Newish Music
September 24th, 2004The new Augie March album, Strange Bird, is absolutely gorgeous. Transcendent melodies and lush instrumentation. This could be my favorite new music since The Decemberists. Hopefully, the album will do well so more of their stuff will become available in the U.S. You can stream some tunes here; I’d start with “Little Wonder.” [Update: an mp3 of “Song in the Key of Chance” at Filter]
Ex-Beulah frontman Miles Kurowsky is supposedly putting together a solo album. I finally bought a used copy of When Your Heartstrings Break last weekend at the Atlanta Record Show, thereby completing my Beulah collection (I had the songs as mp3s) approximately six weeks after the band broke up!
The new Interpol video is available on MTV. The album comes out next week (Last Plane to Jakarta: 101 THINGS TO WHICH YOU CAN COMPARE INTERPOL BESIDES JOY DIVISION). So does Brian Wilson’s fabled Smile. Both are eagerly awaited, although they promise to have very little in common.