If 2010 is any indication of what we can expect from bands this coming year then by all means get excited, because last year was the best batch of releases of the past decade. Everyone keeps saying how hot releasing singles is for today’s music market, but there’s something to be said for a well thought out album, and there are many heavy hitters releasing what they hope to be huge hits for their fans. The list of 2011′s album releases below will undoubtedly be lacking quite a few names, so please put up with us as it is updated. We took the liberty of ordering our list from our most anticipated to, well, least anticipated…. but does that really mean anything?
1. Fleet Foxes – title TBA
2. M83 – title TBA
3. Explosions In The Sky – title TBA
4. Neon Indian – title TBA
5. Rival Schools – Pedals
6. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. (Sub Pop)
7. Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros.)
8. Firs – title TBA (Lujo Records)
9. Bon Iver – title TBA
10. Panda Bear – Tomboy
11. The Shins – title TBA
12. The Decemberists – The King Is Dead (Capitol Records)
13. Radiohead – title TBA (Internetz)
14. Cannons – title TBA
15. Beth Orton – title TBA
16. Cut Copy – Zonoscope (Modular Records)
17. La Sera – La Sera (Hardly Art)
18. Bluebrain – title TBA (Lujo Records)
19. My Morning Jacket – title TBA (ATO)
20. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (LL Recordings)
21. The Cave Singers – No Witch (Jagjaguwar)
22. Battles – title TBA
23. Fujiya & Miyagi – Ventriloquizzing (Yep Roc Records)
24. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong (Slumberland Records)
25. Telekinesis! – 12 Desperate Straight Lines (Merge Records)
26. MRENC – title TBA (Lujo Records)
27. Tape Deck Mountain – Secret Serf EP
28. The Streets – Computers And Blues
29. Shugo Tokumaru – Port Entropy (Polyvinyl Records)
30. The Mars Volta – title TBA
31. British Sea Power – Valhalla Dancehall (Rough Trade Records)
32. Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (Dead Oceans)
33. Jessica Lea Mayfield – Tell Me (Nonesuch)
34. The Duke Spirit – title TBA
35. The Wrens – title TBA
36. DeVotchKa – 100 Lovers (ANTI-)
37. Wild Flag – title TBA
38. The New Raemon - Epés Reunidos
39. WRSTLRS - title TBA (Lujo Records)
40. Black Lips – title TBA
41. The Get Up Kids – There Are Rules (via Quality Hill Records)
42. John Vanderslice – White Wilderness (Dead Oceans)
43. The Go! Team – Rolling Blackouts (Memphis Industries)
44. Deerhoof – Deerhoof Vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)
45. Jens Lekman – title TBA
46. Five O’Clock Heroes – Different Times (April via Profound Lore)
47. Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)
48. Peter, Bjorn And John – title TBA
49. The Kills – TBA
50. Aphex Twin – TBA
51. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Tao Of The Dead Part I: Tao Of the Dead (Richter Scale)
52. MEN – Talk About Body (IAMSOUND)
53. Matthew Friedberger – Solos (Thrill Jockey)
54. The Death Set – Michel Poiccard (Ninjatune)
55. Noah & The Whale – TBA (Mercury Records)
56. The Avalanches – TBA (Modular)
57. Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
58. Deerhoof – Deerhoof Vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)
59. Face To Face Laugh Now…Laugh Later
60. The Twilight Singers – Dynamite Steps ( Subpop)
61. Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine (Car Park)
62. Danielson – Best of Gloucester County (Sounds Familyre)
63. The Cars – title TBA
64. BRAIDS – Native Speaker (Kanine Records)
65. Ducktails – Ductails III: Arcade Dynamics (Woodsist)
66. Islands – title TBA
67. The Rome (Danger Mouse & Daniele Lupi)
68. Patrick Wolf – title TBA (Hideout)
69. Rush – Clockwork Angels
70. The Strokes – title TBA
71. R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now (Warner Bros.)
72. Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
73. The Lonely Island – title TBA
74. Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings (Carpark)
75. Esben & The Witch – Violet Cries (Matador)
76. White Lies – Ritual (Fiction)
77. Death House Chaplain – title TBA (Lujo Records)
78. The Dears – Degeneration Street
79. Ting Tings – Title TBA
80. Cobra Skulls – Bringing the War Home
81. Win Win – Win Win (Vice Records)
82. Beck – title TBA
83. The Luyas – Too Beautiful To Work (Dead Oceans)
84. Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
85. MINKS – By The Hedge (Captured Tracks)
86. Liturgy – TBA (Thrill Jockey)
87. The Good, The Bad, & The Queen – title TBA
88. Santigold – title TBA
89. STRKFKR
90. Coldplay – title TBA
91. Crystal Stilts – title TBA
92. The Republic of Wolves – The Cartographer EP
93. Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age
94. Cage The Elephant – Thank You, Happy Birthday
95. Social Distortion – Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
96. Tahiti 80 – The Past, The Present & The Possible
97. Gang of Four – Content
98. The Boxer Rebellion – The Cold Still
99. CAMPFIRE OK – Strange Like We Are
100. Cake – Showroom Of Compassion (Upbeat)
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