Our 25 Most Anticipated Albums of 2011 (Quarter 3)

Album art credit: Nate Burrell and Kristin Dennis

1 The Cool Kids | When Fish Ride Bicycles (Green Label Sound)
Release Date: July 12th
Listen: “Bundle Up”

2 Sleepy Kitty | Infinity City (Euclid)
Release Date: July 12th
Listen: “Gimme a Chantz!”

3 William Elliott Whitmore | Field Songs (ANTI-)
Release Date: July 12th
Listen: “Everything Gets Gone”

4 Washed Out | Within and Without (Sub Pop)
Release Date: July 12th
Listen: “Eyes Be Closed”

5 Old Lights | Like Strangers (self-released)
Release Date: July 15th

6 Theophilus London | Timez Are Weird These Days (Green Label Sound)
Release Date: July 19th
Listen: “Last Name London”

7 The Features | Wilderness (Serpents & Snakes)
Release Date: July 26th

8 The Horrors | Skying (XL)
Release Date: July 26th
Listen: “Still Life”

9 Matthew Ryan | I Recall Standing As Though Nothing Would Fall (Dear Future Collective)
Release Date: July 26th
Listen: “Summer in the South”

10 Union Tree Review | Death and Other Forms of Relaxation (self-released)
Release Date: July 30th
Listen: “44”

11 The New Mastersounds | Breaks From the Border (Blow It Hard)
Release Date: August 9th
Listen: “Can You Get It” (courtesy of WXPN)

12 Active Child | You Are All I See (Vagrant)
Release Date: August 23rd
Listen: “How to Dress Well”

13 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks | Mirror Traffic (Matador)
Release Date: August 23rd
Listen: “Senator”

14 Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV (Young Money/Cash Money)
Release Date: August 29th
Listen: “John (If I Die Today)”

15 Beirut | The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
Release Date: August 30th
Listen: “East Harlem”

16 Male Bonding | Endless Now (Sub Pop)
Release Date: August 30th
Listen: “Bones”

17 Peter Wolf Crier | Garden of Arms (Jagjaguwar)
Release Date: September 5th
Listen: “Right Away”

18 A.A. Bondy | Believers (Fat Possum)
Release Date: September 13th

19 Blind Pilot | We Are The Tide (Expunged)
Release Date: September 13th

20 Grouplove | Never Trust a Happy Song (Canvasback)
Release Date: September 13th
Listen: “Naked Kids”

21 Wilco | The Whole Love (dPbm)
Release Date: September 13th
Listen: “I Might”

22 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | HYSTERICAL (Wichita)
Release Date: September 20th
Listen: “Same Mistake”

23 The Jayhawks | Mockingbird Time (Rounder)
Release Date: September 20th
Listen: “She Walks In So Many Ways”

24 Megafaun | Megafaun (Hometapes)
Release Date: September 20th

25 WATERS | Out in the Light (TBD)
Release Date: September 20th
Listen: “For the One”

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