What 2006 releases is everyone most looking forward to?

My #1 would have to be Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics (Or whatever they end up deciding to call it). Then of course there's also the Strokes, the Shins, and (I think) Radiohead and Wilco.

I'm also pretty sure Primal Scream and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are working on albums that I would expect to see in 2006.

Dumas
Sonic Youth - (I think it's Sonic Life...)
Wilco
Radiohead (maybe)

Radiohead
Wilco
Flaming Lips
Arcade Fire
Sufjan Stevens
The Raconteurs (Brendan Benson + Jack White)
The Shins
Broken Social Scene
Pixies
Islands

Radiohead
Mogwai
Explosions In The Sky
Jeniferever
Gregor Samsa
Rapture
The Wrens
Wilco
Walkmen
Sufjan Stevens

Can anyone actually confirm that the new Radiohead will be coming out next year or is it just speculation?

By the way, modestryan, who are Jeniferever and Gregory Samsa? I'm just curious and too lazy to look it up myself at the moment.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Can anyone actually confirm that the new Radiohead will be coming out next year or is it just speculation?

By the way, modestryan, who are Jeniferever and Gregory Samsa? I'm just curious and too lazy to look it up myself at the moment.

Radiohead will be released right before the summer. I have read this on multiple occassions.
As for Jeniferver and Gregor Samsa... They released E.P.s last year and will be putting out full-lengths in 2006. I highly recommend both. Both are from overseas.

I checked...Primal Scream's new album is coming out in February.

Wilco (!!!!)
Cat Power
The Fiery Furnaces
The Flaming Lips
Radiohead
Explosions in the Sky
Mogwai
Walkmen
Primal Scream
The Wrens

And I'm not much of a fan of Sufjan's "state" albums, but I did love Seven Swans. Still, I'm not much looking forward to his next release; I probably won't have another non-state-affiliated album until he's like 80-something.

I'm looking forward to the new Richard Ashcroft, the Raconteurs (I hate the White Stripes but love Brendon Benson, so it's a curiosity thing at his point), the Shins, and Wilco (if it comes out in 2006...label friends tell me that's iffy). I'm also excited about the new Soul Asylum record (their first in a while) and the speculated Bloc Party, Furtureheads, and Travis records for mid to late 2006.

There's a new Radiohead song on the benefit comp Help! A Day in the Life that's mostly Thom and a piano and it's, well, dull. I hope the full length has more energy than the track which, to be fair, was written and recorded in a day, as were all tracks on the disc.

Flaming Lips
Strokes(...I guess)
Cat Power(p.s. I read an adavnced review of this in a British magazine, think it got a 91%.)
Radiohead(!)
Neko Case(should be interesting)
Bloc Party
Arcade Fire(?)
Broken Social Scene(!?)
Mogwai
Wilco
Built To Spill
Death From Above 1979
Futureheads
Outkast
Primal Scream
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Secret Machines

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panda bear - dances lp / i'm not comfy in nautica ep
excepter - alternation lp / sunbomber ep
new ariel pink
i've heard people say things about new circulatory system ?
raccoo-oo-oon - sword heaven split 7" / split 12"
yeah radiohead definitely
pretty sure i heard something about a new frog eyes lp
hadn't heard about sonic youth ! that's neat
ciccone youth / thurston moore solo rereleases
liars - drum's not dead lp

etc!

Definintely Radiohead, Neko Case, Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, and Wilco. Also Fefe Dobson and The Faders (US release.) Any one know what state is next to be done by Sufjan Stevens? If it is a state?

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Originally posted by MattD:
Definintely Radiohead, Neko Case, Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, and Wilco. Also Fefe Dobson and The Faders (US release.) Any one know what state is next to be done by Sufjan Stevens? If it is a state?

There was talk about an Oregon Christmas record, but I imagine they'll wait until next year for that one. I also think he was working on Rhode Island and one other state I can't remember right now. Check the Sufjan thread in the Indie forum.

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Originally posted by nojax:
panda bear - dances lp / i'm not comfy in nautica ep
excepter - alternation lp / sunbomber ep
new ariel pink
i've heard people say things about new circulatory system ?
raccoo-oo-oon - sword heaven split 7" / split 12"
yeah radiohead definitely
pretty sure i heard something about a new frog eyes lp
hadn't heard about sonic youth ! that's neat
ciccone youth / thurston moore solo rereleases
liars - drum's not dead lp

etc!

i have the new ariel pink and raccoo-oo-oon.

Not sure how many of these will have releases next year-

Bevis Frond, Black Keys, The Raconteurs (or anything from the White Stripes), BBQ, Wilco, Neko Case, Son Volt/Jay Farrar, Flaming Lips, Surf Coasters, Femi Kuti, Keren Ann, Belle & Sebastian, The Strokes and the Neil Young box sets (maybe those should be listed as "anticipated before my death releases").

Thanks - I'll check out Sufjan's board.

aint modest mouse gonna come out with something?

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Originally posted by modestryan:

i have the new ariel pink and raccoo-oo-oon.

seriously ? awesome, are they on soulseek at all or ?

the panda ep is leaked already. the a side is kind of pretty but the b side is entirely outstanding

edit: oh wait, are you talking about ariel pink's house arrest ? i didn't realize that was getting rereleased, but yeah i've got that too. i heard somewhere that he was releasing a record with his first newly written material in like six years, but now i can't find where i saw it

I've heard final versions of some of the tracks off of The Strokes' new one, First Impressions of Earth. I know The Strokes catch a lot of flak for being derivative of not just bands like Television and The Velvet Underground, but themselves as well. However, I really enjoy their music and I'm happy to say that the new stuff sounds like they are finally willing to switch things up, if not quite as much as they could have. "Razor Blade" is a particularly excellent song, with chiming, cascading guitars and a nicely cathartic chorus (even if it does sound an awful lot like Barry Manilow's "Mandy", as Paste pointed out in their review). Middle Eastern rhythms, Motown beats, drunkenly swooning pop: there's a lot going on, and it should make for a very compelling listen come January.

the rest of this thread is meaningless as of now:

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