New Release Tuesday

If any of you are interested, my New Release Tuesday column is up at Austinist, and I briefly discuss the re-release of Shearwater’s Palo Santo, Blonde Redhead’s 23 and Bright Eyes’ Cassadaga.

Cassadaga is like Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach: there’s no joke-stone left unturned, we’ve got the point, but somehow we know there’s going to be a part 6. While we praise Blonde Redhead for taking a tried and true formula and fostering it into a polished revision of its former self, the same doesn’t seem to hold true for Oberst’s syllogisms. It’s impossible to convince the listener that the album finds him more mature and worldly in his 27 year old skin when the themes are plucked from bad MySpace poetry and dressed in pretense.

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