Most Anticipated Fall 2008 Albums

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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.