JANUARY
01-04
Various Artists: Kitsuné Maison 10: The Fireworks Issue [Kitsuné] [2xCD]
01-10
Jürgen Paape: Kompilation [Kompakt Klassiks] [Digital release]
01-11
Bardo Pond: Bardo Pond [Fire Records]
Beach Fossils: "Calyer" 7' [Captured Tracks]
The Beets: Stay Home [Captured Tracks]
The Beets: "Time Brought Age" 7' [Captured Tracks]
British Sea Power: Valhalla Dancehall [Rough Trade]
Broken Records: Let Me Come Home [4AD]
Cake: Showroom of Compassion [Upbeat Records]
Dungen: "Oga Nasa Mum" b/w "Highway Wolf" 7' [Third Man]
Kid Sister: Kiss Kiss Kiss mixtape [Fool's Gold]
MillionYoung: Replicants [Old Flame] [digital only]
Minks: By the Hedge [Captured Tracks]
N.E.R.D.: The Best of N.E.R.D. [Virgin/EMI]
The Pixies: Wave of Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies [4AD] [vinyl release]
Punk: Attitude [Shout! Factory] [DVD]
Tape Deck Mountain: Secret Surf EP [Lefse]
Tapes 'n Tapes: Outside [Ibid]
Tim Buckley: Tim Buckley [Rhino] [reissue] [2xCD]
Widowspeak: "Brainfreeze" 7' [Captured Tracks]
Wire: Red Barked Tree [Pink Flag]
01-17
The Decemberists: The King Is Dead [Rough Trade] [UK release]
Disappears: Guider [Kranky]
Various Artists: Trax 25: DJhistory.com Re-Edit Project Celebrating 25 Years of Trax Records, Chicago [Harmless Records]
White Lies: Ritual [Fiction] [UK release]
01-18
16 Horsepower: Yours Truly [Alternative Virus]
Aurelio: Laru Beya [Next Ambiance]
Braids: Native Speaker [Kanine]
Daniel Martin Moore: In the Cool of the Day [Sub Pop]
The Decemberists: The King Is Dead [Capitol]
Ducktails: Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics [Woodsist]
Fergus & Geronimo: Unlearn [Hardly Art]
First Aid Kit: "Universal Soldier" b/w "It Hurts Me Too" 7' [Third Man]
Klaxons: Surfing the Void [Polydor] [deluxe edition reissue]
Madlib: Low Budget High Fi Music [Stones Throw] [3xCD]
Robert Pollard: Space City Kicks [Guided by Voices, Inc.]
Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde [Fat Possum]
Tennis: Cape Dory [Fat Possum]
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death: Some of Us Are in This Together [Don't Stop Believin']
White Lies: Ritual [Geffen]
White Fence: ...Is Growing Faith [Woodsist]
01-24
Cloud Nothings: Cloud Nothings [Wichita] [UK release]
The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar [Canvasback/Atlantic] [UK release]
01-25
Andre Afram Asmar: Harmonic Emergency [Mush]
Apex Manor: The Year of Magical Drinking [Merge]
Ben + Vesper: Honors [Sounds Familyre]
The Books: Thought for Food [Temporary Residence] [reissue]
Brown Recluse: Evening Tapestry [Slumberland]
Chain and the Gang: "Cry, Cry, Cry Over You" b/w "Snakes on a Plane" 7' [K Records]
Cloud Nothings: Cloud Nothings [Carpark]
Cold War Kids: Mine Is Yours [Downtown]
Ensemble: Excerpts [FatCat]
Epstein: Sealess See [Asthmatic Kitty]
Death: Spiritual, Mental, Physical [Drag City]
Deerhoof: Deerhoof Vs. Evil [Polyvinyl]
Destroyer: Kaputt [Merge]
Fujiya & Miyagi: Ventriloquizzing [Yep Roc]
Gang of Four: Content [Yep Roc]
The Holydrug Couple: Ancient Land EP 12' [Sacred Bones Records]
I Was a King: Old Friends [Sounds Familyre]
Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean [Warner Bros./4AD]
John Vanderslice: White Wilderness [Dead Oceans]
Lake: "You Are Alone" b/w "Higher Than Merry" 7' [K Records]
Lia Ices: Grown Unknown [Jagjaguwar]
Matthew Friedberger: Napoleonette [Thrill Jockey]
Michael Chapman: Trainsong: Guitar Compositions, 1967-2010 [Tompkins Square]
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight: Oscillate Wisely [St. Ives]
Monotonix: Not Yet [Drag City]
My Disco: Little Joy [Temporary Residence, Ltd.]
Phil Manley: Life Coach [Thrill Jockey]
The Radio Dept.: Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 [Labrador] [2xCD]
Sic Alps: Napa Asylum [Drag City]
Sidi Touré: Sahel Folk [Thrill Jockey]
Sonic Youth: SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu soundtrack [SYR] [digital release]
Sonny Smith: 100 Records Volume 2: I Miss the Jams [Turn Up Records]
Talib Kweli: Gutter Rainbows [Talibra]
Thank You: Golden Worry [Thrill Jockey]
Wanda Jackson: The Party Ain't Over [Third Man/Nonesuch]
Young Prisms: Friends For Now [Kanine]
Zs: New Slaves Part II: Essence Implosion! [The Social Registry]
01-28
Various Artists: Werkschau [BPitch Control] [Germany release]
01-31
David Lynch: "Good Today Today" b/w "I Know" Remixes [Sunday Best]
MEN: Talk About Body [IAMSOUND] [UK release]
Various Artists: Werkschau [BPitch Control] [world release]
FEBRUARY
02-01
Bob Marley: Live Forever: The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, September 23, 1980 [UMe/Tuff Gong International] [2xCD]
Catwalk: "One By Words" 7' [Captured Tracks]
Craft Spells: "After the Moment" 7' [Captured Tracks]
Demdike Stare: Tryptych [Modern Love] [3xCD]
Dirtbombs: Party Store [In the Red]
The Go! Team: Rolling Blackouts [Memphis Industries]
Led Er Est: TBA 12' EP [Captured Tracks]
MEN: Talk About Body [IAMSOUND]
The New Original Sonic Sound: The New Original Sonic Sound [Jackpot] [members of Mudhoney, R.E.M., Gas Huffer doing Sonics covers]
Starfuckers: Metallic Diseases [Holy Mountain]
Tim Cohen: Magic Trick [Captured Tracks]
Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2011 [Kompakt]
02-07
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: Tao of the Dead [Superball Music] [UK release]
Claudia Brucken: Combined [ZTT]
Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Liverpool [2xCD reissue] [ZTT/Salvo]
Isolée: Well Spent Youth [Pampa Records]
The Streets: Computers and Blues [679/Atlantic]
Various Artists: The Art of the 12" [ZTT/Salvo]
02-08
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: Tao of the Dead [Richter Scale Recordings]
Akron/Family: S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT [Dead Oceans]
The Babies: The Babies [Shrimper]
Chalk Circle: Reflection [Post Present Medium]
Cut Copy: Zonoscope [Modular]
Diplo: Riddimentary: Diplo Selects Greensleeves [VP]
Esben and the Witch: Violet Cries [Matador]
Follkazoid: Follkaziod 12" EP [Sacred Bones]
Gruff Rhys: Hotel Shampoo [Turnstile]
The Holydrug Couple: Ancient Land 12" EP [Sacred Bones]
James Blake: James Blake [Atlas/A&M]
Jessica Lea Mayfield: Tell Me [Nonesuch]
Silk Flowers: Ltd. Form [Post Present Medium]
Young Galaxy: Shapeshifting [Paper Bag]
02-09
KORT: Invariable Heartache [City Slang]
02-14
Asobi Seksu: Fluorescence [Polyvinyl] [UK release]
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake [Island] [UK release]
02-15
Asobi Seksu: Fluorescence [Polyvinyl]
Beans: End It All [Anticon]
Brave Irene: Brave Irene [Slumberland]
Bright Eyes: The People's Key [Saddle Creek]
Brown Recluse: Evening Tapestry [Slumberland]
Dan Melchior: Assemblage Blues [Siltbreeze]
Dom: Sun Bronzed Greek Gods [Astralwerks/Burning Mill] [remastered and remixed]
Dream Diary: You Are the Beat [Kanine]
Drive-By Truckers: Go-Go Boots [ATO]
East River Pipe: We Live in Rented Rooms [Merge]
Harald Grosskopf: Synthesist [reissue] [physical release]
La Sera: La Sera [Hardly Art]
Lifeguards: Waving at the Astronauts [Serious Business Records/Ernest Jenning Recording Co.]
MillionYoung: Replicants [Old Flame] [physical release]
Mogwai: Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will [Sub Pop]
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake [Vagrant]
Shugo Tokumaru: Port Entropy [Polyvinyl]
Sonic Youth: SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu soundtrack [SYR] [physical release]
Telekinesis: 12 Desperate Straight Lines [Merge]
Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972 [Kranky]
The Twilight Singers: Dynamite Steps [Sub Pop]
Win Win: Win Win [Vice]
Yuck: Yuck [Fat Possum]
02-21
Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie Smith: We're New Here [XL]
The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar [Canvasback/Atlantic] [Europe release]
The Luyas: Too Beautiful to Work [Dead Oceans] [UK release]
02-22
Arbouretum: The Gathering [Thrill Jockey]
Beach Fossils: What a Pleasure EP [Captured Tracks]
The Books: The Lemon of Pink [Temporary Residence] [reissue]
The Builders and the Butchers: Dead Reckoning [Badman Recording Co.]
The Cave Singers: No Witch [Jagjaguwar]
The Caribbean: Discontinued Perfume [Hometapes]
Chain and the Gang: Music's Not for Everyone [K]
Christmas: "Namiot" 7" [K]
Cult of Youth: Cult of Youth [Sacred Bones]
Danielson: Best of Gloucester County [Sounds Familyre]
Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie Smith: We're New Here [Young Turks]
Jim Jones: Capo [E1]
Julianna Barwick: The Magic Place [Asthmatic Kitty]
The Luyas: Too Beautiful to Work [Dead Oceans]
Marcellus Hall: The First Line [Glacial Pace]
Medication: Judgment Day 12" EP [Sacred Bones]
Nick Jonah Davis: Of Time and Tides [Tompkins Square]
Porcelain Raft: Gone Blind EP [Acéphale]
Puro Instinct: Headbangers in Ecstasy [Mexican Summer]
Sean Rowe: Magic [Anti-]
Six Organs of Admittance: Asleep on the Floodplain [Drag City]
Slug Guts: Howlin' Gang [Sacred Bones]
Tahiti 80: The Past, the Present & the Possible [Human Sounds]
Toro Y Moi: Underneath the Pine [Carpark]
02-28
Devotchka: 100 Lovers [Anti-] [Europe release]
Discodeine: Discodeine [Dirty/Pschent]
Rainbow Arabia: Boys and Diamonds [Kompakt] [Europe release]
Also due out in February:
Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 [Southern Lord]
Essie Jain: Until the Light of Morning [self-released]
T. Rex: Tanx [Fat Possum] [reissue]
MARCH
03-01
Acrylics: Lives and Treasure [Friendly Fire/Hot Sand]
Amede Ardoin: Mama, I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934 [Tompkins Square]
Cosmetics: Cosmetics [Captured Tracks]
Devotchka: 100 Lovers [Anti-]
Dignan Porch: TBA 12' EP [Captured Tracks]
Dum Dum Girls: He Gets Me High EP [Sub Pop]
Harald Grosskopf: Sythesist [RVNG Intl.] [reissue] [digital release]
Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes [LL Recordings]
Papercuts: Fading Parade [Sub Pop]
Rainbow Arabia: Boys and Diamonds [Kompakt]
The Rural Alberta Advantage: Departing [Saddle Creek/Paper Bag]
Sonic Youth: SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu soundtrack [SYR] [vinyl release]
03-07
Primal Scream: Screamadelica Collector's Edition [Creation]
R.E.M.: Collapse Into Now [Warner Bros.] [UK release]
Wye Oak: Civilian [City Slang] [Europe release]
03-08
A Hawk and a Hacksaw: CERVANTINE [L.M. Duplication]
The Curious Mystery: We Creeling [K]
Dodos: TBA [Frenchkiss]
Grails: Deep Politics [Temporary Residence]
Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo [Matador]
Lupe Fiasco: LASERS [Atlantic]
Parts & Labor: Constant Future [Jagjaguwar]
R.E.M.: Collapse Into Now [Warner Bros.]
Western Hymn: Out of the Way EP [K]
Wye Oak: Civilian [Merge] [North America release]
03-14
Akron/Family: S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT [Dead Oceans] [UK release]
03-15
The Death Set: Michel Poiccard [Counter]
Eleventh Dream Day: Riot Now! [Thrill Jockey]
Heidecker & Wood: Starting From Nowhere [Little Record Company]
J Mascis: Several Shades of Why [Sub Pop]
The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar [Canvasback/Atlantic]
03-21
Belong: Common Era [Kranky]
03-22
The Books: Lost and Safe [Temporary Residence] [reissue]
Edwyn Collins: Losing Sleep [Heavenly/Cooperative/Downtown] [U.S. release]
Keren Ann: 101 [Blue Note]
Various Artists: Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans Tribute LP [On Joyful Wings]
03-29
Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa: Suara Naga [K]
Ben Hall: Ben Hall [Tompkins Square]
Grooms: Grooms [Kanine]
Craft Spells: TBA [Captured Tracks]
Mars Classroom: The New Theory of Everything [Happy Jack Records]
Moon Duo: Mazes [Sacred Bones]
Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck [Merge]
Naked on the Vague: Twelve Dark Noons 12" EP [Sacred Bones]
Obits: Moody, Standard and Poor [Sub Pop]
Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou: Cotonou Club [Strut/Sons D'Ailleurs]
Peter Bjorn and John: Gimme Some [StarTime International]
Those Darlins: Screws Get Loose [Oh Wow Dang]
TRUST: Candy Walls 7" [Sacred Bones]
Also due out in March:
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong [Slumberland]
Wolf + Lamb vs. Soul Clap: DJ-Kicks [!K7]
APRIL
04-05
Surfer Blood: I'm Not Ready EP [Kanine]
04-12
Jeremy Jay: Dream Diary [K]
Lake: Giving & Receiving [K]
Also due out in April:
Kode9 & the Spaceape: Black Sun [Hyperdub]
Also to be released:
Anni Rossi: Heavy Meadow [3 Syllables]
Beach Fossils: TBA [Captured Tracks]
Catwalk: TBA [Captured Tracks]
Coldplay: TBA [Capitol]
Dr. Dre: Detox [Interscope]
The Duke Spirit: Bruiser [Shangri-La Music]
Fleet Foxes: TBA [Sub Pop]
Foo Fighters: TBA [RCA]
Hunx & His Punx: TBA [Hardly Art]
Josh T. Pearson: Last of the Country Gentlemen [Mute]
Lady Gaga: Born This Way [Interscope]
Low: C'mon [Sub Pop]
Okkervil River: TBA [Jagjaguwar]
Patrick Wolf: TBA [Hideout Recordings]
Thurston Moore: Benediction [Matador]
