There’s a number of decent limited vinyl editions
of stuff just out recently, por ejemplo, Squid Vs. Whale’s release
of Nada Surf’s most-excellent Let Go, Jealous Butcher’s re-release
of the thoroughly-decent Her Majesty the Decemberists, and of course, the Ace Fu limited clear-vinyl
of Pinback’s fucking-awesome Blue Screen Life. However, there still doesn’t seem to be a vinyl release slated at all for
The Postal Service’s Give Up, which, if you ask me, is fucking retarded. Subpop could make a shitload of dough on that. And it’d probably
make nick pretty happy, too.

So, being that December’s so slow new-music-wise, I elected to update
my list of records to look forward to in 2004.

January
———-
dios - Los Arboles (Dim Mak)
Jason Molina - Pyramid Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian)
Preston School Of Industry - Monsoon (Matador)
Superchunk - Crowding Up Your Visual Field [DVD] (Merge)
John Vanderslice - Cellar Door (Barsuk)

February
———-
Beta Band - TBD (?)
Centro-Matic - Flashes And Cables (Misra)
Lambchop - Aw C’mon (Merge)
Lambchop - No You C’mon (Merge)
Liars - There’s Always Room On The Broom (Mute)
Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute)
Liars - Who Needs $$ When We Got Feathers (Mute)
The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed (4ad)
Robbers On High Street - Fine Lines (Scratchie/New Line)
The Walkmen - Bows And Arrows (Record Collection)

March
———-
The Bigger Lovers - TBD (Yep Roc)
Destroyer - Your Blues (Merge)
dios - tbd (Startime)
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (Subpop)
Now It’s Overhead - Fall Back Open (Saddle Creek)
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre)
TV On The Radio - Deperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch and Go)

April
———-
Calexico - TBD (Quarterstick)

May
———-
Royal City - Little Heart’s Ease (Three Gut/Rough Trade)

Exact Date TBA
———-
Badly Drawn Boy - TBD (XL)
Charles Allison - Some Queer Raincoat (?)
Communique - TBD (Lookout)
Home - XV (Arena Rock Recording Co.)
John Guilt - TBD - (?)
Magnetic Fields - TBD (Nonesuch)
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Sony(?))
Moviola - East Of Eager (Anyway)
Spoon - The Beast And Dragon Are Adored (Merge)
Wilco - TBD (Nonesuch)