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1. Anna Calvi: s/t
Ripe with a classical sort of rock & roll drama -- fans of Nick Cave and certain PJ Harvey records take note -- Anna Calvi's debut, already causing waves in her native UK, hits U.S. shores. Cal...read more
2. The Antlers: Burst Apart
They won't be sneaking up on anybody anymore, so the Antlers wisely decide just to be more awesome. Their fourth (we think) album, Burst Apart builds on the singularly soulful indie-pop that mainma...read more
3. EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints
EMA is Erika M. Anderson, and she is already the most talked-about (sigh, okay -- blogged-about) new artist of 2011. Her old band Gowns released one darkly perfect album, Red State, in 2008, and th...read more
4. Boris: Attention Please
And for their second set (see also: Heavy Rocks), Boris will play it a little sultry. I mean, look at the cover; lead-guitarist Wata is all dolled up and she's playing it to the hilt, taking lead v...read more
5. Iceage: New Brigade
It kind of takes a lot these days to make the splash that Iceage has this year (or would "this month" be more appropriate?), but all of these things can help: being young, being handsome, being Dan...read more
6. Zomby: Dedication
At last, a dubstep album that flings the sound back to its sci-fi/underground roots. Dedication, Zomby's second album and first for 4AD -- the affiliation should catapult him to the top of contempo...read more
7. Gonjasufi: Muzzle
What's a "mini-album"? In the case of Muzzle, the new Gonjasufi record (which has a sticker declaring it to be this odd format), it's evidence that 24 (and a half) minutes is enough time to flow te...read more
8. Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral
On his first album in eight years (save for collaborations with Isobel Campbell), Mark Lanegan shows that the more things stay the same, the more they change: Nothing ever written about this guy wo...read more
9. The Twilight Sad: No One Can Ever Know
Restless as ever, the Twilight Sad break out into new stylistic ground on No One Can Ever Know, their third album. Enlisting the aid of producer and techno-wizard Andrew Weatherall, the band has cr...read more
10. Xiu Xiu: Always
There is no such thing as a casual Xiu Xiu fan -- Jamie Stewart's music is just too intense for that to be possible, and for proof, the cover of Always is a tattoo of band and album name on some un...read more