Have Gun, Will Travel: Mergers & Acquisitions

New Have Gun, Will Travel album Mergers & Acquisitions will be released on 1st of november by Suburban Home Records. The band is highly respected here at the onechord.net headquarters and the previous album Postcards from A Friendly City took the #11 spot on the best albums of the year 2010 list. I’ve had the chance to listen to the new album for a few weeks and this one is equally amazing and contains great americana storytelling. Pre-order is up on the Suburban Home website and this sampler set below contains three great songs from the album.

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Hi-Lo & In Between: We Are Not The Wind

I’m not sure when was the exact release date of this beauty, because I bought this from Hiljainen Mies at previous Flavour Of The Month. Anyway, I think it is now officially out and available and needs to be praised. We Are Not The Wind is an excellent record full of finest finnish folk rock and americana. It was released by Lumpeela Julkaisut and they’ve added one new song from the record to soundcloud. This one is called The Day When Madness Came:

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And this is the stunning first single A Clear Silence:

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Glossary – Long Live All Of Us

New Glossary album Long Live All Of Us came out a week or two ago on Last Chance Records. Which is nice. Soulful rock and alt.country. A band that should be huge. I’m a rather new traveller in this boat though. I only acquired my first Glossary album Feral Fire (their previous) earlier in 2011. I still haven’t heard this new one in full, because first I was wondering whether to go with the download instead of the physical copy, because the shipping charges to Finland were very high (shipping the new Glossary and Shane Sweeney CDs to Finland seem to cost $20 and that’s just too much. Otherwise pretty much the greatest label there is, because all the bands they have on their roster are stunning). And then when I decided to just go with the download, I can’t seem to be able to download it from This Is American Music tonight. My problem or theirs. Don’t know yet, but it will eventually get sorted. Anyway, the point of this post was just to quickly mention that there is a new Glossary album out and available. This is the wonderful opener Trouble Won’t Always Last.

Edit: And about two minutes after this post, Corey from This is American Music sent me a new link for the download. Now that’s what I call fast and fantastic customer service. Therefore it’s time to put the new Glossary album to my iPod, sleep 5 hours and then listen to new Glossary album for 8 hours at work. Sounds good to me.

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The Breakdowns – The Kids Don’t Wanna Bop Anymore

File under: The best stuff ever. New The Breakdowns album The Kids Don’t Wanna Bop Anymore is most likely friggin’ amazing. I’m excited after checking out just the 30 sec samples and a couple of full songs. I’m gonna order the album tomorrow. This UK band plays my kind of music. Just great power pop/garage/rock’n’roll action going on. Hey Veronica sounds like The Shoes to me and that’s hardly a bad thing. The Ramones tribute The Kids Don’t Wanna Bop Anymore works equally well. Magnificent!

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