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May 29, 2007
New Album Releases, 5-29-2007: Richard Thompson, R Kelly, The Get Quick Woo, hoo! New Richard Thompson album Sweet Warrior this week. This is his first electric album in four years, and features apparently a fairly scathing anti-war song "Dad's Going to Kill Me." That "dad" is short for "Baghdad."
Other than that, it looks pretty thin for new album releases this week. The obvious big name item this week is Double Up from R Kelly. This has a particularly overloaded list of guest collaborators, including Snoop Dogg, Usher, Nelly, Ludacris and Kid Rock, among others. I do not get the appeal of this guy. I know he's sold a bunch of records, and it's my understanding that Negroes LOVE R Kelly. But the only song of his I can quite remember is the infamous epic "Trapped in the Closet," and that mostly because of the South Park parody. Works for him, though.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Richard Thompson Sweet Warrior Shout! Factory Alternative Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Rock
Herb Alpert Rise [Bonus Tracks] Shout! Factory Jazz-Pop, Pop, Instrumental Pop, Soft Rock
Boy In Static Violet Mush Indie Electronic, Post-Rock/Experimental
Cary Brothers Who You Are Bluhammock Music Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Charivari Agreable The Oxford Psalms Signum Baroque Choral Music
Chris Connelly The Episodes Durtro Jnana Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Post-Rock/Experimental, Improvisation, Structured Improvisation, Avant-Garde
Ludovico Einaudi Divenire Decca Contemporary Piano Music
The Get Quick See You in the Crossfire Rainbow Quartz Pop Underground, Neo-Psychedelia
R. Kelly Double Up Jive Urban, Contemporary R&B, Pop-Rap
Kool Keith Ultra-Octa-Doom 2B1 Underground Rap
Kosheen Damage Island Alternative Dance, Alternative Pop/Rock
Thomas Lanners Rorem: The Three Piano Sonatas Centaur Contemporary Piano Music
Len Price 3 Rent a Crowd Wicked Cool Garage Punk, Pop Underground
Moonbabies Moonbabies at the Ballroom Hidden Agenda Indie Pop, Indie Electronic
Johnette Napolitano Scarred Hybrid Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Maxim Rysanov Music for Viola & Piano by Brahms, Bridge, Enescu, Franck, Glinka, Tabakova Avie Romantic and Modern Chamber Music
Gerard Schwarz Howard Hanson: Merry Mount Naxos Modern Opera
Ray Price The Essential Ray Price Columbia/Legacy Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan, Honky Tonk, Country-Pop, Traditional Country, Country Gospel
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quintet Se Dice Bisonte, No Buffalo Gold Standard Laboratories Indie Rock, Post-Rock/Experimental
Satellite Party Ultra Payloaded Columbia Alternative Pop/Rock
