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Available May 14
BOBBY McFERRON Spirityouall (w/ Esperanza Spalding) (Sony Masterworks)
CLASSIXX Hanging Gardens (Innovative Leisure)
DUNGEONESSE (Jenn Wasner) Dungeonesse (Secretly Canadian)
GOLD & YOUTH Beyond Wilderness (Arts & Crafts)
GRETA GAINES Lighthouse & The Impossible Love (independent)
JOHN GRANT Pale Green Ghosts (Partisan)
KINGS OF LEON The Collection Box (4 disc/1 DVD box set) (Legacy)
LAURA MVULA Sing To The Moon (Columbia)
MARK LANEGAN & DUKE GARWOOD Black Pudding (Ipecac)
LITTLE GREEN CARS Absolute Zero (Glassnote)
MS MR (aka Lizzy Plapinger & Max Hershenow) Secondhand Rapture (Columbia)
PETER ROWAN The Old School (Compass)
RANDALL BRAMBLETT The Bright Spots (New West)
R.E.M. Green: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2-disc set w/ concert) (Rhino)
SAM AMIDON Bright Sunny South (Nonesuch)
SCOTT TOURNET (w/ Grace Potter) Ver La Luz (independent)
SMALL BLACK Limits of Desire (Jagjaguwar)
TEA LEAF GREEN In The Wake (Greenhouse/Thirty Tigers)
THE BOXER REBELLION Promises (INgrooves/Fontana)
THE DEAR HUNTER Migrant (Equal Vision/Cave & Canary Goods)
THE HANDSOME FAMILY Wilderness (Carrot Top)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND Modern Vampires of the City (XL/Beggars) - READ Mike V's Review

Available May 21
BETH HART/JOE BONAMASSA Seesaw (J&R Adventures)
BRONCHO (pronounced "brawn-SHOW") Can't Get Past the Lips (Fairfax)
CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN' RACKETTES Baby Caught The Bus (Vanguard)
DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories (Columbia)
EMMA LOUISE vs Head vs Heart (French Kiss)
INDIGENOUS Vanishing Americans (Blues Bureau Intl)
JAMES McCARTNEY Me (ECR Music)
JAMIE CULLUM Momentum (Island)
JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND Howl (Bloodshot)
JEFFREY FOUCALT & COLD SATELLITE Calvalcade (Signature Sounds)
JUDE JOHNSTONE Shatter (Bojak)
PAT METHENY Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 20 (Nonesuch)
THE BAPTIST GENERALS Jackleg Devotional to the Heart (Sub Pop)
THE BEACH BOYS Live: The 50th Anniversery Tour (CD/DVD) (Capitol)
THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES Forward (Shanachie)
THE FRONT BOTTOMS Talon of the Hawk (Bar/None)
THE NATIONAL Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
THE ROLLING STONES Crossfire Hurricane (documentary film) (DVD/Blu-Ray)(Eagle Rock Ent)
THE SOURCE FAMILY The Source Family (documentary OST) (Drag City)

Available May 28
BATHS Obsidian (Anticon)
CLAIRE LYNCH Dear Sister (Compass)
CRYSTAL FIGHTERS Cave Rave (Atlantic)
DELLA MAE This World Oft Can Be (Rounder/CMG)
EMILY BELL In Technicolor (One-Eyed George Ent)
IMAGINERY CITIES Fall of Romance (Votiv)
JOHN FOGERTY (duets album f/ Dave Matthews, My Morning Jacket, Dawes, Foo Fighters & more) Wrote A Song For Everyone (Vanguard)
LAURA MARLING Once I Was An Eagle (Ribbon/Domino)
PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS Wings Over America (Deluxe re-issue of epic 1976 concert in 4-disc box set DVD/Blu-Ray) (includes extra SF Cow Palace live tracks and 1980 Wings concert video "Rockshow") (Hear Music)
POPA CHUBBY Universal Breakdown Blues (Provogue/Mascot)
REBECCA FRAZIER When We Fall (Compass)
STEPHEN STILLS & KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Can't Get Enough (429/SLG)
TERENCE BLANCHARD Magnetic (Blue Note)
THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Yes, It's True. (1st studio album of new material since 2007) (Good Records)
TIJUANA PANTHERS Semi Sweet (Innovative Leisure)
TOMMY & THE HIGH PILOTS Only Human (independent)
TRICKY False Idols (False Idols)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Stuck in Love (f/ Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott from Bright Eyes w/ new songs by Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott) (Varese Sarabande)

Available June 4
BARENAKED LADIES Grinning Streak (Vanguard)
CAMERA OBSURA Desire Lines (5th studio album) (4AD)
ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER (of The Fiery Furnaces) Personal Record (2nd solo) (Merge)
ERIC TAYLOR Studio 10 (Blue Ruby Music)
HOUNDMOUTH From The Hills Below The City (Rough Trade)
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Like Clockwork (Matador)
ROGUE WAVE Nightingale Floors (Vagrant)
THE OLMS The Olms (Harvest/Caroline)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Ryan Bingham, Kris Kristofferson) Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (OST to musical by John Mellencamp/Stephen King/T Bone Burnett) (Hear Music/CMG)
 
Available June 11
AOIFE O' DONOVAN Fossils (Yep Roc)
EMILY WELLS Mama Acoustic Recordings (Partisan)
JASON ISBELL Southeastern (Southeastern/Thirty Tigers)
JOSEPH ARTHUR The Ballad Of Boogie Christ (Lonely Astronaut)
GOO GOO DOLLS Magnetic (Warner Bros)
LILY & MADELEINE The Weight of the Globe (Asthmatic Kitty)
MELISSA FERRICK The Truth Is (w/ guests Paula Cole, Natalie Zukerman) (MPress)
SMITH WESTERNS Soft Will (Mom+Pop)
SONNY & THE SUNSETS Antenna to the Afterworld (Polyvinyl)
STEPHEN KELLOGG Blunderstone Rookery (Elm City Music)
SURFER BLOOD Pythons (Warner Bros)
WALTER TROUT & HIS BAND Luther's Blues (Provogue/Mascot)

Available June 18
EDITORS An End Has A Start (Epic/Fader)
LOU DOILLON Places (Verve)
SIGUR ROS Kveikur (Beggars)
SLAID CLEAVES Still Fighting The War (Music Road)
SPACEHOPPER Tripwires (French Kiss)

Available June 25
ALELA DIANE About Farewell (4th studio album) (Rusted Blue)
EWERT AND THE TWO DRAGONS Good Man Down (Sire/ADA)
JILLETE JOHNSON Water In a Whale (Wind-Up)
KENDRA MORRIS Mockingbird (Wax Poetic)
MAVIS STAPLES (produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy) One True Vine (Anti-)
ROSE WINDOWS The Sun Dogs (Sub Pop)
TREETOP FLYERS The Mountain Moves (Partisan)

Available July 2
BELL X1 Chop Chop (BellyUp)

Available July 9
DAUGHN GIBSON Me Moan (Sub Pop)

Available July 16
BITCHIN BAJAS Bitchitronic (Drag City)
GAUNTLET HAIR Stills (Dead Oceans)
MATT NATHANSON Last of the Great Pretenders (Vanguard)
ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND Lickety Split (first studio album in 3 years) (Blue Note)
ZUCCHERO La Sesión Cubana (Decca)

Available July 23
GOGOL BORDELLO Pura Vida Conspiracy (ATO)
GRANT HART (Hüsker Dü drummer) The Argument (2-disc) (Domino)
GUY CLARK My Favorite Picture of You (Dualtone)
MEAN LADY Love Now (Fat Possum)

Available July 30
MICHAEL FRANTI All People (8th studio album) (Capitol)
T. HARDY MORRIS Audition Tapes (Dangerbird)

Available August 6

KT TUNSTALL Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon (Blue Note)
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS Give The People What They Want (Daptone)

Available August 20
LITTLE COMETS Life Is Everywhere (Dualtone)
SARAH NEUFIELD (debut solo from Arcade Fire violinist) Hero Brother (Constellation)

ALREADY IN STORES

Available February 26
ALICE RUSSELL To Dust (independent)
ATOMS FOR PEACE Amok (Radiohead Thom Yorke's sideproject w/ Flea) (XL)
BEAUSOLEIL AVEC MICHAEL DOUCET From Bamako to Carencro (Compass)
BILAL A Love Surreal (independent)
BOY Mutual Friends (Nettwerk)
BRONCHO Can't Get Past The Lips (Fairfax)
DREW HOLCOMB & THE NEIGHBORS Good Light (Good Times)
EL SPORTIVO & THE BLOOZ Nights And Weekends (White Iris)
EMMYLOU HARRIS/RODNEY CROWELL Old Yellow Moon (Nonesuch)
GIRLS NAMES The New Life (Slumberland)
GOLD FIELDS Black Sun (Astralwerks)
GRIFFIN HOUSE Balls (Evening Records)
HOLLY WILLIAMS Highway (Georgiana)
JESSE DEE On My Mind/In My Heart (Alligator)
JOAN ARMATRADING Starlight (429/SLG)
JOHNNY MARR The Messenger (Sire/Warner Bros)
JUSTIN HAYWARD Spirits of the Western Sky (Eagle Rock)
MISTER LIES Mowgli (Lefse)
MOUNT MORIAH Miracle Temple (Merge)
POPSTRANGERS Antipodes (Carpark)
RON SEXSMITH Forever Endeavour (Cooking Vinyl)
SHOUT OUT LOUDS Optica (Merge)
THE CIVIL WARS & T BONE BURNETT A Place at the Table (OST) (Sensibility Music)
THE JAMES HUNTER SIX Minute By Minute (CMG)
THE LIONS This Generation (Stones Throw)
THE MAVERICKS In Time (Valory)

Available March 5
BOW THAYER AND PERFECT TRAIN WRECK Eden (independent)
BOZ SCAGGS Memphis (429/SLG)
CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING (Thurston Moore) Chelsea Light Moving (Matador)
DAN CROLL The From Nowhere EP (LAVA/Republic)
DUANNE ALLMAN Skydog: The Duane Allman Restrospective (7-disc set includes Allman Brothers and Derek & The Dominos and rare recordings of his early bands) (Rounder/CMG)
GURF MORLIX Finds The Present Tense (guests Ian McLagan, Eliza Gilkyson, Ray Bonneville) (Rootball)
HEY MARSEILLES Lines We Trace (Onto/Thirty Tigers)
HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS (Trent Reznor band) Welcome Oblivion (Columbia)
JAVELIN Hi Beams (Luaka Bop)
JIMI HENDRIX People, Hell and Angels (Legacy)
JOHN MURRY The Graceless Age (Evangeline)
JOSH RITTER The Beast In Its Tracks (Pytheas)
KATE NASH Girl Talk (Have 10p)
POCO All Fired Up (Drifter's Church)
RHYE Woman (Republic)
ROBYN HITCHCOCK Love From London (Yep Roc)
THE MEN New Moon (Sacred Bones)
SHANNON WHITWORTH High Tide (w/ Band of Horses bass player Bill Reynolds) (Blue Mermaid)
SIRSY Coming Into Frame (Funzalo)
STILL CORNERS Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop)
SON VOLT Honky Tonk (6th studio album) (Rounder/CMG)
THE CAVE SINGERS Naomi (Jagjaguwar)
THE HOWLING BROTHERS Howl (produced by Brendan Benson) (Readymade/Thirty Tigers/RED)
THE 1975 Music For Cars (EP) (Vagrant)
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Nanobots (Idlewild)
TODD SNIDER (live compilation) Happy New Year (Vol. 1) (Aimless)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Larry Kirwan's Celtic Invasion (compilation features the Black 47 frontman's favorite bands from his SiriusXM "Celtic Crush" radio show including The Waterboys, Runrig, Black 47, Barleyjuice, Blaggards, Garrahan's Ghost) (Valley Entertainment)
WATER LIARS (aka Justin Kinkel-Schuster & Andrew Bryant) Wyoming (Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum Records)
YOUTH LAGOON Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum)

Available March 12
AMOS LEE Live from The Artists Den (at the Fox Theatre in Tucson) (2-CD/DVD w/ 2 unreleased tracks) (EMI/Blue Note)
DAVID BOWIE The Next Day (Iso/Columbia)
CAITLIN ROSE The Stand-In (ATO)
DEVANDRA BANHART Mala (Nonesuch)
ERIC CLAPTON Old Sock (21st studio album includes collaboration w/ Paul McCartney) (Bushbranch/Surfdog)
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS More Than Just A Dream (Atlantic)
GOLDEN GRRRLS Golden Grrrls (Slumberland)
HAPPY CHICHESTER Torchwood Loop (Popfly Music)
HEATHER MALONEY Heather Maloney (Signature Sounds)
JAMIE N COMMONS Rumble And Sway (Interscope)
SHOOTER JENNINGS The Other Life (Ent One Music)
THE DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS platinum Gospel (Sonorous Ent)
THE VIRGINS Strike Gently (Cult/Frenchkiss)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Dave Grohl, Stevie Nicks, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffeel) Sound City - Real to Reel (OST) (RCA)
WATSKY Cardboard Castles (Vanguard)
WILD BELLE Isles (Columbia)

Available March 19
ALPHA REV Bloom (Kirtland)
ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER Child Ballads (Wilderland/Thirty Tigers)
BILLY BRAGG Tooth and Nail (Essential Music)
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB Specter at the Feast (Abstract Dragon/Vagrant)
BRITTANY HOWARD (Alabama Shakes)/RUBY AMANFU "I Wonder" b/w "When My Man Comes Home" (Third Man)
JOSH ROUSE The Happiness Waltz (Yep Roc)
KAIL BAXLEY HeatStroke/The Wind And The War (independent)
LOW The Invisible Way (produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy) (Sub Pop)
MARNIE STERN The Chronicles of Narnia (Kill Rock Stars)
PHOSPHORESCENT Muchacho (Dead Oceans)
SIMONE DINNERSTEIN/TIFT MERRITT Night (Sony Classical)
THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS On The Verge (Severn)
THE VIRGINS Strike Gently (Cult)
WALK OFF THE EARTH R.E.V.O. (Columbia)
WILLIAM TYLER Impossible Truth (Compass)

Available April 2
ALKALINE TRIO My Shame Is True (Epitaph)
BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI Ba Jama Ko (Outhere)
BARREN GIRLS Hell Hymns (EP) (Merge)
BETH HART Bang Bang Boom Boom (independent)
BLEACHED Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
BOMBINO Nomad (produced by Dan Auerbach) (Nonesuch)
BONOBO The North Borders (Ninja Tune)
CHARLES BRADLEY Victim of Love (Dunham/Daptone)
COLD WAR KIDS Dear Miss Lonely Hearts (Downtown)
DEAD CAN DANCE Children Of The Sun (PIAS)
GENERATIONALS Heza (Polyvinyl)
JOHN GRANT GMF (Greatest Living Creature) (Partisan)
JOSH KRAJCIK Blindly, Lonely, Lovely hits (BMG)
LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES Repeat After Me (Nacional)
MAD SEASON (f/ Mark Lanegan) Above (from sessions for unreleased 2nd album) (Columbia/Legacy)
MUDHONEY Vanishing Point (Sub Pop)
PETULA CLARK Lost In You (theEND)
TELEKINESIS Dormarion (Merge)
THE BESNARD LAKES Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO (Jagjaguwar)
THE BLACK ANGELS Indigo Meadow (Blue Horizon)
THE FLAMING LIPS The Terror (Warner Bros)
THE KOPECKY FAMILY BAND Kids Raising Kids (ATO)
THE LEISURE SOCIETY Alone Abroad The Ark (PIAS)
THE LONELY WILD The Sun As It Comes (Ursa Major/Thirty Tigers)
THE WHEELER BROTHERS Gold Boots Glitter (Bismeaux)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (John Prine, Delbert McClinton, Dolly Parton & more) Unsung Hero: A Tribute To The Music Of Ron Davies (independent)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Dave Matthews, My Morning Jacket, Amos Lee, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Brandi Carlile & Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Kathleen Edwards, Sharon Van Etten, Evan Dando & more) The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver (ATO)
WILLIS EARL BEAL Acousmatic Sorcery (Hot Charity/XL)

Available April 9
BROADHEDS Broadheds (Dangerbird)
DAWES Stories Don't End (HUB)
DEADSTRING BROTHERS Cannery Row (Bloodshot)
JAKE BUGG Jake Bugg (Mercury)
JAMES BLAKE Overgrown (Republic)
JP Son Of Jack (w/ Chrissie Hynde) (429)
KEATON HENSON Birthdays (Anti-)
KURT VILE Wakin' On a Pretty Daze (Matador)
OMD English Electric (BMGRM)
PLAIN WHITE T's Should've Gone to Bed (4-track digital-only EP) (Hollywood)
RONNIE EARL AND THE BROADCASTERS Just For Today (Stony Plain)
ROKIA TRAORE Beautiful Africa (Nonesuch)
THE KNIFE Shaking The Habitual (Mute)
THE POSTAL SERVICE (w/ Ben Gibbard) Give Up (Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition) (Sub Pop)
THE PROCLAIMERS Like Comedy (429)
TODD RUNDGREN State (Esoteric/Antenna)
VILLAGERS Awayland (Domino)
YOUNG MAN Beyond Was All Around Me (French Kiss)

Available April 16
AMY SPEACE How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat (Wind Bone)
ANA POPOVIC Can You Stand The Heat (independent)
ANDREW WYATT (Miike Snow frontman) Descender (Downtown)
CARLA BRUNI Little French Songs (Verve)
DAVID GRUBBS The Plain Where The Place Stood (Drag City)
FALL OUT BOY Save Rock and Roll (Island)
FUTUREBIRDS Baba Yaga (Fat Possum)
HOUSES A Quiet Darkness (Downtown)
IRON & WINE Ghost on Ghost (Nonesuch)
JJ GREY & MOFRO This River (Alligator)
JONNY FRITZ Dad Country (ATO)
KIM RICHEY Thorn In My Heart (Yep Roc)
LISA BIALES I'm Singing in My Soul (Big Song Music)
MEAT PUPPETS Rat Farm (14th studio album) (Megaforce)
NORA JANE STRUTHERS & THE PARTY LINE Carnival (Blue Pig Music)
SHINYRIBS (f/ The Gourds' Kevin Russell) Gulf Coast Museum (NMR)
SHUGGIE OTIS Inspiration Information (2-disc reissue of 1974 classic album) (Epic/Legacy)
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (AND DUTCHESSES) The Low Highway (New West)
THE GREYBOY ALLSTARS Inland Emperor (independent)
THE SHOUTING MATCHES (Justin Vernon sideproject) Grownass Man (Middle West)
THE STEEL WHEELS No More Rain (independent)
THE THERMALS Desperate Ground (Saddle Creek)
THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS Mosquito (co-produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio) (Interscope)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Teddy Thompson, Robyn Hitchcock, Lisa Hannigan & more) Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake (StorySound)
WILLIE NELSON Let's Face the Music and Dance (covers of pop and country standards) (Legacy)

Available April 23
CALEXICO Spiritoso (live) (Anti-)
FRANK TURNER Tape Deck Heart (Xtra Mile/Interscope)
JERRY MILLER New Road Under My Wheels (Signature Sounds)
JUNIP Junip (Mute)
K-os (w/ Sam Roberts, The Root's Black Thought, Metric's Emily Haines, Corey Hart) Black On Blonde (Crown Loyalist/Nettwerk)
LILACS & CHAMPAGNE Danish & Blue (Mexican Summer)
LORI McKENNA Massachusetts (independent)
PAULA COLE Raven (independent)
PHOENIX Bankrupt! (Glassnote)
STEVE MARTIN/EDIE BRICKELL Love Has Come For You (Rounder/CMG)
THE BILLS Yes Please (Red House)
THE BREEDERS Last Splash: 20th Anniversary Edition (includes B sides, EP tracks and live versions) (4AD/Beggars)
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD I Love You. (Columbia)
THE VEILS Time Stays, We Go (Rough Trade)
TOM JONES Spirit in the Room (Rounder/CMG)
YOUNG GALAXY Ultramarine (Paper Bag)

Available April 30
ALICE RUSSELL To Dust (Tru Thoughts)
AKRON/FAMILY Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
ANNA BERGENDAHL Something To Believe In (Decca)
CAYUCAS Bigfoot (Secretly Canadian)
!!! (pronounced "Chk Chk Chk") Thr!!!er (Warp)
DENISON WITNER Denison Witner (Asthmatic Kitty)
GUIDED BY VOICES English Little League (Fire)
HANDS Synesthesia (Kill Rock Stars)
HANNI EL KHATIB (produced by the Black Key's Dan Auerbach) Head In The Dirt (Innovative Leisure)
IGGY POP & THE STOOGES Ready To Die (Fat Possum)
KEATON SIMONS Beautiful Pain (Best Revenge)
SERENA RYDER Harmony (Capitol)
SHANNON McNALLY f/ DR. JOHN (w/ guests Vince Gill, Derek Trucks, Luther Dickinson) Small Town Talk: The Songs of Bobby Charles (Sacred Sumac)
SNOOP LION Reincarnated (RCA)
SPIN DOCTORS If The River Was Whiskey (Ruf)
THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT Such Hot Blood (Island/IDJMG)
THE WEEKS Dear Bo Jackson (Serpents & Snakes/Thirty Tigers/RED)
VANDAVEER Oh, Willie, Please (independent)
YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE Wake Up (Republic)

Available May 7
CASSIE TAYLOR Out Of My Mind (Yellow Dog)
DAILY & VINCENT Brothers of the Highway (Rounder)
DEERHUNTER Monomania (4AD/Beggars)
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS More Than Just A Dream (Dangerbird/Elektra/Atlantic)
JAMES COTTON Cotton Mouth (w/ guests Greg Allman, Ruthie Foster, Warren Haynes & more) (Alligator)
JAMES MADDOCK Another Life (independent)
JOE SATRIANI Unstoppable Momentum (Epic)
JOSHUA RADIN Wax Wings (Glass Bead Music)
JOSHUA REDMAN Walking Shadows (Nonesuch)
MATT HIRES This World Won't Last Forever, But Tonight We Can Pretend (Atlantic)
MIKAL CRONIN MCII (Merge)
MOTHER FALCON You Knew (independent)
NATALIE MAINES Mother (debut solo album for Dixie Chick co-produced by Ben Harper) (Columbia)
PATTY GRIFFIN American Kid (1st album of original material since '07) (New West) - READ Mike V's Review
RILO KILEY Rkives (unreleased songs, b-sides, and rarities) (Little Record Company)
ROD STEWART Time (Capitol)
RUTH MOODY (w/ Mark Knopfler, Jerry Douglas & Crooked Still's Aoife O'Donovan) These Wilder Things (Red House)
SHE & HIM (aka Zooey Deshanel and M. Ward) Volume 3 (Merge)
SAVAGES Silence Yourself (Matador)
THE CHILD OF LOV (Cole Williams) The Child Of Lov (co-produced by Damon Albarn) (Double Six)
THE MELVINS Everybody Loves Sausages (covers album) (Lpecac)
VAN DYKE PARKS Songs Cycled (Bella Union)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Jack White/Florence + The Machine/Emile Sande & more) Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film: The Great Gatsby (Interscope)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Charlie Musslewhite, Mark Hummel & more) Remembering Little Walter (Blind Pig)
WE ARE LOUD WHISPERS Suchness (Hardly Art)

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