New Reviews: The BPA, The Von Bondies and Ben Kweller

It’s Tuesday, which means a fresh batch of albums at your local music store and new Rolling Stone record reviews ready to be read. This week’s new releases include the BPA’s I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat, the brainchild of British DJ Norman Cook (you may known him as Fatboy Slim). Recorded with a variety of singers who stopped by Cook’s house for late-night sessions, the album features “tweaked-up period pieces from Sixties ska to Eighties R&B.” David Byrne, Dizzee Rascal, Iggy Pop and a handful of up-and-coming British singer-songwriters guest on the disc, which is anchored by highlight “Toe Jam.” Fatboy Slim recently discussed the Brighton Port Authority with Rolling Stone, calling it “Sort of like the Traveling Wilburys but good.” The Von Bondies also return after a long hiatus with Love, Hate and Then There’s You, the band’s first LP since 2004’s Pawn Shoppe Heart. In his review Christian Hoard describes Love, Hate as “an album that’s pop-friendly but raucous enough to park in a Motor City garage,” thanks to tracks like “She’s Dead to Me” and the Cheap Trick-ish “21st Birthday.” Ben Kweller also gets down with his Texas roots on his new country-tinged album Changing Horses. In his three-star review of the album, Will Hermes write that “Sawdust Man” is “a roadhouse blues with a chorus (’I'm on top of the Greyhound station/Won’t you pleeeeeease come home’) that sounds like Harry Nilsson and John Lennon on a bender circa Pussy Cats.” For more on Kweller, the Fray and many more of the week’s best releases, check below: • The BPA - I Think We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat • The Von Bondies - Love, Hate and Then There’s You • Ben Kweller  - Changing Horses • Dierks Bentley - Feel That Fire • The Fray - The Fray • The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Lonely Road • Trouble Andrew - Trouble Andrew • The Bad Plus - For All I Care
	Published: 2009-02-03 Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News