Landlocked Music - Bloomington, IN

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Each month we highlight five titles for a month in our "Full Tilt Boogie" listening station. Each album has a review and enables you to listen to the entire album before you buy it. Give 'er a spin!

The Dears - Missiles (Dangerbird)

The Dears have not gone away and come back, but they have been transformed: by experience, by necessity, by life and its manifold curveballs. And with their new album Missiles they have emerged as elder statesmen of the Canadian indie rock renaissance. Recorded quickly, the album is a feast of stripped-down arrangements and raw emotion served up like a rustic meal, its songs polished but still containing traces of the rough soil from which they were born.

Wild Sweet Orange - We Have Cause To Be Uneasy (Canvasback)

Wild Sweet Orange's Canvasback music debut "We Have Cause to Be Uneasy" is a work of exquisite power, its songs propelled by edgy emotion and a cathartic yearning for connection. Tracks such as "Ten Dead Dogs" and "Sour Milk" find the Birmingham, AL-based rock outfit honing an intimate and individualistic sound which veers unrestrained from aching intimacy to a turbulent, seething intensity. For singer-songwriter Preston Lovinggood, the album's provocative title serves as both an ideal statement of intent as well as strong assertion of identity.

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light: 12 Songs of Christmas (Rounder)

Nearly 20 years into her recording career, Grammy Award winner Mary Chapin Carpenter releases her first ever holiday album. Rather than simply lending her voice to time-worn holiday standards, Mary Chapin wrote her own set of seasonal songs (6). These new songs explore the many meanings and emotions the holidays evoke in each of us. She also reached deep for a few hand picked gems from other writers to introduce a new kind of holiday record - one that transcends the season!

Lucinda Williams - Little Honey (Lost Highway)

Lucinda Williams has always been adept at painting landscapes of the soul, illuminating the spirit's shadowy nooks and shimmering crannies -- but she's never captured the sun breaking through the clouds as purely as on her new Lost Highway release, Little Honey. The follow up to the critically acclaimed West, feature track "Real Love" is already at radio. The album features a duet with Elvis Costello "Jailhouse Tears". Other guest vocalists include Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs, Jim Lauderdale, Tim Easton, and Charlie Louvin.

Ryan Adams - Cardinology (Lost Highway)

Cardinology, the follow-up album to Ryan Adams' critically acclaimed Easy Tiger is a concise and focused collection of 12 songs, showcasing The Cardinals' migration to a cohesive, full-band sound. Be one of the first to purchase the strictly limited edition deluxe version of Cardinology on vinyl and get it on red wax, an exclusive 7" featuring songs unavailable anywhere else, a custom comic book and full-album download code.