New Music CDs July 2009

Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Tori Amos
CD 781.63 AMO 2009
ABNORMALLY ATTRACTED TO SIN, Tori’s tenth studio album, is another innovative chapter in the artist’s trailblazing story. Every track on the album will be accompanied by a corresponding `visualette,’ featuring footage that has been captured over the past year. Shot in HD and Super 8, the visualettes will incorporate a documentary style.

Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden
Michael Bublé
CD 781.63 BUB 2009
Following his first #1 Pop album and his third platinum-plus disc, 2007’s Grammy® winning Call Me Irresponsible, singing sensation Michael Bublé returns to the stage with the live CD+DVD package Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden. Featuring powerful performances of his hits ‘Everything,’ ‘Home’ and ‘Feeling Good,’ he brings the December 5, 2008 concert at one of the most famous venues in entertainment history home to fans with Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden.

Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Elvis Costello
CD 781.66 COS 2009
The record was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded by Mike Piersante during a three-day session at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studio.

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
Dave Matthews Band
CD 781.66 DAV 2009
Produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance), Big Whiskey has been hailed by Rolling Stone as the group’s “heaviest album yet, both musically and emotionally,” which went on to note: “Throughout, Carter Beauford beats out elaborate, propulsive groves; bassist Stefan Lessard lays down Flea-style funk bass lines; violinist Boyd Tinsley plays cresting, intense runs; and Matthews mirrors Moore’s saxophone lines with scatlike singing.” Billboard, in a cover story on Dave Matthews Band, praised Big Whiskey as “its best album yet… Highlights include the funk-rock rave-up ‘Shake Me Like a Monkey,’ the stirring ballad ‘Lying in the Hands of God,’ the swampy rocker ‘Alligator Pie (Cockadile),’ radio-friendly fare like ‘Why I Am,’ which features playful horns over a solid rock riff and a hooky chorus, and ‘Funny the Way It Is,’ which parlays a subtle intro into a soaring, syncopated anthem.”

Terminator Salvation Original Movie Soundtrack
Danny Elfman
CD 781.542 ELF 2009
The Terminator franchise, whose first three films have grossed more than $1 billion at the box office worldwide, has been reinvented and reinvigorated on screen and on album with its fourth installment. Featuring an original score by four-time Oscar® nominee Danny Elfman (Milk, Big Fish, Good Will Hunting, Men In Black) and a flashback from Alice In Chains, Terminator Salvation – Original Soundtrack honors the past but begins again. Capturing what director McG calls “the delicate nature of humanity and the unrelenting brutality of the machines,” Elfman’s synthesizer/orchestral score for Terminator Salvation elevates and expands the sweeping soundscape of one of the most successful series of films in history.

Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING]
Tom Kitt
CD 782.14 KIT 2009
Next to Normal has been described as a contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than 30 original songs, Next to Normal shows how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family’s world intact.

Amanda Leigh
Mandy Moore
CD 781.63 MOO 2009
2009 album from the singer, songwriter, actress and wife to Pop/Rock troubadour Ryan Adams. Amanda Leigh was produced by Mike Viola, leader of The Candy Butchers and co-songwriter for music from That Thing You Do and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. The album’s direction is inspired by Moore and Viola’s mutual love for Paul McCartney’s Ram album and the songwriting of artists like Todd Rundgren, Joni Mitchell, CSNY and Nilsson. Mandy has sold over 8 million albums worldwide. Her critically acclaimed performances in movies such as Saved, American Dreamz and the more recent, Dedication, have made her one of Hollywood’s most desirable actresses.

The Eternal
Sonic Youth
CD 781.66 SON 2009
After years on Geffen Records, Sonic Youth return to an indie label with their sixteenth studio album. “The Eternal” is a supercharged rocker, recalling aspects of the Evol-Sister-Daydream Nation holy trinity, but with cleaner, louder production and more straightforward momentum. With Pavement’s Mark Ibold joining on bass, and producer John Agnello back at the controls, “The Eternal” takes the melodic songwriting of 2006’s “Rather Ripped” and slams down the accelerator pedal.

Something to Say
Matthew West
CD 781.7 WES 2008
Track Listing:     Intro — Something to say — The motions — You are everything — The center — Save a place for me — Life inside you — Safe and sound — The moment of truth — A friend in the world — All the broken pieces — Stop the world.

Angels and Demons Original Movie Soundtrack
Hans Zimmer
CD 781.542 ZIM 2009
Track Listing:     160 BPM — God particle — Air — Fire — Black smoke — Science and religion — Immolation — Election by adoration — 503.