Largehearted Boy: This Week's Interesting CD & DVD Releases

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May 8, 2006

This Week's Interesting CD & DVD Releases

In a week filled with exciting new music releases, my pre-orders consisted of Neil Young's protest album (out digitally last week), Living With War, blogger-approved Beirut's Gulag Orkestar, The Stills' Without Feathers, Shearwater's Palo Santo, and Kimya Dawson's Remember That I Love You. With all this music headed my way, it is the Kimya Dawson disc that I am most waiting to spin.

Here are the discs I have received as promos or picked up before their release date that I can recommend in varying degrees:

Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock & Roll [cd]
Danielson: Ships [cd]
Eugene Mirman: En Garde Society (with bonus DVD) [cd]
Matmos: The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast [cd]
Wooden Wand: Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg [cd]

I'm headed out tomorrow to pick up the final Grandaddy disc, Just Like The Fambly Cat, what else should be on my radar?

My only DVD preorder was the first season of the "sqigglevision" classic, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. I'm hoping the super-megastore will have a deep discount on the third season of Scrubs, and looking for other deals on this week's releases. What can you recommend?

Ane Brun: A Temporary Dive [cd]
Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock & Roll [cd]
Beirut: Gulag Orkestar [cd]
Black Heart Procession: The Spell [cd]
Caribou: Start Breaking My Heart (reissue with bonus CD) [cd]
Caribou: Up in Flames (reissue with bonus CD) [cd]
Chris Isaak: Best Of Chris Isaak [cd]
Danielson: Ships [cd]
Dirty Pretty Things: Waterloo To Anywhere (UK release) [cd]
Eighteenth Day of May: Eighteenth Day of May [cd]
Electric Soft Parade: Human Body EP [cd]
Eugene Mirman: En Garde Society (with bonus DVD) [cd]
Everyother: Pink Sticky Lies EP [cd]
Extra Golden: Ok-Oyot System [cd]
Futureheads: Area EP [cd]
Gnarls Barkley: St Elsewhere [cd]
Grandaddy: Just Like The Fambly Cat [cd]
Instruments: Cast a Half Shadow [cd]
Jolie Holland: Springtime Can Kill You [cd]
Jonathan Kane: I Looked at the Sun [cd]
Kimya Dawson: Remember That I Love You [cd]
KMFDM: Ruck Zuck EP [cd]
Lansing-Freiden: Dividing Island [cd]
The Like Young: Last Secrets [cd]
Matmos: The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast [cd]
Mystery Jets: Flotsam & Jetsam [cd]
Neil Young: Living With War [cd]
New York Dolls: From Here to Eternity: The Live Bootleg Box Set [cd]
Paul Simon: Surprise [cd]
Pony Up!: Make Love to the Judges With Your Eyes [cd]
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium [cd]
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium (limited edition, 2 CDs + DVD) [cd]
Rinocerose: Rinocerose [cd]
Serena-Maneesh: Serena-Maneesh [cd]
Shearwater: Palo Santo [cd]
Snow Patrol: Eyes Open [cd]
The Stills: Without Feathers [cd]
Thee More Shallows: Monkey Vs Shark [cd]
They Might Be Giants: Severe Tire Damage [cd]
Various Artists: Charmed: The Final Chapter [cd]
Various Artists: Friends With Money (soundtrack) [cd]
Various Artists: Royal Dan: A Tribute to Genius of Steely Dan [cd]
Various Artists: John Peel & Sheila: The Pig's Big 78's a B
Various Artists: Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman [cd]
Velvet Teen: Gyzmkid EP [cd]
Wooden Wand: Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg [cd]
Yonder Mountain String Band: Yonder Mountain String Band [cd]
Zach Hill, Mick Barr: Shred Earthship [cd]