Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth (2009)

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Beast Rest Forth Mouth, received the "Best New Music" award from Pitchfork Media, with the reviewer stating: "Beast Rest Forth Mouth is as familiar-feeling as it is difficult to pinpoint. Mostly made up of textural, spacious three- to four-minute pop anthems with towering choruses, BRFM is a welcome reminder that an album doesn't have to be bombastic to feel huge and important. Take out the earbuds and let it fill a space: This is music that's bigger than your iPod—music you'll want to feel all around you. Though not quite coming out of nowhere, BRFM seems like a surprise gift—a striking consolidation of the spiky psych-prog tendencies of their debut into a pop framework."

Jónsi - Boy Lilikoi from Go; out 03/23/10

Free download at http://jonsi.com/

Pitchfork 8
"The first track to be heard from Sigur Rós leader Jónsi Birgisson's debut solo LP is the soundtrack to animated glory; its overflowing strings, flutes, guitars, background vocals, drums, and more provide the perfect puffy clouds, Jónsi's voice colors the scene."

Tubelord - Our First American Friends (2009)

Tubelord-Propeller Music Video from Nicos Livesey on Vimeo.
Tubelord's sound has been described as “Pop song for Rock Kids”, and is characterized by their carefully balanced mixture of heavy abrasive instrumentation and Significant Melodic Pop sensibilities which are brought together in simple but constantly progressing song structure which incorporates very raw, at times dissonant, rock instrumentation and odd time signatures.
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Julian Plenti - Is... Skyscraper (2009)

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Mysterious NYC singer-songwriter Paul Banks of Interpol returns from several years of hibernation with his debut album. Featuring Mike Stroud of Ratatat, Sam Fogarino of Interpol, Charles Burst of the Occasion and Striker Manley of Stiff Jesus, this incredibly varied album runs the gamut from gorgeous folk-tinged acoustic songs to huge, orchestral guitar anthems.

Stereogum's 25 Most Aniticipated Albums of 2010

Yeasayer - Odd Blood -February 9th

Vampire Weekend - Contra- January 12th

The Avalanches - TBA
Hot Chip - One Life Stand - February 9th

Magnetic Fields - Realism - January 26th
Beach House - Teen Dream - January 26th

Spoon - Transference - January 19th
The National - TBA
Liars - Sisterworld - March 8th
Ted Leo - The Brutalist Bricks - Spring
Toro y moi - Causers Of This - February 23rd

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck - IRM - January 26th
Four Tet - There Is Love In You - January 26th
MGMT - Congratulations - Spring
Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring - January 26th
LCD Soundsystem - TBA - March
Panda Bear - TBA
Interpol - early 2010
Midlake - The Courage of Others - February 1st
The Hold Steady - TBA
Final Fantasy - Heartland - January 12th
Joanna Newsom - TBA
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks - March 1st

Massive Attack - Heligoland - February 9th
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast - January 19th