Every day we’re faced with an onslaught of album announcements so we thought we’d start sharing the soon-to-be-released love by putting together a list of the most notable and exciting album announcements on a weekly basis.
Death Cab For Cutie
Transatlanticism Reissue
This special 10th anniversary edition of Transatlanticism is available on vinyl (after several years out of print) and in digital form.
The high quality 180-gram double LP comes in a nice gatefold sleeve, with full-color 12-page booklet.
The digital release (included with MP3 download in the vinyl version) contains the album tracks, plus an intimate peek into the landmark album’s genesis: all eleven original demos, none of which have ever been released before.
Transatlanticism is out October 2013 through Barsuk
Tracklisting:
01 The New Year
02 Lightness
03 Title and Registration
04 Expo ’86
05 The Sound of Settling
06 Tiny Vessels
07 Transatlanticism
08 Passenger Seat
09 Death of an Interior Decorator
10 We Looked Like Giants
11 A Lack of Color
Sleigh Bells
Bitter Rivals
The ten song LP, produced by Derek Miller and mixed by Andrew Dawson, finds the band holding fast to their uncompromising sound and aesthetic while searching for badass new ways to make pop music.
Album pre-order and ‘Bitter Rivals’ single are available now on iTunes.
The video for the album’s title track, up now on bitterrivals.us, was made in conjunction with The Creators Project (a partnership between Intel and Vice), and was directed by Sleigh Bells.
Better Rivals is out October 11th 2013 through Liberator Music.
Tracklisting:
01 Bitter Rivals
02 Sugarcane
03 Minnie
04 Sing Like a Wire
05 Young Legends
06 Tiger Kit
07 You Don’t Get Me Twice
08 To Hell With You
09 24
10 Love Sick
FEELINGS
Be Kind Unwind
After declaring somewhat of a hiatus back in 2011, FEELINGS is a reincarnation of the original Philadelphia Grand Jury line up. Simon “Berkfinger” Berckelman, Joel Beeson and Dan W. are back together to release FEELINGS’ debut album.
A taste of the record, single ‘New York Summer’ will be released this Friday, September 6. Although the lyrics are telling the story of a break up that’s left behind a broken heart that can’t be fixed, the combination of the delectable drum groove, a fuzz-infused bass line and a synth that could be confused for a kazoo, make it almost impossible not to dance to.
The harmonies that feature in the track will bring back fond memories of Philly Jays and cause great excitement that these three are back together again.
Be Unkind Unwind is out October 25th 2013 through Create/Control
Tracklisting not yet available.
NYPC
NYPC
New Young Pony Club are no more – and in their place are NYPC. Because deciding to shorten their name wasn’t so much as a rebranding or re-launching as it was a sign of their rebirth: for their third studio album NYPC, recorded and self produced in London, singer Tahita Bulmer and multi-instrumentalist Andy Spence decided to shut everything and everyone else out.
Their partnership is NYPC – and their creative chemistry and shared vision is what makes ‘NYPC’ their most forward thinking and refined album so far.
What has emerged is their most focused and coherent album yet, drawing on the strengths of their last two albums but pushing it forward into new uncharted territory.
NYPC is out October 11th 2013 through Cooking Vinyl
Tracklisting not yet available.
Glasser
Interiors
The follow up to 2010’s critically acclaimed debut Ring, Interiors was produced by Glasser and Van Rivers (Fever Ray, Blonde Redhead), and is a much more considered, confident, and sharply personal album than its predecessor.
In the three years since Glasser released her breakout debut album Ring, she has toured around the world (with Jónsi of Sigur Rós, The XX, Delorean, and others) and left her California home for New York City. 2012 brought Glasser’s one-women live show to Australian shores where she played intimate headline dates and joined the niche lineup touring nationally as a part of the St Jeromes Laneway Festival.
The collapsing of California’s dreamy, empty expanse for that of New York City’s frenetic, tightly-knit landscapes set off a new trajectory of exploration for Glasser, one that focused on the definition of space, both outside and in.
Interiors is out October 4th 2013 through True Panther/ Remote Control
Tracklisting:
1. Shape
2. Design
3. Landscape
4. Forge
5. Window I
6. Keam Theme
7. Exposure
8. Dissect
9. Window III
10. Window II
11. New Year
12. Divide
