ALTROK Ordinals 18

Dan Bern - New American Language (Messenger)
Jeff says: Witty, sarcastic, insightful, blasphemous, funny, wordy, heartbreaking, brilliant...as usual.

Vigilantes Of Love - Summershine (Compass)
Jeff says: 10 albums and 10 years into it Bill Mallonee and his Vigilantes are back with a new album...quite possibly their best yet. The Athens, GA band have an album of 13 somewhat jangly-somewhat Britpop gems that should finally get them the audience they've deserved for so very long.

(This week's Ordinals courtesy the guy who'd talk to bands on the radio all day and all night if they'd let him, Jeff Raspe.)