Summer Records
I’ve skimmed through Pitchfork’s list of upcoming Summer releases. Here’s the ones I’m hoping to hear:
Fennesz: Seven Stars EP [Touch]
Memory Tapes: Player Piano [Carpark]
Grooms: Prom [Kanine]
Washed Out: Within and Without [Sub Pop]
Pictureplane: Thee Physical [Lovepump United]
Machinedrum: Room(s) [Planet Mu]
The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient [Secretly Canadian]
Active Child: You Are All I See [Vagrant]
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter IV [Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown]
CSS: La Liberacion [V2/Cooperative/Downtown]
The Rapture: The Grace of Your Love [DFA]
Björk: Biophilia [One Little Indian/Nonesuch]
Drake: Take Care [Young Money]
M83: TBA [TBA]
Kanye West and Jay-Z: Watch the Throne [G.O.O.D.]
The names in bold are the ones I expect to go bananas over. Admittedly, I’m not fully excited about many of these; I’m hoping the best record of the rest of the year is something I’ve never heard of.