Radar 2012

Below is a complete list of the releases that I had my eye on in 2012.

01-01

Guided by Voices: Let's Go Eat the Factory [Fire/GBV]

01-06
Male Bonding / EMA: "Aneurysm" / "Endless Nameless" 7" split [Rough Trade Shops/Sub Pop]

01-10
Nirvana: Live at the Paramount [Geffen]
Snow Patrol: Fallen Empires [Fiction/Interscope]

01-17
The Big Pink: Future This [4AD]

01-24
First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar [Wichita]
Gonjasufi: MU.ZZ.LE [Warp]

01-31
The Doozer: Keep It Together [Woodsist]
Golden Calves: Collection: Money Band + Century Band [Woodsist]
Imperial Teen: Feel the Sound [Merge]
Lana Del Rey: Born to Die [Polydor]
Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas [Columbia]

02-07
Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral [4AD]
Mount Eerie: "Distorted Cymbals" 7" [K]
Of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks [Polyvinyl]
Sharon Van Etten: Tramp [Jagjaguwar]

02-14
Islands: A Sleep & A Forgetting [Anti]
Sleigh Bells: Reign of Terror [Mom + Pop Music]

02-21
Archers of Loaf: VeeVee [Merge] (Reissue)
Cursive: I Am Gemini [Saddle Creek]
No Age: Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century's Identity Crisis LP [Post Present Medium]

02-28
Memoryhouse: The Slideshow Effect [Sub Pop]
Pink Floyd: The Wall ("Experience" Reissue) [EMI]
Pink Floyd: The Wall ("Immersion" Reissue) [EMI]

03-06
Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself [Mom + Pop]
Magnetic Fields: Love at the Bottom of the Sea [Merge]

03-16
The Shins: Port of Morrow [Columbia/Aural Apothecary]

04-03
Lotus Plaza: Spooky Action at a Distance [Kranky]
Amadou and Mariam: Folila [Nonesuch]
Bear in Heaven: I Love You, It's Cool [Dead Oceans]
Bright Eyes: Every Day and Every Night EP (Reissue) [Saddle Creek]
Bright Eyes: Letting Off the Happiness (Reissue) [Saddle Creek]
Zammuto: Zammuto [Temporary Residence]

04-09
Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Trembling Bells: The Marble Downs [Honest Jon's]

04-10
M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion [Merge]

04-15
Conor Oberst: One of My Kind [Team Love]

04-17
Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light [Fat Possum]
Woods & Amps for Christ: Woods & Amps for Christ (Split LP) [Shrimper]

04-24
Toro Y Moi: June 2009 [Carpark]
Jack White: Blunderbuss [ Third Man Records/Columbia]

04-30
Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore: Ku Klux Glam [Stroll On Records]

05-01
Bright Eyes: Fevers and Mirrors (Reissue) [Saddle Creek]
Bright Eyes: There Is No Beginning to the Story EP (Reissue) [Saddle Creek]

05-07
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless, Isn't Anything, EP's 1988-1991 reissues [Sony]

05-08
M83: Reunion EP [Mute]
OFF!: OFF! [Vice]

05-15
Beach House: Bloom [Sub Pop]
Best Coast: The Only Place [Mexican Summer]

05-22
Mount Eerie: Clear Moon [P.W. Elverum and Sun]

05-28
Sigur Rós: Valtari [XL]

06-05
Guided By Voices: Class Clown Spots a UFO [Fire]
Japandroids: Celebration Rock [Polyvinyl]
Liars: WXIW [Mute]
The Walkmen: Heaven [Fat Possum/Bella Union]

06-12
The Tallest Man on Earth: There's No Leaving Now [Dead Oceans]

06-18
The Smashing Pumpkins: Oceania [Martha's Music/EMI]

07-03
Animal Collective: Honeycomb [Domino]

07-10
Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan [Domino]
Twin Shadow: Confess [4AD]

07-17
John Maus: A Collection of Rarities [Ribbon]
Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse [In the Red]

07-24
Fang Island: Major [Sargent House]
Passion Pit: Gossamer [Columbia]
Purity Ring: Shrines [4AD]
The Antelrs: Undersea [Anti]
The Books: A Dot in Time [Temporary Residence] (7 LP Box Set)

08-07
Antony and the Johnsons: Cut the World [Secretly Canadian]

08-21
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Mature Themes [4AD]
Six Organs of Admittance: Ascent [Drag City]

08-28
Dan Deacon: America [Domino]
Divine Fits: A Thing Called the Divine Fits [Merge]
Wild Nothing: Nocturne [Captured Tracks]
Minus the Bear: Infinity Overhead [Dangerbird]
Matthew Dear: Beams [Ghostly International]

09-04
The Music Tapes: Mary's Voice [Merge]
Animal Collective: Centipede Hz [Domino]
Mount Eerie: Ocean Roar [P.W. Elverum and Sun]
Cat Power: Sun [Matador]

09-11
The XX: Coexist [Young Turks]
Thee Oh Sees: Putrifiers II [In the Red]
David Byrne and St. Vincent: Love This Giant [4AD/Todo Mundo]

09-18
Grizzly Bear: Sheilds [Warp]
Woods: Bend Beyond [Woodsist]
Dinosaur Jr.: I Bet on Sky [Warp]

09-24
James Blake: Trimbal: Confidence Boost / Saying [RS]

10-01
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary Edition [Universal]

10-02
The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth [Merge]
Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes [Warp]
Simian Mobile Disco: A Form of Change [Wichita]

10-09

Ty Segall: Twins [Drag City]
A.C. Newman: Shut Down the Streets [Matador]
Freelance Whales: Diluvia [Mom + Pop/Frenchkiss]
Tame Impala: Lonerism [Modular]
WHY?: Mumps, etc. [Anticon/City Slang]

10-16
Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man [EMI]
Ben Gibbard: Former Lives [Barsuk]
Pinback: Information Retrieved [Temporary Residence]

10-23
Titus Andronicus: Local business [XL]
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail Of Dead: Lost Songs [Superball]
Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man [EMI]

Of Montreal: Daughter of Cloud [Composition] 

Julie Doiron: So Many Days [Aporia]

The Polyphonic Spree: Holidaydream: Sounds of the Holiday Volume One [Kirtland]

10-30

Andrew Bird: Hands of Glory [Mom + Pop]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Psychedelic Pill [Reprise]

11-06

Crystal Castles: III [Casablanca/Fiction/Universal Republic]

Dirty Projectors: About to Die EP [Domino]

Prince Rama: Top Ten Hits of the End of the World [Paw Tracks]

Teen Daze: The Inner Mansions [Lefse]

The Walkmen: Dance With Your Partner/Vermeer 6 [Fat Possum]
Animal Collective: Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (Reissue) [Reissue]

11-13
The Babies: Our House On the Hill [Woodsist]
Brian Eno: LUX [Warp]
Guided By Voices: The Bears for Lunch [GBV Inc.]
Sufjan Stevens: Silver and Gold, Songs for Christmas Volumes 6-10 [Asthmatic Kitty]

11-20
Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights reissue [Matador]
Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day [Swan Song/Atlantic]
Tim Hecker/Daniel Lopatin: Instrumental Tourist [Software]
Wye Oak: My Neighbor/My Creator EP (reissue) [Merge]

12-04
Scott Walker: Bish Bosch [4AD]

12-17
Burial: One, Two [Hyperdub]