OpenAir’s guide to upcoming albums in 2015

The first few months of 2015 are packed with some promising releases. Here’s a handy guide to some albums we’re looking forward to in the first quarter of the new year:

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• Panda Bear - "Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper" (Domino)
• Dan Mangan - "Club Meds" (Arts & Crafts)
• Guster - "Evermotion" (Network Records)
• Justin Townes Earle - "Absent Fathers" (Vagrant)

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• Belle & Sebastian - "Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance" (Matador)
• Sleater-Kinney - "No Cities To Love" (Sub Pop)
• The Decemberists - "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World" (Capitol)
• Viet Cong - "Viet Cong" (Jagjaguwar)

January 27

• Doomtree - "All Hands" (Doomtree)
• Dengue Fever - "The Deepest Lake" (Tuk Tuk)
• Pond - "Man It Feels Like Space Again" (Caroline)
• The Dodos - "Individ" (Polyvinyl)
• Ty Segall - "Live in San Francisco" (Castle Face)

February 3

• Bob Dylan - "Shadows in the Night" (Columbia)
• John Carpenter - "Lost Themes" (Sacred Bones)
• Mount Eerie - "Sauna" (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
• Robert Pollard - "Ricked Wicky: I Sell The Circus" (GBV)
• Two Gallants - "We Are Undone" (ATO)

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• Father John Misty - "I Love You, Honeybear" (Sub Pop)

February 17

• A Place To Bury Strangers - "Transfixiation" (Dead Oceans)
• Jose Gonzalez - "Vestiges & Claws" (Mute)
• Six Organs of Admittance - "Hexadic" (Carrot Top)
• Sonny & the Sunsets - "Talent Night at the Ashram" (Polyvinyl)
• Steve Earle - "Terraplane" (New West)

February 24

• Dan Deacon - "Gliss Riffer" (Domino)
• Public Service Broadcasting - "The Race For Space" (Test Card)
• Gang of Four - "What Happens Next" (Metropolis)
• Screaming Females - "Rose Mountain" (Don Giovanni)

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• Modest Mouse - "Strangers to Ourselves" (Epic)
• Moon Duo - "Shadow of the Sun" (Sacred Bones)
• of Montreal - "Aureate Gloom" (Polyvinyl)

March 10

• Will Butler (of Arcade Fire) - "Policy" (Merge)
• Matthew E. White - "Fresh Blood" (Domino)

March 17

• Twin Shadow - "Eclipse" (Warner Bros.)

March 24

• Laura Marling - "Short Movies" (Ribbon Music)
• Vetiver - "Complete Strangers" (Sub Pop)