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| TV on the Radio’s album art for Nine Kinds of Light |
Back on our first birthday, we published a list of 25 albums over which we were salivating.
We’ve barely had time to mop up our drool from January, February, and March’s all-star releases, and now we’re back, in similar fashion, with another list of 25 set to drop in Quarter Numero Dos of this year, a quarter that includes the end all, be all of music purchasing celebrations, Record Store Day.
Which albums are you gonna pick up?
1 Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years (Matador)
Street Date: April 5th
Listen: “Underworld USA”
2 Ha Ha Tonka | Death of a Decade (Bloodshot)
Street Date: April 5th
Listen: “Usual Suspects“
3 Matthew Mayfield | Now You’re Free (Sweet Exchange Records)
Street Date: April 5th
Listen: “Come Back Home“
4 The Raveonettes – Raven in the Grave (Vice)
Street Date: April 5th
Listen: “Forget That You’re Wrong”
5 The Apache Relay – American Nomad (Thirty Tigers)
Street Date: April 12th
Listen: “American Nomad“
6 Cameron McGill & What Army | Is A Beast
Street Date: April 12th
Listen: “Houdini”
7 Sonny and the Sunsets – Hit After Hit (Fat Possum)
Street Date: April 12th
Listen: “I Wanna Do It”
8 TV on the Radio | Nine Types of Light (4AD)
Street Date: April 12th
Listen: “Caffeinated Consciousness”
9 Panda Bear – Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
Street Date: April 19th
Listen: “Tomboy”
10 The Belle Brigade | The Belle Brigade (Reprise)
Street Date: April 19th
Listen: “Sweet Louise“
11 Emmylou Harris | Hard Bargain (Nonesuch)
Street Date: April 26th
Listen: “The Road”
12 Architecture in Helsinki | Moment Bends (Modular)
Street Date: May 3rd
Listen: “Contact High”
13 Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
Street Date: May 3rd
Listen: “Helplessness Blues”
14 Brandi Carlile | Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony (Columbia Records)
Street Date: May 3rd
Listen: “Before It Breaks” (via Filter)
15 Amanda Shires | Carrying Lightning (Silver Knife Records)
Street Date: May 3rd
Listen: “When You Need a Train It Never Comes”
16 The Felice Brothers – Celebration, Florida (Fat Possum)
Street Date: May 10th
Listen: “Ponzi“
17 Okkervil River | I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
Street Date: May 10th
Listen: “Wake and Be Fine”
18 Tyler, the Creator – Goblin (XL)
Street Date: May 10th
Listen: “Yonkers”
19 Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | Rome (Lex Records)
Street Date: May 17th
Listen:”Two Against One”
20 The Elected | Bury Me In My Rings (Vagrant)
Street Date: May 17th
Listen: “Babyface”
21 Art Brut – Brilliant! Tragic! (Cooking Vinyl)
Street Date: May 23rd
Listen: “Unprofessional Wrestling”
22 Death Cab For Cutie | Codes And Keys (Atlantic)
Street Date: May 31st
Listen: “You Are Not a Tourist”
23 My Morning Jacket | Circuital (ATO)
Street Date: May 31st
Listen: “Circuital” (live)
24 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. | It’s A Corporate World (Quite Scientific)
Street Date: June 7th
Listen: “Morning Thought”
25 Matt Nathanson | Modern Love (Vanguard)
Release Date: June 7th
Listen: “Faster”
More Speakers-Endorsed Releases:
April 5th
The Kills – Blood Pressures (Domino)
Daft Punk – TRON: Legacy R3CONF1GUR3D (Walt Disney)
April 12th
Crystal Stilts – In Love with Oblivion (Slumberland)
Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys! (V2)
Vivian Girls – Share the Joy (In The Red)
April 19th
I’m From Barcelona – Forever Today (Mute)
April 26th
Julian Lynch – Terra (Underwater Peoples)
Steve Earle | I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (New West Records)
Times New Viking – Dancer Equired (Merge)
May 3rd
Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (Capitol)
May 10th
The Antlers – Burst Apart (Frenchkiss)
May 17th
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV (Cash Money)
May 24th
Boris – Attention Please/Heavy Rocks (Southern)
Friendly Fires – Pala (XL)
Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts (Ecstatic Peace)
May 31st
Eddie Vedder – Ukulele Songs (Monkeywrench)
The Melvins – Sugar Daddy Live (Ipecac)
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From the Vaccines? (Columbia)
June 7th
Arctic Monkeys – Suck and See (Domino)
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain (Vice)
Jill Andrews – The Mirror (Thirty Tigers)
Fucked Up – David Comes To Life (Matador)
Sondre Lerche – Sondre Lerche (Rounder)
The Rosebuds – Loud Planes Fly Low (Merge)
June 14th
Junior Boys – It’s All True (Own)
Woods – Sun & Shade (Woodist)
June 21st
Centro-matic | Candidate Waltz (Thirty Tigers)
Liam Finn – FOMO (Yep Roc)
Yacht – Shangri-La (DFA)
Fingers crossed for June:
Bon Iver – TBD (Jagjaguwar)
GIVERS – TBD (Glassnote)
Coldplay – TBD (Capitol)
Cymbals Eat Guitars: TBD (Barsuk)
Fiona Apple: TBD
Jay-Z and Kanye West – Watch the Throne (Roc-A-Fella)
M83: TBD (Mute)