Savath y Savalas
The Predicate (Dub Version)
(Stones Throw)
Releasing: January [CD] Now [digital]

The Predicate (Dub Version) is a Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse 73) remix of his group’s La Llama, and if you find “Pavo Real Plucked” to your liking, you can pick up the digital pre-release over at Stones Throw.

SONG LIST
01 Adeu Salutation
02 Abri.l Closed
03 Pavo Real Plucked
04 Pajaros En Cadaques Shot
05 The Predicate and the Library
06 Me Voy and Resolved
07 La Loba Collection
08 There Is No Love in Your Heart
09 Me Voy Alone
10 Lamento Pobre Y Salida

Savath y Savalas
Pavo Real Plucked [MP3]
     

—Tyler Gould

Beach House
Teen Dream
(Sub Pop)
Releasing: 26 January

From their self-titled debut LP to 2008’s tragic Devotion, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scully have kept traction in the music world with a very direct and conscious goal: simplicity. By following this, Legrand’s seraphim pipes and Scully’s stealthy reverb keep Beach House as mystifying as ever. Now, the bedroom pop duo has the chance to break out, like friends Grizzly Bear, with their Sub Pop debut Teen Dream.  A standout track on Teen Dream is “Norway”, showing Beach House’s more rhythmic side.

SONG LIST
01 Zebra
02 Silver Soul
03 Norway
04 Walk in the Park
05 Used to Be
07 Lover of Mine
08 Better Times
09 10 Mile Stereo
10 Real Love
11 Take Care

Beach House
Teen Dream [MP3]
     

—Eleanore Catolico

Bonny Billy & the Picket Line
Funtown Comedown
(Drag City)
Releasing: 15 December

Will Oldham continues to wreak havoc on iPods everywhere, releasing an album as Bonny-with-a-y Billy with Kentucky bluegrass band the Picket Line. “Death to Everyone” won’t be on the album, but comes from the same live, in-studio session as everything else.

SONG LIST
01 Ohio River Boat Song
02 May It Always Be
03 Hemlocks and Primroses
04 The Glory Goes / Wolf Among Wolves
05 We All Us Three Will Ride
06 Easy Does It
07 Lay and Love
08 Rider
09 Rambling Fever
10 You Want That Picture
11 Idle Hands Are The Devil’s Playthings

Bonny Billy & the Picket Line
Death to Everyone [MP3]
     

—Tyler Gould

Toro Y Moi
Causers of This
(Carpark)
Releasing: 23 February

Toro Y Moi is Chaz Bundick. He just got signed to Carpark, who will release two of his albums next year, and you can already hear a great deal of material from the first of them below. He gets a lot of Animal Collective comparisons, surely due to all the beeps and bloops and such, but he’s working in a much more conventional songspace, inviting listeners to just sort of chill out.

SONG LIST
01 Blessa
02 Minors
03 Imprint After
04 Lissoms
05 Fax Shadow
06 Thanks Vision
07 Freak Love
08 Talamak
09 You Hid
10 Low Shoulders
11 Causers Of This

Toro Y Moi
Blessa [MP3]
     

Talamak [MP3]
     

—Tyler Gould

Wetdog
Frauhaus!
(Angular)
Releasing: 30 November

Angular guitar riffs. Angular guitar riffs. Angular guitar riffs. Any consumer of music criticism will know that there is surely no other way to describe this kind of song. It’s only fitting that Angular Records is putting out this album, which you can pre-order now, if it pleases you.

SONG LIST
01 Lower Leg
02 Trehorne Beach Song
03 Tidy Up Your Bedroom
04 Trees Fall
05 That Man Delivers Papers
06 Night Comes Down
07 Ethiopia
08 Wymmin’s Final
09 Fist Face
10 Snapper
11 Round Vox
12 Long Long Time To Go
13 Waiting List (intro)
14 New Year

—Tyler Gould

Morningbell
Sincerely, Severely
(Orange)
Releasing: 1 December

We thought Through the Belly of the Sea had a boatload of promise. See for yourself by buying some MP3s, streaming the album, or buying the disc when it comes out next month.

SONG LIST
01 Let’s Not Lose Our Heads
02 Marching Off To War
03 Hello, Dali
04 Soul Ma’am
05 Dancing In The Jaws Of A Lion
06 Stay In The Garden
07 The Blue Whale And The Fly
08 Sincerely, Severely
09 King Mango Strut
10 Pictures Of The Sun
11 Good Morning, I’m Here
12 Oh, Return
13 Shoot It Down
14 It Was All Mondays

—Tyler Gould