Albums To Listen To: 2007 (Part Three)
The third part of our 'albums you need to listen to in 2007' series.
Band: Alkaline Trio
Album: Remains
Release Date: 29/1/07
Pre-order: Here.
Alkaline Trio are set to release their latest offering since the phenomenal 'Crimson' of 2005 that saw the band recruit a far wider array of fans with their 'breakthrough into the mainstream' single that was 'Mercy Me'.
'Remains' is a collection of B-sides and EPs all huddled together to make one stamp in the Trio's affluent timeline, whether it was an obligatory thing as they couldn't come up with the goods for a new album or just the fact they thought their seminal EP releases shouldn't drop off the radar, chances are the real fans are going to love it. 'Remains' will come as a CD/DVD set that will include the usual live footage, behind the scenes stuff and the general shenanigans probably not usually associated with the moody rockers (like breaking skater-kid fights up!). Scheduled for a January 29th release, remains is an album that will surely see this highly influential band solidify and remind us of their status in music today as a band who have stuck it out for the long haul. - Lee Glynn
Band: Arctic Monkeys
Album: TBC
Release Date: TBC
The task of topping a triple platinum, Mercury award winning and critically acclaimed album would be a challenge for even the most seasoned of artists. But if that album was your debut, and you were four 20 year olds hailing from Sheffield, that challenge would be all the more difficult, and the pressure would be three fold.
The success of 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' will either help Arctic Monkeys or hinder them. We have a feeling this could be an extremely fine line. There is no doubt that their second album will be one of this years most eagerly awaited albums of 2007, featuring tracks such as 'D is for Danger', 'This House Is A Circus' and 'The Bakery Song'. Whether it will be good or not is a different question entirely, but, we tend to think that the lads will pull it off. They've offered us 2 EPs in the year since 'Whatever People Say...' was released, both of which have been sure fire crowd pleasers, so our bet is that the as yet un-named album should go down fairly well. However, Alex Turner himself admits "I don't think the new stuff will shock people". Well, we suppose we'll just have to wait and see then won't we! - Fern Tinling
Band: Ash
Album: 5.5
Release Date: TBC
Come this year Ash will return into the indie-blistered fray without guitarist Charlotte Hatherley for the first time since 1996. So, after more than a decade with the best female guitarist around, how will the three lads left fair?
If their old stuff is anything to go by, extremely well. But is the world ready for another, more mature 'Girl On Mars', or will we be pining for the lust of 'Burn Baby Burn'? The titles for 2007s '5.5' sound great, even if the songs aren't themselves - who couldn't love a song called 'Princess Six' or 'The Boy Who Lived In Hell', the latter of which is an epic eight minutes long(!)?
Whatever it's like, we'll get our first taste of the new TBR produced album with the first single expected to be dropped in the next few months, and for '5.5' itself to be out by the summer. Until then, we hold our baited breath, hoping that losing Charlotte won't have given them too much of a battering... - Han Quintrell
Band: Nine Inch Nails
Album: TBC
Release Date: TBC
What? Already? Yes, it would seem despite the five years between 'The Downward Spiral' and 'The Fragile', and the six years between that and 'With Teeth', it looks like we'll get another album by APRIL! Not only that, but our appetites can be whetted by the live DVD release 'Beside You in Time' scheduled for February.
Reports and interviews present us with a more confident, animated Trent Reznor, clearly bursting with too many good ideas to keep confined in that fascinating head of his. Reznor has hinted at it sounding quite different - but when has that not been the case with Nine Inch Nails - and that it will be a concept album. However, he is characteristically tight-lipped about what we can expect from the album, so there is little that can be said other than that if you know what's good for you, you'll get hold of it - if anything, because you simply don't know whether the next album will be out in another two years or not until after your grand-kids have got married.
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