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This Week's New Album Releases (8/2/11)

An eclectic mix of albums dropped this week. Fruit Bats and Fountains of Wayne have come back with records after their respective recording breaks, and Merge's Richard Buckner drops his latest effort.  read more

Richard Buckner: Our Blood

I first discovered Richard Buckner as Son Volt’s opener around the time of Straightaways. Standing alone with a keyboard on a big, dark stage, Buckner seemed perhaps the only person capable of out-bleaking that era’s Farrar, and while the performance was undeniably affecting, it was an ash-stiff whiskey or hostile-strong coffee-grade acquired taste. Some miles later, Buckner’s dark night of the soul seems to have gotten more accessible. There’s brooding beauty stirring through Our Blood, but it drawls by light on melodrama. Songs like “Escape” and “Confession” capture Buckner in great voice, an earthy warble that matter-of-factly packages complex emotions...  read more

XX Merge Day Two Photos: Superchunk, Richard Buckner, The Broken West and More

[Above: Superchunk]Photos taken by PJ Sykes at XX Merge...  read more

Richard Buckner - Dents and Shells

Richard Buckner’s recording career has proven as liminal as his sketchy, symbolist-inspired lyrical turns...  read more