Soundtrack: Iron & Wine / The Decemberists / PS. R.E.M.
Iron & Wine’s new album (that comes out next week) is streaming at Conan O’Brien’s website:
http://teamcoco.com/ironandwine
Iron & Wine are also giving away the strongest track, “Tree By the River” on their website:
http://www.ironandwine.com/news/download-tree-by-the-river-from-iron-wines-forthcoming-album-kiss-each-other-clean/
In other brand new music news, The Decemberists performed their new album, The King Is Dead, in its entirety in Portland for NPR. Video and audio versions can be found here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133026865/the-decemberists-the-king-is-dead-live-from-portland&sc=nl&cc=mn-20110120
PS. I’ve heard four tracks now from the upcoming R.E.M. album, Collapse Into Now. Of the four, I like three (“Oh My Heart,” “It Happened Today” and “Discoverer”) and fine one rather horrible (“Mine Smell Like Honey”). Just saying.
PPS. I almost forgot to mention two albums that I'm looking forward to that are coming out soon:
Noah and the Whale - Last Night on Earth
Destroyer - Kaputt (If you thought last year was 80s retro, well, think again.)
posted by John Gallaher @ 7:37 AM
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5 Comments:
gonna be honest. the iron & wine isn't very good.
the destroyer, however, is really really great. best of the year so far.
Funny! I'm listening to the stream of the Destroyer right now:
http://hypem.com/#!/search/destroyer/1/
I think it's probably the best Destroyer album. It'll be a keeper.
The Iron & Wine. I want to like it. SB's a very clever lyricist, but after listening to it a couple times on NPR, I'll only end up buying it if it turns up as a daily MP3 deal on Amazon or something.
I'm happier with The Decemberists and East Coast Pipe (it's streaming on the Merge Records website).
A link to the East River Pipe stream:
http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=760
Apologies for the wrap.
so glad to see something new by ERP. thanks! man, seeing that takes me back...
I heard a cut from the Destroyer at Pitchfork, it sounded like Al Stewart/Alan Parsons--Year of the Cat. Man... I played the hell out of that album when I was 10. Pitchfork didn't seem to like Destroyer and he didn't seem to like them--but they were cordial.
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