And two I forgot…
When making most anticipated lists, you always seem to forget something, that at an earlier stage you thought “hey, this is going to be fantastic”, and since it is so far in the future it has left your consciousness for a while.
Two albums have returned to mine…
The Rosewood Thieves - Rise And Shine
Should be a marvellous album if their Lennon/Dylan-influenced EPs are anything to go by. You can’t really have better influences than those. Plus they’ve got an ex-Whiskeytowner on board.
Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
Word on the street is that this is utterly fantastic, the street in question is the one I live on. I was the mouth those words came from. This isn’t out properly til March, so til then you’ll have to get our your copy of Rubies and click on this link. Make sure to have a few buddies around.
http://www.harmoniummusic.com/junk/Destroyer.txt
January 25th, 2008 at 8:23 am
I can verify the awesomeness of “Trouble in Dreams” as I was directed to a secret cache of pirate treasure by an ancient map and magical sextant. In said treasure hoard, was a set of high-quality mp3 format computer files containing “Trouble in Dreams”… having been a Destroyer fan for many years now, and obsessively listening to every album dozens of times, I MIGHT BE BIASED, so I will qualify this by saying I thought Rubies was just kind of OK-good, and Your Blues doesn’t make it into the player much at all anymore… but “Trouble in Dreams” is the best thing he’s done since Streethawk.