As the clock strikes midnight on this lovely California morning, I thought I’d put together some sort of outline of my potential albums of 08′ so far. So here I go…
January
Radiohead – In Rainbows (ATO)
Matt Costa – Unfamiliar Faces
Cat Power – Jukebox (Matador)
Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (New West)
The Mars Volta – The Bedlam In Goliath
Xiu Xiu – Women As Lovers (Kill Rock Stars)
February
Hot Chip – Made In The Dark (DFA/Astralwerks)
Nada Surf – Lucky (Barsuk)
Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree (Mute)
March
Kaki King – Dreaming Of Revenge (Sony)
Counting Crows – Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings (Geffen)
Ours – Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy (American)
April
Thrice- Alchemy Index 3&4: Air and Earth (Vagrant)
Animal Collective – Water Curses EP (Domino)
Cut Copy- In Ghost Colour (Modular Interscope)
Portishead- Third (Mercury)
M83 – Saturdays = Youth (Mute)
Tristan Prettyman- Hello (Virgin Records)
May brings…
Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
Ladytron – TBA (Nettwerk)
Other anticipated albums of 08′: Coldplay, Dredg, Imogen Heap, Mutemath, & Sufjan Stevens.
Brando, I agree… Thrice takes the cake so far. To be updated…
drive by truckers? really? wow
Thrice is great.