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[TheFuriousWombat]

The 00s are dead and gone. 2009 sucked in a lot of ways, musically being just one of them (for example, if you name 5 truly great movies that came out this year I'll be very surprised). 2010 is already looking up though! So much great music is on the horizon and I feel like we need a place to keep track of it all/inform each other of things we should all be excited about. So far, and just off the top of my head, I can think of the following stuff to look forward to:

Spoon - Transference
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales
Eluvium - Similies
Higuma - Den of Spirits LP (hearing some stuff of this, I'm already predicting this could be an album of the year contender for me. Super premature, I know, but it sounds just awesome)
Xela/Svarte Greiner and Keith Fullerton Whitman Split LP
Xela and Matt Christiansen collaboration LP
Roll the Dice - S/T LP
Unannounced but rumored new Arcade Fire album (I hope!!)
Caribou - Swim
Liars - Sisterworld
Loscil - Endless Falls
Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
The Album Leaf - Chorus of Storytellers
Rumored new album by The Wrens
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Jonsi - Go
Efterklang - Magic Chairs
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
New LCD Soundsystem
New !!!
Hammock - Chasing After Shadows...Living With Ghosts
Rumored new New Pornographers

and, of course, who could forget that Limp Bizkit is apparently putting out something new this year! Seriously though, that list is just what comes immediately to mind for me and most of those are coming early in the year. At this rate we'll all be drowning in great music. I'm most excited at this point, for new Higuma LP and various Xela projects as well as new SMZ, Eluvium, Hammock, and Roll the Dice (and new Arcade Fire, if it actually happens) but I'm excited for this whole list. What are people looking forward to most?

[Koremora]

Sigur Ros's new album is rumored to be coming out this year as well.

[TheFuriousWombat]

I'll believe it when I see it

[Zingoleb]

The man who makes Bono fall upon his own mic stand, and have it pierce directly through his heart.

Waiting for that guy to do his thing.

Hope it's this year.

[KharBevNor]

Bono cannot be killed by mortal weapons.

[Inlander]

Devin Davis's website says his new album is coming out in 2007. I can't wait!

[KvP]

Could be some new TG stuff, I know they're booting Industrial Records up again.

[Scarychips]

Heartland
Heartland
Oh and, Heartland.

[KvP]

Swans are back together and releasing a new album.

[scarred]

2009 sucked in a lot of ways, musically

you're funny!

[Cernunnos]

Swans are back together and releasing a new album.

Ohhhh shiiiiiiitt

[scarred]

SPOOOON
LCD SOUNDSYSTEMMM
and the two singles released from Hot Chip's forthcoming february release are ACE

oh and i found the new Owen Pallett record utterly unlistenable

[the_pied_piper]

2009 sucked in a lot of ways, musically

I have to agree that I didn't love a lot of the music that came out in 2009 either.

However, 2010 apparently has new albums from Frightened Rabbit, Blood Red Shoes, Seasick Steve, Los Campesinos!, My Brightest Diamond, and Eels all by 1st March so it is looking good so far.

[scarred]

oh fuck I forgot about the new los campesinos! it is so goddamn good I hate it

[Radical AC]

I agree that new Los Campesinos! is upsettingly good.

[michaelicious]

I liked 2009 alright.

I was going to just post a list of good albums that came out in 2009, but I ain't make lists much these days.

[Tom]

The 00s are dead and gone. 2009 sucked in a lot of ways,

Did it ever.

[KharBevNor]

Swans are back together and releasing a new album.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

[Scarychips]

SPOOOON
LCD SOUNDSYSTEMMM
and the two singles released from Hot Chip's forthcoming february release are ACE

oh and i found the new Owen Pallett record utterly unlistenable

I do not like you anymore.

[KvP]

Swans are back together and releasing a new album.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Minus Jarboe, unfortunately *sheds single perfect tear*

linkie

[KharBevNor]

So it's just Norman Westberg and The Angels of Light, basically.

[scarred]

I do not like you anymore.

He just adds like 5 layers too many for me, it all seems like it's just a chaotic muddle of strings. I like bits and pieces of tracks but I have no desire to try so hard to like music.

[De_El]

The new Beach House album has been leaked for a while, but it's *officially* being released sometime late January 2010. It's super good! I have been listening to it a lot, lately.

[scarred]

I've really been enjoying the new Yeasayer too. And Laura Veirs.

[Scarychips]

I do not like you anymore.

He just adds like 5 layers too many for me, it all seems like it's just a chaotic muddle of strings. I like bits and pieces of tracks but I have no desire to try so hard to like music.

Oh but that was exactly what he was going after. I remember that he once said that he pictured some songs as papers and that he would add elements until the paper was all black. But yeah, no, I would totally understand why some people would find it too busy, but I really think it's a beautiful album and that it's perfect. But I am far too biased to actually say somethiing negative about anything he touches.

And that Spoon album is ace. Kill the Moonlight was better, but it's still a great album.
And fuck you guys, I like that Vampire Weekend album.

[Kyros]

The new Los Campesinos! is fucking ludicrously good, and the new Beach House is criminally good.

Also looking forward to most of the releases mentioned already, including others I've already heard like Heartland and Transference.  But the most anticipated for me is The Thermals new one set for release in September and right now being called "Personal Life".

Favorite band releasing 2 albums in 2 years? Can't beat that.

[Johnny C]

fuck you guys

Anyone? Anyone want to take him up on this. Please. I'm alone and drunk.

[scarred]

And fuck you guys, I like that Vampire Weekend album.

Here we agree.

[JD]

I liked 2009 alright.

What the machine said.

Anyway, Jesca Hoooooooooop
also Midlake

[JD]

Oh yeah is Black Cock doing anything this year? I'd love it if they did.

[De_El]

Vampire Weekend has never seemed interesting enough for me to bother listening to either of their albums.

[Tom]

Their new one is all like: Guess who we are... we are Paul Simon.

[David_Dovey]

Including EPs, I heard over 50 records in 2009 that I liked, and a good deal of them I loved. I did roughly the same the year before and I can't imagine I won't do it again this year. Try harder.

[a pack of wolves]

Minus Jarboe, unfortunately *sheds single perfect tear*

linkie

I preferred Swans without Jarboe anyway, so that's alright with me. The demo of that new song on their myspace is sounding promising, so I'm willing to get cautiously optimistic for this one.

Their new one is all like: Guess who we are... we are Paul Simon.

That's pretty unfair. Paul Simon was nowhere near as obnoxious, and he actually wrote some good songs. Although Vampire Weekend never broke any cultural embargos, so there is that I guess.

[Inlander]

Mind you, Simon broke the cultural embargo so that he could work with some of the people who were being oppressed, so it wasn't exactly "Let's go watch the Springbok tour of New Zealand."

[a pack of wolves]

Yeah, I always felt it was a bit of a thorny one that. On the one hand he was providing a greater international presence for black South African artists who were being oppressed, on the other hand he could be accused of whitewashing the situation by ignoring the embargo (and I feel really dumb for originally forgetting The Boy In The Bubble, which goes a long way to redeeming the project). I don't really have a position myself, I feel too removed from the situation. Makes it an even more interesting record though, which I guess is something in Vampire Weekend's favour. They are at least a band I have an opinion about.

[Thrillho]

Bottomless Pit, Low, The Fall and Nina Nastasia should all be releasing new albums this year too.

Are The Fall ever NOT releasing a new album? I think Mark E. Smith is going to die at the mixing desk.

I'm quite excited for the new Dillinger Escape Plan, Nick Cave is apparently up to a new Grinderman record, blink-182 might release something, Eminem's second part of Relapse, Detox might finally come out (HA!).

[KaosPilot]

Frightened Rabbit's new one is the highlight for me so far. I'd love it if Joanna Newsom released something this year as well.

[Inlander]

Yeah, I always felt it was a bit of a thorny one that. On the one hand he was providing a greater international presence for black South African artists who were being oppressed, on the other hand he could be accused of whitewashing the situation by ignoring the embargo (and I feel really dumb for originally forgetting The Boy In The Bubble, which goes a long way to redeeming the project).

Actually I don't mind the cultural embargo argument too much, the "Graceland controversy" that really gets me mad is the whole "You're exploiting these African musicians!" line which still gets trotted out by some people. There are three things that get my blood boiling about this argument:

1) Yes it's a "Paul Simon" album, not even a "Paul Simon & friends" album, but every single musician on the album is fully credited in the liner notes;

2) Hands up how many people in the west would have heard of Ladysmith Black Mambazo if they hadn't appeared on Graceland? And then gone and bought their CDs and gone to their concerts and allow them to have a succesful international career?

3) Holy shit, paternalism! What, are African musicians just simple folk who are predisposed to go starry-eyed and start lining up to be exploited the moment a rich white man appears on the scene?

Guys let's talk about Graceland and the controversies around it. It's much more interesting than anything that will be released this year.

[valley_parade]

However, 2010 apparently has new albums from Frightened Rabbit, Blood Red Shoes, Seasick Steve, Los Campesinos!, My Brightest Diamond, and Eels all by 1st March so it is looking good so far.

Eels already leaked, Rob. It's pretty good!

I'm looking forward to the RJD2 album coming out next week, the new Album Leaf, and hopefully a new Lawrence Arms album.

Plus, the way things go, Frank Turner will probably release his fourth in four years.

[a pack of wolves]

3) Holy shit, paternalism! What, are African musicians just simple folk who are predisposed to go starry-eyed and start lining up to be exploited the moment a rich white man appears on the scene?

Considering conditions in South Africa at the time the working situation for musicians would have been problematic to say the least. Arguing that people with very limited options living under an oppressive regime could easily be exploited by a wealthy outsider isn't necessarily paternalistic, since it isn't necessarily saying they didn't know what was going on.

That said, I'd never actually heard these allegations before now. Is the suggestion that the artists that worked on Graceland weren't paid the kind of wages session musicians would have received in Europe or North America or that they should have received royalties that weren't forthcoming?

[TheFuriousWombat]

I'd love it if Joanna Newsom released something this year as well.

Yeah this'd be awesome, especially considering how immensely great Ys was. She's touring in March so I'd like to assume that means she's beginning to promote soon-to-be-released new material.

[Inlander]

I'd never actually heard these allegations before now. Is the suggestion that the artists that worked on Graceland weren't paid the kind of wages session musicians would have received in Europe or North America or that they should have received royalties that weren't forthcoming?

I can't claim to be an expert about this particular topic, but from footage I've seen of Simon in confrontation with people, and from what I've read and also heard first-hand from friends of my mother's, the allegation seems to have been not so much financial as artistic: Simon, it was alleged, took advantage of these African musicians to boost his own profile and claim all the work as his own. Which is why it strikes me as paternalistic, because it supposes that the African musicians weren't taking advantage of the opportunities offered by working Paul Simon just as much as he was taking advantage of their musical skills to make his album.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

all I really want is a new Man Man record.

other bands can suck it in 2010!

[Koremora]

2009 ruled, and 2010 is looking to be even better for music. No idea what you guys are on about.

Thirded on "Fuck you I like that Vampire Weekend album". Also, Heartland, Teen Dream, and the new Spoon record are fantastic. Looking forward to new Eluvium, Efterklang, Liars, Jonsi solo album, Four Tet, and many more. SO EXCITED.

[JD]

all I really want is a new Man Man record.

other bands can suck it in 2010!

wait what? awesome

[JD]

"Fuck you I like that Vampire Weekend album"

I'm on the "The Very Best is much better." boat.

[Scarychips]

Future releases I hope to enjoy:
Jens Lekman (please)

Oh yes, please. That would be so awesome.

[JD]

eh, I wouldn't care that much if lekman did nothing this year

[TheFuriousWombat]

What's this jabber about a new Man Man album?? All I can say is I better be around to be crushed in a sweaty home town Philly moshpit like I was last time they toured for Rabbit Habits.