Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Official LPC 2011 Hype List



With just nine days left before the new year and no more new releases in 2010 outside of two new OFWGKTA releases in the final week, it's time to look forward to what 2011 has to offer. Release dates are not final and can change at any time, but for the most part they should be accurate.

Considering that there are currently no release dates determined for notable albums after the end of March, we'll stop there for now. However, at the end of the list, there will be a list of albums with either general release dates (such as sometime in February/March/summer 2011/etc.) or albums that are to be released in 2011 without a release date.

January

January 10th: Ducktails - Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics
White Fence - ...Is Growing Faith

January 11th: British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
Rye Rye - Go! Pop! Bang!
Tim Buckley - s/t (1966 reissue)
Tape Deck Mountain - Secret Serf EP
MillionYoung - Replicants
N.E.R.D. - The Best of N.E.R.D.

January 18th: The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Braids - Native Speaker
Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
Robert Pollard - Space City Kicks
Tennis - Cape Dory

January 24th: Demdike Stare - Tryptych

January 25th: Sic Alps - Napa Asylum
Cloud Nothings - s/t
Destroyer - Kaputt
Iron & Wine - Lick Each Other Clean
Gang of Four - Content
Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows
Thank You - Golden Worry

January 28th: Faust - Something Dirty

January 31st
: The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
Hercules & Love Affair - Blue Songs

February


February 1st: Kompakt Records - Pop Ambient Collection
The Dirtbombs - Party Store

February 8th: Cut Copy - Zonoscope
The Babies - s/t
James Blake - s/t

February 14th: Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake
Lifelover - Sjukdom
Dornenreich - Flammentriebe
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

February 15th: Bright Eyes - The People's Key
Yuck - s/t
Asobi Seksu - Fluorescence
Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines

February 22nd: Adele - 21
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine
Porcelain Raft - Gone Blind EP
The Cave Singers - No Witch
The Books - The Lemon of Pink (2003 reissue)
Danielson - Best of Gloucester County

February 25th: Heretoir - Heretoir
Mani Neumeier and Kawabota Makoto - Samurai Blues


March

March 1st: Papercuts - Fading Parade
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
Rainbow Arabia - Boys and Diamonds

March 4th: Kreidler - Tank

March 7th: Burzum - Fallen

March 8th: Lupe Fiasco - Lasers
Wye Oak - Civilian
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
Parts & Labor - Constant Future
The Dodos - Untitled

March 15th:
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Cervantine
J. Mascis - Several Shades of Why
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
Heidecker & Wood - Starting From Nowhere (yes, Heidecker = Tim Heidecker from Tim & Eric/Tom Goes to the Mayor)

March 22nd: Belong - Common Era

March 29th: Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
Peter Bjorn and John - Gimme Some
Mars Classroom - The New Theory of Everything
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Cotonou Club

That's it for the release dates that have been determined. Now, here's the second half to your hype list for 2011.

Albums With Undetermined Release Dates by Month

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Don't Say We Didn't Warn You (January)
Dr. Dre - Detox (February)
Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now (February)
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 (February)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong (March)
The Strokes - TBA (March)

Albums With Undetermined Release Dates by Season

Virus - The Agent That Shapes The Desert (Winter... more than likely)
Vivian Girls - Share the Joy (Spring)
Hunx and His Punx - TBA (Spring)
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (Spring)
Black Lips - TBA (Spring)
Death Cab For Cutie - TBA (Spring)
Fiona Apple - TBA (Spring)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - TBA (Summer)

Albums With No General Release Date Determined (i.e., due sometime in 2011)

Battles - TBA
Blakroc - Blakroc 2
Man Man - Live Fantastic
Kanye West & Jay-Z - Watch the Throne
Santigold - TBA
Yelawolf - TBA
My Morning Jacket - TBA
Games - TBA
M83 - TBA
Pusha T - TBA
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Radiohead - TBA
Big K.R.I.T. - Return of 4eva
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
The Cars - TBA
Coldplay - TBA
The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles
Fleet Foxes - TBA
Franz Ferdinand - TBA
Kraftwerk - TBA
No Doubt - TBA
Rush - Clockwork Angels
The Shins - TBA
Seaweed - Small Engine Repair
U2 - Songs of Ascent
The Wrens - TBA
Wilco - TBA (rumored to come out in either late 2011 or early 2012)
The Feelies - TBA (rumored for spring)
Lantlôs - Agape
Thränenkind - TBA ("Trying" for an end of 2011-beginning of 2012 release)

Albums That May or May Not Come Out in 2011 But Are Heavily Rumored to Do So

None of the bands listed (to my knowledge) have said anything about a new album in 2011 yet, but the general opinion is that each release listed will be out by the end of the year. This could fall in the above category of albums that WILL come out in 2011 at some point, but as stated in the first sentence none of the artists listed have officially mentioned anything about a new album to this point.

Air France - TBA
The Avalanches - TBA
Grizzly Bear - TBA
Neon Indian - TBA
Memory Tapes - TBA
Real Estate - TBA
Cults - TBA
Aphex Twin - TBA
Lil Wayne - TBA
The Lonely Island - TBA
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - TBA
Beck - TBA
Bon Iver - TBA
Burial - TBA
Crystal Stilts - TBA
Explosions in the Sky - TBA
Peter Gabriel - New Blood
Gorillaz - TBA
Islands - TBA
The Kills - TBA
Circle Takes the Square - TBA
Jens Lekman - TBA
Low - TBA
Portishead - TBA
VEGA - TBA

Well, I think that's everything. If I missed something, let me know in the comments section and I'll add it. Hopefully, as these albums come out, we'll have a review of each one here on LPC.

Look out for the following this week:

Later Today - 2010 LPC Readers' Poll (the readers' top ten albums of 2010)
Tomorrow - LPC Writers' Top Ten Tracks of 2010
Christmas Eve - The LPC November/December Mixtape
Christmas Day and the day after - Link Day (we'll be posting anything and everything that we feel like posting)

Hopefully this all goes smoothly. Hope you enjoyed the Hype List and look for the Readers Poll either later this afternoon or tonight.

12 comments:

  1. Would also like to mention that Circle Takes The Square should be coming out with an album in 2011 (hopefully). Looking forward to that very much.

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  2. PJ Harvey, Dre, Kanye and Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Talib Kweli and possibly DJ Shadow. Should be a good year.

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  3. VIRUS - The Agent That Shapes The Desert might be "early 2011", supposed to be Nov 2010, but I guess it didn't work out. Preorders will probably be shipped this month or Janurary.
    Lifelover - Sjukdom Feb 14
    Dornenreich - Flammentriebe Feb 14
    Lantlos has an album planned for next year, but I'm not sure of the title.

    I may try to find some more. I'm pretty bad in the business of finding upcoming releases.

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  4. Also, Jan 5 is a repressing of the first four Swans albums, if you want to include reissues. At that point, we may be treading into too much work.

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  5. oh god I forgot Heretoir's debut in Feburary.
    I suppose you can add an untitled Thranenkind album. They hope to have it by the end of 2011.

    Maybe I'll just use the thread, lol

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  6. Wow, that's a lot more album than I was expecting. Great job on covering so much. Also for hip-hop fans: Curren$y plans on releasing Pilot Talk III in April, as well as a new album as soon as next month, and Jay Electronica as a big year in preparation.

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  7. Tim Hecker has a release date: February 14th

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  8. added burzum fixed some dates and other stuff

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  9. Hey, Port Entropy was a 2010 album. I was planning on posting it here last year, actually, lol.

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