by Bill DeVille
Member since:
January 22, 2007

What recent release has spent more time in your CD player than any other?

November 17, 2009 04:55 PM UTC
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth has a new solo project entitled "Mo Beauty," and the Musicheads chime in on how is stacks up to Ounsworth's work with the band that helped launched his career.  Mark Wheat and David Safar join me to also discuss Devendra Banhart's latest effort, "What Will We Be," and Mayer Hawthorne's neo-soul outing "A Strange Arrangement." 

For this week's question, we ask, "What recent release has spent more time in your CD player than any other?"

Musicheads airs every Tuesday at 10 p.m. CT on 89.3 The Current.

Comments: 14

Dan Qualy Nov 18, 2009, 1:31am UTC
The Raveonettes - In And Out Of Control.

This album is amazing. It blows everything else they've done out of the water! I hadn't heard the new album before seeing them a few weeks ago at First Avenue. It was hands down the best show I've seen this year! So I had to go and get the album, and it's been blowing my mind for the last couple weeks.
Bill DeVille Nov 18, 2009, 2:07am UTC
That Avett Brothers album has been in my player for a couple months. I like how their songwriting has become more focused without totally losing what the band is all about.
Kerry Dexter Nov 18, 2009, 3:23am UTC
Matt and Shannon Heaton -- Lovers' Well. for both music choices and musicality/creativity in singing and playing.
Ryan H. Nov 18, 2009, 9:35am UTC
Judging from recent Musicheads discussions, I think some people might have to take "CD Player" in a pretty broad sense!

In my ACTUAL CD player, The Decemberists' "Hazards of Love" is still in pretty heavy rotation, along with "Wilco (The Album)".
Eric Ogdahl Nov 18, 2009, 11:22am UTC
Grizzly Bear's "Veckatimest" has by far spent the most time in my CD player. I bought it the day it came out back in June, and I still keep it in heavy rotation. Next to that, Bibio's "Ambivalence Avenue" has been a CD I've continuously listened to since its release date. The English bloke has released three albums this year, one being a remix disc, and I've found all of them to be quite entertaining. The Current should play more of him.
soundscapem n. Nov 19, 2009, 2:44am UTC
in the last couple of months

Local Natives - Gorilla Manor

It the best debut album of 2009 to me. I've been singijng this band's praises since early in 2007 when they were called "Cavil at Rest." And it didn't take long, back then to realize the songwriting talent they had. They just waited awhile before putting out their 1st full-length work.

People will get to know them better in 2010, when it finally drops in the States, but it's been a big buzz on the blogs over the last 3 or 4 months.
James M. Nov 19, 2009, 10:12am UTC
"The Speed, The Sound, The Light" by Mission of Burma. How can a band that took off two decades still be great?
Elizabeth Johnson Nov 19, 2009, 12:39pm UTC
I can't get enough of Wilco the Album. It hasn't left my CD player since I bought it a couple months ago.
Nancy S. Nov 19, 2009, 4:42pm UTC
Cornershop, Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast has been played a bunch at our house. As soon as I heard they had a new release, I was on their web site to order it. I can't believe I heard Barb Abney say the jury was still out on this one --this is classic Cornershop!
Grant Weeks Nov 19, 2009, 5:19pm UTC
Derailleur - Welcome to Regret. Best part, it's free.

http://derailleurtheband.com/
katharine e. Nov 20, 2009, 12:17am UTC
#1...brandi carlile give up the ghost (the most fascinating voices and very original)
#2...edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros (so happy, makes you want to jump up and bounce around with them annnd join their band!)
Mark Donovan Nov 21, 2009, 11:20am UTC
Me too, on the Avett Bros album, its awesome. I don't remember being so enraptured by an album since maybe Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or Southern Rock Opera. I was talking with a musician friend of mine and I was asking him if he'd heard of them. He told me the first time he heard that song, he almost cried. I knew we were talking about the opening track. The New Wilco album is also great. Though I'm purposely not listening to it and saving it for some long drives up skiing/ riding this winter
Erica Wiltshire Nov 23, 2009, 10:30pm UTC
For me it's been Langhorne Slim.. Album "Be Set Free" The tune I can't get enough of is
"I love you, but goodbye" He was kind of an accidental find for me. I was purchasing some Tim O'Brien tunes and saw him in the Genius bar. Good stuff..
Eric P. Nov 24, 2009, 1:26am UTC
Jet Black Berries, an 80's band from Rochester New York. They have a new EP out, with new versions of two old songs and one new song. They are friends and I did go their release show in Rochester a week or so back and can't wait for the full length they are currently working on.

Also the new Drivin'n'Cryin record, good stuf.

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