Albums We're Looking Forward To In 2009

Animal Collective

Here are some notable albums that are coming out in the first part of 2009. If there are any I'm missing that you're excited about leave it in the comments and I'll add it to the list.

1/20/09
Animal Collective "Merriweather Post Pavilion" (Domino)
Antony & the Johnsons "the Crying Light" (Secretly Canadian)
Devendra Banhart "Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon" (XL)
Bon Iver "Blood Band EP" (Jagjaguwar)
John Frusciante "the Empyrean"
Matt & Kim "Grand Label" (Fader)
A.C. Newman "Get Guilty" (Matador)
Odd Nosdam "T.I.M.E. Soundtrack" (Anticon)
Robert Pollard "Crawling Distance" (GBV, INC)
Six Organs of Admittance "RTZ" (Drag City)

1/27/08
Bird and the Bee "Ray Guns are not just the Future"
Andrew Bird "Noble Beast"
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez "Old Money" (Stones Throw)
Bruce Springsteen "Working on a Dream" (Columbia)

2/3/09
The Appleseed Cast "Sagarmaha" (Militia Group)
Handsome Furs "Face Control" (Sub Pop)
Ben Kweller "Changing Horses" (ATO)
P.O.S. "Never Better" (Rhymesayers)
Phosphorescent "To Willie" (Dead Oceans)

2/10/09
Lily Allen "It's Not Me, Its You" (Regal/Universal)
Dan Auerbach "Keep it Hid" (Nonesuch)
Missy Elliott "Block Party" (Elektra)
Mos Def "the Ecstatic"

2/17/09
Asobi Seksu "Hush" (Polyvinyl)
Beirut "March of the Zapotec" (Pompeii)
Morrissey "Years of Refusal" (Attack/Lost Highway)
Vetiver "Tight Knit" (Sub Pop)
M. Ward "Hold Time" (Merge)
Weird Owl "Ever the Silver Cord be Loosed" (Tee Pee)
William Elliott Whitmore "Animals in the Dark" (Anti)

2/24/08
Black Lips "200 Million Thousand" (Vice)

3/3/08
Boy Least Likely To "Law of the Playground" (+1 Records)
Neko Case "Middle Cyclone" (Anti)
U2 "No Line on the Horizon" (Island)

3/10/09
Architecture in Helsinki "That Beep" (Polyvinyl)
Condo Fucks (aka Yo La Tengo) "Fuckbook" (Matador)

3/17/09
Bonnie Prince Billy "Beware!" (Drag City)

3/24/09
The Decemberists "Hazards of Love" (Capitol)
Dan Deacon "Bromst" (Carpark)
Mirah "(a)spera" (K)

3/31/08
PJ Harvey & John Parrish "A Woman A Man Walked By" (Island)

4/7/09
Lady Sovereign "Jigsaw" (Midget)
Thermals "Now we can See" (Kill Rock Stars)

5/26/09
Grizzly Bear "TBA" (Warp)

Other notable albums without release dates
Dirty Projectors "TBA" (Domino)
Yeah Yeah Yeah's "TBA" (Interscope)
Kings of Convenience "Quiet Is The New Loud"
Blikk Fang (MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden & Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes) "TBA"
Mastadon "Crack The Skye" (Warner Bros/Reprise)
Doves "TBA" (Astralwerks)
Midlake "Courage Of Others"


-Matt