The Album Shortlist For September

On The Stereo:

Samantha Fox - Touch Me 2XCD (Cherry Pop)
David Byrne And St. Vincent - Love The Giant (4AD)
Stars - The North (Soft Revolution Records)
Nik Kershaw Ei8ht (Shorthouse Records)
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance (30th Anniversary) (Sony Music Entertainment)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (4AD)
Efterklang - Piramida (4AD)
Martial Canterel - Empire (Xanten)
My Tiger My Timing - Celeste (Snakes & Ladders Records)
Raveonettes - Observator (Vice Records)
Seapony - Falling (Hardly Art)
Neil Halstead - Palindrome Hunches (Brushfire Records)
Taken By Trees - Other Worlds (Secretly Canadian)
Yazoo - The Collection 2XCD (Music Club Deluxe)

The Album Shortlist For August

On The Stereo:

The Fixx - Beautiful Friction (Kirtland Records)
Heavenly Beat - Talent (Captured Tracks)
Passion Pit - Gossamer (Columbia)
Nas - Life Is Good (Def Jam Recordings)
Vicious Pink - Vicious Pink (Cherry Pop)
WIld Nothing -Nocturne (Captured Tracks)
Shonen Knife - Pop Tune (Damnably)
Jessie Ware - Devotion (PMR Records)

The Album Shortlist for July 2012

On the Stereo: DIIV - Oshin (Captured Tracks)
Twin Shadow - Confess (4AD)
Hey Ocean - Is (Nettwerk)
Echo Lake - Wild Peace (Slumberland)
Eat More Cake - The Remixes Vol.1 (Self-Released)
Cornershop - Urban Turbin: The Singles Club (Ample Play)
Ultravox - Brilliant (Chrysalis)
Stereo Total - Cactus Versus Brezel (Staatsakt)
Asia - XXX (Frontiers Records)
Exlovers - Moth (Young And Lost Club)
Purity Ring - Shrines (4AD)
Holograms - Holagrams (Captured Tracks)
Saga - 2020 (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
The Knocks And Fred Falke - Geronimo EP (Kitsune)
Go-Kart Mozart - On the Hot Dog Streets (West Midlands Records)
Ian McCulloch - Pro Patria Mori (Pledge Music)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Sex Mix (Salvo)
Dead Can Dance – Anastasis (TBC)
Herve - Pick Me Up Sort Me Out Calm Me Down (Cheap Thrills Records)
Dub Pistols - Worshipping The Dollar (Sunday Best Records)

The Album Shortlist - August

The Album Shortlist - August (Although not that short)

Brilliant Colors - Again And Again (Slumberland Records)
Cut Off Your Hands - Hollow (Frenchkiss)
Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer (Merge Records)
Horrors - Skying (XL Recordings)
Inc - 3 EP (4AD)
Joakim - Forever Young 12 Inch (Tigersushi)
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Paper Crush EP(Old Flame)
Pnau - Soft Universe (etcetc)
Puro Instinct - Headbangers In Ecstacy (Mexican Summer)
Queen - Hot Space 2CD Reissue (Island)
REM - Lifes Rich Pageant 2 CD Reissue (I.R.S.)
Shindu - Happy House EP (Kitsune)
Southern Shores - Atlantic EP (Cascine)
To Destroy A City - To Destroy A City (N5MD)
Washed Out - Eyes Be Closed 12 Inch (Weird World)
Zomby - Dedication (4AD)

The Album Shortlist - July

The Album Shortlist - July (Although not that short)

54-40 - Lost In The City
Bass Clef - Rollercoasters Of The Heart / So Cruel 12 Inch
Bell - Diamonite
Blouse - Shadow 7 Inch
Burning Hearts - Into The Wilderness EP
Bvdub - Songs For A Friend I Left Behind
Cults - Cults
David Kilgour And The Heavy Eights - Left By Soft
Hoop Dreams -
Kaiser Chiefs - The Future Is Medieval
Kyte - Remix Works
Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) - Ninth
Pictureplane - Thee Physical
Pulseprogramming – Charade Is Gold
Ronettes - Be My Baby - The Very Best of the Ronettes
Soft Metals - Soft Metals
Sons And Daughters - Mirror Mirror
Spoons Static In Transmission
Stars - The Bedroom Demos
Still Corners - Cuckoo 7 Inch
Teams - Teams Versus Star Slinger EP
Thievery Corporation - Culture Of Fear
Throwing Muses - The Season Seasons - Summer
View - Cutting Corners EP
Washed Out - Within and Without

The Album Shortlist - June

The Album Shortlist - June (Although not that short)

ATFC - Dazzle EP
Bibio - K Is For Nelson EP
Bibio And Clark - Willenhall - Baskerville Grinch 12 Inch
Black Lips _Arabia Mountain
Bomba Estereo - Ponte Bomb EP
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
The Cars - Move Like This
Cerys Matthews (Catatonia) - Explorer
Chad Valley - Equatorial Ultravox
Clan Of Xymox - Darkest Hours
CockNBullKid - Adulthood
Cold Showers - Highlands 7 Inch
Comet Gain - Howl Of The Lonely Crowd
David Sylvian (Japan) - Died In The Wool | Manafon Variations
Dom - Legume Ep
Ema - Past Life Martyred Saints
Esben And The Witch - Chorea EP 12 Inch (Mogwai Remix)
Esben And The Witch - Violet Cries
Foster The People - Torches
Friendly Fires - Pala
Girls Names - Dead To Me
Hey Today! Minor EP
Hurts - Illuminated EP
Junior Boys - It's All True
Kate Bush Director's Cut
Kid Loco - Confession of a Belladonna Eater
In Flagranti - Worse For Wear
Manu Chao and Friends - Manu Chao and Friends
Mick Harvey - Sketches From The Book Of The Dead
Miracle Fortress - Was I The Wave
New Division - The Rookie
One Am Radio - Heaven Is Attached By A Slender Thread
Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) - Emeralds
Rosebuds Loud Planes Fly Low
Sarah Nixey (Black Box Recorder) - Brave Tin Soldiers
Seapony - Go With Me
Sebastian - Total
Selebrities - Delusions
Spc Eco (Curve) - Big Fat World EP
Strange Talk - Strange Talk EP
Tim And Jean - Like What
Tim Booth (James) - Lovelife
Trembling Blue Stars - Correspondence EP
Towa Tei (Deee-Lite) - Sunny
Vetiver - The Errant Charm
Wild Beasts - Smother
Wild Swans - The Coldest Winter for a Hundred Years

The Album Shortlist - May

The Album Shortlist - May (Although Not That Short)

Bobmo – Hardbells / Northside EP
Cults - Abducted 7 Inch
Alela Diane - Alela Diane and Wild Devine
Foster The People - Foster The People EP
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
Generationals - Actor-Caster
Head And The Heart - Head And The Heart
Hercules And Love Affair - My House (Remixes) EP
Robyn Hitchcock - Tromso, Kaptein
I'm From Barcelona - Forever Today
Jeremy Jay - Dream Diary
Lone - Echolocations EP
Malajube - La Caverne
Puressence - Solid State Recital
Purity Ring - Ungirthed 7 Inch
Sharks - The Joys Of Living 2008-2010
Smithereens - 2011
Sophie Ellis Bextor - Make A Scene
Submarines - Love Notes Letter Bombs
Sun Glitters - Cosmic Oceans EP
Thao and Mirah - Thao and Mirah
Young Knives - Ornaments From The Silver Arcade
Waskerley Way - Waterfall
Wolfgang - Dancing With The Devil EP (Lions In Cages)

Reissues and Deluxe Versions

Howard Jones - Action Replay (2xCD)

The Album Shortlist - April

The Album Shortlist - April (although not so short)

Acrylics - Lives and Treasures
Blancmange - Burn (yes, 26 years since their last album)
Blouse - Into Black 7 Inch
Brothertiger - Point Of View EP
Julian Cope - The Jehovahcoat Demos (the Madman is back)
Cornershop - Cornershop & The Double 'o' Groove Of
Craft Spells Idol Labor
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
Dead Milkmen - The King In Yellow
Exene Cervenka - The Excitement of Maybe
Glasvegas - Euphoric Heartbreak
Grant Hart - Oeuvrevue
Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!
Human League - Credo (yes, 10 years since their last album)
Jupiter - Sake [EP]
Kills - Blood Pressures
Korallreven - Honey Mine EP
Luminary Youth - Weekend Dreams
Memphis - Here Comes A City (Stars side project)
Oh Land- Oh Land
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
Paper Aeroplanes - We Are Ghosts
Raekwon - Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang
Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave
Rubik-Solar
Submarines - Love Notes Letter Bombs
Sun Glitters - Everything Could Be Fine
Superhumanoids - parasite paradise
Throwing Muses-The Season Sessions- Spring
Tune-Yards - Who Kill
Yelle - Safari Disco Club

Reissues and Deluxe Versions
A Flock Of Seagulls - A Flock Of Seagulls (Reissue)
A Flock Of Seagulls - Dream Come True (Reissue)
The Colourfield - Virgins and Philistines (Reissue)
The Colourfield - Deception (Reissue)
Nick Heyward - North Of A Miracle (2CD Remaste

The Album Shortlist - March

The Album Shortlist - March

Teeel - Amulet
Cult Of Youth - Cult Of Youth
Bibio - Mind Bokah
Those Dancing Days - Daydreams & Nightmares
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Braids - Native Speaker
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
Armistace - Armistace EP
Abe Vigoda - Crush
Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting
Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip
Le Corps Mince De Francoise
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Beach Fossils - What A Pleasure EP
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings
Dream Diary - You Are The Beat
Lifeguards - Waving At The Astronauts