New Releases of Note, 8/18/09

The Antlers - Hospice Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy MP3: The Cave Singers - "At The Cut" Eric Copeland - Alien in a Garbage Dump The Cult - Love (Expanded Edition) Joe Henry - Blood from the Stars Mew - No More Stories Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem Mungolian Jetset - We Gave It All Away... Jack Penate - Everything Is New Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans MP3: Pissed Jeans - "Dream Smotherer" Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall MP3: Jay Reatard - "It Ain't Gonna Save Me" Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night MP3: Six Organs of Admittance - "The Ballad of Charley Harper" Tune-Yards - Bird Brains MP3: Tune-Yards - "Sunlight" Various Artists - Echo Expansion The XX - s/t MP3: The XX - "Basic Space"

Vinyl/Vinyl Reissues

Destroyer - Bay of Pigs Farmer Dave Scher - Fast Forward to the Good Times MP3: Farmer Dave Scher - "Bab'lone Nights" Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin 2xLP Gary War - Galactic Citizens 12" Grass Widow - 12" Mission of Burma - Innermost 7" Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next Sic Alps - A Long Way Around to a Shortcut 12" The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa 7" MP3: The Very Best - "Warm Heart of Africa" (ft. Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend)

- Ryan Catbird