Starter for '10

A look at 2010's most anticipated DFW album releases

A A A Comments (1) By Pete Freedman Thursday, Dec 31 2009

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Release Date: TBA

Why We're Stoked: Last summer, on his band's blog, Polyphonic Spree mastermind DeLaughter released a slew of demos he'd been working on. It was never fully clear: Were these Spree songs-to-be or what? Spare and bare, these demos were a far cry from the Spree's standard fare—meaning we've either received a phenomenal front-row seat to DeLaughter's songwriting process or we've heard...something else. Either way, we'll take it.

Midlake’s going to get a little darker in 2010.

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...and, of course, all this is saying nothing of the new records we know are coming from Ishi, The Burning Hotels, Mount Righteous, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Smile Smile, Eleven Hundred Springs, Nervous Curtains, Florene, FUR, Seryn, Bridges and Blinking Lights, Spooky Folk, This Old House, Menkena, Tre Orsi and The Beaten Sea, or the possible releases we've been hearing about from the likes of Pilotdrift, Fair to Midland, True Widow, The Paper Chase, Centro-matic, The Old 97's and even Slobberbone.

Yep. We're gonna have our hands full this year.

Hope you're ready.

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gladys1111 01/05/2010 5:02:00 PM

Hey Pete! What's up with leaving The Slack off your list? Considering that 2 of the 4 band members have either won or been nominated annually by your newspaper, I'd think you'd pay more attention. The Slack, led by DOMA Musician and Instrumentalist of the Year many times over Chris Holt, is releasing their sophomore effort "The Deep End" on January 19 (available now on itunes!). The album is full of rawness and intensity and Holt and the band (Eric Neal, Steve Luthye and Tom Bridwell) show that they can stray from the bland formula that so many bands fall into the second time around and put out songs that show true growth and are artistically authentic. An incredible record from start to finish (which is the way I recommend it be listened to, at least the first time around). You will be stoked!