Largehearted Boy: This Week's Interesting Music Releases (June 3rd, 2008)

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This Week's Interesting Music Releases (June 3rd, 2008)

Given the quality of the music releases, this has to be my favorite release week of the year so far. I can definitely see a couple of these releases on my year-end list of favorite albums. First and foremost Shearwater's Rook is as strong an album as I have heard all year. Another stellar release is the Centro-matic/South San Gabriel double album, Dual Hawks.

Other albums I have heard and can strongly recommend include Fleet Foxes' self-titled album, Aimee Mann's @#%&! Smilers, Ladytron's Velocifero, Oppenheimer's Take the Whole Midrange and Boost It, and Weezer's Weezer (Red Album).

Radiohead's The Best of is also out this week in three different options: a 1-CD edition, a 2-CD edition, and a 4-album vinyl edition.

What are you picking up this week? Are there any releases worth adding to the list?

this week's interesting CD releases:

The Accidental: There Were Wolves
The Accidental: There Were Wolves [vinyl]
Adem: Takes
Aimee Mann: @#%&! Smilers
Aimee Mann: @#%&! Smilers (deluxe edition)
Amy Winehouse: Frank (deluxe edition)
Animal Collective: Water Curses EP [vinyl]
Ashanti: The Declaration (deluxe edition)
Baskervilles: Twilight
Bitter:Sweet: Drama
Bret Michaels: Rock My World
Centro-matic / South San Gabriel: Dual Hawks
Chameleons: Script of the Bridge: 25th Anniversary Edition (remastered)
Coldplay: Violet Hill (import single)
The Cool Kids: Bake Sale
Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles [vinyl]
Disturbed: Indestructible
Dr. John and the Lower 911: City That Care Forgot
Duffy: Warwick Avenue (import single)
Ed Harcourt: Beautiful Lie
Elton John: Elton John (remastered)
Elton John: Tumbleweed Connection (remastered)
Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes [vinyl]
The Futureheads: This Is Not The World
Gang: Zero Hits
Gary Numan: Pure (reissue)
Gavin Rossdale: Wanderlust
George Stanford: Big Drop
Great White: Great Zeppelin: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin
Harvey Milk: Life…The Best Game in Town
HorrorPops: Kiss Kiss Kill Kill [vinyl]
Jakob Dylan: Seeing Things [vinyl]
Jaguar Love: Jaguar Love EP
Jean Grae: Jeanius
Jewel: Perfectly Clear
Joshua James: Sun Is Always Brighter
KMFDM: Extra Volume 1
Ladytron: Velocifero
Lykke Li: I'm Good I'm Gone (import single)
The M's: Real Close Ones
The M's: Real Close Ones [vinyl]
Madonna: 4 Minutes (import single) [vinyl]
Manu Chao: Politik Kills Remix EP
Manu Chao: Politik Kills Remix EP [vinyl]
Matmos: California Rhinoplasty EP
Minus The Bear: They Make Beer Commercials Like This EP (reissue)
Minus The Bear: They Make Beer Commercials Like This EP (reissue) [vinyl]
Opeth: Watershed
Oppenheimer: Take the Whole Midrange and Boost It
Paper Rival: Dialog
Philip Glass: Philip Glass: Waiting for the Barbarians (box set)
Pinetop Perkins & Friends: Pinetop Perkins & Friends
The Pinker Tones: Wild Animals
Radiohead: Radiohead: The Best Of Best (1-CD edition)
Radiohead: Radiohead: The Best Of Best (2-CD edition)
Radiohead: Radiohead: The Best Of Best (4-album edition) [vinyl]
REM: Hollow Man (import single)
Shearwater: Rook
Shearwater: Rook [vinyl]
She & Him: Volume One [vinyl]
Stars Like Fleas: The Ken Burns Effect
Subtle: Exiting Arm
Tea Leaf Green: Taught to Be Proud (reissue)
Thank You: Terrible Two
Ting Tings: We Started Nothing
The Traveling Wilburys: The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 (remastered)
The Traveling Wilburys: The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3 (remastered)
Various Artists: Daptone 7 inch Singles Collection, Vol. 2
Various Artists: The Jewish Songbook: The Heart & Humor of a People
Various Artists: 2008 Warped Tour Compilation
The Virgins: The Virgins
Weezer: Weezer (Red Album)
Weezer: Weezer (Red Album) (deluxe edition with bonus tracks)
William F. Gibbs: My Fellow Sophisticates
Your Highness Electric: The Grand Hooded Phantom