To carry over an idea from another thread, what releases coming out this fall or winter are you most excited about? I won't make this a poll, to allow people to drop in anything they want, but some suggestions include:

American Music Club: Music for Patriots
Camper Van Beethoven: New Roman Times
Interpol: Antics
Brian Wilson: SMiLE
REM: Around the Sun
Tom Waits: Real Gone
Eliot Smith: From a Basement on a Hill
U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb


Yeah...some of those aren't really "indie" but feel free to add your own choices. And some of them came out this week...so sue me!

Well, I usually find out about new albums from reading reviews (and the occasional download), so I rarely "anticipate" new albums. That being said, there is one long shot (and I do mean LONG) that theoretically could be released in winter 2005, that I've been waiting for.

Nine Inch Nails: bleedthrough

Yes, I know that the chances of a perfectionist like Trent Reznor releasing a new album within six months are slim, but a guy can dream, right?

As far as indie releases... um... let me get back to you.

kwakerjak

well, a lot of those releases you named aren't really what most people call indie. So let me hit you with a new album from one of the sweetest indies, Dischord:

Q AND NOT U - POWER

I had never really been too into them until I saw them at coachella and I was faced with their immense awesomilitude. This record is gonna be amazing from what I've heard.

Definitely can't wait to hear the new Ted Leo album.

I fear I have little original to add. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and Tom Waits top my list for the remainder of the year, so I'm in for a whole lotta instant gratification this month.

Aside from that, I'm actually looking forward to one reissue, the Left of the Dial box from Rhino you've mentioned elsewhere, pE. There isn't a lot there I haven't owned at one time or another, but quite a bit of it has dropped out of my collection over the years, so it should make for some fine nostalgia tripping.

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I second your excitement for Left of the Dial, which comes out tomorrow, I think. I'll have to use up some of my trade credits to get it, methinks. A lot of the stuff on it I have, but it'll be cool hearing it in the collected format. I love the transition in the punk box from Magazine to Elvis Costello to the New York Dolls to X-Ray Spex, so I expect more of the same...from XTC to Echo and the Bunnymen to Bad Brains to the Sugarcubes, according to the track listing.

After hearing the first single a few times, I pretty excited about U2's new one, although it certainly isn't very "indie." But U2 has remained a consistent favorite of mine over the years, and the upbeat rock sound of "Vertigo" is music to my ears...

i've heard a new Decemberists' album will be coming out this winter. if it builds on (or even equals) Her Majesty: The Decemberists i will be one happy fat dude.

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Aside from that, I'm actually looking forward to one reissue, the _Left of the Dial_ box from Rhino you've mentioned elsewhere, pE. There isn't a lot there I haven't owned at one time or another, but quite a bit of it has dropped out of my collection over the years, so it should make for some fine nostalgia tripping.

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After cashing in some trade credits (my boxes of trade bait are dwindling rapidly!), I finally picked up Left of the Dial and have been pleased with the results. I've got a lot of these tracks in my collection already, but there's quite a few I don't (Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized" butts up to the Cocteau Twins' "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops") that I'm glad to have. Hearing The Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion" after "Goo Goo Muck" by the Cramps is pretty wild...

The packaging is good, like the last set, with cool essays and capsule reviews of each of the songs. Some major oversights, I think, in the exclusion of early U2 (while including early R.E.M.), Big Black, The Go-Go's, and the Bangles (the latter two, according to the booklet, because they are more identified with their mainstream success, which is a cop out). And, given the rise of the "new Scottish gentry" (e.g.: Franz Ferdinand), why no Orange Juice or Josef K?

Minor quibbles, all. A great memory lane excursion. It might not have quite the relevance of the incredibly well-done No Thanks! punk box, but it's a really nicely done set. I hope Rhino keeps up the project...a good power pop box would be a great addition to the series.

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Q AND NOT U - POWER

I had never really been too into them until I saw them at coachella and I was faced with their immense awesomilitude. This record is gonna be amazing from what I've heard.

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Oooh...I didn't know they had a new album due out. Huh. And I too am a convert after seeing them live. They weren't on my radar until I saw them perform with Black Eyes about a year or so ago.