Look You Give That Guy’.

Back Catalogue (important albums):
Meet The Eels/Useless Trinkets (Geffen, 2008)
Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (Vagrant, 2005)
Shootenanny! (Dreamworks, 2003)
Souljacker (Dreamworks, 2002)
Daisies Of The Galaxy (Dreamworks, 2000)
Electro-Shock Blues (Dreamworks, 1998)
Beautiful Freak (Dreamworks, 1996)

#09058 The Warlocks

The Warlocks – The Mirror Explodes
US: 19th May – Tee Pee

‘The Mirror Explodes’ is the fifith album from LA’s Neo-Psychedlica outfit The Warlocks. Since 2007’s ‘Heavy Deavy Skull Lover’ album, the band had changed their direction to Shoegaze from Psychedlica, a noteably difference from their previous Dandy Warhols-like style. The new album is eclectic in both styles to create a dark sound.

Outstanding track: ‘Standing Between The Lovers Of Hell’.

Back Catalogue:
Heavy Deavy Skull Lover (Tee Pee, 2007)
Surgery (Mute, 2005)
Phoenix (Birdman, 2002)
Rise And Fall (Bomp!, 2001)

#09057 Idlewild

Idlewild – Post Electric Blues
UK: 11th Jun – Idlewild
UK: 5th Oct – Cooking Vinyl

‘Post Electric Blues’ is the sixth studio album from Scottish outfit Idlewild, the album was first released to fans by the band themselves, and would get a traditional release in Oct. This album follows 2007’s electric-oriented ‘Make Another World’, then there is to call the Post-Electric. Idlewild’s music is far from their early Punk style, getting closer to more Folk style pieces, and frontman Roddy Woomble also released a solo album of Folk back in 2006. ‘Post Electric Blues’ is at the same level of their ‘Warnings/Promises’ album.

Outstanding tracks: ‘(The Night Will) Bring You Back To Life’ & ‘Take Me Back To The Islands’.

Back Catalogue:
Captain [mini] (Deceptive, 1998)
Hope Is Important (Food, 1998)
100 Broken Windows (Food, 2000)
The Remote Part (Parlophone, 2002)
Warnings/Promises (Parlophone, 2005)
Make Another World (Sequel, 2007)
Scottish Fiction/Best Of 1997-2007 (Parlophone, 2007)
A Distant History/Rarities 1997-2007 (Parlophone, 2007)
&
My Secret Is My Silence [by Roddy Woomble] (Pure, 2006)