{"id":1058,"date":"2008-11-24T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T10:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:17:16","slug":"october_album_r-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/11\/october_album_r-2.html","title":{"rendered":"October Album Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Not a big month for buying music. Odd.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><u>Absolutely Love &amp; Adore:<\/u><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nKeane &#8220;Perfect Symmetry&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211; Wow I LOVE this album. Did not expect to. Almost didn&#8217;t buy it! It&#8217;s a new sound for them, not as sad, and not as poppy&#8230;a bit more &#8220;anthem rock&#8221; than they used to be. You can picture these songs just filling up stadiums. Like old Snow Patrol, before they got super cheesy. Fave songs: &#8220;The Lovers Are Losing&#8221;; &#8220;Better Than This&#8221; (totally reminds me of Roxy Music &#8220;More Than This&#8221;); &#8220;Pretend that You&#8217;re Alone&#8221;; &#8220;Time to Go&#8221;.<br \/>\n<u>Favorite Singles (not on any of the above albums):<\/u><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li><strong>&#8220;Tiger Mountain Peasant Song&#8221; (covering Fleet Foxes) First Aid Kit<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/twiggy_teens_co.html\">Swoon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Shall Be Released&#8221; (cover) Wilco &amp; Fleet Foxes<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Breathe&#8221; Calhoun<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Honey Let Me Sing You a Song&#8221; Matt Hires<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hymn 101&#8221; Joe Pug<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Other Albums I Liked:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li><strong>Joseph Arthur &amp; The Lonely Astronauts &#8220;Temporary People&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; So in addition to a gajillion (five?) EPs he put out ths year, there&#8217;s also this full on album. The difference, to my ear, is the EPs are a little darker, a little more digitally dirty, a little more lonely. This is a good listen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ray LaMontagne &#8220;Gossip in the Grain&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211; As with Keane&#8217;s new album (above), LaMontagne has really expanded his ideas here. Lots of upbeat, jazzy stuff. The beginning of &#8220;You Are the Best Thing&#8221; is awesome, just marches right out and grabs you. Sure, there are still some sad, slow ones. But it&#8217;s the new, happier songs I really enjoy on this album.<\/li>\n<li><strong>First Aid Kit &#8220;Drunken Trees&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; So I ordered this after hearing their brilliant cover of Fleet Foxes (see list above). It&#8217;s allright. Their own stuff isn&#8217;t as powerful, there&#8217;s no shimmery acapello moments here. But not bad. They&#8217;ve got some room to grow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Not really for me \/ but maybe for you!:<\/u><br \/>\nNada.<br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>Shamefully have either not listened to at all, or not all the way through, or so few times that I can&#8217;t legitimately offer an opinion:<\/u><br \/>\nNada!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a big month for buying music. Odd. Absolutely Love &amp; Adore: Keane &#8220;Perfect Symmetry&#8221; &#8211; Wow I LOVE this album. Did not expect to. Almost didn&#8217;t buy it! It&#8217;s a new sound for them, not as sad, and not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/11\/october_album_r-2.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album","category-listenin","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}