Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
ARTIST: David Lowery
RELEASE: The Palace Guards
BACKSTORY: The frontman first of Camper Van Beethoven, then Cracker, and, more recently, both this week releases his first-ever solo album, a nine-track effort featuring appearances by Johnny Hickman and Sal Maida, both of Cracker, plus the late Mark Linkous, aka Sparklehorse. (See full tracklist and more info here.)
BUY IT: The Palace Guards via Amazon.com
ARTIST: Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy
RELEASE: White Magic
BACKSTORY: Kilbey, frontman of The Church, teams up with Kennedy, of Australian downtempo act All India Radio, for the second time is less than two years, a project described as “a collection of 11 songs, prayers, whispered spells and lyrical secrets, lightly brushed acoustic guitars and a bed of Lynchian drenched atmospherics.”
BUY IT: White Magic via Amazon.com
