Pitchfork put out an all-inclusive list of every CD, EP, Vinyl, and Digital Download release for the upcoming first quarter of 2009, but if that's a little daunting for you (it was for me), I've distilled the list into the albums I'm really looking forward to. By date, below:
1/6/09
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Vinyl) - CD version is coming on 1/20 [Domino]
1/13/09
Superchunk: Clambake Series Vol. 4 - Live in Montreal 1993 [Merge]
This Will Destroy You & Lymbyc System - Field Studies [Magic Bullet]
1/20/09
AC Newman - Get Guilty [Matador]
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast [Fat Possum]
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light [Secretly Canadian]
Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP [Jagjaguwar]
Calexico - Live From Austin DVD [New West]
Robert Pollard - The Crawling Distance [Guided by Voices]
2/3/09
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses [ATO]
Eluvium - Life Through Bombardment - 7XLP box set [Temporary Residence]
!!!!!!!!!! Handsome Furs - Face Control [Sub Pop]
The Von Bondies - Love, Hate and Then There's You [Majordomo]
Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada w/ Houndstooth Europa - bonus CD [Boompa]
2/10/09
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Advance Base Battery Life [Tomlab]
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You [Capitol]
2/17/09
The Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha [The Militia Group]
Asobi Seksu - Hush [Polyvinyl]
Beirut/Realpeople - March of the Zapotec/Holland [Pompeii/ Ba Da Bing]
M. Ward - Hold Time [Merge]
Morrissey - Years of Refusal [Attack/Lost Highway]
Odawas - The Blue Depths [Jagjaguwar]
Throw Me the Statue - Purpleface EP [Secretly Canadian]
Thursday - Common Existence [Epitaph]
3/3/09
The Boy Least Likely To - The Law of the Playground [Too Young to Die/+1 Records]
Say Hi - Oohs and Ahs [Barsuk]
3/10/09
Bishop Allen - Grr... [Dead Oceans]
3/17/09
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware [Drag City]
3/24/09
!!!!!!!!!! The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love [Capitol]
(Editor's Note: Late Addition) Swan Lake - Enemy Mine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3/31/09
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels [Nettwerk]
4/07/09
The Thermals - Now We Can See [Kill Rock Stars]
Also expected in the first quarter are new albums by Art Brut, Tortoise, Grizzly Bear, and an Arcade Fire DVD, release dates to be determined.
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