Bright Eyes - Cassadaga & Four Winds EP

The new Bright Eyes leaked today. I downloaded it. Then I uploaded it. Now you download it. I don't even know if it's good or not because I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet. Also included is the Four Winds EP which has five b-sides that aren't on Cassadaga. The EP is really good, especially the title track. Apparently there's another b-side called "Endless Entertainment" on the official Bright Eyes website, but I can't seem to find it. There's another b-side that will go out to people who pre-order the album called "Susan Miller Rag", but it doesn't seem like that has been leaked yet. If I find either of those, I'll be sure to post them.


Four Winds EP
1. Four Winds
2. Reinvent the Wheel
3. Smoke Without Fire (feat. M. Ward)
4. Stray Dog Freedom (feat. Ben Kweller)
5. Cartoon Blues
6. Tourist Trap


Cassadaga
1. Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed)
2. Four Winds
3. If the Brakeman Turns My Way
4. Hot Knives
5. Make a Plan to Love Me
6. Soul Singer in a Session Band
7. Classic Cars
8. Middleman
9. Cleanse Song
10. No One Would Riot for Less
11. Coat Check Dream Song
12. I Must Belong Somewhere
13. Lime Tree

Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas

Best. Christmas album. Ever. Here are all five discs of Sufjan's new Christmas box set, plus an alternate version of "Put the Lights On the Tree" from the self-released version of Volume II. Enjoy. Also, I really encourage you to go out and pick this up if you like it. You can find it for $20 easily, and the packaging is really cool. You also get a bunch of extra goodies in the box.


Volume 1: Noel
1. Silent Night
2. O Come O Come Emmanuel
3. We're Goin' To the Country!
4. Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming
5. It's Christmas! Let's Be Glad!
6. Holy Holy, etc.
7. Amazing Grace

Volume 2: Hark!
1. Angels We Have Heard on High
2. Put the Lights on the Tree
3. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
4. I Saw Three Ships
5. Only at Christmas Time
6. Once in Royal David's City
7. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!
8. What Child Is This Anyway?
9. Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella

Volume 3: Ding! Dong!
1. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
2. Come on! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance!
3. We Three Kings
4. O Holy Night
5. That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!
6. Ding! Dong!
7. All the King's Horns
8. The Friendly Beasts

Volume 4: Joy
1. The Little Drummer Boy
2. Away In A Manger
3. Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!
4. The First Noel
5. Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day? (Well, You Deserved It!)
6. The Incarnation
7. Joy To The World

Volume 5: Peace
1. Once in Royal David's City
2. Get Behind Me, Santa!
3. Jingle Bells
4. Christmas in July
5. Lo! How A Rose E'er Blooming
6. Jupiter Winter
7. Sister Winter
8. O Come O Come Emmanuel
9. Star of Wonder
10. Holy, Holy, Holy
11. The Winter Solstice

Langhorne Slim - When the Sun's Gone Down

I'm too lazy to write a lot about this album, so take my word when I say it's a mix of country, folk, rock, and a little bluegrass, and that it's also one of my favorite happy albums. If this doesn't make you smile, you're wrong.



1. In the Midnight
2. Set Em Up
3. Mary
4. Sisterhood
5. Electric Love Letter
6. And If It's True
7. Hanshaw Shuffle (Drunken Horse)
8. Drowning
9. I Ain't Proud
10. Loretta Lee Jones
11. By the Time the Sun's Gone Down
12. Hope and Fullfillment
13. I Will
14. Checking Out
15. I Love to Dance

Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky

This album is one of the best ones I've heard recently. At this point it's vying for my favorite album of the year, along with Brother, Sister by mewithoutYou. Dark, folky, apocalyptic, scary, sad, doomy, and beautiful, it's best listened to beginning to end.



1. Idumæa [Vocals: Marc Almond]
2. Sunset (The Death of Thumbelina)
3. Black Ships in the Sky
4. Then Kill Cæsar
5. Idumæa [Vocals: Bonnie "Prince" Billy]
6. This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich
7. Dissolution of 'The Boat Millions of Years'
8. Idumæa [Vocals: Baby Dee]
9. Bind Your Tortoise Mouth
10. Idumæa [Vocals: Antony]
11. Black Ships Seen Last Year South of Heaven
12. Babylon Destroyer
13. Idumæa [Vocals: Clodagh Simonds]
14. Black Ships Were Sinking into Idumæa [Vocals: Cosey Fanni Tutti]
15. Beautiful Dancing Dust [(Vocals: Antony]
16. Idumæa [Vocals: Pantaleimon]
17. Black Ships in Their Harbours
18. Idumæa [Vocals: David Tibet]
19. Black Ships Ate the Sky
20. Why Cæsar Is Burning, Pt. 2
21. Idumæa [Vocals: Shirley Collins]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Yay! I finally got around to uploading the greatest album of all time! I'm not even going to write anything about this one, suffice to say that it literally changed my life, something only 4 or 5 bands have managed to do. Enjoy, and all that nonsense.



1. The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
2. The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 & 3
3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Two-Headed Boy
5. The Fool
6. Holland, 1945
7. Communist Daughter
8. Oh Comely
9. Ghost
10. Untitled
11. Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2

Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche (Full Album - Leaked!)

Yes indeed, the new Sufjan album comprised of outtakes and demo versions from Illinois (including three alternate versions of Chicago... woohoo!) got leaked already, even though it's not scheduled to come out until July. I'm downloading it right now, so I can't write anything about how awesome it is yet (although I've already heard the title track, and it is as good as anything on Illinois). You can thank Tim for this one, since he sent me the link. Here it be:


1. The Avalanche
2. Dear Mr Supercomputer
3. Adlai Stevenson
4. The Vivian Girls Are Visited In the Night by Saint Dargarius and his Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
5. Chicago (acoustic version)
6. The Henney Buggy Band
7. Saul Bellow
8. Carlyle Lake
9. Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in his Hair
10. The Mistress Witch from McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
11. Kaskaskia River
12. Chicago (adult contemporary easy listening version)
13. Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
14. No Man's Land
15. The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
16. The Pick-up
17. The Perpetual Self, or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?"
18. For Clyde Tombaugh
19. Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)
20. Pittsfield
21. The Undivided Self (for Eppie and Popo)

Bonus album review-type thing
Bonus news blurb about the album

Sufjan Stevens Rarities

While looking for a tracklisting for the vinyl version of "Welcome to Michigan" so I could see what the bonus tracks were before I bought it, I stumbled across an amazing find. 20 vinyl-only/rare/unreleased Sufjan tracks! Woohoo! So here's the link:

http://allimperfectthings.typepad.com/allimperfectthings/2006/03/sufjan_stevens_.html

Orange Twin Field Works (Jeff Mangum) - Volume 1 (Full Album)

Here is a 33 minute sound collage of a Bulgarian folk music festival, put together and produced by none other than Neutral Milk Hotel's own Jeff Mangum. I'll be honest and say that I haven't listened to it yet since I just got it, but I know some people who wanted it, so I decided to be nice and not make them wait any longer. Here it be:



1. Untitled/Track 1/Whatever you'd like to call it... it is the entire album, after all