New Releases: January 2011

Round up of the most interesting albums and singles released in January 2011 with useful preview links:

Albums

ANNA CALVI - Anna Calvi
IRON & WINE - Kiss Each Other Clean
WIRE - Red Barked Tree
FUJIYA & MIYAGI - Ventriloquizzing
THE GO! TEAM - Rolling Blackouts
ESBEN & THE WITCH - Violet Cries
THE DECEMBERISTS - The King is Dead
COLD WAR KIDS - Mine is Yours
GANG OF FOUR - Content
SOCIAL DISTORTION - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
TAPES 'N TAPES - Outside
THE JOY FORMIDABLE - The Big Roar
BRITISH SEA POWER - Valhalla Dancehall
CLOUD NOTHINGS - Cloud Nothings
DEERHOOF - Deerhoof Vs. Evil
ROBERT POLLARD - Space City Kicks
MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER - Napoleonette
JOHN VANDERSLICE - White Wilderness
DESTROYER - Kaputt
SMITH WESTERNS - Dye it Blonde
BARDO POND - Bardo Pond
CAGE THE ELEPHANT - Thank You Happy Birthday 
TALIB KWELI - Gutter Rainbows
THE GET UP KIDS - There Are Rules
THE DIRTBOMBS - Party Store

Singles & EPs

PJ HARVEY - The Words That Maketh Murder
GLASSER - Mirrorage - Lindstrom Remix
BEST COAST / WAVVES - Summer Is Forever
CLOUD NOTHINGS - Should Have
THE GO! TEAM - Buy Nothing Day
SONIC YOUTH - SYR9: Simon Werner A Disparu
DAVID LYNCH - Good Day Today / I Know Remixes
THE JOY FORMIDABLE - Austere
BRITISH SEA POWER - Living Is So Easy
THE VACCINES - Post Break-up Sex
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING - Photoshop Handsome
FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS - Hunger
GROUPLOVE - Colours
DESTROYER - Kaputt 
JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN - The Deep Field
BEACH FOSSILS - Calyer
SIX SIX SECONDS - She can't say
RAEKWON - Shaolin Vs. Wu Tang
BETH DITTO & SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO - Do You Need Someone
HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR - My House
RICHARD ASHCROFT - This Thing Called Life
FIRST AID KIT - Universal Soldier / It Hurts Me Too
DUNGEN - Oga Nasa Mum/Highway Wolf

And a taste of things to come: At the end of February we're expecting Lykke Li's sophomore album "Wounded Rhymes", produced by Peter Bjorn & John's Bjorn Yttling. The first two singles from the record, last year's awesome "Get Some" and the brand new pop gem "I Follow Rivers", have raised our expectations and if the rest of "Wounded Rhymes" is cut from the same cloth then it'll definitely worth it to shell out about 40 euros or 55 dollars to get the limited edition collectors set. Here's the great looking video for "I Follow Rivers", directed by Tarik Saleh and starring a barefoot in the snow Lykke Li and Swedish Lebanese actor Fares Fares. It was shot on the island of Gotland, Närsholmen, the same place where Andrei Tarkovsky filmed "The Sacrifice":

Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers

And here's David Sitek's remix:

(mp3s via pitchfork and stereogum)