New Albums: June 5 - 9

June 5th:
Born This Way by Lady Gaga
What can I say, I'm a huuuuge Lady Gaga fan, no regrets there. Born This Way seems to have a lot more songs that are laced with symbolism and talking about subjects she cares about instead of being more 'mainstream let's sell records' stuff. Makes sense since she's popular enough she can kind of do what she wants now. This was another one that I'd heard three or four of the most popular songs from it but hadn't listened to the whole album straight through.

June 6th:
MASHed Potatoes by K.Flay
A fun album to listen to with really solid lyrics. Definitely breaks out of the hip-hop norm on subject matter.

June 7th:
Night Visions by Imagine Dragons
An interesting album; if you only listened to Radioactive you'd be forgiven for thinking they were pretty close to dubsteppy with that large drop but the album is actually pretty diverse in style.
Breakfast by Chiddy Bang
Fun stuff, almost a pop-rock/rap crossover feel. It's definitely not something I would have ever thought to listen to before but I'm glad I gave them the chance.

June 8th:
Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
Lots of albums today due to Fresno trip! This is another one of those albums where I apparently know half the songs off it but never had put them all in a row to listen to. MGMT is great stuff.
Only Revolutions by Biffy Clyro
I don't actually remember too much of this other than I enjoyed it. I was going through Pacheco pass and was wrestling with some pretty gnarly high speed wind which took a lot of my focus. The parts I did actually listen though had some good alternative music.
North by Matchbox Twenty
An all around very pleasant album to listen to. I'd heard a couple songs off it before but not straight through in the entirety. Every time 'Radio' comes on I have a compulsive urge to sing along as loudly as possible to it.
Grow Up and Blow Away by Metric
While I'd heard some Metric songs that I enjoyed before, I never actively sought them out to listen to until after Scott Pilgrim vs The World when they did the music for The Clash performing at Demonhead. Something about the song Black Sheep just completely sold me on Metric.

June 9th:
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye
Much better than I was expecting actually. I think I had pretty low expectations just because I really dislike Kaye as a person and let that taint my view of his music. Good beats and most of the tracks sounded like they were him just kind of talking about his life and experiences. Oddly personal at times.
Mesmerizing the Ultra by Bassnectar
It had the wub-wubs, I was entertained.
Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park
This queued up at a very appropriate time on my trip back from Fresno. I left later than I had planned to and night fell as I was passing by Tracy when this came on. More of a low key and darker feel to it than their other stuff, not as much energy oomph I'd say.