First was Ryan Schmidt's debut Burning Bitter Years (which I can only assume to be high school) that was released in June, 2007. Check him out on the cover - can't you just see the young jumping off him?? I got this one because I knew I was going to buy his latest release as soon as it came out and I wanted the complete set. I'm sure I'll give this one a thorough review one day, but right now I'm hung up on the song "Ten Days". I'm not sure what it is about that song, but I just want to hear it over and over.
Next, obviously, was Mr. Schmidt's latest offering White Horse EP. It came out at midnight on the 10th, but I wasn't still up then, so I got it at 6am so I could listen to it on the way to work. He did a little live streaming show from his room the night before the release of this EP so I got to see the songs performed "live", which was cool. If you missed that, you should be following him on twitter so you don't miss another one, because it really was awesome. White Horse is going to be my focus on New Music Monday next week, so I'll leave it at that.
Tonight we went to our local record store where I was in search of....well, something cool. And did I ever find it! This album, George Michael's Faith came out in 1987 when I was 9 years old and my sister was letting me listen to it very shortly thereafter. This record is straight up sweet nostalgia! I love it. Personally, I think George Michael is grossly underrated. His vocal abilities were good enough that he was able to sing Queen songs without embarrassing himself. His songwriting was provocative and sexy and the music behind them was straight funky - what's not to love??
Finally, I found a Concrete Blonde record for a price I could live with given I'm not familiar with any of their songs (that I know of). I have heard so many people talk about them and how wonderful they are though, that I've had my eye out for something by them for a while. Tonight I got Recollection which is their 'best of' collection that was released in 1996. I'm really looking forward to hearing them.
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