Essential New Releases - None

For a second straight week, there are no essential new releases.

The highest profile release may be Timbaland. Yikes.

Idolator has a brief run-down.

Essential New Releases - Andrew Bird, Devin the Dude

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.

Essential New Releases - Amy Winehouse

There is one essential new release this week:


Amy Winehouse, Back to Black.

This album is finally receiving its US release. It's an excellent album and a very worthy follow-up to her 2003 album Frank.

Key tracks: too numerous to mention.

I haven't heard an album with such top to bottom fabulousness in years.

Listen:
Amy Winehouse, Rehab (Desert Eagle Remix).
Amy Winehouse, Love is a Losing Game (acoustic).

Buy it here on Amazon for $7.99(!) or iTunes.