The Day(s) of Many New Albums, Part 2 (8/30/2012 13:45)

Continuing on the journey of sonic discovery you pass a place, the kind with a monster or some kind of weird mirror. Look into the mirror and find...

Baroness
Yellow & Green
Genre: Hard rock. Listened: Once when it came out, then switched back to Blue Record.

This was one of the albums I looked forward to the most this year. Unfortunately for me, I think Baroness was replaced by the members of Mastodon while on Valium. The music is good on a technical, theoretical level, but it's not quite Baroness-y enough. Red Album had long, guttural, sludge metal songs. Blue Record shortened the songs, but made them pack a bigger punch. Yellow & Green doubled the lengths of the songs from Red, but was apparently written by the guys from Extreme. I think it's safe to assume Baroness crashed their tour bus because they were listening to "Concainium."

Passion Pit
Gossamer
Genre: Electropop...I guess. Listened: 8/30 at lunch, then realized I already had MGMT on my iPod.

You probably already know Passion Pit, even if you don't know you know them. Their song "Take a Walk" is on some commercial, and you would recognized it as soon as you heard it. The music is really catchy, but it's been done before. High-pitched, repetitive synth lines; nasally, male (I think?) voice; simple rhythm guitar and drums in the background. I can only assume Gossamer was written when the band placed their cat on one of those floor keyboards in a room filled with strobe lights, and the cat's name was "Matt & Kim."

So far, not a good set for lunchtime. Perhaps the good stuff will pick back up on my way home from work, though I doubt it; the next band up is called "Purity Ring."

TO BE CONTINUED...