If the economic downturn has you down, and the purchase of new music has become a less-frequent practice and more of a quarterly splurge, whereby you purposely avoid buying groceries, necessary hygiene products, and gasoline for an uncomfortable number of days, then the fear of reading the following list should have begun to creep into all sorts of annexes of your core just by glancing at the title. But know this, continuing onward and actually reading this list, perusing its contents, a debilitating paranoia might commence to shriek, realizing that even getting a second job will not earn enough funds to afford all the tons of awesome shit coming out next year. You thought 2009 was a good year? Next year promises a slew of outputs of tunes that will most likely modify and reallocate the trajectory of your personality and existence.
Seabear - February
The guy from Sin Fang Bous, this is his other band. After last year’s
Clangour, anything this guy does deserves a listen.
Whatever’s in the kool-aid this guy is drinking he needs to horde that flavor. I’ve never heard a song that sounds like a beach-blanket zombie movie, but that’s the only kind Segall makes.
As long as it’s more entertaining than Zappa’s
200 Motels, it’s a success.
So expect at least one album and a few 7”s, all to nadir in a healing and hallelujah ruckus.
The Amazing - February
Members of Dungen, Life On Earth, Dreamboy, it’s like a supergroup of unknown Swedish psych gods.
Arcade Fire - Summer or Fall
…but probably winter
Maniac Meat - Summer
The new album from Black Moth Super Rainbow mastermind Tobacco that he is calling something else for some unknown reason other than to be oh so “mysterious” as he often claims to be often in interviews.
Ariel Pink - Spring
And on a legit record label too.
Motel Smell – hopefully before the end of the year
Those guys in Joan of Arc/Make Believe/Ghosts & Vodka/Cap N Jazz, they’ve got a new thing. No I don’t like the name either.
Caribou - hopefully before the end of the year
Do you remember Andorra? I know it’s been a couple years but go give it a listen again. We should be thankful this guy hasn’t randomly died.
Los Campesinos! - January
You don’t like this? I guess you don’t like bouncing around the room to screaming British kids.
The Reanimated Corpse of Kurt Cobain - Halloween
I’m learning some voodoo and in a couple months I plan on resurrecting Kurt Cobain and sticking him in a studio with Bernie to see what magic happens.
Silver Mt. Zion - February
The greatest band in the world.
The Books – sometime this year
The best band in the world.
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