April 30th - The Nightingales - 'No Love Lost' cd/lp/dd - Cooking Vinyl

April 23rd - Ty Segall and White Fence 'Hair' cd/lp/dd - Drag City 
Whether you’re walking, rolling and tumbling, flying, driving your car, or sitting still and meditating, wherever you go, Hair you are. You don't always see the wild mystery that comes with everyday life on this rock, but your connection to the Eternal is always present. You just can't see it. Today, you’re in luck - up to your frontal eye-lobes in luck. Ty Segall & White Fence have thrown their x-ray vision upon you and see the blood rocking through your veins and all the blood vessels in your brain. They can see them…

April 9th - Junior Electronics ' Musostics' cd/lp/dd - Bureau B 
Junior Electronics is the solo work of musician and sound engineer Joe Watson. Joe has played keyboards with Stereolab since 2004 and engineered their last three albums. He has also worked with The High Llamas, Monade, Mary Hampton, John Cunningham and others. He runs the studio flipflop in his hometown Brighton.

March 26th - Alasdair Roberts & Mairi Morrison 'Urstan' cd/lp/dd - Drag City 
Urstan is an Isle of Lewis-specific word for a celebration held at the birth of a new child. A dram of whisky, basically. Most of the tracks here are traditional Gaelic songs, with a few Scots songs and self-written tracks too, all arranged in new ways by an ensemble including Stevie Jones (bass), Alastair Caplin (fiddle) and Alex Neilson (drums). Urstan features guest appearances from such Glasgow music scene luminaries as Michael John McCarthy (Zoey Van Goey), David McGuinness (Concerto Caledonia), Ross MacRae and Richard Merchant (Second Hand Marching Band), Peter Nicholson (The One Ensemble), Mike Hastings (Trembling Bells) and Gaelic song and piobiareachd authority Allan MacDonald. Mairi Morrison comes from Bragar on the Isle of Lewis . Alasdair Roberts is a non-Gaelic speaking Lowlander, a folk singer and writer of songs who has a growing interest in Gaelic culture.

March 26th Salim Nourallah 'Hit Parade' cd/lp/dd - Tapete Records
In Austin's legendary Treefort Studio, Salim assembled an all-star cast of musicians: Buttercup's Joe Reyes, Apples In Stereo's John Dufilho and The Polyphonic Spree's Jason Garner. The Salim Nourallah Treefort Five. They cut things on the fly, worked fast and loose, and came up with a beautiful set of recordings. Listen to it once, you'll get it.

March 26th - Doug Tielli 'Swan Sky Sea Squirrel' cd/dd/lp - Tin Angel Records 
The brother of Martin (Rheostatics) and John (Rock Plaza Central), Doug has become a fixture of Toronto’s underground music scene, using his talents in a variety of local acts such as The Silt, Drumheller, and The Reveries, alongside contemporaries such as Ryan Driver and Eric Chenaux. This is his debut album and like many before him, the album is the result of furrowing away into the darkest depths, the vast dark, letting go and re-gifting the light to us. Having recorded his album via borrowed means using only instruments readily available from an artist retreat on Toronto Island; Tielli set up an old school portable to record his album, with no concept in mind, ‘Swan Sky Sea Squirrel’ comprises intricate ballads that are intrinsic to the island. Painting an audio aesthetic for the listener the record encompasses drowsy folk rock reminiscent of Silt.

March 19th - Kevin Tihista ' On This Dark Street' cd/lp/dd - Broken Horse Records 

March 5th - Sophia Knapp - 'Into The Waves' - LP/CD & digital download - Drag City
Sophia Knapp's debut as a solo artist, her first record outside the Lights/Cliffie Swan enclave that she has performed in over the past five years. Her music during that time has taken a variety of forms, all of which have a strong, almost magical undercurrent of spirituality – anything that resonated inside. All these directions indicated a myriad of paths to follow Into the Waves. However, after some time with the songs, Sophia realized that an effective blend of acoustic and synthetic sounds provided a framework for what she was looking for: a contemporary vocal pop record a la Stevie Nicks & Francoise Hardy, cool toned and shady with a relaxed vibe and an eye towards R n B.

February 27th - Pinhead Nation 'Luck Had Nothing To Do With It' cd/lp/dd - Onomatopoeia -
17 years after beginning to record their first album, Pinhead Nation are now ready to release it. After all the genre shifting, voice lifting and style raiding in the music scene of the last decades, we’re ready for it. A unique, energetic and unexpected contribution to the ongoing saga that is popular music. Its 13 songs are punky, poppy, angry, funny, fast, loud, quiet and always changing. It’s intense. You’ll probably need a lie down afterwards. Produced by Bic Hayes (Cardiacs, Levitation, Dark Star) between1994 and 2011. It was edited and mixed by Bic and Tim Smith at Tim’s Apollo 8 studio in Wiltshire.

February 27th - Qluster - 'Antworten' cd/lp/dd - Bureau B
“Antworten” (“answer”) is the third instalment in a trilogy of Qluster music, following on from the “Fragen” (“question”) and “Rufen” (“call”) studio albums. The fact that the music on “Antworten” was created before “Rufen” and “Fragen” were recorded is less of a paradox than it might at first appear. For the expansive piano fantasies of their 2007 recordings had already provided a clear answer to the two musicians’ question as to whether, and to what degree, they wished to collaborate in the future. Seldom has a musical duo been so united in heart and soul as Roedelius and Bock that January of evening in 2007. Their improvised nocturnes on two Steinways in the Berliner Philharmonie were delectable.

February 13th - Roedelius 'Plays Piano' cd/lp/dd - Bureau B 
Born in Berlin in 1934. Co-founder of Berlin’s first free art studio, the Zodiak Arts Lab (1967), he was also a founder member of various groups, namely Human Being, Kluster, Cluster, Harmonia, Tempus Transit and Lunzprojekt. He played on around 160 record productions either as a soloist or with band projects. Collaborations with artists all over the world, including Brian Eno, Holger Czukay, Susumu Hirasawa, Tim Story, Dieter Moebius, Michael Rother, Stefan Schneider, and Lloyd Cole. Breathtakingly beautiful piano fantasies from the year 1985 – released for the very first time!

February 6th - Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - 'Underrated Silence' cd/lp/dd - Bureau B 
Ulrich Schnauss, engineer, keyboard player and an in-demand remixer - Mark Peters, bass player, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in the British band Engineers. A quiet album for the most part. Its multi-layered fabric reveals something new every time one listens to it, a wealth of fresh discoveries, new rhythms emerging from the sound cloud, hitherto unnoticed melodies illuminating the background. Schnauss and Peters have crafted music which is enchanting in the truest sense of the word, shimmering sounds, floating echoes, rhythmically reverberant chords which wrap themselves around the listener, lifting him into a state of suspension and carrying him gently away.

January 30th - 'January Songs' by Darren Hayman - 31 Song Double CD and Digital Download -  Belka Records Via Cargo 
Limited to 1500. Every single sleeve hand drawn. During January 2011 Darren Hayman wrote a song for every day of the month. Each day not only included the writing of a song, but also it’s recording and the making of a video, and an online diary. Co-writes and collaborations include Allo Darlin, The Wave Pictures, Terry Edwards, Ballboy and many more. The physical release of this project comes in a beautiful gatefold sleeve with printed inner bags. Every single sleeve has been hand drawn by Darren. Every page of Darren’s journal as well as 31 song videos and 31 video diaries can be seen at http://januarysongs.tumblr.com/ 

There will be gigs to accompany the albums release throughout January 2012.

January 30th - Black Bananas 'Rad Times Xpress IV' cd/lp/dd - Drag City - Download links and cd promos available on request. After three albums under the name RTX, Jennifer Herrema and her bunch decided to flip the script, to kick open the doors of perception a little bit . Black Bananas is set for the next all-inclusive rock and roll crusade, the one that includes even and especially all the shit you don't like, woven into all the shit you can’t live without. This has been the name of Jennifer's game from day one;  a pioneer of comprehensive non-exclusive opposition rock, and Black Bananas is the latest addition to the oeuvre.

January 30th - The Soft Hills - 'The Bird Is Coming Down To Earth' cd/lp/dd - Tapete
A Seattle band with an appreciation for experimentation and harmony, their songs draw from a wide range of influences from folk to psychedelic to ambient, drawing on literary influences, and incorporating experiences from dreams and visions. To listen to The Soft Hills' music is like wandering through a magical landscape where horse-like creatures run wild across velveteen fields and mythological birds soar under melancholy clouds. It is the band's love of space, melody and sonic exploration that shines through their compositions

January 16th - Me And Cassity 'Appearances' cd/lp/dd Tapete Records 
Dirk Darmstaedter is one of Germany’s underground pop heroes and the cofounder of the influential indie label Tapete Records 'Appearances' is Dirk’s 16th release, this one under the guise of alter ego Me and Cassity. With a crack lineup featuring drummer Lars Plogschties, bassist Ben Schadow, keyboardist Nikko Weidemann, the Me and Cassity group stormed through a five-day session at Le Chatelet studios right in Hamburg’s Altona neighborhood, creating this ten-song collection.It’s a wide panorama, and the moods range from sweet to passionate, pastoral to gritty, vulnerable to tough.  Sparkle and hum. Truth and grit. Appearances can be deceiving, but not this album