There appears to be flurry of activity coming up in the music world. Some of my favourite bands and acts will be releasing new albums over the next few weeks, and I want to give you a run down of those that I think will be worth a listen.
Bloc Party (Myspace) will be dropping “Intimacy” this week, with new tracks like Trojan Horse already leaking. I am guessing that this is a rush job for some reason, but I quite like this new sound, as seen on Flux in the past. Whether all Bloc Party fans agree is another thing.
Jack L (Myspace) is set to release his new album, “Burn On” in early October. I heard some songs from it at the Vicar Street show last March, and they sound great. There is a song on there called Great Wall of China, and maybe we’ll get an album release of Stardust… Just read this is an album of Randy Newman covers, with an original album coming later in the year. Theres a sample of new single, “I Think It’s Going To Rain Today” on his website, at www.jacklukeman.com. He is also playing two gigs on the 9th and 10th of October to herald the new album.
Snow Patrol (Myspace) are set to release “A Hundred Million Suns” in the very near future, having been recording for the last number of months. How will it sound? Who knows. I am hoping for some return to roots tracks that would not have been out of place on When This Is All Over, or Songs For Polar Bears.
Dirty Epics (Myspace) are keeping us waiting for “Straight In, No Kissin”, and I am still looking forward to it, even after an Oxegen set that I didn’t find totally riveting, there seemed to be something missing. Hopefully the chunky punk sound of Pony and The One will feature heavily.
Kings Of Leon (Myspace) will be flogging “Only By The Night” on September 23rd. Pre-released track Crawl sounds good.
And also worth a look, and in your local record shop/itunes now are the following:
The Script (Myspace) I know it ain’t cool or clever to suggest the number one album, but these guys make good music, not just disposable pop crap. Songs like Before The Worst, and The End are well written and considered, and I find them so catchy. And I knew about them when there were just playing support gigs to Newton Faulkner 
Codes (Myspace) My favourite “doom rock” band. WTF is doom rock? I think Metro Dublin has been sniffing the glue. Anyways, get out and buy This Is Goodbye. Now.
Viva La Vida i quite good, and I have enjoyed We Started Nothing and Oracular Spectacular, but I am really looking forward to some new decent music at long last. Roll on he next few weeks.
