[Future Faves?] Anticipated 2012 Album Releases
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 12:52 pm | 6 Comments
It’s a bit behind schedule, but here’s my annual list of recorded releases I’m most looking forward to this year. A handful of 2012 Tuesdays have already passed, but the lag time allowed me to sneak in a bunch of just-announced full-lengths. I’ve included those that have already hit shelves (or servers), along with some rumored speculation and a couple of wishful thoughts to wrap it up. If something’s not here, it’s either due to apathy, ignorance, or forgetfulness. Your mission? Fill in the gaps. What’d I miss? What do I need to hear? What do you really hope shows up this year? Leave a comment here or on Facebook, gimme some info, lemme know.
Click the label names for more info, or to buy/pre-order. Boston-area releases are noted with a couple asterisks. I may keep this post updated as more albums get announced, at least until late summer when I’ll run a whole new list for autumn…
So far this year…
- Chris Brokaw (Come/Codeine/The New Year) – “Stories” 12-inch [on Limited Appeal]
- Flights – “Anywhere But Where I Am” [1/1 via Bandcamp]
- ** Kingsley Flood – “Colder Still” EP [1/10 / self-released]
- ** Caspian – “Live at Old South Church” EP [1/10 on Mylene Sheath]
- Guided by Voices – “Let’s Go Eat the Factory” [1/17 on Fire/GBV]
- Cloud Nothings – “Attack On Memory” [1/24 on Carpark]
- First Aid Kit – “The Lion’s Roar” [1/24 on Wichita]
- Nada Surf – “The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy” [1/24 on Barsuk]
- Palomar – “Sense & Antisense” [1/24 – self-released]
- Hospitality – self-titled debut [1/31 on Merge]
- Imperial Teen – “Feel the Sound” [1/31 on Merge]
- The Jealous Sound – “A Gentle Reminder” [1/31 on Music Is Subjective]
- Leonard Cohen – “Old Ideas” [1/31 on Sony/Columbia]
- Capybara – “Dave Drusky” [2/7 on The Record Machine]
- Sharon Van Etten – “Tramp” [2/7 on Jagjaguwar]
- The Twilight Sad – “No One Can Ever Know” [2/7 on FatCat]
- ** Neptune – “msg rcvd” [2/13 on Northern Spy]
- 50 Foot Wave – “With Love From The Men’s Room” CD [2/14 on Throwing Music]
- Field Music – “Plumb” [2/14 on Memphis Industries/Midheaven(US)]
- Heartless Bastards – “Arrow” [2/14 on Partisan]
- Honeychurch – “Will You Be There With Me” [2/14 via Bandcamp]
- Shearwater – “Animal Joy” [2/14 on Sub Pop]
- Tennis – “Young & Old” [2/14 on Fat Possum]
- Rosie Thomas – “With Love” [2/14 on Undertow & Bandcamp]
- Whistle Peak – “Half Asleep Upon Echo Falls” [2/14 on Karate Body]
Out today …
- Archers of Loaf – “Vee Vee” (2-disc remaster) [2/21 on Merge]
- Dirty Three – “Toward The Low Sun” [2/21 on Drag City]
- Guy Capecelatro III – “North For the Winter” [2/21 on Dromedary]
- Damien Jurado – “Maraqopa” [2/21 on Secretly Canadian]
- Lambchop – “Mr. M” [2/21 on Merge]
- Frankie Rose – “Interstellar” [2/21 on Slumberland]
Next week…
- Fanfarlo – “Rooms Filled With Light” [2/28 on Atlantic]
- Geoff Farina (Glorytellers/Karate/Secret Stars) – “The Wishes Of The Dead” [2/27 on Damnably]
- New Multitides – self-titled [2/28 on Rounder]
- England in 1819 – “Alma” [2/28 – self-released via Bandcamp]
- Eux Autres – “Sun Is Sunk” (EP) [2/28 on Bon Mots]
- School Of Seven Bells – “Ghoststory” [2/28 on Vagrant/Ghostly Int’l]
March…
- ** The Dirty Dishes – “The Most Tarnished Birds” EP [3/4 via Bandcamp]
- Andrew Bird – “Break It Yourself” [3/6 on Mom + Pop]
- Ceremony – “Zoo” [3/6 on Matador]
- Tim Foljahn – “Songs For An Age of Extinction” [3/6 on Kiam Records]
- The Magnetic Fields – “Love At The Bottom Of The Sea” [3/6 on Merge]
- Now, Now – “Threads” [3/6 on Trans-Records]
- Jennifer O’Connor – “I Want What You Want” [physical release 3/6 on Kiam Records]
- Said The Whale – “Little Mountain” [3/6 on Hidden Pony/EMI]
- Jonathan Segel (Camper Van Beethoven) – “All Attractions” [3/6 Kickstarter funded]
- Yellow Ostrich – “Strange Land” [3/6 on Barsuk]
- The Wedding Present – “Valentina” [3/12 on Scopitones]
- The Darker Hues – “Nothing Tastes Like Failure” [3/8 – self-released ]
- James Iha (ex-Smashing Pumpkins) – “Look To The Sky” [3/14 on EMI Japan]
- Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s – “Rot Gut, Domestic” [3/20 on Mariel Recording Co.]
- Lee Ranaldo – Between the Times & the Tides [3/20 on Matador]
- The Shins – “Port Of Morrow” (3/20 on Columbia/Aural Apothecary]
- Paul Weller – “Sonik Kicks” [3/27 on Yep Roc]
- Autochrome – [3/30 via Bandcamp]
- Various – “Sunshine Off The Tracks” [3/31 on Wild Kindness – a benefit for GEMS]
April…
- The Futureheads – “Rant” [4/2 – all a cappella]
- Lightships (Gerard from Teenage Fanclub) – “Electric Cables” [4/3 on Geographic/Domino]
- M. Ward – “A Wasteland Companion” [4/10 on Merge]
- The Dandy Warhols – “This Machine” [4/24 on The End]
Later in 2012…
- ** Ryan Lee Crosby – new self-titled album – [Spring]
- Codeine – “When I See The Sun” (Box Set / Vinyl Reissues) [5/8 on Numero Group]
- Rebecca Gates (The Spinanes) – “The Float” [5/18 on Parcematone/12XU]
- ** Cowgill – “Side One of Planted” [5/17 – Kickstarter-funded]
- ** Hallelujah the Hills – “No One Knows What Happens Next” [5/22 on Discrete Pageantry / Kickstarter-funded]
- Mice Parade – “Candela” [Fall on FatCat]
- Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower (Ida) – “Blue Clouds” [Early summer]
- The Mynabirds – “Generals” [6/5 on Saddle Creek]
- Metric – “Synthetica” [6/12 on MMI]
- Public Image Ltd. – “This is PiL” [5/28 on PiL Official]
- Spiritualized – “Sweet Heart Sweet Light” [Spring on Double Six]
- Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek) – “Among The Leaves”[5/29 on Caldo Verde]
- Kaia Wilson (Team Dresch/The Butchies) – 5th solo LP [Spring/Kickstarter funded/Jealous Butcher]
Completed, or in the works, but no dates announced yet…
- Allo Darlin’ – “Europe” [on Slumberland]
- Paul Banks aka Julian Plenti (of Interpol) [second solo LP on Matador]
- Beach Fossils
- Beach House
- Billy Bragg & Wilco – “Mermaid Avenue III”
- ** Bon Savants – second album
- ** The Broken River Prophet – “7 Sermons for the Dead”
- Built To Spill
- Camera Obscura
- ** Caspian
- Circle of Buzzards
- Dead Can Dance
- Depeche Mode
- Dinosaur Jr.
- ** Girlfriends
- ** Ghost Box Orchestra
- The James Rocket – “Launch”
- Bill Janovitz – “Long Island of the Mind”
- The Kingsbury Manx
- Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
- ** Mary Lou Lord (Kickstarter-funded)
- ** Mean Creek
- ** Mission of Burma (“…should be out in the spring.”)
- Mazzy Star
- Overseas (David Bazan, Will Johnson, & the Kadane Bros.)
- Pernice Bros
- Secretary (Craig from Summer At Shatter Creek)
- Sigur Ros
- Throwing Muses
- ** Wheat – “Can’t Stop The Addiction”
- ** Young Adults EP
- The xx – 2nd album
No word, but here’s hoping…
- The Album Leaf
- Arcwelder (a boy can dream, can’t he?)
- Bottomless Pit
- The Cure
- Tanya Donelly
- Drew O’Doherty
- Dylan In The Movies
- The Essex Green
- Land of Talk
- The Long Winters (I mean, right?)
- Neko Case
- The New Year
- The Notwist
- Ola Podrida
- Sky Larkin
[Vinyl Giveaway] IDAHO and CAMP RADIO’s latest LPs
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:51 pm | 1 Comment
As promised a couple weeks back in my Faves of 2011 post, I have extra vinyl editions of two of those fine records to grant to some lucky souls. And they couldn’t be more different: Camp Radio‘s “Campista Socialista” full-length and Idaho‘s “You Were A Dick” LP. A blast of Canadian trio power-pop and one man’s LA-based, keyboard-driven melancholia.
As I started prepping this giveaway this morning, Chromewaves happened to post a review of the Camp Radio album (confluence!), so head over there to read Frank’s thoughts, then come back here to try and win the sucker. If you’re not convinced you want it, head to Bandcamp and stream away. Here’s a track…
And if you’re not already familiar with Idaho’s extensive discography, well, you’ve got a lot of listening ahead of you. Start by trying to win “You Were A Dick”, then you’ll want to head back to the beginning with 1993’s brilliant “Year After Year”. Here’s the title track off YWAD…
You can thank Camp Radio guitarist Chris Page for the 2 vinyl copies I’ve got to hand out (each of which include a digital download code), and you can blame thank the U.S. postal service for the Idaho vinyl – my original order got very lost in the mail, only showing up after singer/songwriter Jeff Martin sent me out a replacement (a replacement that also includes a bonus data DVD of hi-res audio). Graciously, Jeff was cool with my giving the extra away rather than mailing it back to him.
To enter: send an email in my direction [giveaways (at) bradleysalmanac (dot) com] before next Monday, February 6th, at Noon, specify which vinyl LP you’d like (Camp Radio or Idaho), and include your postal address (US/Canada only, and don’t worry, I won’t share it). On Monday I’ll pick three random winners – two for the Camp Radio vinyl and one for the Idaho – then head to the post office.