I would feel worse about reposting Pitchfork's list of new releases for the summer, if I didn't dislike em so much. Jealous? Maybe. but damn do their writers bore the fuck out of me. Except for Ryan Donbal and I nearly included him in my rock crits as rock stars post, only his FB was so lame I decided not to. It is kinda funny that i like one of their muckedy mucks writing…
Anyway, here is Pitchfork's list of summer releases and my only regret isthe Decepticons didn't nail em when they levelled Chicago:
07-11
Alex Clare: The Lateness of the Hour [Island]
Basement Jaxx: Basement Jaxx Vs. Metropole Orkest [Atlantic Jaxx]
The Black Ghosts: When Animals Stare [Southern Fried]
James Blake: "Order" b/w "Pan" [Hemlock] [UK]
07-12
Army Navy: The Last Place [The Fever Zone]
The Cool Kids: When Fish Ride Bicycles [Green Label Sound]
Eleanor Friedberger: Last Summer [Merge]
Grooms: Prom [Kanine]
Gypsyblood: Cold in the Guestway [Sargent House]
How to Dress Well: Just Once EP [Love Letters Ink]
Interpol: Try It On Remixes 12" [Matador]
Les Demoniaques: "Teenage Lust" [True Panther]
Megadeath: Peace Sells…But Who's Buying [Capitol] [Reissue]
MellowHype: BLACKENEDWHITE [Fat Possum] [Reissue]
Miles Davis: Setlist: The Very Best of Miles Davis Live [Columbia/Legacy]
R.E.M.: Life's Rich Pageant 25th Anniversary Edition [Capitol]
Sons and Daughters: Mirror Mirror [Domino]
Thomas Dybdahl: Songs [Decca]
Washed Out: Within and Without [Sub Pop]
William Elliott Whitmore: Field Songs [Anti-]
Zomby: Dedication [4AD]
07-14
Radiohead: "Morning Mr. Magpie" (Nathan Fake Remix) b/w "Bloom" (Mark Pritchard Remix) and "Bloom" (Harmonic 313 Remix) 12" [XL / Ticket Tape]
07-17
Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo & Lopatin: FRKWYS Vol. 7 [RVNG] [physical]
07-18
Goldie: Fabriclive 58 [Fabric]
Tropics Moves EP [Planet Mu]
Vondelpark NYC Bags and NYC Stuff EP [R&S]
07-19
Angelo Spencer: World Garage [K]
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Worn Copy [Paw Tracks] [Vinyl Reissue]
Autre Ne Veut: Body [Hippos in Tanks]
Babe Rainbow: Endless Path 12" EP [Warp]
Belle and Sebastian: "Come on Sister" 12" [Matador]
Brilliant Colors: Again and Again [Slumberland]
Carlos Foster: Family Trees [Hush]
Carol Kleyn: Love Has Made Me Stronger [Drag City]
Crystal Antlers: Two-Way Mirror [Recreation Ltd]
DJ Khaled: We the Best Forever [Universal Motown]
EDM: Night People [Western Vinyl]
Eric Copeland: "Whorehouse Blues" 7" [Post Present Medium]
Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw: Night Gallery [Thrill Jockey]
Fink: Perfect Darkness [Ninja Tune]
Future Islands: "Before the Bridge/Find Love" 7" [Thrill Jockey]
Grandaddy: Sumday [Control Group] [Reissue]
Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump [Control Group] [Reissue]
Grandaddy: Under the Western Freeway [Control Group] [Reissue]
Kalup and Franco: Turn It Up EP [Dutty Artz]
Kuedo: Videowave [Planet Mu]
Las Kellies: Kellies [Fire]
Lost Sounds: Blac Static [Fat Possum] [Compilation]
Lou Reed: Lollapalooza Live DVD [Sister Ray]
Milk Maid: Yucca [FatCat]
Nikki Lane: Gone Gone Gone EP [IAMSOUND]
Pictureplane: Thee Physical [Lovepump United]
Portugal. The Man: In The Mountain In The Cloud [Equal Vision]
Richard Youngs: Amplifying Host [Jagjaguwar]
Serengeti: Family and Friends [Anticon]
Sole and the Skyrider Band: Hello Cruel World [Fake Four]
Soft Metals: Soft Metals [Captured Tracks]
Sun Airway: "Wild Palms" b/w "Symphony in White, No. 2" 7" [Dead Oceans]
Theophilus London: Timez Are Weird These Days [Warner Bros]
They Might Be Giants: Join Us [Idlewild/Rounder]
Wilco: "I Might" b/w "I Love My Record Label" [Anti-]
Wiley: 100% Publishing [Big Dada]
Woods: "Find Them Empty" 7" [Sacred Bones]
Various Artists: Live From Nowhere Near You: Volume Two [Greyday]
07-25
Dam Mantle: We EP [GETME!]
Machinedrum: Room(s) [Planet Mu]
07-26
Daniel Knox: Everyman for Himself [La Societe]
Dex Romweber Duo: Is That You in the Blue? [Bloodshot]
Fair Ohs: Everything Is Dancing [Lefse]
Father's Children: Who's Gonna Save the World? [Numero Group]
The Horrors: Skying [XL]
Inc.: 3 EP [4AD]
Kelly Rowland: Here I Am [Universal Motown]
Little Dragon: Ritual Union [Peacefrog/EMI]
Polvo: "Heavy Detour" b/w "Anchoress" [Merge]
Release The Sunbird: Come Back To Us [Brushfire]
Tidelands: If… [Self-released]
Various Artists: Beat L.A. [Narnack/Greatminds]
07-30
Bordan, Ferraro, Godin, Halo & Lopatin: FRKWYS Vol. 7 [RVNG] [digital]
Also released in July:
Spoek Mathambo: Put Some Red on It EP [Sub Pop]
AUGUST
08-01
Azari & Ill: Azari & III [Loose Lips]
08-02
Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (CD/DVD re-release) [Merge]
Archers of Loaf: Icky Mettle (expanded and remastered) [Merge]
Boston Spaceships: Let It Beard [GBV Inc]
Chaperone: Raised By Wolves [Grape Juice]
Collections of Colonies of Bees: GIVING [Hometapes]
Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Walking in Unison 12" [Captcha]
Fountains of Wayne: Sky Full of Holes [Yep Roc]
Fruit Bats: Tripper [Sub Pop]
Gavin Russom: Night Sky 12" [DFA]
Husdon Mohawke: Satin Panthers EP [Warp]
Love of Everything: Sooner I Wish EP [Polyvinyl]
Moonface: Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped [Jagjaguwar]
Richard Buckner: Our Blood [Merge]
Screaming Trees: Last Words: The Final Recordings [IODA/Burnside Distribution]
Tig Notaro: Good One [Secretly Canadian]
Okkervil River: "Your Past Life as a Blast" b/w "Gold Faces" 7" [Jagjaguwar]
08-08
DJ Diamond: Flight Musik [Planet Mu]
Pulp: It [Fire] [Reissue]
Pulp: Freaks [Fire] [Reissue]
Pulp: Separations [Fire] [Reissue]
08-09
Dom: Family of Love EP [Astralwerks]
Marc Maron: This Has to Be Funny [Comedy Central]
Michael Ian Black: Very Famous [Comedy Central]
Pepper Rabbit: Red Velvet Snow Ball [Kanine]
Shlohmo: Bad Vibes [Friends of Friends]
Teen Daze: A Silent Planet [Waaga]
Widowspeak: Widowspeak [Captured Tracks]
08-16
Amen Dunes: Through Donkey Jaw [Sacred Bones]
Bitches/Yuppies: Split 12" [FatCat]
Botany: Feeling Today [Western Vinyl]
Braid: Closer to Closed [Polyvinyl]
Canon Blue: Rumspringa [Temporary Residence]
Case Studies: The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night [Sacred Bones]
Cut Off Your Hands: Hollow [Frenchkiss]
Fool's Gold: Leave No Trace [IAMSOUND]
Gold Leaves: The Ornament [Hardly Art]
Graves: Summr Bummr [St. Ives]
Her Space Holiday: Her Space Holiday [No More Good Ideas]
Hercules and Love Affair: Blue Songs [Moshi Moshi] [U.S. release]
I Break Horses: Hearts [I Kill Love/Bella Union]
Lotus Plaza/Odonis Odonis: Lotus Plaza/Odonis Odonis 12" [Palmist]
Luke Temple: Don't Act Like You Don't Care [Western Vinyl]
Maria Taylor: Overlook [Saddle Creek]
Mirror Mirror: Interiors [RVNG]
Mister Heavenly: Out of Love [Sub Pop]
Razika: Program 91 [Smalltown Supersound]
U.S. Girls/Slim Twig: Split 12" [FatCat]
The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient [Secretly Canadian]
Veronica Falls: "Bad Feeling" 7" [Slumberland]
Wooden Shjips: West [Thrill Jockey]
Yellow Ostrich: The Mistress [Barsuk]
08-22
Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump [Control Group] [Reissue]
WU LYF: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (physical version) [L Y F]
08-23
Active Child: You Are All I See [Vagrant]
Chelsea Wolfe: Apokalypsis [Pendu Sound]
Ganglians: Still Living [Lefse]
Patti Smith: Outside of Society [Columbia/Arista/Legacy]
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Mirror Traffic [Matador]
Stephin Merritt: Obscurities [Merge]
Sun Araw: Ancient Romans [Sun Ark / Drag City]
08-29
Balam Acab: Wander / Wonder [Tri Angle]
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter IV [Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown]
CSS: La Liberacion [V2/Cooperative/Downtown]
08-30
Alias: Fever Dream [Anticon]
AM & Shawn Lee: Celestial Electric [ESL]
Beirut: The Rip Tide [Pompeii Recordings]
Big Troubles: "Sad Girls" b/w "Phantom" [Slumberland]
Blood Orange: Coastal Grooves [Domino]
Devon Williams: Euphoria [Slumberland]
GA'AN: II [Captcha]
Gene Clark: Two Sides to Every Story [High Moon]
Glen Campbell: Ghost on the Canvas [Surfdog]
Hella: Tripper [Sargent House]
Jacuzzi Boys: Glazin' [Hardly Art]
Male Bonding: Endless Now [Sub Pop]
The Nightwatchman: World Wide Rebel Songs [New West]
Pedro Soler and Gaspar Claus: Barlande [Infine]
Red Hot Chili Peppers: I'm With You [Warner Bros]
Thundercat: The Golden Age of Apocalypse [Brainfeeder]
Tinariwen: Tassili [Anti-]
Tommy Keene: Behind The Parade [Second Motion]
SEPTEMBER
09-05
DJ Shadow: The Less You Know the Better [TBA]
09-06
Grace Jones: Hurricane [PIAS America]
Horrible Crowes: Elsie [Sideonedummy]
HTRK: Work (work, work) [Ghostly International]
Lindsey Buckingham: Seeds We Sow [TBA]
Peter Wolf Crier: Garden of Arms [Jagjaguwar]
The Rapture: The Grace of Your Love [DFA]
Regina: Souta Mulle [Friendly Fire]
09-12
A Winged Victory for the Sullen: A Winged Victory for the Sullen [Kranky]
Kid Creole & the Coconuts: I Wake Up Screaming [Strut]
09-13
A.A. Bondy: Believers [Fat Possum]
Barn Owl: Shadowland EP [Thrill Jockey]
Big Harp: White Hat [Saddle Creek]
Black Francis & Reid Paley: Paley & Francis [Sonic Unyon]
Blitzen Trapper: American Goldwing [Sub Pop]
CANT: Dreams Come True [Terrible]
Cymbals Eat Guitars: Lenses Alien [Barsuk]
Glenn Jones: The Wanting [Thrill Jockey]
Holiday Shores: New Masses for Squaw Peak [Twosyllable]
The Kooks: Junk of the Heart [Astralwerks]
Ladytron: Gravity the Seducer [Nettwerk]
Laura Marling: A Creature I Don't Know [Ribbon Music]
Mates of State: Mountaintops [Barsuk]
Memoryhouse: The Years EP [Sub Pop]
Milagres: Glowing Mouth [Kill Rock Stars]
Nick Lowe: The Old Magic [Yep Roc]
Shimmering Stars: Violent Hearts [Hardly Art]
St. Vincent: Strange Mercy [4AD]
Tom Vek: Leisure Seizure [Downtown/Cooperative/Island]
Wild Flag: Wild Flag [Merge]
09-19
Nirvana: Nevermind [20th Anniversary Box Set] [Universal]
The Whip: Wired Together [Southern Fried]
09-20
Besnard Lakes: Welcome to Pine Point EP [Jagjaguwar]
Boots Electric: Honkey Kong [Dangerbird]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Hysterical [self-released]
Joakim: Nothing Gold [Tigersushi]
Mary J. Blige: My Life Too, the Journey Continues [Geffen]
Meg Baird: Seasons on Earth [Drag City]
Nurses: Dracula [Dead Oceans]
Tammar: Visits [Suicide Squeeze]
The-Dream: The Love, IV (Diary of a Mad Man) [Def Jam]
09-26
Björk: Biophilia [One Little Indian/Nonesuch]
Pink Floyd: Why Pink Floyd…? [EMI]
Roots Manuva: 4everevolution [Big Dada/Banana Klan]
09-27
Apparat: The Devil's Walk [Mute]
Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams [Sub Pop]
Gem Club: Breakers [Hardly Art]
J. Cole: Cole World: The Sideline Story [Roc Nation]
Mekons: Ancient & Modern [Sin]
Spank Rock: Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar [Bad Blood Records]
Twin Sister: In Heaven [Domino]
Wilco: The Whole Love [dBpm]
Yelawolf: Radioactive [Ghet-O-Vision/Shady/DGC/Interscope]
Also due out in September:
Blondie: Panic of Girls [self-released]
OCTOBER
10-04
Modeselektor: Monkeytown [Monkeytown]
Prince Rama: Trust Now [Paw Tracks]
10-11
Big Deal: Lights Out [Mute]
Still Corners: Creatures of an Hour [Sub Pop]
10-18
Class Actress: Rapprocher [Carpark]
10-24
Drake: Take Care [Young Money]
Also due out in October:
Real Estate: TBA [Domino]
M83: TBA [TBA]
Also to be released:
The Avalanches: TBA [Modular Recordings]
Kanye West and Jay-Z: Watch the Throne [G.O.O.D.]
Metallica and Lou Reed: TBA [TBA]
The Julie Ruin: TBA [TBA]
Veronica Falls: TBA [Slumberland]
The Weeknd: Thursdays mixtape [self-released]
The Weeknd: Echoes of Silence mixtape [self-released]