All of a sudden there seems to be a ton of albums imminent for the new year that I’m very interested in…

Meat Beat Manifesto return after years away with a double entitled ‘Impossible Star’

Cavern of Anti-Matter just announced an album for March, ‘Hormone Lemonade’

Cut Chemist has finally got round to finishing ‘Die Cut’ after years of bits and pieces dribbling out

Jon Brooks has a new Library-sounding release on Café Kaput, ‘Applied Music Vol.2 – Plastics Today’ – available Jan 19th from his Bandcamp page.

Trevor Jackson has been chucking records out in themed chunks on his Pre- label, exhuming his archive of unreleased material before starting a new label, Post.

Beautify Junkyards release their next record on Ghost Box in March, no pre-order link as of writing but The digital single, ‘Aquarius’, taken from the album is out today

Nicklas Sørensen‘s ‘Solo 2’ is up for pre-order on El Paraiso Records‘ website as are new Mythic Sunship and Causa Sui LPs.

Chris Carter has a new album coming out on Mute, his first in 17 years, ‘Chris Carter’s Chemistry Lessons vol.1’

Of course, dare I say it? The 5th LP from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – ‘Gumboot Soup’ is – despite all expectations – actually really good. More of an off cuts compilation of tracks that didn’t fit on the other four albums, stylistically it’s all over the place but it has some absolute killers on it.