Album Releases in 2012

A list of albums I'm looking forward to! US dates.
Spotify playlist of streamable artists. Updated regularly!

JANUARY

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1st
Guided by Voices - Let's Go Eat the Factory

24th
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
Nada Surf – The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy

31st
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

FEBRUARY

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7th
Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Dr. Dog – Be The Void
Lindstrom – Six Cups of Rebel
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
Mount Eerie - Distorted Cymbals 7"
of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
The Lemonheads - Hotel Sessions
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know

14th
The Cranberries – Roses
Field Music – Plumb
Shearwater – Animal Joy

20th
Peter Broderick - http://www.itstartshear.com;


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21st
Archers of Loaf – Vee Vee reissue
Cursive - I Am Gemini
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun
Lambchop - Mr. M
Memoryhouse – The Slideshow Effect
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
Tindersticks – The Something Rain

28th
Dirty Three - Toward the Low Sun

MARCH

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6th
Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
Bowerbirds – The Clearing;



The Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea
Xiu Xiu - Always

19th
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

20th
Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times & the Tides
Lost In The Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs
The Shins – Port of Morrow

24th
La Sera – Sees the Light

27th
Caveman - CoCo Beware
Janus - Nox Aeris
Justin Townes Earle - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
the Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks
Zeus - Busting Visions

28th
Ty Segall and White Fence - Hair

APRIL

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3rd
Allo Darlin’ – Europe
Beak> - Eyrie
Evans the Death - Evans the Death;



Gravenhurst - The Ghost In Daylight
Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere
Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
Santigold - Master of My Make Believe
Screaming Females – Ugly

10th
M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion

15th
Squarepusher - Ufabulum

17th
Horse Feathers – Cynic’s New Year
Moonface (Spencer Krug) – With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Yann Tiersen - Skyline

24th
Electric Guest – Mondo
Toro Y Moi – June 2009

MAY

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1st
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Patrick Watson - In Your Own Backyard
Rufus Wainwright – Out of the Game

8th
J Mascis – Heavy Blanket

9th
Codeine – Barely Real EP, Frigid Stars, The White Birch reissues

15th
Beach House - Bloom
Best Coast - The Only Place
Craft Spells – Gallery EP
HEALTH - Max Payne 3

22nd
Mount Eerie – Clear Moon

28th
Sigur Ros - Valtari

29th
Marissa Nadler - The Sister
Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves

JUNE

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5th
Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
Dntel - Aimlessness
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Liars - WIXIW
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Americana
Patti Smith - Banga
Shonen Knife - Pop Tune
The Walkmen - Heaven

12th
Dent May - Do Things
Giant Sand - Tucson
Guided by Voices - Class Clown Spots a UFO
Hot Chip - In Our Heads
Metric – Synthetica
Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge
The dB's - Falling Off The Sky
The Hundred in the Hands - Red Night
The Tallest Man on Earth - There’s No Leaving Now

19th
Can - The Lost Tapes
Peaking Lights - Lucifer
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
Zulu Winter - Language

26th
A Place to Bury Strangers - Worship
Beachwood Sparks - The Tarnished Gold
Dive – Oshin
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
The Flaming Lips -The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends
Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse

JULY

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3rd
Animal Collective – Honeycomb 7″

10th
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
Mission Of Burma - Unsound
Twin Shadow - Confess

17th
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

24th
Laetitia Sadier - Silencio
Lawrence Arabia - The Sparrow
Purity Ring - TBA
The Antlers - Undersea

AUGUST

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21st
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
Bloc Party - Four
Six Organs of Admittance - Ascent
Teengirl Fantasy - Tracer
Yeasayer - Fragrant World

28th
Wild Nothing - Nocturne

SEPTEMBER

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4th
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Bob Mould - Silver Age
Cat Power - Sun
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
Mount Eerie – Ocean Roar
Stars - The North
The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance

11th
Bob Dylan - Tempest
Calexico - Algiers
Seapony - Falling
St. Vincent and David Byrne - Love This Giant
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
The XX - Coexist

18th
Ben Folds Five The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind Out
Corin Tucker Band - Kill My Blues
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
Grizzly Bear – TBA
How to Dress Well - Total Loss
Menomena – Moms
Pet Shop Boys - Elysium
The Hood Internet – FEAT
The Killers - Battle Born
The Sea and Cake - Runner
Woods - Bend Beyond

25th
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1
The Soft Pack - Strapped
Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon - YOKOKIMTHURSTON

OCTOBER

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2nd
Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
John Cale - Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood
Sun Airway - Soft Fall
Taken By Trees - Other Worlds
The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth
Van Morrison - Born To Sing: No Plan B

9th
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Ty Segall - Twins

16th
Daphni (Dan Snaith of Carobou) - JIAOLONG
Martha Wainwright - Come Home to Mama
Pinback - Information Retrieved

23rd
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs
Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
Titus Andronicus - Local Business

30th
Andrew Bird - Hands of Glory
The Soft Moon - Zeros
Tracey Thorn - Tinsel And Lights

NOVEMBER

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6th
Graveyard - Lights Out
Lindstrom - Smalhans
Prince Rama - Top Ten Hits of the End Of The World
Teen Daze - The Inner Mansions

13th
Brian Eno - LUX
Clinic - Free Reign
Crystal Castles - III
El Perro del Mar - Pale Fire
The Babies - Our House On The Hill

20nd
Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die
Rihanna - Unapologetic

DECEMEBER

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4th
Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch