Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to upcoming releases! Four times a year, we round up a big ol' list of albums, singles, EPs, and DVDs set to be unleashed over the coming months, hoping to get you pumped about going out and buying records. (You do still do that, right? RIGHT?) This installment covers spring 2012.Compiling such a list isn't easy in this day and age, with different release dates for digital and physical versions of albums, as well as different release dates for different countries. So we tried to stick with North American physical release dates as much as possible, with exceptions as noted. When an album's North American release date differs from its overseas one, we also made a note of that. Keep in mind that release dates can be as slippery as the Republican Presidential candidate race, so any of this information could change at any moment.

APRIL

04-02

Lightships: Electric Cables [Domino]

Lotus Plaza: Spooky Action at a Distance [Kranky]

Roxy Music: Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 [Virgin]

04-03

Addison Grove: Transistor Rhythm [50 Weapons]

Amadou & Mariam: Folila [Nonesuch and Because Music]

AU: Both Lights [Hometapes]

Bear in Heaven: I Love You, It's Cool [Dead Oceans]

Black Mountain: Year Zero: The Original Soundtrack [Jagjaguwar]

Breton: Other People's Problems [Fat Cat]

Bright Eyes: Every Day and Every Night EP (Reissue) [Saddle Creek]

Bright Eyes: Letting Off the Happiness (Reissue) [Saddle Creek]

Chris Clark: Iradelphic [Warp]

Dr. John: Locked Down [Nonesuch]

Evans The Death: Evans The Death [Slumberland]

fIREHOSE: lowFLOWS: the Columbia anthology ('91-'93) [Columbia/Legacy]

Great Lake Swimmers: New Wild Everywhere [Nettwerk]

High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriis [eOne]

King Tuff: "Wild Desire" b/w "Hole in My Head" 7" [Suicide Squeeze]

Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded [Young Money/Universal]

Orbital: Wonky [ACP Recordings]

Robert Pollard: Mouseman Cloud [GBV Inc.]

Screaming Females: Ugly [Don Giovanni Records]

Serengeti: Kenny Dennis EP [Anticon]

Tycho: Dive 12" [Ghostly International]

UV Pop: No Songs Tomorrow [Sacred Bones]

White Woods: "Where Did You Go" b/w "Paper Cutout" 7" [Suicide Squeeze]

White Fence: Family Perfume Vol. 1 [Woodsist]

Willis Earl Beal: Acousmatic Sorcery [Hot Charity]

Zammuto: Zammuto [Temporary Residence]

04-04

New Build: Yesterday Was Lived and Lost [Lanark Recordings]

04-08

Ramases: Space Hymns [Mexican Summer]

04-09

Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Trembling Bells: The Marble Downs [Honest Jon's]

Florence and the Machine: MTV Unplugged [Island]

Grand Duchy: Let the People Speak [Sonic Unyon/Cooking Vinyl]

04-10

Alabama Shakes: Boys and Girls [ATO Records]

Alex Winston: King Con [V2 and Cooperative Music]

Bassnectar: VAVA VOOM [Amorphous Music]

Black Dice: Mr. Impossible [Ribbon Music]

Choir Of Young Believers: Rhine Gold [Ghostly International]

Dinosaur Feathers: Whistle Tips [Ernest Jenning]

Eternal Summers: The Dawn of Eternal Summers [Kanine]

Eight and a Half: Eight and a Half [Arts&Crafts]

M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion [Merge]

oOoOO: Our Loving is Hurting Us EP [Tri Angle]

Opeth: Deliverance, Damnation, Blackwater Park, and Lamentations reissues [The End]

Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, and the Congos: FRKWYS Vol. 9: ICON GIVE THANK [RVNG]

Zambri: House of Baasa [Kanine]