Playlist 12/19/11

Swell Season - Low Rising - Strict Joy (Anti-)
Wilco - Born Alone - The Whole Love (Anti-)
Tim Kasher - Cold Love - The Game of Monogamy (Saddle Creek)

Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand - Hello Sadness (Witchita)
Gringo Star - Count Yer Lucky Stars - Count Yer Lucky Stars (Gigantic)
Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)

Matt & Kim - Dash After Dash - s/t (Iheartcomix)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)
The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba - White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

The Oh Sees - Crushed Grass - Carrion Crawler/The Dream (In the Red)
The Atlas Sound - Te Amo - Parallax (4AD)
The Lucksmiths - Midweek Midmorning - Naturaliste (Drive In)

Jens Lekman - A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill - Oh You're So Silent, Jens (Secretly Canadian)
Belle and Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
Noah and the Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)

Kurt Vile - Life's a Beach - So Outta Reach (Matador)
The Decemberists - The Chimbly Sweep - Her Majesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)
Crooked Fingers - Bad Blood - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)

Richard Swift - Whitman - Walt Wolfman (Secretly Canadian)
She & Him - Baby, It's Cold Outside - A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)
Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You? - More Adventurous (Brute Beaute)

Kate Bush - Wild Man - 50 Words for Snow (Anti)
Still Corners - The White Season - Creatures of an Hour (Sub Pop)
The Do - Leo Leo - Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)

Sondre Lerche - Private Caller - s/t (Yep Roc)
Superchunk - Learned to Surf - Majesty Shredding (Merge)
Art Brute - Pump Up the Volume - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)

The Boy Least Likely to - George and Andrew - Christmas Special
Best Coast - When I'm with You - Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)

Playlist 12/12/11

Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love - Write About Love (Matador)
Spectrals - You Can't Live on Love Alone - Bad Penny (Slumberland)
Sondre Lerche - Don't Be Shallow - Don't Be Shallow (Astralwerks)

Real Estate - Kinder Blumen - Days (Domino)
Rilo Kiley - Waves and Wires - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Okkervil River - Song About a Star - Down the River of Golden Dreams (Jagjaguwar)

Calvin Johnson - Rabbit Blood - Before the Dream Faded (K)
The Boy Least Likely to - George and Andrew - Christmas Special (Too Young to Die)
Fences - The Same Tattoos - s/t (Onto Entertainment)

The Flaming Lips - Lightning Strikes the Postman - Clouds Taste Metallic (Warner)
Kate Bush - Wild Man - 50 Words for Snow (Anti)
Dan Mangan - Post-War Blues - Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts)

Crooked Fingers - The Counterfeiter - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
Kurt Vile - It's Alright - Sou Outta Reach (Matador)
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt - The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)

The Mountain Goats - Birth of Serpents - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
Gringo Star - Jessica - Count Yer Lucky Stars (Gigantic Music)
Bombay Bicycle Club - Take the Right One - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)

American Analog Set - Million Young - Know By Heart (Tigerstyle)
Mr. Gnome - Ate the Sun - Madness in Miniature (El Marko)
Los Campesinos! - Songs About Your Girlfriend - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Thee Oh Sees - Crushed Grass - Carrion Crawler/the Dream EP (In the Red)
The Dead Weather - I'm Mad - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry Lee - Murder Ballads (Mute)

Murder By Death - A Masters in Reverse Psychology - Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them (Eyeball)
O'death - Look at the Sun - Outside (Ernest Jennings)

Karen Elson - The Truth Is in the Dirt - The Ghost Who Walks (XL)
Twilight Singers - Papillon - Blackberry Belle (Birdman)
Richard Swift - Zombie Boogie - Walt Wolfman (Secretly Canadian)

Playlist 12/5/11

M Ward - Vincent O'Brien - Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)
Ivy League - P is for Penelope - London Bridges EP (Twenty Seven)
Jenny and Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)

Hindi Zahra - Ahiawa - Handmade (Our Soul)
She & Him - Lingering Still - Volume Two (Merge)
The Balky Mule - Range - The Length of the Rail (Fat Cat)

Real Estate - It's Real - Days (Domino)
Spectrals - You Don't Have to Tell Me - Bad Penny (Slumberland)
Best Coast - Crazy for You - Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)

Foster the People - Helena Beat - Torches (Columbia)
Stars - Ageless Beauty - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Superhuman Happiness - The Hounds - The Physical EP (Royal Potato Family)

Bombay Bicycle Club - Take the Right One - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)
Kate Bush - Wild Man - 50 Words for Snow (Anti)
Casiokids - Gront Lys I Alle Ledo - Topp Stemming Pa Lokal Bar (Polyvinyl)

The Boy Least Likely to - The Boy Least Likely to Is a Machine - The Law of the Playground (+1)
Bearsuit - Cherryade - Cat Spectacular! (Microindie)
Los Campesinos! - Songs About Your Girlfriend - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

The Beets - You Don't Want Kids to Be Dead - Let the Poison Out (Hardly Art)
Mr. Gnome - We Sing Electric - Madness in Miniature (El Marko)
Robyn - Fembot - Body Talk Pt 1 (Konichiwa)

The Naked and Famous - Young Blood - Passive Me, Aggressive You (Universal)
Wavves - In the Sand - Life Sux (Ghost Ramp)
Let's Wrestle - We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)

Jaill - Everyone's Hip - That's How We Burn (Sub Pop)
Beck - Hell Yes - Guero (Interscope)
Stereo Total - Andy Warhol - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)

A Northern Chorus - Watershed Divide - Bitter Hands Resign (Sonic Unyon)
Crooked Fingers - The Counterfeiter - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
Dan Mangan - Leaves, Trees, Forest - Oh Fortune (Arts and Crafts)