Music Post #6

New music from the last few weeks.  Bold means I like it.  If nothing is written, it means I haven't decided what I think yet...

• Antony & the Johnsons - Another World: Backed by symphony orchestra.  Beautiful and soft.
• Brazillian Girls - New York City
• Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty
• Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
• Gregory + The Hawk - Moenie and Kitchi: Beautiful, melodic.  Sometimes melancholy, sometimes sweet...
• I'm From Barcelona - Who Killed Harry Houdini?: Big sound - a la Polyphonic Spree.  I think they may even have the same ridiculously large number of "band" members.
• Lake - Oh, The Places You'll Go: Poppy, peppy. My guilty pleasure.
• Land of Talk - Some are Lakes: Mixture of light and pretty female vocals with fuller sounds.  Each song is a bit different.
• Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - Animal!/Not Animal: So I listened to Animal! first and felt a little let-down after loving their Daytrotter Sessions EP so much.  But Not Animal definitely lived up to my expectations.  Much more in line with the Daytrotter stuff.  I feel like there are tons of musical influences and references, but I can't place it really.  Perhaps it is too much of a mix to really pinpoint precisely.
• Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free: has a sort of Flaming Lips-esque sound somehow.  Or maybe that was just one song...
• Jennifer O'Connor - Here With Me
• Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart: eh...sounds like something anyone could make on their computer.
• Marnie Stern - This is it...: Maybe too much heavy guitar for my taste, but other people are loving this.  It's probably good, just not my style.