Best New Releases: Avey Tare, Andrew Bird, Sun Airway, Small Black, Diamond Rings, Cashes River, Gospel Claws, Pepper Rabbit

Animal Collective member Avey Tare has released his new LP,  Down There, today.  The lead single,  “Lucky 1″, sounds, surprisingly, like a new AC song. Tare also followed the release of that track with a new video for “Lucky 1″.  Also, this week, we’re enjoying the latest release from indie instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Andrew Bird, whose lead track, “Hot Math” is an extraordinary mix of lofty indie music and Orient-influenced infusions. Plus, check out new releases from The Octopus Project, Pomegranates, Bermuda, Seeland, The Phantom Band, Broken Records, Paleo and more.

This is a huge week for debut indie LPs from some of the best break-through and new bands of 2010. Some of the best debut albums we recommend this year are out this week, including Sun Airways debut, Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier, plus Brooklyn’s Small Black; Toronto’s Diamond Rings; Los Angeles’ Warpaint; Des Moines’ Cashes River; Brooklyn pop band Elizabeth & The Catapult; Phoenix’s Gospel Claws; LA pop band, Pepper Rabbit.

Don’t miss Active Child’s remix of The School for Seven Bells, plus a new single from Crystal Stilts, and two new EPs from Telekinesis and The War on Drugs.  Also, to make big new release playlist mixes more digestible, we’re breaking up releases of the Best New Releases posts into sub-sections, including New Releases from Established Artists; Anticipated Debuts From Break-Through Artists; Releases from New Bands to Watch, and Singles, Remixes and Reissues. Our favorite sub-section this week is Anticipated Debuts simply because it contains some of the best debuts for the entire year.

New Releases from Established Artists

“Lucky 1”– Avey Tare from Down There

“Hot Math” – Andrew Bird from Useless Creatures

“Fugefat” – The Octopus Project from Hexadecagon

“Walls” – The Phantom Band from Wants

“Create Your Own Reality” (download) – Pomegranates from One Of Us

“Local Park” – Seeland from How to Live

“A Leaving Song” – Broken Records from Let Me Come Home

“King James Fakebook” – Paleo from A View of the Sky

“Kisses” – Bermuda from The Heart of the Nightlife

Anticipated Debuts From Break-Through Artists

“Put the Days Away” – Sun Airway from Nocturne Of Exploded Crystal Chandelier

“Older Brother” – Pepper Rabbit from Beauregard

“Avenues” – Gospel Claws from C-L-A-W-S

“Same Dream China” – Gold Panda from Lucky Shiner

“As I Drift” – Cashes Rivers from Cashes Rivers

“Something Else” – Diamond Rings from Special Affectations

“You & Me” – Elizabeth & The Catapult from The Other Side of Zero

“Undertow” – Warpaint from The Fool

Singles, EPs, Remixes and Re-Issues

“Dirty Thing” – Telekinesis from Parallel Seismic Conspiracies EP

“Heart Is Strange” (Active Child Remix) – School of Seven Bells from Active Child/School of Seven Bells split 7″ 

“Shake the Shackles” – Crystal Stilts from 7 inch single

“The History of Plastic” – The War on Drugs from Future Weather EP

More Releases [compiled from PFM]

Saint Etienne: Good Humor [Heavenly/Universal] [Deluxe Edition Reissue]

Brian McBride: The Effective Disconnect [Kranky]

The Concretes: WYWH [Something in Construction] [UK Release]

The Orchids: The Lost Star [Pebble]

Saint Etienne: Good Humor [Heavenly/Universal] [Deluxe Edition Reissue]

Saint Etienne: Tales From Turnpike House [Heavenly/Universal] [Deluxe Edition Reissue]

Angelo Spencer et l’Orchidee d’Hawai: “L’Argent” 7” [K Records]

Apparat: DJ-Kicks [K7]

Coliseum: Goddamage [Temporary Residence Ltd.]

Comic Wow: Music for Mysteries of Mind Space and Time [Asthmatic Kitty] [Library Catalog Music Series]

Gary Wilson: Electric Endicott [Western Vinyl] [digital release]

Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger: Acoustic Sessions [Chimera]

K.C. Accidental: Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub / Anthems for the Could’ve Bin Pills [Arts & Crafts]

Kylesea: Spiral Shadow [Season of Mist]

Lesbian: Stratospheria Cubensis [Important]

Lyrics Born: As U Were [Decon]

Pop. 1280: The Grid EP 12” [Sacred Bones]

R.E.M.: Live From Austin, TX [New West] [DVD]

Seeland: How to Live [LOAF Recordings]

Sun City Girls: Funeral Mariachi [Abduction]

Systems Officer: Underslept [Temporary Residence Ltd.] [Deluxe Vinyl Reissue]

Timmy’s Organism: Rise of the Green Gorilla [Sacred Bones]

Various Artists: Wah Do Dem OST [Factory 25]

Viktor Sjoberg: Breakfast in America [St. Ives]

William Ryan Fritch: Music for Honey and Bile [Asthmatic Kitty] [Library Catalog Music Series]

Wolf & Cub: Science & Sorcery [Last Gang]

Wooden Wand: Death Seat [Young God]