Montreal's Arcade Fire successfully avoided the sophomore slump with 2007's apocalyptic Neon Bible. Heavier and more uncertain than their nearly perfect, darkly optimistic 2004 debut, the album aimed for the nosebleed section and left a red mess.
A classic indie ode to dusty tumbleweeds, leather jackets, red lipstick, and lovesickness so severe it can only be cured by an English band appropriating western Americana.
"The nobility of the human spirit is to recover and rebound," he says. "Yeah, I could focus on how f***ed everything is, but I feel now is the time when being hopeful is necessary, and a still-believable emotion within what makes Interpol Interpol."
The Car is the seventh studio album from Arctic Monkeys. Featuring ten new songs written by Alex Turner, produced by James Ford and recorded at Butley Priory, Suffolk, La Frette, Paris and RAK Studios, London.
Jets To Brazil first record Orange Rhyming Dictionary has long been out of print but is now available again.
The first in a trio of critically pop acclaimed releases this is the beginning of what would become a growing sound.
Lana Del Rey reads fourteen poems from Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass, accompanied by Jack Antonoff’s subtle musical vignettes; an intimate, spare spoken-word CD.
Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto - Quatermass Seven LP: seven raw, sci-fi-tinged psych grooves recorded live at Catto's Quatermass studio; deep fuzz, tight rhythm work, and the epic closer "After After".
Olly Alexander's first album under his own name, Polari folds '80s-club shimmer into intimate songwriting. Indie-exclusive transparent purple LP with poster.