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Best New Releases May 2009

Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - 'Em Are I (Folk music cut up and distributed every which way. Fantastic!)
Zee Avi - Zee Avi (Malaysian artist ready to take on the world. You have to listen to these soaring tunes.)
Hanne Hukkelberg - Blood From a Stone (Norwegian singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire)
Akron Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (A hugely satisfying collection of wayward American roots music)
Ben Harper & Relentless7 - White Lies For Dark Times (New backing band propels proven artist to stellar heights)

Tin Star Orphans (Zachary Bennett) - Yonder (Superior sleeper CD full of cross genre originals)
William Elliott Whitmore - Animals In The Dark (Fresh folk blues balladry on banjo or guitar)
Strange Jerome - Guns Ammo Jewelry Coins (Inventive Seattle based roots band twisting the meaning of folk)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Exciting, interesting, ambitious, jazzy folk pop)
Steve Earle - Townes

The Wooden Birds - Magnolia
Headless Heroes - The Silence of Love (Origianl Release Nov 08)
Sara Watkins - Sara Watkins
Iron & Wine (Sam Beam) - Around The Well
Strand Of Oaks - Leave Ruin

Mouthful Of Bees - Mouthful Of Bees
Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Putnam Smith - Goldrush
Jenny Owen Youngs - Transmitter Failure
Liechtenstein - Survival Strategies In A Modern World

Kim DiVine - Square One
Tara Jane O'Neil - A Ways Away
Casper & The Cookies - Modern Silence
Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood
The Curious Mystery - Rotting Slowly

Buju Banton - Rasta Got Soul
Naomi Greenwald - Naomi Greenwald
John Vanderslice - Romanian Names
Tim Easton - Porcupine
Popup - A Time & A Place

Joe Jack Talcum - Mischief Brew
Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
The Everyday Visuals - The Everyday Visuals
Courtney Leigh Heins - Hot Coffee
The Daredevil Christopher Wright - In Deference To A Broken Back

Tori Sparks - The Scorpion In The Story
The Flying Change - Pain Is A Reliable Signal
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
Hotel Eden (Kelly Warner) - A Way Back Home
New York Dolls - 'Cause I Sez So

The Elders - Gael Day
American Folklore (Corey Crawford) - American Folklore
Dusty Rhodes And The River Band - Palace And Stage
Almost Charlie - The Plural Of Yes
White Rabbits - It's Frightening

Nibs Van Der Spuy - A Bird In The Hand (Original Release Oct 08)
(Wooden) Wand - Hard Knox
Red Sea Station - Red Sea Station
Eulogies - Here Anonymous
Paper Arrows (Joe Goodkin) - Things We Would Rather Lose

Built By Snow - Mega
(Angel) Deradoorian - Mind Raft
Hugh Cornwell - Hooverdam
Maps Of Norway - Die Off Songbird (Original Release Dec 08)
Andrea Nardello - Until Now (Original Release May 07)

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
Commander Cody - Dopers, Drunks And Everyday Losers
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
The High Strung - Ode To The Inverse Of The Dude
Pennan Brae - Shaded Joy

Buck Mountain Band - Chicken In The Snowbank
Bricolage - Bricolage
Arrica Rose - Pretend I'm Fur EP
Snowglobe - No Need to Light a Night Light On a Night Like Tonight
Love In October - Love In October

Delby L - Nine Skies
The Twang - Love It When I Feel Like This (Original Release June 07)
The Fresh & Onlys - The Fresh & Onlys
Vincent Minor - Born In The Wrong Era
Thunder Power - Love Yourself (Original Release Nov 08)

Hopewell - Good Good Good Desperation
Mikey De Lara - Songs For Lulu
Sue Quigley - Perfect Chaos
Starfucker - Jupiter
Joanne Shaw Taylor - White Sugar

Zap Mama - ReCreation
Americans In France - Pretzelvania
The Tractors - Trade Union
Experimental Dental School - Forest Field
Loxsly - Tomorrow's Fossils
Courtney Chambers - Bigger And Brighter (Original Release Nov 07)

Honor By August - Found
The Church - Untitled #23
Blue October - Approaching Normal
Apostle Of Hustle - Eats Darkness

Cocktail Slippers - Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Jon Hopkins - Insides
Settle - At Home We Are Tourists
Foster McGinty - Peach Red

Various Artists - Euphoria Is All We Know
Various Artists - Danny Saber Presents: Saber Bytes