Hey pop pickers, it is Sunday afternoon, nothing much to do, still in the 30s outside, cold, miserable, how about reading this post. It is a thrilling list of upcoming album releases we appropriated off Direct Currents. As we do from time to time.
Anything interesting? Lesse here: new Beck, Dierks Bentley, St Vincent, The Fray (THE FRAY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO), St. Vincent, Drive By Truckers, Cloud Nothings, and apparently D’Angelo has completely given up and is releasing a live album.
February 25
Anna Aaron – NEURO (2/28)
Barzin – To Live Alone In That Long Summer
Beck – Morning Phase
Champs – Down Like Gold (UK)
Charlie Greene – S/T
Dark Mean – Samuel The Phoenix EP
Death Vessel – Island Intervals
Dierks Bentley – Riser
Emily Smith – Echoes (UK)
Flagland – Love Hard
Heart – Fanatic: Live From Caesar’s Colosseum
John The Conqueror – The Good Life
Lowell – I Killed Sara V
Mike Gordon (Phish)- Overstep
Milagres – Violent Light
MØ – No Mythologies to Follow
New Madrid – Sunswimmer
Notwist – Close To The Glass
Pillar Point – S/T
Pixel Fix – Fall (EP)
Preston Lovinggood – Shadow Songs
Priscilla Ahn – This Is Where We Are
Runaway Dorothy – The Wait
Run River North – S/T
Silversun Pickups – Singles Collection
St. Vincent – Saint Vincent
Thalia Zedek – SIX
The Dukes of September – Live @ Lincoln Center
The Family Crest – Beneath the Brine
The Far West – Any Day Now
The Fray – Helios
Twin Forks – S/T
Vertical Scratchers – Daughter of Everything
We Were Promised Jetpacks – E Rey Live in Philadelphia
Wild Beasts – Present Tense
Yellow Ostrich – Cosmos
February TBA
Elizaveta – Hero EP
Livingston Taylor – Blue Sky
Wakey! Wakey! – All It Takes Is A Little Love
Will Kimbrough – Sideshow Love
March 4
Alana Amram & The Rough Gems – Spring River
American Authors – Oh What A Life
Arthur Beatrice – Working Out (U.S., UK: 2/4)
As Animals – S/T (3/3)
Claudia Schmidt – New Whirled Order
Diane Cluck – Boneset
Drive By Truckers – English Oceans
Eli Young Band – 10,000 Towns
Fenster – The Pink Caves
Foxes – Glorious
Highasakite – Silent Treatment
Imogen Heap – Sparks
Jeffrey James – I’m Wide Awake
Jim Oblon – Sunset
John Gorka – Bright Side of Dawn
Jupe Jupe – Crooked Kisses
KHUSHI – Phantoms (UK)
Lea Michele (Glee) – Louder
Little Hurricane – Gold Fever
Martina McBride – Everlasting
Nick Waterhouse – Holly
Real Estate – Atlas
Rod Melancon – Parish Lines
Roman Remains – Zeal
Rufus Wainwright – Live From The Artists Den (DVD)
Rufus Wainwright – Vibrate: Best of (w/rarities)
Sally Seltmann – Hey Daydreamer
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell – Live (CD/DVD)
The Honey Trees – Bright Fire
The Blue Nile – Peace At Last (Expanded Reissue)
Trust – Joyland
Various – Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert (CD/DVD)
Wake Owl – The Private World of Paradise
We Are Scientists – TV en Francais
March 11
Black Submarine – New Shores
Charlie Oxford – S/T
Coves – Soft Friday (UK; US: TBA)
Elbow – The Take Off & Landing of Everything
Joan As Police Woman – The Classic
Ledisi – The Truth
Lera Lynn – Lying In The Sun (EP)
Lune – Music & Sports
Metronomy – Love Letters
Morgan Evans – S/T (3/14 AUS)
The Who – Sensation: The Story of Tommy DVD
Tom The Lion – Sleep (UK: Feb. TBA)
Warm Soda – Young Reckless
March 18
Annie Eve – Feversome
Eliza Gilkyson – The Nocturne Diaries
Foster The People – Supermodel
George Michael – Symphonica
Heather Maloney & Darlingside – EP
Lyla Foy – Mirrors the Sky
Marianas Trench – Ever After
Sam Brookes – Kairos
Taking Back Sunday – Happiness Is
March 25
Ages and Ages – Divisionar
Circa Zero (Andy Summers, Rob Giles) – Circus Hero
D’Angelo – Live at The Jazz Cafe, London
Faces On Film – Elite Lines
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (40th Anniv. Deluxe Edition)
Future Islands – Singles
Jimi Goodwin (Doves) – Odludek
Beth Hart/Joe Bonamassa – Live In Amsterdam (DVD)
Jim Oblon – Sunset
Johnny Cash – Out Among the Stars (Unreleased LP)
Little Daylight – TBD
Mr. Little Jeans – Pocketknife
Robbie Hecht – S/T
Seahaven – Reverie Lagoon
Simone Felice – Strangers
The Belle Brigade – Just Because
The Callstore – Save No One
The Hold Steady – Teeth Dreams
Tokyo Police Club – Forcefield
Various – Bob Dylan In The 80’s Vol. 1
Wilco Johnson/Roger Daltrey – Going Back Home
March TBA
Holychild – Mindspeak EP
Neil Young – A Letter Home
April 1
Arc Iris – S/T
Cloud Nothings – Here & Nowhere Else
Dan Croll – Sweet Disarray
Desert Noises – 27 Ways
Johnny Two Bags (Social Distortion) – Salvation Town
Kaiser Chiefs – Education…and War
Manchester Orchestra – Cope
Nathaniel Rateliff – Falling Faster Than You Can Run
Peter Mulvey – Silver Ladder
Pylo – The Woman EP
Saintseneca – Dark Arc
The Bamboos – Fever In The Road
Various – Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne
April 8
Carlene Carter – Carter Girl
Fatherson – I Am An Island (UK)
Katie Herzig – Walk Through Walls
Liam Finn – The Nihilist
Moxie Raia – TBA
School of Language (Field Music) – Old Fears
Shook Twins – What We Do
The Mary Onettes – Portico:
Thus:Owls – Turning Rocks
Wallis Bird – Architecture (UK)
April 15
Afghan Whigs – Do To the Beast
Dinah Thorpe – Lullabies & Wake Up Calls
Ingrid Michaelson – Lights Out
Jessica Lea Mayfield – Make My Head Sing…
Needtobreathe – Rivers In the Wasteland
Paolo Nutini – Caustic Love (UK)
Smoke Fairies – S/T
Sohn – Tremors
Woods – With Light & With Love
April 22
Dwight & Nicole – Shine On
EELS – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
G. Love & Special Sauce – Sugar
Hedley – Wild Life
Keb’ Mo’ – BLUESAmericana
Little Daylight – TBA
Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos – Sling Shot to Heaven
Syd Arthur – Sound Mirror
The Madden Brothers (Good Charlotte) – TBA
Tom and Hebron – Zoyugo
April 29
Ben Watt – Hendra
Curtis Stigers – Hooray For Lovers
Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) – Everyday Robots
Fiona Bevan – Talk To Strangers
Rodrigo y Gabriela – 9 Dead Alive
The Currys – Follow
The Old 97’s – Most Messed Up
Wye Oak – Shriek
Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers – TBA
May 6
Gregg Allman & Various Artists – All My Friends (CD/DVD)
Rachel Taylor Brown – Falimy
Ray LaMontagne – Supernova
May 13
Braid – No Coast
Kris Delmhorst – Blood Test
Mirah – Changing Light
Owen Pallett – In Conflict
Swans – To Be Kind
Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines
Walter Martin (The Walkmen) – We’re All Young Together
May 20
BANKS – TBA (Full Length Album)
Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) – Upside Down Mountain
Nightmare & The Cat – Simple
Beyond
Ben Ottewell (Gomez) – Rattlebag (TBA)
Charlene Soraia – Love Is The Law (TBA)
Dear Plastic – The Thieves Are Babes (TBA)
Don Henley – Cass County (TBA)
Ellis Paul – Chasing Beauty (TBA)
Emerson Hart (Tonic) – Beauty In Disrepair (TBA)
Empires – Orphans (TBA)
Hafdis Huld – Home (TBA)
Haroula Rose – Here The Blue River (TBA)
Jonah Tolchin – Clover Road (Summer TBA)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Going Home (6/3)
Kite Club – Fresh Air for Humans (TBA)
Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (May TBA)
Leon Russell – Life’s Journey (TBA)
Miranda Lee Richards – Echoes of the Dreamtime (TBA)
Paloma Faith – A Perfect Contradiction (TBA)
Peter Himmelman – The Boat That Carries Us (TBA)
Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) – The Ceaseless Sight (TBA)
Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour (6/3)
Sasha Siem – Most of the Boys (2014 TBA)
Sharon Van Etten – Are We There? (May TBA)
The Good Natured – Prism (Summer TBA)
The Pierces – Creation (6/2)
The Vespers – Sisters and Brothers (TBA
Tiny Ruins – Brightly Painted One (TBA)
Toby Lightman – Every Kind of People (TBA)
The Vespers – Sisters and Brothers (TBA)
Winterpills – Echolalia (Covers) (TBA)