Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha.
I have been looking forward to this album for months. The lead single "Heretics" is one of my favorite songs of the year.
Devin the Dude, Waitin' to Inhale.
This may be the album that finally gets him some popular love. What I have heard so far sounds really good.
Download:
Andre Bird, Heretics.
Devin the Dude, What a Job Feat. Snoop Dogg & Andre 3000.
Oh Word has an great article about Devin the Dude and the impact of bloggers and blog buzz on "creative rappers."
I am excited about Devin the Dude's new album and it should bring him a much larger audience. Of course, I thought that for his last album that was written up in the Times, etc. In support of that album, we saw him perform some afternoon show in a park here in Austin with maybe 100 people in attendance.
He was great, as was that album, but it just went nowhere for him. I hope that this one will be different for him. He's a tremendous talent and appears well-liked in Houston among all the different battling factions.
