Peter Bjorn and John just came out with a new album. Without Indie 103.1, I don’t know who’s supposed to promote this stuff. Living Thing is an awesome follow-up to their smashing debut album Writer’s Block. The sparse, catchy melodies are what you’d expect, but the songwriting and production have moved forward to remain timely and fresh. It’s still growing on me, and I think this is an album that can stay on repeat for a week or two.
While I’m still slowly awakening to the awesomeness of their first album, Cookies, 1990’s has come out with Kicks, another fun, “let’s be promiscuous and shake a leg” rock and roll novella. These guys are wholly underappreciated. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for their show at The Echo June 16th.
Filter Magazine recently awakened me to the utter greatness of Apollo Sunshine. Their somewhat recent album Shall Noise Upon fully blows my mind. It’s epic in scope and winds from fun rock/pop to Wall of Sound to psychadelia and back. It also has my favorite ’secret song’ of all time.
If you want to listen to these and don’t know how, you can do what I do and subscribe to Rhapsody for a few bucks a month, or you can check out lala.com, where you can listen to any song once (the whole song) for free, add a song to your streaming playlist for $0.15, or buy a song outright (for instance, to burn) for a more normal price.
That’s not crotchety!