Primus- Green Naugahyde (2011)

Primus are back with their first full-length album after nearly twelve years and approximately 4,700 Les Claypool side projects. Green Naugahyde marks a return to form for the band in more way than one. Original drummer Jay Lane is back and is finally on his first Primus recording featuring original songs (no, Riddles Are Abound Tonight doesn’t count). According to Claypool, Lane was the one who wrote many of the drum parts in Primus’ early albums, and this should be of no surprise to anybody who has listened to this album. Lane’s playing is reminiscent of Tim Alexander, the man who pounded the skins on the band’s first four albums. But the similarities to their early work don’t end there. Les and Ler are back to doing what made them famous, but of course you can’t really revisit the past.

The first reports of Green Naugahyde described it as being similar to the band’s debut album Frizzle Fry. This was welcome news to me as that is my favorite Primus album but I was skeptical they would make an album that conventional (relatively conventional, of course). Frizzle Fry is Primus’ most metal-sounding album and features the least flashy bass playing from Claypool. For large chunks of songs he and the guitar are playing the same patterns, which becomes a rarity on later albums. On Green Naugahyde? Not so much. On this one Claypool is his flashy self and uses some of the same tones on his very out-there solo album Of Fungi and Foe. That’s not to say he is above riffs, however. Many of the patterns are repeated and some of the best riffs are done with his patented Flamenco strumming, which were especially highlighted in their early albums.

No, Claypool doesn’t follow the guitar like on their debut (Or was it the guitar that followed him? Eh, that’s not important). But why should he? That was over twenty years ago. Claypool gave a very poignant quote in Rolling Stone last June:

“A song like ‘Jilly's on Smack’ just wouldn't have been written in the early Nineties, because we hadn't lost a friend to heroin addiction. A song like ‘Lee Van Cleef’ which is reflective of my youth just wouldn't have been written back then.”

Yes, they are still Primus. But in the last twenty years they have learned lessons, musical and otherwise, that have helped shape their sound.

Don’t let that last paragraph discourage you. This is most certainly a Primus album. Who else but Primus can get away with a song called “Eyes of the Squirrel?” Claypool’s not-too-specific-but-still funny social commentary is back with songs like “Moron TV” and “Eternal Consumption Engine,” and we even get a new installment the Fisherman’s Chronicles. And just like a Primus album, it loses steam near the end. I could have done without “Extinction Burst” and I probably would have been okay with missing “HOINFODAMAN” and “Green Ranger.” But still, eight good songs out of eleven is not a bad ratio. Green Naugahyde is a little bit of the same and a little bit different, which is to say that is a lot different than anything else you’ll hear this year.

A Roundup of Things I've Listened to Lately

Next to last post for me on LPC. I guess I'll see how this goes.



Washed Out - Within and Without (2011)

Ernest Greene, arguably the first real member of the chillwave genre, outdoes himself with this record. Hard to beat fantastic cuts like Soft and A Dedication.

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Lil B - I'm Gay (I'm Happy) (2011)

This album exists. Thank you Based God.



The Beach Boys - Sunflower (1970)

It's a shame that I hadn't listened to this very much before the last week. Typical outstanding stuff.

I think this works
Just buy it



WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (2011)

You might not like the vocals, but they completely fit the music and this could end up being one of the best albums of the year.

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Eric Copeland - Waco Taco Combo (2011)

How surprising that the leader of one of the most overlooked bands of the 2000s creates another solid album that's going to be overlooked. Great sampling work at hand on this album and the 17-minute long Spangled ends up being worth it in the end.

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Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011)

As a fan of noise and black metal and all sorts of other ugly musics, I've had to discuss the idea of value in aggressive music and the use of screaming and destructive melodies fairly frequently. Occasionally it's something as simple as "happiness or pleasure isn't derived directly from something that makes you feel cheery" which is simple enough to accept I think. Occasionally I'll have to bring up Schoenberg's sprechstimme and the idea of jilted dynamics and vocals to heighten the atmosphere and expression of a piece, which works itself into a circle when they insist on pure entertainment and such. All that aside however, there is a certain appreciation that is to be had in a very primal anger in music, like Salo to cinema, and an idea that it's something that must be done for the full spectrum of art.

And here rests a great example. From the takeoff, we're treated to a brief sample of an interview than none other than criminal and musician Charles Manson, leading into a thick heavy beat with a pointed grunt accompanied with a yell claiming this lead vocalist is the terrible beast he worships, later expanding discussing how he's not afraid of "the time he's taken past the point of no return" and that one should "wage war" as there is no hell and no worries for the future and such. Aside from the subject matter itself, the lyrics are incredibly poetic and theatrical. It evokes powerful imagery with ease, casually shouting down the powers of the earth and painting all the "evils of man".

The rest of the album follows in roughly the same path with some minor changes. Guillotine moves more slowly, with a thick low end beat settling as a sort of sludge underneath more angry vocals. Culture Shock has a more glitchy beat with a smooth subtle vocalist. Blood Creepin has some sort of tribal yell to transition into the first verse. But through every change, this album keeps its intensity and vileness.

At the very least, you're unlikely to hear much like this. You can get the same sort of angry vocals in something like Kill the Vultures, but that's generally much more lethargic. You could get the noise and destruction and, i suppose, wordiness, in something like dalek, but while that is sharp and, in certain respects, promotes human, this is thick and spiteful. While I was showing this around, one listener could only remark "I'm breathing heavy and stuff". Regardless of whether or not you find entertainment in this, very few can hit the atmosphere of this tape, and of everything released this year, this demands a listen more than anything.

and it's free

VIRUS - The Agent That Shapes The Desert

Brief apology for the downtime. We aren't dead yet.

First of all, I love Ved Buens Ende. Written In Waters is easily a top ten album, and if there's one band that upsets me more than any other for a lack of output... well that's a debate but they are up there. Because of this, my relationship with VIRUS, czral's creation after VBE, an admitted departure from their sound, is a bit wish-washy. But even with the slight departure and coincidentally, my slight disappointment, I can't stay mad. Abandoning the slight black metal tinge of VBE, VIRUS becomes the janky post-punk/progressive sound that countered it expanded into it's own, previously shown on 2003's Carheart and 2008's The Black Flux.

If you've heard those, this isn't much different. It's an avantgarde rock sound somewhere inbetween Vivoid and The Pop Group with the same sort of funky groove as Talking Heads or Discipline-era King Crimson. The atmosphere is otherworldly as the guitars twinge out in the ether while Czral croons his surreal lyrics over the top of jazzy, syncopated drum patterns. It's another one of those dissonant, janky albums that still manages to be overly catchy and "poppy".

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Tyler, The Creator - Goblin (2011)

Well I think Tyler sums this album up the best in his song Yonkers:

"I'm a fucking walking Paradox"

Which makes complete sense because he's the standout rapper of the California Hip-Hop collective OFWGKTA but then he puts out something like this, something so beneath his potential it almost made me question if it was one of those fake Goblin leaks that were floating around. Tyler on this album comes of as more confessional than I've seen on his previous songs but I really don't think Tyler is album to hold my interest over an entire album. Part of the reason why I liked EARL was because it was short enough that I could listen to it and move on cause it was about 30 minutes. Goblin however is about 1 and a quarter albums of Tyler bitching about him being "famous" and other stuff going wrong in his life.

The album opener is the self titled Goblin, and the song is 7 minutes of him going over his sudden rise to fame and how he seems to have all these expectations surrounding him and the rest of Odd Future to his therapist. The track itself is pretty good but this brings me into something I don't really like about Odd Future in general, and that's that a lot of the beats try to be minimal to the point where it just comes across as lazy. The beat sounds like a fucking metronome, and then it kind of breaks off into this synthy piano thing and almost immediately goes back into a metronome sound (which sounds really bland, like it's a 4/4 pattern throughout the entire song). The track transitions not-so-subtlely into Yonkers which is easily my favorite track off of the album, which is a shame that I heard the best song off of the album so many months in advance. The beat again is pretty basic but the rhymes keep me coming back because, well, he's clever. He's really clever and he knows how to put together a rap. It's as simple as that. Radicals, the next track begins with with a disclaimer that takes away from the shock that track has then he goes on to say "FUCK BILL O'REILLY", as if he's striving for that same attention he denounced 2 songs ago. But whatever, the track itself is another solid song, which while it's not as clever as Yonkers is, it's still pretty entertaining and it reminds me of why I like OFWGKTA in the first place. The thing I have against this track though is that the first part of it (Yes there are 2 parts) is kind of baseless, as if he's saying all this stuff to piss off America without going into it at all like he does on Yonkers or Sandwitches. Anyway the rest of the album goes into Tyler using filters to demonstrate his other personas, using Fruity Loops-esqe beats and Tyler complaining over different shit going on his life. All of this lead me to only really enjoy and revisit Tron Cat, Yonkers, Radicals, Sandwitches, Nightmare, and Golden. The rest don't really strike me as something someone could find entertaining, outside those tracks I just listed. Overall it's not really that bad, but some tracks like Bitch Suck Dick, Window and AU79 have potential to be great but for some reason or another they just fall flat. Window and Bitch Suck Dick remind me of why people only seem to focus on Frank Ocean, Hodgy, Tyler and Earl. The rest of the group frankly sucks. They're not clever original or someone I'd want to hear when popping in this album.

Good tracks: Golden, Sandwitches, Tron Cat, Nightmare, Yonkers, Radicals

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Sleeping Bag- Sleeping Bag (2011)

Sleeping Bag are a local band who I've been following since shortly after they formed last summer. They play a type of indie rock with pop sensibilities but never build to poppy enough levels to really be considered pop. The vocals are intentionally low-key, maybe because that's the only way the drummer/vocalist can sing and play at the same time. I don't know, but I like it. This album, their debut full-length, isn't officially released yet but they have it available for free streaming on Bandcamp.

Listen.
Download old demo.

This is an early demo they were selling the first time I saw them. All four songs on it are on the full-length but I thought some people might be interested in hearing earlier versions. They don't sell it any more so don't feel bad about downloading it.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

CHALUPAS

Track of the Day: March 10th, 2011

Man Man will be releasing their new album in May, so to get people hyped here is the opening track for the album named 'Life Fantastic'.

Knuckle Down

Faust - Something Dirty (2011)

I shouldn't have to tell you what Faust sounds like. All I need to really mention is that they keep their drawn out, psychedelic, effect-ridden music that they've had for all these years. I would say it's a modern version of their old style, but if you'd release the s/t, Faust IV, or any number of other Faust or other krautrock albums in this day it'd be equally modern, but even then, Something Dirty still works as a fantastic callback without falling into self-imitation.

There's really not much to say. It's Faust, it's great, you want it.

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Bibio - Mind Bokeh (2011)

Most excellent.

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New Tyler, the Creator track: Yonkers

Just a couple days after dropping his beautifully weird remix of Lykke Li's I Follow Rivers, here's the first single from his new album Goblin (to be released in April), titled Yonkers.

View here (NSFW)

Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine (2011)

If you remember my Top 50 Albums list from 2010, you'll see Causers of This by Chaz Bundick/Toro y Moi on there at a cool 11th. It's no secret that this guy's probably my favorite chillwave musician.

This album can't really be narrowed down to that alone, though - "Go With You" sounds like bossanova gone summer-pop, "New Beat" is a great dance song, and "Before I'm Done" is a nice guitar-driven song, which is what a lot of Bundick's music sounded like on the June 2009 compilation (specifically, "109", "Dead Pontoon", etc.). Even if you don't like chillwave, you'll find something to like here.

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Dumbo Gets Mad - Elephants At The Door (2011)

Dumbo Gets Mad is an Italian psych duo (That I just learned about last week) and this is their debut LP. The album sounds very fresh and trippy, and every track on the LP sort of stands out in it's own way, especially Plumy Tale. The band cites Flying Lotus and Gonjasufi as influences for this album, and it's really not hard to see why as the album is also experimental as both of their LP's from last year. The album is very warm sounding, and it's bound to give you a smile on your face if you take the time to listen to it. Also, while you can't get a physical copy of the album anytime soon, the band was gracious enough to give it out digitally for the cost of a simple tweet or Facebook status.

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Cloud Nothings - s/t (2011)

I signed up to post this, so I might as well do so. Can't say I'm in love with this like I was with Turning On. This isn't bad, but it's a bit of a disappointment compared to that. Still, there's a lot to be had here, including Should Have, Rock, and Been Through. Fans of Big Troubles, Smith Westerns, and (because of the high improvement in recording quality and song structure similarity) Wavves' new album will like this.

Stream it here until I become unlazy enough to upload it
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Heart On My Sleeve - Blood Is Not Thicker Than Wine (2011)

Screamo band from Sweden. Vocals are fantastic here. Somewhat reminiscent of Heaven in Her Arms or a number of more black metal bands in this respect. Great atmosphere, to boot.

http://heartonmysleeve.bandcamp.com/album/blood-is-not-thicker-than-wine

Logs-Hogz (2011)

The lastest effort from this band, including Alex Gaziano of Kidcrash, finally makes it out after two years of waiting. I guess I'm a bit late, it was "officially released" on the first, available before then, but now is as good as time as any, right?

First, it isn't really an album that would necessitate two years of prep, which is good. Although the post-hardcore memories signaled through this album are beautiful and thick and all other sorts of adjectives, it's got a general ugliness and simplicity to it, that's necessity for this genre.

Not too much to say... it starts with a charming enough opener, a sample of a kid exclaiming of his need to "scream and cry", followed by several kids doing just that, leading into a couple of crash cymbols and strong enough riff with, of course, some screaming vocals. Throughout the album it works with a bit of a loud-soft dynamic in it's general structure. Despite that, superficially, I can't say too much about it in comparison with the genre at whole, it's not derivative and it's not boring, it's just one of those "genre pieces" that gets a lot right.

I don't think it has an album cover, so there's a sloth... there was one on their self-titled EP. Well, last.fm is using this as the album cover, so I guess maybe this is as good as any.

buy... I'm not sure. The only record label I've seen that "has it" makes no mention on their site.

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The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts

It's a little hard to resist the relentlessly upbeat and youthful Rolling Blackouts. There sure is a lot going on, and a lot you could talk about. The intentionally poor mixing, the female vocals, the rap numbers, the horn sections that sound like a high school band on speed, the instrumental cuts, the straight-up pop...

Let's start from the beginning. This album is mixed in a way that couldn't be anything but purposeful. So does this actually help the music or is it just some misguided gimmick? I'd definitely lean toward the former. The mixing adds to the ridiculously youth-y sound the band has going for it, and on songs where there's a lot of stuff going on (Secretary Song for example) it just makes it sounds like there's even more stuff going on. Which makes it a little overwhelming, in a good way. The vocals are entirely female; ranging from random outcries to the poppiest of pop to straight-up rap. Speaking of which, as a hip hop fan, I have to say the songs with rapping are especially enjoyable. It's impossible for me not to approach something like Voice Yr Choice differently than I would any other rap song, and that being the case, it's a hell of a rap song. The rapping itself is completely typical, but the indie production is such a fresh spin on things. One thing I'm surprised by is just how typical the rapping is. If you heard an indie electronic album had rapping on it, you'd probably imagine the rapping being at least unique, if not completely off-kilter, but no, the rapper brags about her skills, references clubs, and says she's tearing up the underground, among other cliches. I don't think this is a bad thing at all; the rapping being as it is just adds to the charm as far as I'm concerned.

Moving on, the horns. Like I said, high school band on speed. Bust-Out Brigade definitely sounds like what a football team would enter to in some more cheery alternate dimension. It's also the first instrumental song out of four, which are all surprisingly good and break the album up nicely, while remaining good standalone songs. Finally, the most poppy numbers: Ready to Go Steady is so overtly pop that it's almost off putting for a second, but it's completely infectious, as is lead single Buy Nothing Day.

Honestly, I'm almost surprised this album is as good as it is. For real, I was a little (pleasantly) surprised at first by the sound, and thought there were a few great songs, but multiple listens revealed that this album is completely consistent; I can't really knock a single track. Every song here is deserving of praise; and whether they're doing rap, pop, or instrumental, the group excels. Their joy is borderline contagious (though the album can wear on you if you're not in the mood) and the songs are flat-out catchy. Despite the plethora of sounds and styles on the album, the whole youthful upbeat thing permeates through every one of them and holds the entire thing together quite nicely.

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The Decemberists - The King is Dead (2011)

I wasn't instantly blown away as I hoped to be, but instead The King is Dead overtook me with songs that become hard to complain about after hearing them a few times. The vast majority of the album is completely solid, and covers a wide enough variety of moods without sacrificing coherence. The single biggest flaw isn't a specific technique or style used throughout the album, but an entire song: Rox in the Box. Its elementary lyrics almost completely take the oomph out of an upbeat composition that might have competed for the album's strongest if it had vocals that didn't make it seem a little corny and overblown. Aside from that, not every song is great (actually I'd say only two aren't, not counting Rox in the Box, those being All Arise! and Dear Avery, which aren't bad by any means), but the album remains uninterrupted in delivering a consistent stream of enjoyment.

The sound is pretty well represented by the album cover. It feels like a camping trip in Washington with some old friends. You kind of have the feeling in the back of your head every now and then that you're not quite having as much fun with them as you used to, but you end up greatly enjoying the experience nonetheless. Unfortunately Rox in the Box can't be anything other than you getting molested, which you more or less succeed in repressing; it only casts the slightest damper over the remainder of your stay. Alex might have tilted the camera bit too far up to provide something that would allow your folks back home to understand the nature of the trip, but if they were there they'd find it fitting.

Hope that was eerily specific enough for you.

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Tennis - Cape Dory (2011)

Yeah, the cover might be stupidly cheesy (and way, way, WAY too 80s), but this isn't an album to be ignored. "Take Me Somewhere" is infectious as is "South Carolina". Several songs on the album are remastered versions of the original tracks on singles and EPs. It might be January, but it's eternally July in the Atlantic with this album. The group includes John Isner and Nicolas Mahut Roger Federer and someone Insert random tennis player or star here Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, who wrote the songs on the album after spending eight months sailing on the Atlantic Ocean.

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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.