Posted at 2:51 PM on December 25, 2007
by Lindsay Kimball
(5 Comments)
Atmosphere has released an album Radiohead-style - a free download. Check it out here.
But wait! There's more for Atmosphere fans!
The EP "Sad Clown Bad Winter 11" is available now and a new full-length on April 22, 2008 entitled "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Sh-- Gold."
Why would any self-respecting artist release an album with a title that stupid? I really hate to criticize one of the most prominent (and arguably important) local music acts, but come on: you don't have to be a proponent of censorship to realize that titling your album like this is a terrible idea. For starters, it's going to be ridiculous to bowdlerize to even mention it on the radio.
Still, if the recent EPs are any indication, the album has the potential to be alright.
I think the title is hilarious, Mac. I'm wondering...do you feel the same way about Yo La Tengo's last album, "I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your A--"?
All that turkey and 15 cups of coffee must have made me even more critical than usual last night. Still, as Rolling Stone said about YLT in
06...."Nobody else should even bother entering the competition for the Year's Dumbest Album Title..." I'll go download the new project and shut up now, I promise.
huh-interesting twist on the "life gives you lemons make lemonade" yeah paint it gold if you like gold-I like lemons more than I like gold....
But what I am really jazzed up about is the fact the album is FREEEEEEEE!!!!!!. I am digging the Atmosphere and sadly-my budget does not afford CD's-(I've been wanting the SMART WENT CRAZY cd since it came out.) Gotta love'em those Atmosphere boys.
The Yo La Tengo title might be dumb if it was, say, a Danzig album.. otherwise, it's great. hilarious, even. the Atmosphere title is a little dumb/kind of amusing but in no way beneath a "self-respecting artist"..
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