Top Album Releases: October 2009

Top Album Releases: October 2009

Nick’s Top

1. Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms
2. Black Heart Procession: Six
3. Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
4. Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3
5. The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
6. Monsters Of Folk: Monsters Of Folk
7. Thao With the Get Down Stay Down: Know Better Learn Faster
8. Kings of Convenience: Declaration of Dependance
9. Rain Machine: Rain Machine

Neon Indian- Deadbeat Summer

Cory’s Top

1. Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms
2. Built To Spill: There Is No Enemy
3. Daniel Johnston: Is and Always Was

Though mostly I just can’t stop listening to Girls, Washed Out or The Drums…

Chris’ Top

1. Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms
2. Sufjan Stevens: The BQE
3. Thao With the Get Down Stay Down: Know Better Learn Faster
4. Gogol Bordello: Live From Axis Mundi (CD & DVD)
5. Mike Doughty: Sad Man Happy Man

Joey’s Top

1. The Raveonettes: In and Out of Control
2. Built To Spill: There Is No Enemy
3. Eugene Mirman: God is a 12 Year Old Boy With Aspergers

Scott’s Top

1. Lake: Let’s Build a Roof (vinyl)
2. Old Canes: Feral Harmonic (vinyl)
3. Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms

More October 2009 Releases Below the Break…

Via Largehearted Boy:

October 6, 2009

A Place to Bury Strangers: Exploding Head (vinyl)
Air: Love 2
Alela Diane: Alela and Alina
The Aliens: Luna
Ancestors: Of Sound Mind (vinyl)
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: Fruit
Asylum Street Spankers: God’s Favorite Band
Bellini: Precious Prize of Gravity
Betty Davis: Is This Love or Desire (remastered)
Betty Davis: Nasty Gal (remastered)
The Big Pink: A Brief History Of Love (vinyl)
Billie Holiday: Lady Day: The Complete Columbia Golden Years (10-CD box set)
Black Heart Procession: Six
Black Hollies: Softly Towards the Light
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath, Vol. 4 (remastered)
Black Sabbath: Never Say Die! (remastered)
Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (remastered)
Blitzen Trapper: Black River Killer EP (vinyl)
Boston Spaceships: Zero to 99
Brandi Carlile: Give Up the Ghost
Built To Spill: There Is No Enemy (2-LP vinyl & CD)
Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Calvin Harris: Ready for the Weekend
Christmas Island: Blackout Summer
The Cinematics: Love and Terror
The Clientele: Bonfires on the Heath (vinyl)
Daniel Johnston: Is and Always Was
Dappled Cities: Zounds (vinyl)
Dead Man’s Bones: Dead Man’s Bones
Dean Martin: My Kind Of Christmas
Duran Duran: Live at Hammersmith 82
Duran Duran: Rio (remastered with bonus disc)
The Dutchess & the Duke: Sunset/ Sunrise (vinyl)
Elliott Brood: Mountain Meadows
Emily Rodgers: Bright Day
Eugene Mirman: God is a 12 Year Old Boy…
Evangelista: Prince of Truth
Exene Cervenka: Somewhere Gone
Frank Sinatra: Christmas with Sinatra and Friends
Glorytellers: Atone
Gogol Bordello: Live From Axis Mundi (CD & DVD)
Gossip: Music for Men
Grant Hart: Hot Wax
Harmonia: Tracks & Traces
Headlights: Wildlife (vinyl)
Heart: Baby Guitars
Hockey: Mind Chaos (vinyl)
HORSE the Band: Desperate Living
Hush Arbors: Yankee Reality
Jamie T.: Kings & Queens
Jemina Pearl: Break It Up
The Jesus Lizard: Down (remastered with bonus tracks) (vinyl)
The Jesus Lizard: Goat (remastered with bonus tracks) (vinyl)
The Jesus Lizard: Head (remastered with bonus tracks) (vinyl)
The Jesus Lizard: Liar (remastered with bonus tracks)
The Jesus Lizard: Pure (remastered with bonus tracks) (vinyl)
Joe Cocker: Live at Woodstock
John Coltrane: Side Steps (5-CD box set)
John Vanderslice: Too Much Time b/w Moon Rocks 7″ (vinyl)
Karl Blau: Zebra (vinyl)
Kraftwerk: Autobahn (remastered)
Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine (remastered)
Kraftwerk: Radio-Activity (remastered)
Kraftwerk: Trans Europa Express (remastered)
Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy (vinyl)
La Roux: La Roux (vinyl)
Ladytron: Light & Magic (reissue)
Ladytron: Live At The London Astoria 16.07.08
Lake: Let’s Build a Roof (vinyl)
Langhorne Slim: Be Set Free (vinyl)
Lights, Lights: The Listening
Lita Ford: Wicked Wonderland
Lou Barlow: Goodnight Unknown (vinyl)
Lucero: 1372 Overton Park (vinyl)
Madonna: Celebration
Madonna: Celebration (Single Remixes) (vinyl)
Mark Knopfler: Get Lucky (CD & DVD)
Me’Shell NdegeOcello: Devil’s Halo (vinyl)
Micah P. Hinson: All Dressed Up & Smelling of Strangers
Michael Jackson: In Memory Of Michael Jackson: 1958-2009

Mission of Burma: The Sound The Speed The Light
The Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come (vinyl)
Music Go Music: Expressions (vinyl)
New Order: Brotherhood (vinyl reissue)
New Order: Low-Life (vinyl reissue)
New Order: Movement (vinyl reissue)
New Order: Power, Corruption & Lies (vinyl reissue)
New Order: Technique (vinyl reissue)
Nick Oliveri: Death Acoustic
No Age: Losing Feeling EP (vinyl)
Noah and the Whale: The First Days of Spring
Orenda Fink: Ask The Night (vinyl)
Phish: Joy (vinyl)
Port O’Brien: Threadbare (vinyl)
The Raveonettes: In and Out of Control (vinyl)
Relient K: Forget and Not Slow Down
Rosanne Cash: The List
Santana: Marathon (remastered)
Shudder To Think: Live From Home (vinyl)
Vic Chesnutt: Skitter on Take Off
Slade: Live at the BBC
The Spinto Band: Slim & Slender EP (vinyl)
Sufjan Stevens & Osso: Run Rabbit Run (vinyl)
Supercluster: Waves
Three Mile Pilot: Planets / Grey Clouds (vinyl)
Toro y Moi: Blessa b/w 109 7″ (vinyl)
Various Artists: Christmas on the Range: Cowboy Classics from Capitol Records
Various Artists: Def Jam 25th Anniversary Box Set (5-CD box set)
Various Artists: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Various Artists: Halloween’s Gravest Hits
Various Artists: NOW That’s What I Call A Country Christmas
The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa
Ween: The Pod (reissue)
Willie Nelson: Souvenirs
The Xx: Xx (vinyl)

October 13, 2009

Ah Holly Fam’ly: Reservoir (vinyl)
Andrew Bird: Anonanimal (vinyl)
Andrew Jackson Jihad: Can’t Maintain (vinyl)
Aretha Franklin: This Christmas
Bad Lieutenant: Never Cry Another Tear
Baroness: Blue Record
Bob Dylan: Christmas In the Heart (CD & greeting cards)
Bob Dylan: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (DVD)
Bowling for Soup: Sorry For Partyin’
Built To Spill: There Is No Enemy (2-LP vinyl & CD)
Brian Setzer Orchestra: Songs from Lonely Avenue (vinyl)
Buddy Wakefield: Live at the Typer Cannon Grand
Can: Inner Space (vinyl reissue)
Carolyn Mark: Let’s Just Stay Here (vinyl)
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien: Parallel Uni-Verses
Devendra Banhart: Baby (vinyl)
Editors: Papillon
Ellen Allien: Lover (vinyl)
Engineers: Three Fact Fader
Erin McKeown: Hundreds of Lions
Fanfarlo: Reservoir
The Fauns: The Fauns
The Flaming Lips: Embryonic (2-CD & DVD)
Forro in the Dark: Light a Candle
Ghostface Killah: Ghostdini, The Wizard of Poetry (green vinyl)
Grant Lee Phillips: Little Moon (vinyl)
Hall & Oates: Do What You Want, Be What You Are:The Music of Daryl Hall & John Oates (4-CD box set)
Har Mar Superstar: Dark Touches
Harper Simon: Harper Simon
The Heavy: The House That Dirt Built
Heavy Trash: Midnight Soul Serenade
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs: Devil Do
Imaad Wasif: The Voidist (vinyl)
Jack Bruce & Robin Trower: Seven Moons Live
Jackson 5: Ultimate Christmas Collection
James McMurtry: Live in Europe (vinyl)
Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 (vinyl)
Jerry Garcia: Hooteroll?
Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound (DVD) (CD & DVD)
Jodis: Secret House
Joe Gideon & the Shark: Harum Scarum (vinyl)
Lackthereof: A Retrospective 1998-2008 or I Was a Christian
Lady Gaga: Paparazzi: The Remixes (vinyl)
The Last Poets: Made in Amerikkka (DVD)
Lightning Bolt: Earthly Delights (vinyl)
Little Girls: Concepts (vinyl)
Los Lonely Boys: 1969 EP
Lostprophets: It’s Not the End of the World-But I Can See It From Here
Modeselektor: Body Language, Vol. 8 (vinyl)
Monsters Of Folk: Monsters Of Folk (vinyl & digital download)
Mum: Prophecies and Reversed Memories (vinyl)
MV&EE: Barn Nova
Neil Diamond: A Cherry Cherry Christmas
Nellie McKay: Normal as Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day (vinyl)
Nels Cline & G.E. Stinson: Elevating Device
Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms
Nick Cave: Nick Cave’s Jukebox
The Paper Chase: Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 (vinyl)
Piano Magic: Ovations (vinyl)
The Raincoats: The Raincoats (vinyl reissue)
Rick Wakeman: The Six Wives Of Henry VIII: Live At Hampton Court Palace
Roxette: Crash! Boom! Bang! (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette: Have A Nice Day (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette: Look Sharp! (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette: Joyride (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette: Pearls Of Passion (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette: Room Service (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette: Tourism (remastered with bonus track)
Shelley Short: Cave a Canoo
Snoop Dogg: The Lost Sessions, Vol. 1
Sole and the Skyrider Band: Plastique
The Summer Set: Love Like This
The Temper Trap: Conditions
Thao With the Get Down Stay Down: Know Better Learn Faster (vinyl)
Thomas Function: In the Valley of Sickness (vinyl)
The Units: History of the Units: The Early Years: 1977-1983
Various Artists: Putumayo Presents: A Family Christmas
Various Artists: Soundtrack 90210
Various Artists: Tumbele: Biguine, Afro and Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean, 1963-1974
Various Artists: The Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection
Viva Voce: Rose City (vinyl)
Widespread Panic: Montreal ’97

October 20, 2009

1990s: Cookies (reissue)
7 Worlds Collide: The Sun Came Out (vinyl)
Akron/Family: River (vinyl)
Alasdair Roberts: The Wyrd Meme EP (vinyl)
Alec Ounsworth: Mo Beauty
Andrew Bird: The Swimming Hour (2-LP vinyl reissue)
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: Fruit
Atlas Sound: Logos (vinyl)
Bauhaus: In the Flat Field (remastered with bonus CD)
Bauhaus: Mask (remastered with bonus CD)
Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Black Heart Procession: Six (vinyl)
Cage the Elephant: Cage the Elephant
Cartel: Cycles
Chll Pll: Aggressively Humble (vinyl)
Clare & the Reasons: Arrow
Converge: Axe to Fall
Dark Meat: Truce Opium (vinyl)
Dead Man’s Bones: Dead Man’s Bones (vinyl)
The Del Lords: Lovers Who Wander (remastered with bonus tracks)
Do Make Say Think: Other Truths (vinyl)
Dolly Parton: Dolly (4-CD box set)
Doveman: The Conformist
Editors: In This Light & On This Evening
El Perro Del Mar: Love Is Not Pop (vinyl)
Electric Six: Kill
Elvis Perkins in Dearland: The Doomsday EP (vinyl)
Espers: III
Excepter: Black Beach (vinyl)
The Fall: Vol. 2 – Rebellious Jukebox
Fela Kuti: The Best of the Black President (2-CDs & DVD)
Finn Riggins: Vs. Wilderness
Flight of the Conchords: I Told You I Was Freaky (vinyl)
Former Ghosts: Fleurs
F**k Buttons: Tarot Sport (vinyl)
Garage A Trois: Power Patriot
Get Back Guinozzi!: Carpet Madness
Get Up Kids: Four Minute Mile (remastered)
Get Up Kids: Red Letter Day/Woodson (remastered)
Gov’t Mule: By A Thread
Heavy Trash: Midnight Soul Serenade (vinyl)
Hem: Twelfth Night (soundtrack)
Islands: Vapours (vinyl)
Jane Wiedlin: Jane Wiedlin (reissue)
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard: One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur (vinyl & DVD) (CD & DVD)
Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 (vinyl)
Jello Biafra: The Audacity of Hype
Jesu: Opiate Sun (vinyl)
Jon & Roy: Another Noon
Jonsi & Alex: Riceboy Sleeps (2-LP vinyl)
King Crimson: Red (remastered with bonus DVD)
Kings of Convenience: Declaration of Dependance (vinyl)
Kris Kristofferson: Closer To The Bone (vinyl)
Leonard Cohen: Live At The Isle of Wight (CD & DVD) (Blu-ray DVD) (2-LP vinyl)
Lissy Trullie: Self-Taught Learner (vinyl)
Little Dragon: Machine Dreams (vinyl)
Loreena McKennitt: A Mediterranean Odyssey
Lou Reed: Legendary Hearts (remastered)
Lou Reed: New Sensations (remastered)
Lyle Lovett: Natural Forces
Madonna: Celebration (remixes) (vinyl)
Majeure: Timespan (vinyl)
Maps: Turning the Mind
Michael Jackson: Michael Jackson: The Remix Suite (vinyl)
Michael Jackson: This Is It
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Summer of Fear
Mother Hips: Pacific Dust (vinyl)
Naam: Naam
Nouvelle Vague: 3 (vinyl)
Old Canes: Feral Harmonic (vinyl)
OOIOO: Armonico Hewa (vinyl)
Parlour Steps: The Hidden Names
Paul Bowles: Baptism Of Solitude (reissue)
Pelican: What We All Come to Need
Peter Bradley Adams: Traces
Placebo: Ashtray Heart
Pylon: Chomp (remastered with bonus tracks)
Radio Slave: Fabric 48
Rain Machine: Rain Machine (vinyl)
Richard Youngs: Under Stellar Stream
Richmond Fontaine: Winnemucca
RJD2: 2002-2010 (4-LP vinyl box set)
Robert Francis: Before Nightfall
Rosanne Cash: The List (vinyl)
Roxy Music: More Than This – The Story of Roxy Music (dvd)
Russian Circles: Geneva
Sam Bush: Circles Around Me
Shackleton: Three EPs
Shrinebuilder: Shrinebuilder (vinyl)
The Slits: Trapped Animal (vinyl)
Snow Patrol: Late Night Tales
Spiral Stairs: The Real Free
Star F**king Hipsters: Never Rest in Peace (vinyl)
The String Cheese Incident: Trick or Treat: Best of the String Cheese Incident
Sufjan Stevens: The BQE (vinyl)
Tickley Feather: Hors d’Oeuvres (vinyl)
Train: Save Me San Francisco
U.S.E: Loveworld
Various Artists: A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (reissue)
Various Artists: Dillanthology, Vol. 3
Various Artists: Gastonia Gallop: Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues – Piedmont Textile Workers On Record: Gaston County, North Carolina, 1927-1931
Various Artists: Saw 6 (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Three Score & Ten – A Voice To The People (7-CD box set)
Various Artists: A Tribute to The Mississippi Sheiks – Things About Comin’ My Way
Various Artists: Yo Gabba Gabba: Music Is Awesome
The Veils: Nux Vomica (reissue)
Via Tania: Moon Sweet Moon
Weird Al Yankovic: The Essential Weird Al Yankovic
White Denim: Fits (vinyl)
White Rainbow: New Clouds
Wolfmother: New Moon Rising: The Remixes
Yo-Yo Ma: Yo-Yo Ma: 30 Years Outside the Box (90-CD box set)
Young Marble Giants: Live At The Hurrah (vinyl)

October 27, 2009

Aarktica: In Sea
Awesome New Republic: Hearts
Barzin: Notes to an Absent Lover (vinyl)
Bassnectar: Cozza Frenzy
The Blind Boys of Alabama: Duets
Blondie: Blondie Singles Collection: 1977-1982 (remastered)
BOAT: Setting the Paces
Bob Dylan: Self-Portrait (vinyl reissue)
The Breakaways: Walking Out on Love: The Lostsessions
Broadcast & The Focus Group: Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Broadfield Marchers: Displayed in Reflections
Bryan Scary: Mad Valentines EP
Chet: Chelsea Silver Please Come Home
Chuck Prophet: Let Freedom Ring
Cub Country: Stretch That Skull Cover and Smile (vinyl)
Deleted Waveform Gatherings: Ghost, She Said
Depeche Mode: Get the Balance Right (reissue)
Depeche Mode: Leave In Silence (reissue)
Devendra Banhart: What Will Be
Eagle Twin: Unkindness of Crows (vinyl)
Echo and the Bunnymen: The Fountain
Gemma Ray: Lights Out Zoltar! (vinyl)
Glass Ghost: Idol Omen (vinyl)
Gov’t Mule: By A Thread
Group Bombino: Guitars From Agadez Vol. 2
Guano Padano: Guano Padano
The Heavy: The House That Dirt Built (vinyl)
Heavy Trash: Midnight Soul Serenade (vinyl)
Hem: Twelfth Night (soundtrack)
Holy Sons: Criminal’s Return
Horse Feathers: Cascades
Hudson Mohawke: Butter (vinyl)
I Love You: Bell Ord Forrest
James Husband: A Parallax I (vinyl)
Jesu: Opiate Sun
John Adams: Nixon in China (3-CD box set)
Jon Shain: Times Right Now
Junk Culture: West Coast
Lightning Bolt: Earthly Delights
Lover!: No Dreams Please
Marillion: The Singles 82-88 (3-CD box set)
Merzbow: Bird Series Volume Ten
Morningwood: Diamonds & Studs
Morrissey: Hmv/Parlophone Singles ’88-’95 (3-CD box set)
Mother Hips: Pacific Dust
The Nerves: Live at the Pirate’s Cove (vinyl)
Of Montreal: Aldhils Arboretum (vinyl reissue)
Of Montreal: Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy (vinyl reissue)
Of Montreal: The Bird Who Ate the Rabbit’s Flower (vinyl reissue)
Of Montreal: Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse (vinyl reissue)
Of Montreal: Early Four Track Recordings (vinyl reissue)
Paul Weller: Paul Weller (remastered with bonus dsc)
Pelican: What We All Come To Need
Pink Martini: Splendor in the Grass
Pugwash: Giddy
Pyramids w/ Nadja: Pyramids w/ Nadj
R.E.M.: Live at the Olympia (2-CD) (2-CD & DVD)
Rosie Flores: Girl of the Century (vinyl)
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family: Go Waggaloo
Sean Lennon: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Undead (soundtrack)
Seven Storey Mountain: Seven Storey Mountain EP
The Sight Below: Murmur EP
Sole and the Skyrider Band: Plastique (vinyl)
Spandau Ballet: Heart Like a Sky (reissue)
Status Quo: Pictures: Live At Montreux 2009
Stephen Stills: Live at Shepherd’s Bush
The Swell Season: Strict Joy (2-CD & DVD)
Talk Normal: Sugarland
Talking Heads: Little Creatures (reissue with bonus tracks)
Tegan and Sara: Sainthood
Those Poor Bastards: Abominations
U2: The Unforgettable Fire (remastered) (3-CD) (2-CD & DVD)
Various Artists: An All-Star Salute to Christmas
Various Artists: The Four Kings of Blues Guitar
Various Artists: Putumayo Presents: Jazz Around the World
Various Artists: Songs From The Point!
Wilco: Being There (2-LP vinyl & CD reissue)
Wolfmother: Cosmic Egg
Wrinkle Neck Mules: Let The Lead Fly
You & Yourn: It Would Make Things Worse (vinyl)