Hey guys, so a bunch of new albums have come out in recent weeks from a bunch of "oldies-but-goodies" (ie pretty well known or already well established bands).
There have been new releases from Sigur Ros, Japandroids, El-p, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, etc. but the album that I've spun the most this week has been the new release by the Walkmen, Heaven.
I never paid much attention to these guys util a few years back, because all their stuff sounded like the standard indie fare one can find literally everywhere already. But Lisbon was a fantastic album, which utilized silence and space really well (like Kill the Moonlight-era Spoon) so I was looking forward to Heaven.
So I picked it up, and it really sounds like kind of an afterthought to Lisbon. There's not a lot of new or different sounding rock music on here, and it's just plain not as good as Lisbon, but the songs are growing on me.
EDIT: If music can be judged by its 'listenability' and propensity for getting *stuck in your head like crazy* this is a really good album. Still, a week later its stuck in there! Bahh!!
Anybody else check this out and have an opinion?
No need to post comments about how crap and boring and Pavement-like they are; I'm just interested in talking with people who like them about this new album!!