Hot, Hot Summer Releases
May 29th, 2007
I usually chat about new releases on Tuesday, but today in particular there’s a real dearth of cool stuff being released - and being the purveyor of cool that I am, I thought I’d instead blog about some summer albums that have been highly anticipated and buzzed about since the start of 2007. Wendy’s already talked about Rihanna (below), but stay tuned for sizzlers from these artists too - they’ll likely blow your socks off!
- June 19 -
The White Stripes - Icky Thump. The band announced on their website that the new album was recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, TN and took nearly three weeks to record — that’s the longest of any White Stripes album to date. Will the extra time in the studio pay off? Oh yeah, and how about that cross Canada tour with stops in every single province?! Amazing. You can watch the video for lead single Icky Thump here.
- June 26 -
Kelly Clarkson - My December. Kelly has stated in interviews that she contributed songwriting to every single track on the album and that this is her record has written or co-written every single track on the album and that she is steering the musical direction on the record. Kelly embarks on a 37 stop North American tour this July. Like Jen, I’m not a HUGE fan of the first single but I’m hoping there are some gems hidden in the rest of the album! Watch the video for Never Again here.
- July 3 -
T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P. Jen & Wendy are T.I. LOVERS. I am not, but that doesn’t mean this album isn’t gonna be king sized like the last one 
T.I. has revealed that guest collaborators on this album will include Young Jeezy, 50 Cent, Ciara, Wyclef Jean, Jay-Z, The Game, OutKast, R. Kelly, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Lil’ Wayne and…whew…’many others’.
- July 10 -
Interpol - Our Love To Admire. The band did a couple of small gigs across North America in the past few months, previewing two or three tracks from the new album (unfortunately I was not in attendance). Luckily they’re doing a full tour again in June. According to the band this album is going to be more “expressive” than the group’s previous efforts, and there will be a much greater use of keyboards and textures. The first single is Heinrich Maneuver.
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Quite an unfortunate name for an album. I can’t even bring myself to utter it aloud. Oh well; I’m gonna have to suck it up cause from what I’ve heard so far this album’s gonna be a monster! Previous album Gimme Fiction was one of my top albums of 2005.
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist. This is a TOTAL wild card. Anything can happen with this album - there have been unofficial leaks and lots of loosely formed opinions on this Corgan/Chamberlain production. You may have already heard the first single Tarantula, which came out last week. Even though D’Arcy Wretzky & James Iha aren’t involved, I still can’t wait to see what’s in store for this set at Virgin Fest Toronto!
- July 24 -
UNKLE - War Stories. I loved Psyence Fiction and even Never, Never, Land so I’m hoping to hear great things from this third studio album. James Lavelle has recruited guest vocals from the likes of Ian Astbury (The Cult), members of Massive Attack, Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and Autolux. Yummy.
SUM 41 - Underclass Hero. This’ll be the band’s first album since 2004’s Chuck and the first material without former guitarist Dave Baksh. You can listen to first single Underclass Hero on the band’s MySpace page.
- August 21 -
M.I.A. - Kala. Reported producers include Switch, Diplo, Timbaland, Bangladesh, Danja, and Three 6 Mafia. According to wiki, Kala is named after M.I.A.’s mom (just the same as her debut Arular was named after her dad). A couple tracks (XR2, Bird Flu and first single Boyz) have already been floating around online for months.
- Photograph courtesy Getty Images
Posted on Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 at 5:17 pm by Kat and is filed under Music & Videos.
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4 Responses to “Hot, Hot Summer Releases”
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You forgot the new Editors album (”An End Has A Start” — July 17) which i listened to on my way to the BRMC show yesterday and it kicks all kinds of arses. Dare I say better than the first one.
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@ Kate: I did see Interpol’s album art - it looks incredible! SUCH a cool concept! (see it here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Interpol_-_Our_Love_To_Admire.jpg)
@ Idiotjed: You’re right, I did forget it! I didn’t even see it on the new release schedule! I’m glad to hear it’s good. People give me all sorts of flack for thinking Editors’ debut album was trumps but it was seriously sooo good. How great is it that Interpol (July 10) and Editors (July 17 & Interpol “wannabes”) release dates are so close together!?
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Smashing Pumpkins and White Stripes are the only cool things up there. And also, where’s the release for Absolute Garbage by Garbage?! It’s coming in July too!
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I loooooooove the Icky Thump video! It seems that people are either hating or loving that song. I love it. I also love Jack White.
Have you seen the album art for Our Love To Admire? ?It’s a scene in which a lion and lioness take down a gazelle in an act of synchronized predation.? Interesting. I am quite excited for that album also.
M.I.A. is simply cool. I didn’t love Bird Flu but I’ll give the rest a listen.