It sounds like you all haven't heard the Nana Grizol album yet. It has restored my faith that there's still great records out there yet to be discovered or even released. (Sometimes the amount of new music that relies on recycling can get tiresome). That album is so much my favorite thing. Although I can understand if it's Bright Eyes / Neutral Milk Hotel style isn't quite your thing, but to those of us who freak out about that stuff it is absolutely effing amazing.
Others ranking really high on my non-local list are Girl Talk, Los Campesinos and Soda Fountain Rag (another album that impressed me from out of nowhere). My oh my, I love those albums.
Luckily I wasn't actually looking forward to any of those above releases (MMJ, M83, WP, etc) because (besides not liking their last efforts) I've been distracted by the awesomeness of new albums from localites like The Pharmacy and my way high hopes for the new Long Winters and Conor Oberst albums.
But one album that did live up to my vision of it is the new Breeders album. I don't listen to it on repeat on a daily basis, but it's a solid effort that makes me smile whenever I do decide to put it on.
Reviews
imaginary liz said on July 3, 2008:
It sounds like you all haven't heard the Nana Grizol album yet. It has restored my faith that there's still great records out there yet to be discovered or even released. (Sometimes the amount of new music that relies on recycling can get tiresome). That album is so much my favorite thing. Although I can understand if it's Bright Eyes / Neutral Milk Hotel style isn't quite your thing, but to those of us who freak out about that stuff it is absolutely effing amazing.
Others ranking really high on my non-local list are Girl Talk, Los Campesinos and Soda Fountain Rag (another album that impressed me from out of nowhere). My oh my, I love those albums.
Luckily I wasn't actually looking forward to any of those above releases (MMJ, M83, WP, etc) because (besides not liking their last efforts) I've been distracted by the awesomeness of new albums from localites like The Pharmacy and my way high hopes for the new Long Winters and Conor Oberst albums.
But one album that did live up to my vision of it is the new Breeders album. I don't listen to it on repeat on a daily basis, but it's a solid effort that makes me smile whenever I do decide to put it on.