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.
Pixies
Indie Cindy
Release Date: 28th April
Label: Pixies music / [PIAS] Recordings
Why You Should Care: Fans across the globe have been dreaming of this moment for more then two decades. The Vivid LIVE-announced artists recorded Indie Candy at Rockfield Studios with producer Gil Norton from the classic Trompe le Monde, giving fans every reason to get excited. Most importantly though, there’s an exclusive Record Store Day issue a week before the official launch on a two disc, deluxe gatefold 180-gram vinyl that will walk out the door on 19th April. A whole new generation is about to be exposed to the Pixies signature sound.
Tracklisting:
1. What Goes Boom
2. Greens and Blues
3. Indie Cindy
4. Bagboy
5. Magdalena 318
6. Silver Snail
7. Black Eyed Hexe
8. Ring The Bell
9. Another Toe In The Ocean
10. Andro Queen Snakes
11. Jaime Bravo
Chrissie Hynde
Stockholm
Release Date: 6th June
Label: Caroline Australia
Why You Should Care: The Pretenders lead lady has announced the release of her very first solo album featuring appearances from Neil Young and tennis legend John McEnroe. Recorded at Ingrid Studios in Stockholm with co-writer and producer Bjorn Yttling (of Peter, Bjorn and John) Hynde said of the debut “I wanted to make a power pop album you could dance too; ABBA meets John Lennon.” Stay tuned with first cut ‘Dark Sunglasses’, dropping on 24th April.
Tracklisting:
1. You Or No One
2. Dark Sunglasses
3. Like In The Movies
4. Down The Wrong Way
5. You’re The One
6. A Plan Too Far
7. In A Miracle
8. House Of Cards
9. Tourniquet (Cynthia Ann)
10. Sweet Nuthin’
11. Adding The Blue
Passenger
Whispers
Release Date: 6th June
Label: Black Crow Records / Inertia
Why You Should Care: Passenger, Mike Rosenberg’s alter ego, has announced his sixth studio album to follow the platinum selling All The Little Lights. Encapsulating a sumptuous, symphonic sound, Rosenberg has been bold and matured his sound and songwriting into story telling of both the fantasy and reality of love, death, growing up and getting old. Teaming with co-producer Chris Vallejo, it exposes the fragility and quirkiness of Rosenberg’s lyrical capabilities.
Tracklisting:
1. Coins In A Fountain
2. 27
3. Heart’s On Fire
4. Bullets
5. Golden Leaves
6. Thunder
7. Rolling Stone
8. Start A Fire
9. Whispers
10. Riding To New York
11. Scare AwayThe Dark
Tracklisting:
TBC.
In Hearts Wake
Earthwalker
Release Date: 2nd May
Label: UNFD
Why You Should Care: The Byron Bay hardcore collective are all about giving back to the community. Joining forces with Carbon Neutral to make a difference for Australia’s flora and fauna, each pre-ordered copy sold through 24 Hundred will see a bio-diverse native tree planted in the hope of restoring the Australian landscape to its former glory. Produced by Josh Schroeder at Random Awesome Studios it boasts song writing with a difference using their music to convey a message of conservation and environmentalism.
Tracklisting:
1. Gaia
2. Earthwalker
3. Divine
4. Sacred
5. Gravity
6. Healer
7. Rebirth
8. Afterglow
9. Truenorth
10. Wildflower
11. Mother
I, A Man
Gravity Wins Again
Release Date: 11th April
Label: We Swimmers
Why You Should Care: Mixing Thom Yorke flavoured pop vocals with shuffling beats there is a certain simplicity to the debut record from the Melbourne indie pop quartet. Written on a Ballarat farm, recorded at the Alamo with Tim O’Halloran and David Williamson, then mixed in Sydney by Tim Whitten (Augie March, The Go Betweens), their debut album received its finishing touches from Roger Seibel in Arizona. Understated with soft and pensive swirls of warm guitars the album shows that for all its subtlety, it’s hard to forget.
Tracklisting:
1. Fossils
2. In Time
3. A Small, Good Thing
4. Minivan
5. Cold Feet Warmed
6. Monochrome
7. Less Travelled
8. Big Ideas
9. Lucky
10. Bandwidth
Smashing Pumkins
Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night
Release Date: 2015
Label: BMG
Why You Should Care: Billy Corgan announced on the band’s website that Smashing Pumpkins will be releasing not one, but two new records in 2015 after signing a deal with label BMG. Commenting that the majority of the tracks have been written, Corgan and co. entered the studio with Howard Willing in control of the production. Fans can keep an eye on the two albums, titled Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night, on their official website The Panopticon for updates on lyrics, sound clips and pictures as the project comes together. The intriguing point will be what will it sound like? And Corgan has enticed with “guitars, guitars, guitars and more guitars.”
Release and tracklisting TBA
