Playlist 8/8/09

William Elliot Whitmore - Who Stole the Soul - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You - Hold Time (Merge)
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)

Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Cass McCombs - Pregnant Pause - Dropping the Writ (Domino)
Magnolia Electric Co. - The Rock of Ages - Josephine (Secretly Canadian)

DeVotchKa - Undone - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti-)
Broken Records - Slow Parade - Until the Earth Begins to Part (4AD)
Now It's Overhead - Estranged - Dark Light Daybreak (Saddle Creek)

Beauty Pill - Terrible Things - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
Bombadil - Cold Runway - Tarpits and Canyonlands (Ramseur)
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)

Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things - Grr... (Dead Oceans)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Lipsmacker Kiss - Summer of '98 (Magic Marker)
Wye Oak - For Prayer - The Knot (Merge)

A.C. Newman - Drink to Me, Babe, Then - Slow Wonder (Matador)
Calexico - The News About William - Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
Wilco - I'll Fight - Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)

Eric Bachmann - Lonesome Warrior - To the Races (Saddle Creek)
Neva Dinova - Clouds - You May Already Be Dreaming (Saddle Creek)
Patterson Hood - Pollyanna - Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) (Ruth St.)

The Books - Mikey Bass - Thought for Food (Tomlab)
Tunng - Bricks - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips - I Deserve It - L'Avventura (Jetset)

God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night - s/t (Matador)
The National - Murder Me Rachael - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
The Do - At Last! - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Gaglians - Modern African Queen - Monster Head Room (Woodsist)
Eels - Last Stop: This Town - Electro-shock Blues (Dreamworks)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware Your Only Friend - Beware (Drag City)

Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sound like Breakbeats - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Hello Seahorse! - OK!...Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
The Reputation - The Stars of Amateur Hour - s/t (Initial)

Stanley Ross - Cannibal - Here with Me (Nodak)
We Were Promised Jet Packs - Quiet Little Voices - These Four Walls (Fatcat)
Oneida - It Was a Wall - Rated O (Jagjaguwar)

Motel Motel - Dinosaur - New Denver (Rebel Group)
The Fiery Furnaces - The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry - Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
Bitch & Animal - You Left Out - Sour Juice and Rhyme (Righteous Babe)

Cymbals Eat Guitars - ...And the Hazy Sea - Why There Are Mountains (self)
The Promise Ring - The Deep South - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Dragonfly Pie - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)