Before we kickstart our end of the year review, let’s have a last minute edition of our loop, anticipating the most interesting new releases announced for the first months of the New Year and featuring previews of long awaited debuts from artists who generated a strong buzz during 2011, headed by Lana Del Rey, whose first album to be released in January, feels a bit rushed out trying to cash on the enormous success of ‘Video Games’. Frank Ocean; Azealia Banks; A$ap Rocky and Friends are also being tipped for big things in many sound of 2012 forecasts.
Among the big returns, Leonard Cohen will launch his twelfth studio album, ‘Old Ideas’, Lambchop, Leila & Raekwon also got new material ready and Sharon Van Etten; Gonjasufi; Cities Aviv; Perfume Genius and Field Music are generously giving away new tracks previewing their respective new efforts. Mark Lanegan Band; Shearwater or School Of Seven Bells arrived too late to be included, but they will certainly be making waves too.
Check this week’s special edition after the jump.
| 1-LANA DEL REY Born To Die (Universal) |
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| 2-FRANK OCEAN Back (Universal) |
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| 3-LEONARD COHEN Show Me The Place (Columbia) |
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| 4-AZEALIA BANKS Grand Scam (Self-Released) |
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| 5-A$AP ROCKY Peso (Star Slinger Remix) (Self-Released) Download |
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| 6-CHAIRLIFT Met Before (Columbia) |
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| 7-SHARON VAN ETTEN Serpents (Jagjaguwar) Download |
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| 8-LAMBCHOP If Not I'll Just Die (City Slang) Download |
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| 9-TENNIS Deep In The Woods (Forest Family) |
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| 10-PORCELAIN RAFT Put Me To Sleep (Secretly Canadian) |
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| 11-ACTRESS Rainy Dub (Honest Jon's) |
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| 12-GONJASUFI Nickels & Dimes (Warp) Download |
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 | 13-LEILA (disappointed cloud) Anyway (Warp) Download |
| 14-DAMIEN JURADO Nothing Is The News (Secretly Canadian) |
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| 15-NEW BUILD Misery Loves Company (Lanark) Stream |
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| 16-BLACK STAR You Already Knew (Self-Released) |
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| 17-SOKO I Thought I Was An Alien (Nowness) |
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| 18-SHANELL FEAT. LIL WAYNE & DRAKE So Good (Cash Money) |
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| 19-MOUNT EERIE Dystorted Cymbals (K Records) |
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| 20-THE BIG PINK Hit The Ground (Superman) (4AD) |
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| 21-CITIES AVIV Wet Dream (Self-Released) Download |
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| 22-FIELD MUSIC (I Keep Thinking About A New Thing) A New You (Memphis Industries) Download |
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| 23-JONSI Gathering Stories (Columbia) |
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| 24-DOMO GENESIS IDGAF (OFWGKTA) |
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| 25-RAEKWON FEAT. CAPONE-N-NOREAGA Chupacabra (Self-Released) Download |
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| 26-EXPENSIVE LOOKS Nothing More (Self-Released) Download |
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| 27-MARVELOUS DARLINGS I Don't Want To Go The Party (Self-Released) Download |
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| 28-DAFT PUNK FEAT. TRS-80 & ARIEL PINK Star Sailor (Float Away (EP) (Vynil International) |
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 | 29-TALL FIRS Crooked Smiles (ATP) Stream |
| 30-BROWN BREAD & VAN HOLT Why Are You So Damn Agreable? (Self-Released) |
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| 31-FRIENDS My Boo (Lucky Number) |
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| 32-PERFUME GENIUS All Waters (Matador) Download |
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| 33-GABRIEL BRUCE Sleep Paralysis (Off Modern) |
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| 34-BLEACHED Electric Chair (Suicide Squeeze) |
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| 35-CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG FEAT. BECK Paradisco (Because) Download Azari & III Remix |
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| 36-AIR FEAT. VICTORIA LEGRAND Seven Stars (Source) Download |
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| 37-A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS So Far Away (Onwards To The Wall EP) (Dead Oceans) |
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| 38-MATTHEW DEAR Headcage (Ghostly) Listen |
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9qDXmFOJWQ | 39-VCMG Spock (Mute) |
| 40-BOWERBIRDS Tuck The Darkness In (Dead Oceans) |
An extended selection of our current favourite tracks can be heard @ our hype machine page.