[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
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February 21st, 2012 @ 4:14 pm
New Del Fuegos EP and new Retisonic record both this week!
February 22nd, 2012 @ 7:57 am
I have been needing a list like this! Thank you very much.
I cannot wait for the new James Iha record, and I actually got to see Jonathan Segel play with Camper Van Beethoven when they “opened” for Cracker (they basically share all the same band members and sound pretty similiar) at the Middle East Downstairs in January. Great show.
I agree with the list, but you missed the new Cloud Nothings record “Attack On Memory” that was released in January. It is a tasty Rock album that gives me hope for the genre. Every track has a different flavor, but they are all delectable slabs of Rock. Plus it doesn’t hurt that it was produced by Steve Albini.
Check it out if you haven’t already and let me know what you think.
Keep up the great work!
February 22nd, 2012 @ 7:59 am
Thanks for the Cloud Nothings reminder – loved what I’ve heard so far and totally spaced adding it. I’ll take care of that right now…
February 23rd, 2012 @ 6:22 am
Awesome! No worries on missing it. This list is incredible and you definitely put the work in!
I have been listening to Attack On Memory on repeat now since it has come out. We need more good Rock bands!
Any suggestions? What Rock bands do I need to hear?
February 26th, 2012 @ 2:32 pm
No worries! This list is great and has provided me with a ton of new bands to check out.
What is the best Rock album you have heard in the past few years? I am constantly searching for good new Rock bands, but they are hard to find!
I also hope The Joy Formidable can put out a new record this year.
February 27th, 2012 @ 12:43 pm
kingsley flood EP is great stuff!!