Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

01. French Navy
02. The Sweetest Thing
03. You Told a Lie
04. Away With Murder
05. Swans
06. James
07. Careless Love
08. My Maudlin Career
09. Forest and Sands
10. Other Towns and Cities
11. Honey in the Sun

Persistent despair is charming and cute again! Camera Obscura is back with My Maudlin Career, the follow-up to 2006's Let's Get Out of This Country. Title track "My Maudlin Career" signals that the album's tone tends towards the fuzzy, dream-y twee that made up its predecessor. Most of the time it's difficult to make out what singer Tracyanne Campbell is saying amidst all the reverb and spaced-out guitars, but she still manages to make sadness sound sweet and romantic in a way that most of her contemporaries can't match. My Maudlin Career is out April 20 on 4AD...www.prefixmag.com

The Boy Least Likely To - The Law of the Playground

1. Saddle Up
2. A Balloon On A Broken String
3. When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade
4. I Box Up All The Butterflies
5. The Boy With Two Hearts
6. Stringing Up Conkers
7. The Boy Least LIkely To Is A Machine
8. Whiskers
9. Every Goliath Has Its David
10. The Nature Of The Boy Least Likely To
11. I Keep Myself To Myself
12. The Worm Forgives The Plough
13. A Fairy Tale Ending

"This record should have been released sooner," admits a press release for the Boy Least Likely To's forthcoming sophomore album, The Law of the Playground. Unfortunately, the album got tangled up in label drama, but it will finally see release March 3 via the English duo's own Too Young to Die label in the UK and in North America via +1.

Contrary to a previous report, the follow-up to 2005's The Best Party Ever will not include recently Forkcasted holiday single "The First Snowflake". It will, however, include not-so-recently Forkcasted ditties "I Box Up All the Butterflies" and"Balloon on a Broken String"."The First Snowflake" will be released as a download-only single on December 15, and that will be the only way to get it until the Boy Least Likely To release a greatest hits/B-sides and rarities/holiday album, of course.The Boy Least Likely To's only show scheduled right now is an appearance at a Christmas party at London's Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen on December 15, the same day as the single's release...www.pitchforkmedia.com

Burning Hearts - Aboa Sleeping

1. I Lost My Color Vision
2. Iris
3. Various Lives
4. The Galloping Horse
5. We Walked Among the Trees
6. Sea Birds
7. A Peasant's Dream
8. Close to Her
9. Aboa Sleeping