2011 Most Anticipated Music Releases

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01.18.11

Braids — Native Speaker (Kanine)

This group of longtime pals from north of the border mix the angular with the inviting, creating pop tinged with delightfully odd moments, stunning experimental flourishes, and idiosyncratic vocals. It seems like they’ve been getting buzz forever, so it’s high time we got a chance to check out their debut album.

 

[MrFag]

aphex Twin

 

[miaedu]

aphex Twin

the rumor is that he has 6 albums worth of material waiting to be released and something will be released on March 12th.


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI_0pyqMtAE[/ame]

 

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The Third Twin - Tron era Disney rejects of Daft Punk material.

This summer?

 

[Big Mo]

Sam Sparro - Return To Paradise

 

[miaedu]

Sam Sparro - Return To Paradise

any more info on this?

 

[Big Mo]

Early 2011 is all Sam has told the press. If you go to his website you can download the EP for the first [non-]single "Pink Cloud" (there's a kickin' [NSFW] B-side as well). It's getting mixed reations from people because it's an instrumental [both songs are really] and the video is very "artistic" (think Jean-Paul Goude's work with Grace Jones). The fusion of pop music and art kind of went out of style at the close of the 1980's. So I think a lot of young people don't quite know what to do with it. And honestly, people want to hear that voice and some have feared the new album will be all instrumentals. But Sam has said that will not be the case.

 

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The Third Twin - Tron era Disney rejects of Daft Punk material.

This summer?

UPDATE: Daft Punk Not Connected to The Third Twin

Amysterious collection of electronic music released under the pseudonym The Third Twin was rumored to be connected to Daft Punk, after Spanish newspaper El Periódico Mediterráneo reported last week that the French duo would be playing the Arenal Sound Festival as their new alter ego in August. However, Daft Punk's management has released a statement that decries the report and denies any link between Daft Punk and the new tracks posted online.

"It has been brought to the attention of Daft Punk's management that the promoters for the Arenal Sound Festival in Spain have recently issued a press release in which they claim that a band called The Third Twin is 'directly connected' to Daft Punk," reads the statement. "This is completely untrue. Recent press reports are based on rumors instead of facts. Daft Punk is in no way associated with The Third Twin and the promoters for the Arenal Sound Festival are promoting the show under false pretenses."

The report stated that Daft Punk created The Third Twin moniker as a way to release a batch of material that Disney rejected when Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo were tapped to create the score for "Tron: Legacy." Mitchell Leib, President of Music and Soundtracks for Walt Disney Pictures and Disney Music Group, tells Billboard.com that the notion that Disney turned down any music that Daft Punk composed for "Tron" is completely untrue.

"We never threw out any of their material, ever," says Leib. "I want to dispel any of the rumors about that material by that alias group being any derivative of our 'Tron' music, because it's not at all. There's nothing about that music that has anything to do with 'Tron' or any of the original conceptual music that was done."

The "Tron: Legacy" soundtrack, the latest batch of actual Daft Punk music, has sold 277,000 copies since its Dec. 7 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/update-daft-punk-not-connected-to-the-third-1004138738.story

 

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Here Before, the first album from the Feelies in two decades, is set for release March 29 via Bar/None.

 

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All Eternals Deck, the new album from the Mountain Goats, arrives March 29 on Merge.

 

[patricks07]

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

I actually may or may not have it already, but can't wait for the physical version! Also, STOKED to see em live again!

 

[miaedu]

On April 12, Minnesota slowcore pioneers Low will release their new album C'mon on Sub Pop. The 10-song LP is the trio's first since 2007's Drums and Guns, and they recorded it in the same studio in a former Catholic church in Duluth, Minnesota where they made 2002's Trust. Matt Beckley co-produced and mixed the record.

Talking about the album in a press release, frontman Alan Sparhawk says, "With the last couple of records, we were grappling with something outside of ourselves. This one feels more like, 'Well, forget that. I'm looking in your eyes right now, and we need to figure out how to get through the next moment, together, as human beings.'"

Low plan to tour the U.S., but the only dates announced at the moment are SXSW in March and a set opening for Explosions in the Sky at New York's Radio City Music Hall April 6.

C'mon:

01 Try to Sleep
02 You See Everything
03 Witches
04 Done
05 Especially Me
06 $20
07 Majesty/Magic
08 Nightingale
09 Nothing but Heart
10 Something's Turning Over

 

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Bjork 'halfway through' new album and planning tour

Bjork has said that she is halfway through finishing her new album - and hopes to play live before 2011 ends.

Speaking to Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið, the singer said work was well underway the follow-up to 2007’s 'Volta' and alluded to a tour plan for later in the year.


"Hopefully I will be able to be on tour in the fall," she said.

She also said she was wary of giving too many details about the album away, adding: "I have had some bad experiences with a number of things before. I'm very superstitious. I go into the studio with a plan to go do what I have in mind, and then the idea is half dead."

The singer revealed one of her new songs is inspired by experiences she'd had after attending a conference organised by National Geographic magazine.

"I saw 100 talks and met eccentric people who had been in Africa for four years with lions and insects," she said. "Then one night after drinking whiskey with them I began to hear stories. This is one of the collaborations I can talk about."

http://www.nme.com/news/bjork/54611

 

[arpeggi]

Awesome, I love Low!

I'm still not even sure what to think of the last couple Bjork albums. I look forward to the tour though. I hope she comes my way.

 

[miaedu]

Andy Butler's Hercules and Love Affair disco collective follow-up their self-titled 2008 debut album with Blue Songs, out January 31 in the UK on new label Moshi Moshi. (U.S. release plans will be announced soon.) Bloc Party's Kele Okereke sings on the track "Step Up", while Venezuelan singer Aerea Negrot, fan-turned-collaborator Shaun Wright, and Hercules vet Kim Ann Foxman also contribute vocals.

Blue Songs:

01 Painted Eyes
02 My House
03 Answers Come in Dreams
04 Leonora
05 Boy Blue
06 Falling
07 I Can't Wait
08 Step Up
09 Visitor
10 It's Alright

Still no US release date.

Exclusive album stream:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/jan/24/hercules-love-affair-blue-songs

It's been three years since Andy Butler joined forces with Antony Hegarty for Hercules and Love Affair's debut single Blind, the best slice of melancholy disco since pretty much anything Vince Clarke turned his hand to. Skip forward to 2011 and the New York band are back with their second album, Blue Songs, but this time with a few new recruits. Butler's still at the helm, but fan-turned-frontman Shaun Wright and Venezuelan singer Aerea Negrot now lead the vocals on standout tracks such as My House and Painted Eyes. And while Hegarty is missing, H&LA stalwart Kim Ann Foxman remains.

Speaking to Rosie Swash for the Guardian's Music Weekly podcast, Butler explained that the titular theme refers to the "blue period" of his adolescence, before music made him realise there were other people just like him out there. Perhaps this unashamedly emotional celebration of dance music, and all the strength and vulnerability it represents, may have the same effect on Hercules fans going through the same thing right now.

 

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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZYbEL06lEU[/ame]

The official video for Lykke Li's second single I Follow Rivers. Directed by Tarik Saleh.

I Follow Rivers is taken from 'Wounded Rhymes' released on the week of 28th (Feb) globally.

Go to: http://LykkeLi.com for more information.

 

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Macy Gray Aiming to Release Two Albums in 2011

Macy Gray isn't wasting any time getting to work on a follow-up to her 2010 album "The Sellout" -- and she plans to spend a lot more time working on new music in the future.

"I want to make a lot of records this year," Gray, who's had gaps of three and four years between her last three albums, tells Billboard.com. "I actually want to put out two records this year. I want to do a jazz record. I want to do a rock record. I have so much music in me, I'm kind of doing myself a disservice by not putting it out as fast as it comes."

http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/macy-gray-aiming-to-release-two-albums-in-1005015842.story

 

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Artist: Six Organs of Admittance
Album: Asleep on the Floodplain
Release Date: February 22
Label: Drag City

Tracklist:

01 Above a Desert I've Never Seen
02 Light of the Light
03 Brilliant Blue Sea Between Us
04 Saint of Fishermen
05 Hold But Let Go
06 River of My Youth
07 S/word and Leviathan
08 A New Name on an Old Cement Bridge
09 Dawn, Running Home

Mostly acoustic album from avant-folk guitar god Ben Chasny. Features contributions from Magik Markers' Elisa Ambrogio

http://www.dragcity.com/products/asleep-on-the-floodplain

 

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Artist: Bosco Delrey
Album: Everybody Wah
Release Date: March 29
Label: Mad Decent / Downtown

Tracklist:

01 Baby's Got a Blue Flame
02 Get Outa Dodge
03 Don Haps
04 Lovely Sleepy Dead
05 All Are Souls The Same
06 Glow Go the Bones
07 Expelled Spelled Expelled
08 Archebold Ivy
09 Afterlife
10 Down We Go
11 Cool Out
12 Insta Love
13 20 Flight Dub

 

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Cass McCombs:

April 12 in the U.S. and April 11 in the UK, Domino releases WIT'S END, his new one. McCombs recorded the album in cities around the U.S.

tracklist below:


WIT'S END:

01 County Line
02 The Lonely Doll
03 Buried Alive
04 Saturday Song
05 Memory's Stain
06 Hermit's Cave
07 Pleasant Shadow Song
08 A Knock Upon the Door