25 Albums You Need to Hear in 2011
Elbow. Title: 'Build A Rocket Boys!'. Released: March 7. Producer: Elbow's Craig Potter. RecordedL Blueprint Studios, Manchester. Listen: Click here to watch a video featuring 'Lippy Kids'.
Brother.
Released: September.
Songs: 'New Year's Day', 'Darling Buds Of May'.
Video: Click
here to watch our video interview with the band.
Paul Weller.
Released: Mid-2011, if all goes to plan.
Songs: 'Paper Chase', 'Dangerous Age', 'Around The Lake', 'No Need To Be Alone', 'Starlight', 'Drifters'.
Collaborators: Neu!'s Michael Rother; Weller's five-year-old son Mac.
Bombay Bicycle Club.
Released: Pencilled in for June.
Songs: 'Bad Timing', 'The Sleep Song', 'Beggars'.
Plan B.
Title: 'The Ballad Of Belmarsh'.
Released: Expected in March or April.
The Streets.
Title: 'Computers And Blues'.
Released: February 7.
Songs: 'Without A Blink', 'We Can Never Be Friends'. Click
here for a full tracklisting.
Beastie Boys.
Title: 'Hot Sauce Committee Pt 2'.
Released: Spring.
Songs: 'Don't Play No Games That I Can't Win' (featuring Santigold), 'Too Many Rappers' (feat. Nas). Click
here for a full tracklisting.
Kanye West and Jay-Z.
Title: 'Watch The Throne'.
Released: March.
Recorded: France, October/November 2010.
The Strokes.
Recorded: Albert Hammond Jr's studio.
Producer: Self-produced with the help of engineer Gus Osberg.
Released: March [21]
Kasabian.
Released: Serge hopes that some new material will be out in time for the band's festival slots this summer.
Producer: Dan The Automator.
Recorded: San Francisco following Serge's home sessions.
The View.
Title: 'The Best Lasts Forever'.
Released: March 14. Single, 'Grace' out March 6.
Producer: Youth.
Listen: Click
here to hear 'Sunday'.
The Enemy.
Released: Expected late 2011.
Some words from the band: "We've been writing and working on new material, rehearsing in a tiny room with bare essentials. We have loads of tunes we're all excited about." -Tom Clarke.
Miles Kane.
Released: Early 2011.
Collaborators: Gruff Rhys, Noel Gallagher.
Songs: 'Inhaler' (single out now), 'My Fantasy'.
Anna Calvi.
Title: 'Anna Calvi'.
Released: January 17.
Florence & The Machine.
Released: Expected in late 2011, if it drops at all this year.
Producer: Paul Epworth has helmed some sessions.
Lykke Li.
Title: 'Wounded Rhymes'.
Released: February 28. Listen: Click
here to hear remixes of 'Get Some' by Beastie Boys' Mike D and Beck.
La Roux.
Recorded: Brixton.
Collaborators: We've heard rumours that the mystery established band is...White Lies.
Released: The pair want it out before festival season.
Lady Gaga.
Title: 'Born This Way'.
Released: May 23. A single, also called 'Born This Way', is out on February 14.
Patrick Wolf.
Working title: 'The Conqueror'.
Producer: Self-produced.
Released: May.
Songs: 'House', 'Together', 'Armistice'.
Coldplay.
Recorded: Coldplay's London home studio.
Producer: Brian Eno/Marcus Dravs.
Released: No date yet,
expected spring.
Damon Albarn.
Upcoming plans: Finish the record with Tony Allen and Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers); Might return to The Good, The Bad & The Queen for a second album; Might work on the soundtrack for
The Boy In The Oak (a film based on his sister's book).
Rome'.
Artist: Brian 'Danger Mouse' Burton and Daniele Luppi with Jack White and Norah Jones on vocals.
Title: 'Rome'.
Released: May.
Listen:
Click here for some song snippets.
The Horrors.
Recorded: Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London.
Producer: Self-produced by the band, mixed by Craig Shilby.
Released: Who knows?
Arctic Monkeys.
Released: May at the earliest.
Producer: James Ford.
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