Most Anticipated Fall 2008 Albums

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Damn. I was hoping that The Fall were releasing more than one album in 2008.

Not mentioned here, but I'm very much looking forward to the new Euros Childs album "Cheer Gone", which should hopefully be out on September 15th.

oneone, barbara morgenstern, tara jane o'neil, howling hex records too. part two of the new erykah badu maybe? the first thing off the byrne/eno one's nice.

Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It (Sony) Sep 16

Of Montreal

TVOR and Deerhoof manly

...mainly

I'd say of the two, TVOTR are more manly, despite the fact that Kyp cut off all his hair and crazy beard. I think I've had a mancrush on Tunde since I saw him in the movie Jump Tomorrow, before I knew about the band.

It's odd how many people proudly declared that they don't care about any of the albums in the list. Should the board name change to I Love(d) Music?

or i hate indie?

"I would chose to listen to only music made in the past and no music to be made in the future 82
I would chose only to listen to music to be made in the future and no music from the past 33 "

It's odd how many people proudly declared that they don't care about any of the albums in the list. Should the board name change to I Love(d) Music?

You know, I like your end of the year lists sometimes, but this is just annoying. I would like to add my name to the list of those who don't care about any of the stuff on this list.

I would like to add my name to the list of those who don't care about any of the stuff on this list.

Good for you. As soon as I get the order in for the "2Kool4Skool" gold stars I'll let you know.

I was well aware that I left off a number of obscure and not so obscure releases. It was intentional, as people have complained about polls with too many choices. It's certainly not all indie, with plenty of metal and mainstream. There's no rap/hip-hop simply because I didn't know of any big ones coming up. By all means please mention those I missed.

But to say there's not a single album on the list not worth looking forward to, that's just typical reactionary poseur b.s. that should be beneath you.

Strike the redundant second not.

I don't where you get the idea there's any affectation involved. It's not even that long a list of albums, so it shouldn't be surprising that some people aren't excited by any of it.

You're just lucky there's no longer brick & mortar stores where you could be busted waiting in line at midnight for the Keane release.

I do miss the neighborhood Tower. I hazily remember seeing someone play a sort of late in-store, and then noticing people were forming a line. Turned out it was to be the first to buy Bjork's Homogenic, so I hopped in. I'd do that again, but I'd have to stop reading all the boards and music blogs as soon as the TVOTR is leaked so I'm not burned out by the hype, the dissections, and dismissals long before the release.

Like Radiohead, looks like Bloc Party is trying to avoid pre-release burnout with a sneak attack, with the surprise release of <a href=http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/08/18/bloc-party-announce-surprise-new-album-intimacy-due-august-21st/>;Intimacy</a>. Problem is the single "Mercury" is not that great, so I won't be buying this unheard.

Intimacy. Arg.

"It's odd how many people proudly declared that they don't care about any of the albums in the list. Should the board name change to I Love(d) Music?"

I didn't see The Grails, High Places, Jay Reatard, Crystal Antlers, Parenthetical Girls on that list. The upcoming Howling Hex album could be worth hearing.

Maybe you confused this for the I Love Anticipating Indie By Numbers board.

A cooler-than-thou sticker to you too, or maybe just the "annoyingly defensive" boobyprize. Grails came out in May. High Places and Crystal Antlers are debuts. Hard to anticipate if most people had never heard them yet. I don't really care about Jay Reatard, sue me. Paranthetical Girls actually sounds promising, but I didn't know about them.

Of those on the list, I am anticipating Grace Jones and Lambchop.

so I'm not burned out by the hype, the dissections, and dismissals long before the release.

OTM, this is the biggest drawback to most music forums on the internet. If you happen to be one of the few that waits to hear an album on/through its official release, you might have trouble finding someone to talk about it with on many forums. They'll have already moved on to the next high profile leak and be "so over" that one that leaked 4 months ago.

new TV on the Radio track Golden Age
http://www.tvontheradio.com/

sounding very Prince Sign o' the Times era

14. October will be fantastic. Keane, The Cure and Kaizer Chiefs on the same day. (And I believe Marit Larsen too)

I'm looking forward to the new Windy & Carl.

"A cooler-than-thou sticker to you too, or maybe just the "annoyingly defensive" boobyprize. Grails came out in May. High Places and Crystal Antlers are debuts. Hard to anticipate if most people had never heard them yet. I don't really care about Jay Reatard, sue me. Paranthetical Girls actually sounds promising, but I didn't know about them."

Really? Doomsdayer's Holiday came out in May? Guess their promos are pretty late. Somebody should tell the band, so they can abandon their plans to tour in November on it.

Crystal Antlers, I'll give you (mostly because it was easy enough to already buy a copy of the EP at any of their bazillion shows) and (as far as I know) it's just a re-issue. Jay Reatard's a reissue too, but I haven't heard a fair number of those singles, so I'm looking forward to it.

High Places have been touring pretty solidly for the last year or so too, which is why it's easy to anticipate their album.

But, y'know, fuck you anyway. You got all huffy when (GASP) people aren't that excited about Keane and the Kaiser Chiefs? Half the albums on your list are perfunctory entries from bands that barely justify googling +rapidshare. And to get all pissily dismissive of people who don't really care what the hell Robert Smith is up to these days as "cooler-than-thou" is reflexive poptimist relativism.

Finally, despite the fact that the front page of ILX is littered with them, an easy way to avoid arguments over which choices are valid and which you missed or should have left off is to not make every goddamned thread a fucking poll. Especially what could have been a nice, open-ended thread.

Alrighty. A zipless fuck right back atcha.

My intro to this poll read: If your favorite is missing, go ahead and mention it, without whining pretty please.

I thought that would be enough to keep it nice and open-ended. I don't like Keane and Kaiser Chiefs either, but I included them to keep lurking pop fans happy, and Hongro who is brave enough to not give a damn what pseudo-hipsters think. There's enough variety in that list that it's hard to believe anyone who likes music enough to be on this board full of anal-retentive persnickety crabcakes couldn't find one album they'd like to hear.

Crystal Antlers and High Places sound like they're probably great bands, but I'd guess you could count the number of people reading this thread who have seen their shows on one hand. I picked bands who already released albums and have fans who anticipate their next album.

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Looks like the Annie album has been delayed.

Annie (From Norway)

But no worries, Grails will have another six albums for your enjoyment by early 2009.

Still plenty of goodies to look forward to.

October 21
+ / – – Xs on Your Eyes (Absolutely Kosher)
AC/DC – Black Ice (EastWest)
Anni Rossi – Afton (4AD)
The Dears – Missles (Dangerbird)
Electric Six – Flashy (Metropolis)
El Guincho – Alegranza! (Young Turks/XL)
Future Clouds and Radar – Peoria (Tommy Boy)
Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna (The Social Registry)
Girl Talk – Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)
Hospital Ships – Oh, Ramona (Graveface)
Larkin Grimm – Parplar (Young God)
Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
Parts & Labor – Receivers (Jagjaguwar)
Pit Er Pat – High Time (Thrill Jockey)
Rank Deluxe – You Decide (Fat Cat)
The Sea and Cake – Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
Sebastian Grainger – Sebastien Grainger and the Mountains (Saddle Creek)
Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins – Clutch of the Tiger (Ubiquity)
Simon Bookish – Everything/Everything (Tomlab)

October 28
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – Cardinology (Lost Highway)
Bloc Party – Intimacy (Wichita)
The Cure – 4:13 Dream (Suretone/Geffen)
Deerhunter – Microcastle (4AD)
Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Wichita Recordings)
Matthew Herbert Big Band – There's Me and There's You (!K7)
O'Death – Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin (Kemado)
Optimo – Sleepwalk (Domino)
School of Seven Bells – Alpinisms (Ghostly International)
Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns (Geffen)
Squarepusher – Just a Souvenir (Warp)

November 4
Absentee – Victory Shorts (Memphis Industries)
All The Saints – Fire on Corridor X (Touch & Go)
The End of the World – French Exit (Flameshovel/Pretty Activity)
Hushpuppies – Silence Is Golden (Minty Fresh)
James Yorkston – When the Haar Rolls In (Domino)
Johann Johannsson – Fordlandia (4AD)
Grace Jones – Hurricane (Wall Of Sound)
The Lines – Flood Bank (reissue) (Acute)
Little Joy – Little Joy (Rough Trade)
Past Lives – Strange Symmetry (Suicide Squeeze)
Travis – Ode to J. Smith (Red Telephone Box/Fontana)
Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak (Roc–a–Fella/Def Jam)
White Denim – Exposion (Transmission Entertainment)
Wilderness – (k)no(w)here (Jagjaguwar)

November 11
Missy Elliott – Block Party (Atlantic)
Love Is All – A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (What's Your Rupture?)
Luomo – Convivial (Huume)
The Postmarks – By the Numbers (Unfiltered)
Max Tundra – Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino)

November 18
Amadou & Mariam – Welcome to Mali (Because Music UK)
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Sunday at Devil Dirt (V2)
Chris Cornell – Scream (Interscope)
Barbara Morgenstern – BM (Monika)
Senor Coconut – Around the World (Nacional)

November 25
The (International) Noise Conspiracy – Cross of My Calling (Vagrant/American Recordings)
Kid Sister – Dream Date (Downtown)
The Killers – Day & Age (Island)

December 9
Arrington De Dionyso – I See Beyond the Black Sun (K)
B. Fleischmann – Angst Is Not a Weltanschauung! (Morr Music)
Ciara – Fantasy Ride (LaFace)
Fire On Fire – The Orchard (Young God)
The Magnificents – Year of Explorers (Mush)
Welcome Wagon (Asthmatic Kitty)

Exact Date T.B.A.
Common – Universal Mind Control (Geffen)
Sigh – Scenes From Hell/Tempore Belli/Vanitas (The End)

November 11
Missy Elliott – Block Party (Atlantic)

November 18
Chris Cornell – Scream (Interscope)

pushed back to '09

November 4
Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak (Roc–a–Fella/Def Jam)

that date is 3 weeks off

Hammers Of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass (Profound Lore) Oct 27

Na Na Ni - Fredrik

In that list I am excited about Wilderness, (and of course Of Montreal's official release date).

I think we were spoiled in 2007 with good music, I don't see 2008 pulling off any last minute victories.

kind of excited for Simon Bookish, Max Tundra and Kanye.

On the "halfway through 2008" thread, I was complaining that there didn't seem to be too much good music this year - don't find that's true anymore. It's more like, all the ones I've anticipated have turned out to be pretty disappointing but on the whole, there's just been so much excellent music that's hit me sideways from all sorts of unexpected corners.