Albums Coming Out In 2012

Here's a list of albums coming out this year that I'm definitely looking forward to.


January

Secret Colours - EP3 (1/1 via Self-Released)

The Little Willies - For The Good Times (1/10 via Blue Note/Milking Bull/EMI)
Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires (1/10 via Universal)

Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur (1/17 via Rouder)

Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory (1/24 via Carpark)
Dana Falconberry - Though I Didn't Call It Came [EP] (1/24 via Crossbill)
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar (1/24 via Wichita)
Ingrid Michaelson - Human Again (1/24 via Cabin 24/Mom + Pop)
Madi Diaz - Plastic Moon (1/24 via tinyOGRE)
Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend (1/24 via Secretly Canadian)
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52 (1/24 via ATO)

Dastardly - Bury Me In The Country [EP] (1/31 via Self-Released)
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (1/31 via Interscope)
Photographers - Nostalgia The Country (1/31 via Self-Released)



February

Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune (2/7 via Astralwerks)
Bahamas - Barchords (2/7 via Brushfire)
Dr. Dog - Be The Void (2/7 via Anti-)
Jenny Owen Youngs - An Unwavering Band Of Light (2/7 via Self-Released)
Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks (2/7 via Polyvinyl)
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (2/7 via Jagjaguwar)
The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know (2/7 via Fat Cat)

Heartless Bastards - Arrow (2/14 via Partisan)
Islands - A Sleep & A Forgetting (2/14 via Anti-)
Punch Brothers - Who's Feeling Young Now? (2/14 via Nonesuch)
Rosie Thomas - With Love (2/14 via Sing-A-Long)
Shearwater - Animal Joy (2/14 via Sub Pop)
Tennis - Young And Old (2/14 via Fat Possum)

Cursive - I Am Gemini (2/21 via Saddle Creek)
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa (2/21 via Secretly Canadian)
Field Music - Plumb (2/21 via Memphis Industries)
Frankie Rose - Interstellar (2/21 via Slumberland)
Fun. - Some Nights (2/21 via Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic)
Grimes - Visions (2/21 via 4AD)
Josh Ritter - Bringing In The Darlings [EP] (2/21 via Pytheas Recordings)
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It (2/21 via Matador)
Release The Sunbird - Imaginary Summer [EP] (2/21 via Brushfire/Universal Republic)

Andrew Belle - The Daylight [EP] (2/28 via Self-Released)
Deer Tick - Tim [EP] (2/28 via Partisan)
Disappears - Pre Language (2/28 via Kranky)
Fanfarlo - Rooms Filled With Light (2/28 via Canvasback Music/Atlantic)
Memoryhouse - The Slideshow Effect (2/28 via Sub Pop)
Plants And Animals - The End Of That (2/28 via Secret City)
School Of Seven Bells - Ghostory (2/28 via Vagrant)
We Have Band - Ternion (2/28 via Naïve)



March

Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself (3/6 via Mom + Pop)
Bowerbirds - The Clearing (3/6 via Dead Oceans)
The Magnetic Fields - Love At The Bottom Of The Sea (3/6 via Merge)
White Rabbits - Milk Famous (3/6 via TBD)
Yellow Ostrich - Strange Land (3/6 via Barsuk)

The Decemberists - We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11) (3/13 via Capitol)

Daniel Rossen - Silent Hour/Golden Mile [EP] (3/20 via Warp)
Lost In The Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs (3/20 via Anti-)
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's - Rot Gut, Domestic (3/20 via Mariel Recordings)
The Shins - Port Of Morrow (3/20 via Aural Apothecary/Columbia)

La Sera - Sees The Light (3/27 via Hardly Art)
Oberhofer - Time Capsules II (3/27 via Glassnote)
Poor Moon - Illusion [EP] (3/27 via Sub Pop)
Zeus - Busting Visions (3/27 via Arts & Crafts)



April

AU - Both Lights (4/3 via Hometapes)
Bear In Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool (4/3 via Hometapes/Dead Oceans)
Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere (4/3 via Nettwerk)
Rocky Votolato - Television Of Saints (4/3 via Self-Released)

Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls (4/10 via ATO)
Eight And A Half - Eight And A Half (4/10 via Arts & Crafts)
M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion (4/10 via Merge)
Radiation City - Cool Nightmare [EP] (4/10 via Tender Loving Empire)

Dry The River - Shallow Bed (4/17 via RCA)
Horse Feathers - Cynic's New Year (4/17 via Kill Rock Stars)

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (4/21 via Nonesuch)

Brendan Benson - What Kind Of World (4/24 via Readymade)
Greg Laswell - Landline (4/24 via Vanguard)
Jack White - Blunderbuss (4/24 via Third Man/Columbia)
The Raveonettes - Into The Night [EP] (4/24 via Vice)
Suckers - Candy Salad (4/24 via Frenchkiss)
Theresa Andersson - Street Parade (4/24 via Basin Street)



May

Father John Misty - Fear Fun (5/1 via Sub Pop)
Lower Dens - Nootropics (5/1 via Ribbon Music)
Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts (5/1 via Blue Note/EMI)
Patrick Watson - Adventures In Your Own Backyard (5/1 via Domino/Secret City)
Ramona Falls - Prophet (5/1 via Barsuk)
Santigold - Master Of My Make-Believe (5/1 via Downtown/Atlantic)

Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship (5/8 via Secretly Canadian)
Keane - Strangeland (5/8 via Interscope)
S. Carey - Hoyas [EP] (5/8 via Jagjaguwar)
Sara Watkins - Sun Midnight Sun (5/8 via Nonesuch)
Silversun Pickups - Neck Of The Woods (5/8 via Dangerbird)

Beach House - Bloom (5/15 via Sub Pop)
Best Coast - The Only Place (5/15 via Mexican Summer)
Tu Fawning - A Monument (5/15 via City Slang)

Exitmusic - Passage (5/22 via Secretly Canadian)
JBM - Stray Ashes (5/22 via Western Vinyl)
Shannon Stephens - Pull It Together (5/22 via Asthmatic Kitty)
Young Man - Vol. 1 (5/22 via Frenchkiss)

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Here (5/29 via Community Music/Vagrant)
Julia Stone - By The Horns (5/29 via Nettwerk/Picture Show)
Marissa Nadler - The Sister (5/29 via Box of Cedar)
Regina Spektor - What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (5/29 via Sire/Warner Bros)
Sigur Rós - Valtari (5/29 via XL)
Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves (5/29 via Caldo Verde)
The Walkmen - Heaven (5/29 via Fat Possum/Bella Union)



June

Japandroids - Celebration Rock (6/5 via Polyvinyl)
Langhorne Slim - The Way We Move (6/5 via Ramseur)
Liars - WIXIW (6/5 via Mute)
Rhett Miller - The Dreamer (6/5 via Maximum Sunshine)

Hot Chip - In Our Heads (6/12 via Domino)
Metric - Synthetica (6/12 via Mom + Pop)
POP ETC - POP ETC (6/12 via Rough Trade)
The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now (6/12 via Dead Oceans)

Ami Saraiya & The Outcome - Soundproof Box (6/19 via Self-Released)
Glen Hansard - Rhythm And Repose (6/19 via Anti-)
YAWN - Happy Tears [EP] (6/19 via FeelTrip)

Paul Banks - Julian Plenti Lives... (6/26 via Matador)



July

Gold Motel - Gold Motel (7/3 via Good As Gold)

Clare And The Reasons - KR-51 (7/10 via Frog Stand)
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (7/10 via Domino)

Angus Stone - Broken Brights (7/17 via Nettwerk/Desert Harvest)

The Antlers - Undersea [EP] (7/24 via Anti-)
Fang Island - Major (7/24 via Sargent House)
Passion Pit - Gossamer (7/24 via Columbia)
Purity Ring - Shrines (7/24 via 4AD)

Joshua Radin - Underwater (7/31 via Mom+Pop)
Ponderosa - Pool Party (7/31 via New West)


August

Ivan & Alyosha - All The Times We Had (8/7 via Missing Piece)

WHY? - Sod In The Seed [EP] (10/2 via Anticon)

Bloc Party - Four (8/21 via Frenchkiss)
Dylan LeBlanc - Cast The Same Old Shadow (8/21 via Rough Trade)
Teengirl Fantasy - Tracer (8/21 via R&S/True Panther)
Yeasayer - Fragrant World (8/21 via Secretly Canadian)

Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits (8/28 via Merge)
Poor Moon - Poor Moon (8/28 via Sub Pop)



September

Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (9/4 via Domino)
Azure Ray - (9/4 via Saddle Creek)
Cat Power - Sun (9/4 via Matador)
Deerhoof - Breakup Song (9/4 via Polyvinyl)
Elbow - (9/4 via Fiction)
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (9/4 via Secretly Canadian)
Sondre Lerche - Bootlegs (9/4 via Mona)
Stars - The North (9/4 via ATO)

The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter (9/11 via Universal Republic)
Calexico - Algiers (9/11 via Anti-)
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant (9/11 via 4AD)
The Helio Sequence - Negotiations (9/11 via Sub Pop)
The Raveonettes - Observator (9/11 via Vice)
Sean Hayes - Before We Turn To Dust (9/11)
The xx - Coexist (9/11 via Young Turks)

Aimee Mann - Charmer (9/18 via Superego)
The Album Leaf - Forward/Return [EP] (9/18)
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (9/18 via Canvasback Music)
Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock (9/18 via Columbia/Brown)
Ben Folds Five - The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind (9/18 via Sony)
Grizzly Bear - Shields (9/18 via Warp)
Menomena - Moms (9/18 via Barsuk)
The Whigs - Enjoy The Company (9/18 via New West)
Woods - Bend Beyond (9/18 via Woodsist)

Dum Dum Girls - End Of Daze [EP] (9/25 via Sub Pop)
Efterklang - Piramida (9/25 via 4AD)
Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital [EP] (9/25 via Fat Cat)
Jason Collett - Reckon (9/25 via Arts & Crafts)
Mumford & Sons - Babel (9/25 via Glassnote)
The Soft Pack - Strapped (9/25 via Mexican Summer)



October

Dr. Dog - Wild Race [EP] (10/2 via Anti-)
Field Music - Play (10/2 via Memphis Industries)
Matt & Kim - Lightning (10/2 via Fader)
The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth (10/2 via Merge)
Muse - The 2nd Law (10/2 via Warner Bros.)
Taken By Trees - Other Worlds (10/2 via Secretly Canadian)
WHY? - Mumps, etc. (10/2 via Anticon)

A.C. Newman - (10/9 via Matador)
Callers - Reviver (10/9 via Partisan)
Dana Falconberry - Leelanu (10/9 via Antenna Farm)
Freelance Whales - Diluvia (10/9 via Mom+Pop)
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Untogether (10/9 via Old Flame)
Tame Impala - Lonerism (10/9 via Modular)

Benjamin Gibbard - Former Lives (10/16 via Barsuk)
Jason Lytle - Dept. Of Disappearance (10/16 via Anti-)
The Luyas - Animator (10/16 via Dead Oceans)

Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man (10/23 via Parlophone/EMI)
Julie Doiron - So Many Days (10/23 via Aporia)
Of Montreal - Daughter Of Cloud (10/23 via Polyvinyl)
Other Lives - Mind The Gap [EP] (10/23 via TBD)
Paul Banks - Banks (10/23 via Matador)
Titus Andronicus - Local Business (10/23 via XL)
Yellow Ostrich - Ghost [EP] (10/23 via Barsuk)

Andrew Bird - Hands Of Glory (10/30 via Mom+Pop)



November

Joshua James - From The Top Of Willamette Mountain (11/6 via Intelligent Noise)

The Babies - Our House On The Hill (11/13 via Woodsist)
El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire (11/13 via The Control Group)
School Of Seven Bells - Put Your Sad Down [EP] (11/13 via Vagrnat)
Sufjan Stevens - Silver & Gold: Songs For Christmas, Volumes 6-10 (11/13 via Asthmatic Kitty)

Coldplay - Live 2012 (11/20 via Capitol)



December

Mogwai - A Wrenched Virile Lore (12/4 via Sub Pop)
Willy Mason - Carry On (12/4 via Fiction)



Rumored

Cameron McGill - Gallows Etiquette
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - TBA (fall via Community Music/Vagrant)
Neko Case - TBA
Radiohead - TBA
Spoon - TBA