[Future Faves?] Anticipated 2012 Album Releases

It's a bit behind schedule, but here's my annual list of recorded releases I'm most looking forward to this year. A handful of 2012 Tuesdays have already passed, but the lag time allowed me to sneak in a bunch of just-announced full-lengths. I've included those that have already hit shelves (or servers), along with some rumored speculation and a couple of wishful thoughts to wrap it up. If something's not here, it's either due to apathy, ignorance, or forgetfulness. Your mission? Fill in the gaps. What'd I miss? What do I need to hear? What do you really hope shows up this year? Leave a comment here or on Facebook, gimme some info, lemme know.

Click the label names for more info, or to buy/pre-order. Boston-area releases are noted with a couple asterisks. I may keep this post updated as more albums get announced, at least until late summer when I'll run a whole new list for autumn...

My most anticipated 2012 album releases...

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So far this year...

• Chris Brokaw (Come/Codeine/The New Year) - "Stories" 12-inch [on Limited Appeal]
  
• Flights - "Anywhere But Where I Am" [1/1 via Bandcamp]
  
• ** Kingsley Flood - "Colder Still" EP [1/10 / self-released]
  
• ** Caspian - "Live at Old South Church" EP [1/10 on Mylene Sheath]
  
• Guided by Voices - "Let's Go Eat the Factory" [1/17 on Fire/GBV]
  
• Cloud Nothings - "Attack On Memory" [1/24 on Carpark]
  
• First Aid Kit - "The Lion's Roar" [1/24 on Wichita]
  
• Nada Surf - "The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy" [1/24 on Barsuk]
  
• Palomar - "Sense & Antisense" [1/24 - self-released]
  
• Hospitality - self-titled debut [1/31 on Merge]
  
• Imperial Teen - "Feel the Sound" [1/31 on Merge]
  
• The Jealous Sound - "A Gentle Reminder" [1/31 on Music Is Subjective]
  
• Leonard Cohen - "Old Ideas" [1/31 on Sony/Columbia]
  
• Capybara - "Dave Drusky" [2/7 on The Record Machine]
  
• Sharon Van Etten - "Tramp" [2/7 on Jagjaguwar]
  
• The Twilight Sad – "No One Can Ever Know" [2/7 on FatCat]
  
• ** Neptune - "msg rcvd" [2/13 on Northern Spy]
  
• 50 Foot Wave - "With Love From The Men's Room" CD [2/14 on Throwing Music]
  
• Field Music - "Plumb" [2/14 on Memphis Industries/Midheaven(US)]
  
• Heartless Bastards – "Arrow" [2/14 on Partisan]
  
• Honeychurch - "Will You Be There With Me" [2/14 via Bandcamp]
  
• Shearwater - "Animal Joy" [2/14 on Sub Pop]
  
• Tennis - "Young & Old" [2/14 on Fat Possum]
  
• Rosie Thomas - "With Love" [2/14 on Undertow & Bandcamp]
  
• Whistle Peak - "Half Asleep Upon Echo Falls" [2/14 on Karate Body]

Out today ...

• Archers of Loaf - "Vee Vee" (2-disc remaster) [2/21 on Merge]
  
• Dirty Three - "Toward The Low Sun" [2/21 on Drag City]
  
• Guy Capecelatro III - "North For the Winter" [2/21 on Dromedary]
  
• Damien Jurado - "Maraqopa" [2/21 on Secretly Canadian]
  
• Lambchop - "Mr. M" [2/21 on Merge]
  
• Frankie Rose - "Interstellar" [2/21 on Slumberland]

Next week...

• Fanfarlo - "Rooms Filled With Light" [2/28 on Atlantic]
  
• Geoff Farina (Glorytellers/Karate/Secret Stars) - "The Wishes Of The Dead" [2/27 on Damnably]
  
• New Multitides - self-titled [2/28 on Rounder]
  
• England in 1819 - "Alma" [2/28 - self-released via Bandcamp]
  
• Eux Autres - "Sun Is Sunk" (EP) [2/28 on Bon Mots]
  
• School Of Seven Bells – "Ghoststory" [2/28 on Vagrant/Ghostly Int'l]

March...

• ** The Dirty Dishes - "The Most Tarnished Birds" EP [3/4 via Bandcamp]
  
• Andrew Bird - "Break It Yourself" [3/6 on Mom + Pop]
  
• Ceremony - "Zoo" [3/6 on Matador]
  
• Tim Foljahn - "Songs For An Age of Extinction" [3/6 on Kiam Records]
  
• The Magnetic Fields – "Love At The Bottom Of The Sea" [3/6 on Merge]
  
• Now, Now - "Threads" [3/6 on Trans-Records]
  
• Jennifer O'Connor - "I Want What You Want" [physical release 3/6 on Kiam Records]
  
• Said The Whale - "Little Mountain" [3/6 on Hidden Pony/EMI]
  
• Jonathan Segel (Camper Van Beethoven) - "All Attractions" [3/6 Kickstarter funded]
  
• Yellow Ostrich - "Strange Land" [3/6 on Barsuk]
  
• The Wedding Present - "Valentina" [3/12 on Scopitones]
  
• The Darker Hues - "Nothing Tastes Like Failure" [3/8 - self-released ]
  
• James Iha (ex-Smashing Pumpkins) - "Look To The Sky" [3/14 on EMI Japan]
  
• Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - "Rot Gut, Domestic" [3/20 on Mariel Recording Co.]
  
• Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times & the Tides [3/20 on Matador]
  
• The Shins – "Port Of Morrow" (3/20 on Columbia/Aural Apothecary]
  
• Paul Weller - "Sonik Kicks" [3/27 on Yep Roc]
  
• Autochrome - [3/30 via Bandcamp]
  
• Various - "Sunshine Off The Tracks" [3/31 on Wild Kindness - a benefit for GEMS]

April...

• The Futureheads - "Rant" [4/2 - all a cappella]
  
• Lightships (Gerard from Teenage Fanclub) - "Electric Cables" [4/3 on Geographic/Domino]
  
• M. Ward - "A Wasteland Companion" [4/10 on Merge]
  
• The Dandy Warhols - "This Machine" [4/24 on The End]

Later in 2012...

• ** Ryan Lee Crosby - new self-titled album - [Spring]
  
• Codeine - "When I See The Sun" (Box Set / Vinyl Reissues) [5/8 on Numero Group]
  
• Rebecca Gates (The Spinanes) - "The Float" [5/18 on Parcematone/12XU]
  
• ** Cowgill - "Side One of Planted" [5/17 - Kickstarter-funded]
  
• ** Hallelujah the Hills - "No One Knows What Happens Next" [5/22 on Discrete Pageantry / Kickstarter-funded]
  
• Mice Parade - "Candela" [Fall on FatCat]
  
• Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower (Ida) - "Blue Clouds" [Early summer]
  
• The Mynabirds - "Generals" [6/5 on Saddle Creek]
  
• Metric - "Synthetica" [6/12 on MMI]
  
• Public Image Ltd. - "This is PiL" [5/28 on PiL Official]
  
• Spiritualized – "Sweet Heart Sweet Light" [Spring on Double Six]
  
• Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek) - "Among The Leaves"[5/29 on Caldo Verde]
  
• Kaia Wilson (Team Dresch/The Butchies) - 5th solo LP [Spring/Kickstarter funded/Jealous Butcher]

Completed, or in the works, but no dates announced yet...

• Allo Darlin' - "Europe" [on Slumberland]
  
• Paul Banks aka Julian Plenti (of Interpol) [second solo LP on Matador]
  
• Beach Fossils
  
• Beach House
  
• Billy Bragg & Wilco - "Mermaid Avenue III"
  
• ** Bon Savants - second album
  
• ** The Broken River Prophet - "7 Sermons for the Dead"
  
• Built To Spill
  
• Camera Obscura
  
• ** Caspian
  
• Circle of Buzzards
  
• Dead Can Dance
  
• Depeche Mode
  
• Dinosaur Jr.
  
• ** Girlfriends
  
• ** Ghost Box Orchestra
  
• The James Rocket - "Launch"
  
• Bill Janovitz - "Long Island of the Mind"
  
• The Kingsbury Manx
  
• Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
  
• ** Mary Lou Lord (Kickstarter-funded)
  
• ** Mean Creek
  
• ** Mission of Burma ("...should be out in the spring.")
  
• Mazzy Star
  
• Overseas (David Bazan, Will Johnson, & the Kadane Bros.)
  
• Pernice Bros
  
• Secretary (Craig from Summer At Shatter Creek)
  
• Sigur Ros
  
• Throwing Muses
  
• ** Wheat - "Can't Stop The Addiction"
  
• ** Young Adults EP
  
• The xx - 2nd album

No word, but here's hoping...

• The Album Leaf
  
• Arcwelder (a boy can dream, can't he?)
  
• Bottomless Pit
  
• The Cure
  
• Tanya Donelly
  
• Drew O'Doherty
  
• Dylan In The Movies
  
• The Essex Green
  
• Land of Talk
  
• The Long Winters (I mean, right?)
  
• Neko Case
  
• The New Year
  
• The Notwist
  
• Ola Podrida
  
• Sky Larkin