In the next two months, there are five albums I’m looking forward to. Actually six, if you count the freebie disc cover-mounted on MOJO<\/i> each month, but some people wouldn’t. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Let’s take it from the top:<\/p>\n
New Blood<\/i> — Peter Gabriel, October 10<\/p>\n
Last year Peter Gabriel released a covers album, Scratch My Back<\/i>. He took songs by Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Elbow, and a number of other bands and recorded them in an orchestral style. SMB<\/i> was supposed to be followed with I’ll Scratch Yours<\/i>, in which the covered artists covered Gabriel’s songs, and while some of the bands, like Elbow, recorded Gabriel covers, there weren’t enough completed for a full album.<\/p>\n
So, Gabriel decided to do a follow-up of his own, where he rerecorded his own music, in the same orchestral style he used for Scratch My Back<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Will it be any good? I have no idea. It will be interesting<\/i>, though, which is an entirely different thing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Guy Garvey of Elbow likes it; he conducted a conversation with Gabriel<\/a> where they discussed the album, how it came together, and why it was done.<\/p>\n Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds<\/i> — Noel Gallagher, October 17<\/p>\n I was a gutted by the break-up of Oasis<\/a> two years ago. And while I enjoy Liam Gallagher’s follow-up to Oasis, Beady Eye’s Different Gear, Still Speeding<\/i><\/a>, the truth is it’s Noel Gallagher’s first post-Oasis work that was always going to intrigue me more.<\/p>\n I’ve liked the singles that have been released, especially “If I Had a Gun…” I can’t wait to see what the album itself is like. Should be brilliant. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Mylo Xyloto<\/i> — Coldplay, October 24<\/p>\n Coldplay’s fifth album. I’ve heard a couple of songs from the album. “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall” doesn’t do a lot for me, but “Charlie Brown” is pretty catchy, and if something brilliant like “Moving to Mars” can be left off the album as a b-side, I think this could be a pretty snazzy piece of work. I’m not expecting a return to A Rush of Blood to the Head<\/i>, but a return to X&Y<\/i> would be decent enough.<\/p>\n A Very She & Him Christmas<\/i> — She & Him, October 24<\/p>\n Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward reunite for a fourth album and follow the Winnie-the-Pooh<\/i> soundtrack with a Christmas album.<\/p>\n And I love Christmas albums! I have a lot of them.<\/p>\n I don’t know why M. Ward is trying to look like Jon Hunstman on the cover (see here<\/a>); maybe there’s some hipster thing there that I just don’t get.<\/p>\n I think this album with just be fun<\/i>.<\/p>\n Ceremonials<\/i> — Florence + The Machine, October 31<\/p>\n I enjoyed Lungs<\/i>, the debut album from Florence Welch, two years ago. I’ve listened to it a lot<\/i> actually. She has a fantastic set of pipes, and they send her voice places that you don’t think a voice can actually go.<\/p>\n (I should note, by the way, that I cannot stand her videos. Just give me the music straight, thanks.)<\/p>\n The first single I’ve heard from the new album, “What the Water Gave Me<\/a>,” is kinda haunting.<\/p>\n The sixth album is Harrison Covered<\/i>, which is cover-mounted to the next issue of MOJO<\/i>, to coincide with the 10th-anniversary of Harrison’s death at the end of November. It may not be an essential album — MOJO<\/i>‘s covers albums are hit-and-miss — but it will be fun, and it will be done with a lot of love, and that’s good enough for me.<\/p>\n That’s what I’m looking forward to hearing this autumn. I’m sure there’s something else coming down the pike, but those are the five biggies for me right now. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the next two months, there are five albums I’m looking forward to. Actually six, if you count the freebie disc cover-mounted on MOJO each month, but some people wouldn’t. \ud83d\ude09 Let’s take it from the top: New Blood — Peter Gabriel, October 10 Last year Peter Gabriel released a covers album, Scratch My Back.Continue reading “On This Autumn’s Anticipated Albums”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[394,150,725,81],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-coldplay","tag-noel-gallagher","tag-peter-gabriel","tag-zooey-deschanel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}