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New Release Roundup :: In Haiku!

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All right, 2007 has been a great year for new releases, and I have to admit that we have been remarkably remiss by covering barely 1/8th of them. For the record (the not so timely record) we heard, enjoyed, and had big opinions about The Shins, St. Vincent, Spoon, Okkervil River, the National, New Pornographers, Electrelane.... A veritable laundry list of what I have come to think of as my generation's adult contemporary. We just never got around to sharing those opinions; and, to be fair, there has been SO MUCH new music that we barely got around to thinking that the new Okkervil River was one of the best things ever before we had to take some time to wonder who St Vincent reminded us of.


In any event, my iTunes has been flooded lately with an influx of new music, so much that I can barely take time to give it all the attention that it needs... and writing a full review? No thanks, and especially not five or more. So as a compromise, I have composed the following Haiku poems for some of the more exciting and notable releases of the past few weeks. (There's also an older one thrown in that it would be almost criminal not to mention. I'll go ahead and throw their name out there, because they are hands down no shit goddamn good: Vampire Weekend! Vampire Weekend! Vampire Weekend!)



Without further ado, Haiku:

























































iron & wine/ the shepherd's dog

hushed whispers big sound
does it seem bearded to you?
the south is rising



beirut/ the flying club cup

poland to paris
life is still a cabaret
edith would be proud




les savy fav/ let's stay friends

art rock whatever
that is i do like your e.
t. purse mr harrington



jens lekman/ night falls over kortedala


stephin merrit but
more gay yet not really so
lush morrissey pop



dirty projectors/ rise above (reinvention of the black flag classic)


a sexy concept
happiness transcends aggro
a little much dischord



vampire weekend/ vampire wekend e.p.


a happy fusion
of sounds too many to site
you must buy it now





radiohead/ in rainbows


not ok comput
er or kid a but thank god
not amnesiac



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