Now that we can officially begin counting down 2009 in a manageable amount of hours, let’s take a look ahead to 2010 and some expected record releases for the first few months of the new year:

Laura Veirs –  July Flame (01/12/10)
Final Fantasy – Heartland (01/12/10)
OK Go – Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky (01/12/10)
Editors – In This Light And On this Evening (01/19/10)
Surfer Blood – Astro Coast (01/19/10)
Vampire Weekend – Contra (01/12/09)
The Paperbacks – Lit From Within (01/12/10)
Alberta Cross – The Broken Side Of Time (01/19/10)
Spoon – Transference (01/19/10)
Eels – End Times (01/19/10)
RJD2 – The Colossus (01/19/10)
Daniel Merriweather – Love & War (01/19/10)
Cold War Kids – Behave Yourself EP (01/19/10)
Beck & Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM (01/26/10)
Magnetic Fields – Realism (01/26/10)
Beach House – Teen Dream (01/26/10)
Citay – Dream Get Together (01/26/10)
Locksley – Be In Love (01/26/10)
Retribution Gospel Choir – 2 (01/26/10)
Corrine Bailey Rae – The Sea (01/26/10)
Four Tet – There Is Love In You (01/26/10)
Pit Er Pat – The Flexible Entertainer (01/26/10)
Midlake – The Courage of Others (02/02/10)
Lifehouse – Smoke and Mirrors (02/02/10)
Chamillionaire – Venom (02/02/10)
Massive Attack – Heligoland (02/09/10)
Hot Chip – One Life Stand (02/09/10)
Yeasayer – Odd Blood (02/09/10)
Reckless Kelly – Somewhere in Time (02/09/10)
Galactic – Ya-Ka-May (02/09/10)
You Say Party! We Say Die! – XXXX (02/09/10)
The Watson Twins – Talking To You, Talking To Me (02/09/10)
Drake – Thank Me Later (02/14/10)
Angels & Airwaves – Love (02/14/10)
Lightspeed Champion – Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You (02/16/10)
Tindersticks – Falling Down a Mountain (02/16/10)
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim – Here Lies Love (02/23/10)
Toro Y Moi – Causers Of This (02/23/10)
Quasi – American Gong (02/23/10)
Shout Out Louds – Work (02/23/10)
Woodhands – Remorsecapade (02/23/10)
Holly Miranda – The Magician’s Private Library (02/23/10)
Rogue Wave – Permalight (03/02/10)
The Ruby Suns – Fight Softly (03/02/10)
The Whigs – In The Dark (03/02/10)
Ted Leo – The Brutalist Bricks (03/09/10)
Liars – Sisterworld (03/09/10)
Broken Bells – S/T (03/09/10)
Freelance Whales – Weathervanes (03/26/10)
Wakey!Wakey! – Almost Everything I Wish I’d Said The Last Time I Saw You… (03/16/10)
She & Him – Volume 2 (03/23/10)
The Apples in Stereo – Travelers in Space and Time (04/06/10)

This list is, of course, grossly incomplete and subject to change. Anything we’re missing that you’re pumped about?

-Alec Wooden