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March 21, 2006
New Album Releases, Week of 3-21-2006 Kids, we got us a new Prince album this week, 3121. The man's been a mixed bag in recent years, but a new Prince album always rates at least a couple of close listens. Early reviews sound promising, and it's currently #2 at Amazon.
Rhino has a remastered version of Elvis Costello's criminally under appreciated classic The Juliet Letters, composed and performed with a classical string quartet. Personally, I definitely take this over the higher profile Painted From Memory among that orchestral end of the Elvis catalog. "Swine" is a personal fave- though it would be hard to pick just one.
This Rhino version comes with a whole separate disc of bonuses. That's more generous, and it has the advantage of leaving the original album sequence in tact on one disc. Among other things, it has some kind of live version of "God Only Knows," a kind of song that he has grown enough over the years as a vocalist to do justice to. But best of all, there are at least several bonus titles unfamiliar to even so devoted an Elvis man as me. New Elvis!
The anti-Christ is loose in the Earth. No, not Bin Laden or Barbara Streisand. I mean the real, true enemy of Geometry and Theology, Kenny Rogers. His umpteenth sure to be a hit assault upon all that is holy is entitled Water & Bridges. I naturally and most righteously assumed such an outlook on Mr Rogers as a teenage Elvis Costello fan in the 70s. But after these many years of Shania Twain and the truly Satanic anti-Hank incarnated as "Garth Brooks" - well, Kenny Rogers almost starts sounding soulful.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Richard Ashcroft Keys to the World [Bonus DVD] Virgin Alternative Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Ben Harper Both Sides of the Gun Virgin Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Jam Bands
Loose Fur Born Again in the USA Drag City Indie Rock, Post-Rock/Experimental
Prince 3121 Universal Pop/Rock, Urban, Funk
Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire RCA Punk Revival, Punk-Pop
Anna Caterina Atonacci Era La Notte Naive Baroque Vocal Music
Band of Horses Everything All the Time Sub Pop Indie Rock
Blight Detroit: The Dream Is Dead Touch & Go American Underground, Hardcore Punk, Noise-Rock
Luka Bloom Innocence Cooking Vinyl Alternative Folk, Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Urban Folk
Chamber Domaine Rorem: The Auden Songs; The Santa Fe Songs Black Box Classics Contemporary Vocal Music
Chicago Chicago XXX Rhino Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary
Cocteau Twins Lullabies to Violaine 4AD Dream Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Punk
Elvis Costello The Juliet Letters [2-CD] Rhino College Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Baroque Pop, Classical Pop, Chamber Pop, Chamber Music, Classical
The Essex Green Cannibal Sea Merge Indie Pop, Chamber Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
From First to Last Heroine Epitaph Post-Hardcore
Teddy Geiger Underage Thinking Sony Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
Howe Gelb Sno Angel Like You Thrill Jockey Indie Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Gospel Choir
Michel Legrand American Piano Music Warner Classics Post-Romantic, Modern and Contemporary Piano Music
Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet Duper Sessions Astralwerks Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Vocal Jazz
Liars Drum's Not Dead Mute Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Post-Rock/Experimental
