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WHITE RABBITS - It's Frightening

Last night I had a dream that I was being taught to speak French by learning the lyrics to the song Charles Barkley sings in the Taco Bell commercial, and singing it over and over in French. ("le box, le box rochers balancent la cinq boîte de dollar") It was genuinely awful.


So today I needed a great album to get the awful ditty out of my head for good, and It's Frightening did just that.  Thank you White Rabbits!  If you haven't heard these Brooklyn transplants (via Columbia, Missouri), I suggest starting here with their second album, released in May of last year.  The album was produced by Britt Daniel, so fans of Spoon will familiarize with the pounding pianos and drums in the forefront of several songs.  Their are also shades of solo Thom Yorke and quieter, spooky Radiohead on tracks like "Lionesse" and "Rudie Fails".  Check out the albums opening track "Percussion Gun" below, or quit messing about and go grab the whole album.  You'll thank me later.  Screw you, Barkley.

It's 2/22, DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR BOOMBOX IS??

I do, and at the moment my Boombox can't get enough of Spoon's new album Transference, especially "Written in Reverse".  Also Real Estate's self-titled fuzz gem is getting some repeated spins today.  I'm feeling like a shut in, and slightly haunted by desires to both ski in Colorado and figure out who the hell Ke$ha is.  Unfortunately, neither will happen tonight, so music and writing will have to satiate me... then wine... then Kung Fu. Happy reading people.  Have a Spoon video, on me.

Written In Reverse from Spoon on Vimeo.

New Yeasayer, Spoon

Brooklyn brain teasers Yeasayer will release their sophomore album, Odd Blood, on February 9th!

The follow-up to 2007's All Night Cymbals features ten new tracks, and will be released on the band's new label, Secretly Canadian.

Free download of the new single "Ambling Alp" available here.

Also, Austin rockers Spoon will grace us with Transference on January 26th. It will be the bands seventh album, and after 2007's masterful Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, expectations will be high! Can't wait...