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
