New Releases: 4/1 - 4/8

Tally Hall - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum - Easily my favorite release of the year so far. Amazing. This one actually came out last week (4/1) and I would have missed it but I got a tip from the great Rick Altizer (check out Rick's own great power pop here: www.rickaltizer.com). Tally Hall had an indie release of the same name a couple of years ago, but this is really their debut. They've remixed and even done some new recording for their first major release. This is power pop meets Queen meets Self meets 10cc...lots of wild and varied influences, but what will keep this one in your player are the great songs with layers and layers of vocals and production that will blow your mind. I will feature a track or two on my next ObviousPopCast. The video for the song Good Day is a must see, check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNgyFJOzbs4

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4/8 Releases

Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts - Amazing new album from a Minneapolis band. You have to hear this record.

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Was (Not Was) - Boo! I love this one! Frank Zappa meets James Brown meets the Talking Heads with lots of Detroit soul mixed in.

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Eric Avery - Help Wanted - Cool keyboards and layers and I really love the album cover. This is one of the Jane's Addiction guys. Not for everyone but I like it.

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Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colours - Electronic/wave keyboard stuff. I dig it.

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Man Man - Rabbit Habits - Weird stuff. I haven't really listened yet, but the songs and clips I heard online were good. If it's really good I'll put up a post next week and let you know.

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Comments

[Ian]

I've been tirelessly searching google for some way to get Daniel Amos's Doppelganger, but with little success. There seems to be no legal, or even illegal, method of finding it. I've checked everywhere. I noticed you had it on your top 50 post from about two years back, so I was wondering where you got it. I know they put out a CD reissue in 94', but I can't even seem to find a copy of that on amazon.

On an unrelated note, I don't know if you've heard it, but a band I heard live a while back called "The Village Green" is really good, you can get their "feeling the fall" CD on iTunes (can't find it anywhere else, they're pretty "local") Regardless, it's great stuff. If you like Admiral Twin, you'll probably like them.

Anyway, I'd love it if you could get back as soon as possible on that Daniel Amos album thing. I've heard this album compared to a lot of my favorite stuff, and I really want to hear it sometime. My e-mail address is Leinator@gmail.com.

Thanks.

[dr. tony shore]

Thanks for the post! DA's Doppelganger album has actually been released on CD twice, once in 1992 on Stunt Records, and once as part of the Alarma Chronicles Book Set (all 4 albums on 3 CD's) in 2000. Both of these are rare and long out of print. You can bid on the book set on Ebay from time to time.

I'll definitely check out The Village Green!
Thanks again,
Tony

[Ian]

Thanks. I went ahead and just bought a copy of the cassette on ebay, I suppose the quality will be worse, but a cassette transfer is probably a lot cheaper than the 3-CD set.

On The Village Green, don't know what your opinion is on the whole "integrity of a CD" issue, or if you're fine with just listening to single selections, but if you'd rather not pay for the whole CD just to listen, I highly suggest "Wrap your love around me," being their best "pop" song, and "Om: The Meaning of life" being their best rock-rooted song. They've got a lot of Beatles influence, but you can definitely hear Oasis in the vocals. All in all, some of my favorite pop-indie.