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2011 ALBUM PREDICTION

Welcome back to The Recommender as we look ahead to another year of excellent contemporary music. One year ago we completed a similar post, looking ahead to the albums that were predicted for a release in 2010. You can find that old post here and check out just how many predicted albums actually arrived. No blogger has a perfect selection of sources, but we think you will agree that there’s a pretty high hit rate from last year’s list, although unfortunately the likes of The White Stripes and Radiohead stayed as rumours.

Below we list our brand new punts, with the album’s names listed alongside the month of the planned due date, if it’s available, plus any sneaky-peek previews of music from said album. This list is by no means definitive, more a selection of our biggest hopes and peaks of excitement, as we look ahead to the new year, but even rumours can have us salivating at the thought.

NEW ALBUMS DUE IN 2011…

BRIGHT EYES – THE PEOPLES KEY (February)

SHELL GAMES

ELBOW – BUILD A ROCKET BOYS! (March 7th)

LIPPY KIDS

THE VACCINES – WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM THE VACCINES? (March 21st)

BLOW IT UP

JAMES BLAKE – JAMES BLAKE (February)

WILHELMS SCREAM

CLARE MAGUIRE – LIGHT AND DARK (tbc)

STRANGEST THING

REM – COLLAPSE INTO NOW (March)

DISCOVERER

THE NAKED & FAMOUS – PASSIVE ME, AGGRESSIVE YOU (tbc)

YOUNG BLOOD

THE STREETS – COMPUTERS & BLUES (February)

GOING THROUGH HELL

THE BEASTIE BOYS – HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE Vol 2 (tbc)

TOO MANY RAPPERS (feat NAS)

YUCK – YUCK (February)

RUBBER

JESSIE J – WHO YOU ARE (tbc)

DO IT LIKE A DUDE

ANNA CALVI – ANNA CALVI (January)

JEZEBEL

GHOSTPOET – PEANUT BUTTER BLUES & MELANCHOLY JAM (February)

MORNING (feat. Micachu)

DR DRE – DETOX (February)

KUSH

TORO Y MOI – UNDERNEATH THE PINE (February)

STILL SOUND

TENNIS – CAPE DORY (February)

MARATHON

LYKKE LI – WOUNDED RHYMES (March)

GET SOME

JAI PAUL – tbc (Spring)

BTSU

WHITE LIES – RITUAL (January)

BIGGER THAN US

PANDA BEAR – TOMBOY (tbc)

TOMBOY

THE GO TEAM! – ROLLING BLACKOUTS (January 31st)

T.O.R.N.A.D.O

CUT COPY – ZONOSCOPE (February 8th)

WHERE I’M GOING

NERO -tbc (tbc)

ME & YOU

PENGUIN PRISON – tbc (February)

A FUNNY THING

MONARCHY – MONARCHY (tbc)

GOLD IN THE FIRE

COCKNBULLKID – ADULTHOOD (Spring)

ONE EYE CLOSED

PJ HARVEY – LET ENGLAND SHAKE (February 14th)

WRITTEN ON THE FOREHEAD

DALEY – tbc (Spring)

RAINY DAY

ESBEN & THE WITCH – VIOLET CRIES (February 8th)

WARPATH

CULTS – tbc (May)

GO OUTSIDE

MEN – TALK ABOUT BODY (February 1st)

OFF OUR BACKS

CLOUD NOTHINGS – CLOUD NOTHINGS (January 24th)

SHOULD HAVE

THE JOY FORMIDABLE – THE BIG ROAR (January 24th)

WHIRRING

LADY GAGA – BORN THIS WAY (May 23rd)

THE ROME – THE ROME (Danger Mouse & Daniel Lupi collaboration) (tbc)

ALBUM CLIP

KANYE WEST & JAY-Z – WATCH THE THRONE - (January)

APHEX TWIN – tbc (March)

ALBUMS THAT REMAIN A MIX OF VAGUE RUMOURS, FANS HOPE, EMPTY PROMISES, OR SIMPLY DEVOID OF DETAILS…

ALEX WINSTON (mini album)

THE AVALANCHES

BATTLES

BECK

BON IVER

BURIAL

CHAPEL CLUB

CLASSIXX

CLOCK OPERA

COLDPLAY

DELS

FLEET FOXES

FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS

FRIENDLY FIRES

FRANZ FERDINAND

IAMAMIWHOAMI

KATY B

MIRRORS

MNDR

MONA

NOAH & THE WHALE

ODD FUTURE (OFWGKTA)

PORTISHEAD

RADIOHEAD

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

SANTIGOLD

WILD BEASTS

WOLF GANG

So that’s who has us childishly excited, as we look ahead to this new year. The question is whether you think 2011 will be a better year for new albums than 2010? Also, who do you think will make the biggest impact? Although this list is lengthy, we are bound to have missed a few, so by all means list in the comments those artists that you have any knowledge of, or even just rumours, regarding any new albums.
(MB)

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Published: January 4th, 2011
Author: Mike Bradford
Category: ALT.REC.
Tags: Aggressive You, Anna Calvi, Aphex Twin, Born This Way, Bright Eyes, Build A Rocket Boys, Cape Dory, Clare Maguire, Cloud Nothings, Collapse Into Now, Computers & Blues, Cults, Cut Copy, Daley, Danger Mouse, Daniele Lupi, Detox, Dr Dre, Elbow, Esben & The Witch, Ghostpoet, Hot Sauce Committee Volume 2, Jai Paul, James Blake, Jay-Z, Jessie J, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Let England Shake, Light & Dark, Lykke Li, MEN, Nero, Panda Bear, Passive Me, Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam, PJ Harvey, REM, Ritual, Rolling Blackouts, Talk About Body, Tennis, The Beastie Boys, The Big Roar, The Go Team, The Joy Formidable, The Naked & Famous, The Peoples Key, The Rome, The Streets, Tomboy, Toro Y Moi, Underneath The PIne, Violet Cries, Watch The Throne, White Lies, Who You Are, Wounded Rhymes, Yuck, Zonoscope

THE RECOMMENDER – TENNIS

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This married duo from Denver, Colorado, are without doubt the most reflective band we’ve ever posted about here on The Recommender, mirroring the past so well it would have Einstein re-evaluating his theories on time travel. Their arresting and rather immaculately conceived pop music is like a perfect slice of 1960s musical history, of the kind not seen since Jackie Shannon adorned the stage at Hullabaloo. It’s all the more astonishing when you put their new music in the context of their contemporaries and the rest of our modern era, with all the internet toys and edgy hipsters. At the very least you have to respect the idea, for it’s utterly remarkable in its conception, let alone its delightful execution. We admire their confidence for even considering to make music of this style and of this retrospective nature. With Tennis you get lo-fi, reverberating lines of guitar, that are played over an uncomplicated snare-cymbal-snare drum beat. You imagine the whole backing band, (and it really does reflect a time when this sort of music had official backing bands), to all be smiling their bright, white smiles and looking straight at the camera without blinking. It generates imagery of a romantic time when adverts were a new concept and life was sold to us as an American Dream. However, it’s the vocals that complete the picture, with Alaina Moore’s twee, slightly haunting voice, that seems as though it’s being sung to you by the ghost of Dusty Springfield, while the blurred guitar chimes behind her. With music this dated you would be forgiven for asking why we’ve included them on our virtual pages. Our response would be to point out just how perfect and addictive each of their tracks are. They make you feel so good. They wrap around you a warm blanket of comfort, which transports you to a world without care or competition. It’s escapism, without the mind altering drugs or booze fuel. Of course you won’t like it if you turn your noses up at the likes of Gorilla vs Bear, or the gigs at The Freebutt, but we suggest there’s room in life for lighter shades. It’s also worth pointing out that throughout this year, when the likes of lo-fi chillwave and sun-bleached surf pop brought a haze of drifting atmosphere out of your speakers, that this is the perfect end to a spectrum of genres that’s giving us all the antidote to a global recession. They’ve bottled the 1960s, opened it up and poured it into 2010 and we think it tastes perfect. (MB)