In the year 2010: What I really really look forward to in the next year.

Vampire Weekend - Contra (January 12)

My god, it's like my own personal 21st birthday present. Vampire Weekend has been steadily adding singles for us to nibble on (and, oddly enough, are already getting play in the mainstream?). I don't know what could have been critiqued last time around, so I assume the will end up getting the same treatment of The Strokes' Room On Fire.

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (March 9)

One of the most underrated acts playing, total vegan hippie New York socialites, and I'm totally okay with that as long as the did what they did last time. It's a safe bet because Ted Leo and his gang have rarely fucked up.

She & Him - Volume Two (March 23)

Part of my excitement was the really decided to name their sequel Volume Two. Despite the fact that Zooey Deschanel is wearing herself thin with my patience (we get it already, you're hot) nothing is going to make me happier than seeing springtime emerge and have this to go with it. Seriously, try not to smile and listen to their first album, and then copy paste that to April 2010.

The Magnetic Fields - Realism (January 26)

I seem to remember their last album coming out at about the same time two years ago and falling in love with it while I was typing my English 101 papers. I've seen/read/heard a lot of people tell them they are of a bygone era, but I feel this album is prime for the old folks to show the kids what's what.

The National - (no title yet) (spring 2010)

I'm not really sure how to fuck their strategy up. They've created progressively better albums over time and don't seem to yet peak. Their musical style only facilitates better songwriting, and so I'm going to gamble this and maintain excitement for whatever the put out this year.

Spoon - Transference (January 26)

I have this strange feeling that this and Contra are just going to Arcade Fire everyone and we'll just all give up on the rest of the year (kinda like Animal Collective did this year). I've never heard a bad Spoon album, and this will be no exception.

In general I have very big optimism for a lot of things, and that might have something to do with my choice to not shave my beard mixed with the promise of a new decade. I'm stretching now because I know I'm going to run myself ragged, and with this soundtrack we might be going into the 1970s of music or the 1980s of music. Hopefully the prior, of course.

Mazel Tov!

My final blogs of this decade coming soon. I promise! Especially the big one... that's what she said? Yes. That is what she said.