Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: Assorted new albums

[quote name="Ray of Light"]<b>Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (Blue CD-R prerelease)</b> Fun and literate and not too nerdy. Also! Very tooty. They will never stay together long enough to release a third album (spoiler); enjoy this first one while you can! <b>Tegan and Sara - The Con</b> Slicker than any previous effort. This is good and bad. The bad is that the polished format would never allow a song like "Superstar", which stood out right away as tongue-in-cheek when you heard its 1980s Pepsi Commercial guitars after the 12 tracks of acousticism on <i>This Business of Art</i>. On <i>Con</i>, Superstar would fit right in and you'd be led to believe that Tegan and Sara really wanted to be .... Superstars. This is an album anyone can like. <b>Arthur & Yu - In Camera</b> A <b>Mark</b> recommendation. If South Park's "Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding" movie had a soundtrack, maybe this would be it. Deserving of a listen by you. Bonus: <b>Beautiful South - Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs</b> This is a cover album from 2004 that I just found out about. It's good. [/quote]