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Albums to Look Out For This Year

Posted by Real Music's Not Dead Yet , Friday, 21 May 2010 14:48

2010 promises to be another exciting year for music with many bands promising follow ups during the Summer and in the latter half of the year.




Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold had initially said that they would have preferred the sophomore album to be released in '09 but due to numerous live dates they rented a house in the outskirts of Seattle to record demos and do live sessions. Pecknold said that the second album would be, "less poppy, less upbeat and more groove-based" and also added that the tracks would be recorded quickly as vocals and guitars would be done in a few takes to retain the natural feel he wants to preserve. Exciting stuff especially since the new album promises to be more raw than the rustic 'Sun Giant' and 'Fleet Foxes'.









Word on the street is also that Friendly Fires have another album on the go and they've been in the studio constantly since their autonomous album recording 'Kiss of Life' and a split 12" of a 'Holy Ghost' cover. The album, untitled as yet, is on course according to singer Ed MacFarlane and they're staying off the festival bills this year to get the studio time in and record the tracks - again, exciting times.


Rolling Stone reported that Kings of Leon have reportedly 8-10 new songs being soundchecked and the band tentatively announced to NME that the follow up to 'Only by the Night' would be released late 2010 with Matthew Followil commenting that it would be a bit grungier than the previous. Hopefully a return to the good old days of 'Youth and Young Manhood' and 'Aha Shake Heartbreak' (with the occasional 'Cold Desert'-esque song of course wouldn't go amiss)


Although talk of a follow up to Klaxons debut 'Myths of the Near Future' had begun late '07, the band encountered a few problems when they had to re-record a few tracks due to the 'over-experimental' nature of the songs however Reynolds revealed that "...we've made a really dense, psychedelic record" and in November '09 they flew to Los Angeles to begin recording again.


March 31, 2009: "After a long and much needed hibernation period that saw many of the band's various other musical projects emerge, we're pleased to announce that The Strokes are now all back hard at work in their NYC space on writing and rehearsing new material for a 4th full-length album." What more can I say? Bloody brilliant. In May Casablancas stated the album would be out earl 2011



If you're an Arcade Fire fan you'll no doubt know that the band intend to release their third album mid to late Summer 2010 and have been booked for festivals around Europe such as Oxegen and Rock Werchter.

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