Easily one of the most anticipated sophomore albums since Weezer's Pinkerton, Helplessness Blues is due to drop in stores in a little over a month. Un?fortunately, the album has already leaked all over the internet like a BP oil well (too soon?) I'm not saying we listened to it, I'm not saying we didn't.
What we're not going to do: tell people where to find it. What we will do: describe the album's sound, list the tracks and post the three songs released by the band to date. Of course there's the beautiful, driving, times-were-simpler-then, title track, Helplessness Blues, but there's also Bedouin Dress, an easy, Sunday-drive-of-a-song, and Battery Kinzie, probably the song most similar to their eponymous first album, EP and Sun Giant EP. These three early releases are very indicative of the album's overall timbre - gently rolling melodies, broad harmonies, head-bobbing and shoulder-swaying songs reminiscent of certain 60's folk legends.
Quite simply, there's nobody else in the public mainstream making music like this right now. Listen, love, repeat.
- "Montezuma"
- "Bedouin Dress"
- "Sim Sala Bim"
- "Battery Kinzie"
- "The Plains/Bitter Dancer"
- "Helplessness Blues"
- "The Cascades"
- "Lorelai"
- "Someone You'd Admire"
- "The Shrine/An Argument"
- "Blue Spotted Tail"
- "Grown Ocean"
I missed their 2008 eponymous campaign, but I will definately purchase their new offering.
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