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 winter 2011.

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 Radiohead new album rumors, and any one of these is subject to change at any moment.

JANUARY

01-04

Various Artists: Kitsuné Maison 10: The Fireworks Issue [Kitsuné] [2xCD]

01-10

Jürgen Paape: Kompilation [Kompakt Klassiks] [Digital release]

01-11

Bardo Pond: Bardo Pond [Fire Records]

Beach Fossils: "Calyer" 7'' [Captured Tracks]

The Beets: Stay Home [Captured Tracks]

The Beets: "Time Brought Age" 7'' [Captured Tracks]

British Sea Power: Valhalla Dancehall [Rough Trade]

Broken Records: Let Me Come Home [4AD]

Cake: Showroom of Compassion [Upbeat Records]

Dungen: "Oga Nasa Mum" b/w "Highway Wolf" 7'' [Third Man]

Kid Sister: Kiss Kiss Kiss mixtape [Fool's Gold]

MillionYoung: Replicants [Old Flame] [digital only]

Minks: By the Hedge [Captured Tracks]

N.E.R.D.: The Best of N.E.R.D. [Virgin/EMI]

The Pixies: Wave of Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies [4AD] [vinyl release]

Punk: Attitude [Shout! Factory] [DVD]

Tape Deck Mountain: Secret Surf EP [Lefse]

Tapes 'n Tapes: Outside [Ibid]

Tim Buckley: Tim Buckley [Rhino] [reissue] [2xCD]

Widowspeak: "Brainfreeze" 7'' [Captured Tracks]

Wire: Red Barked Tree [Pink Flag]

01-17

The Decemberists: The King Is Dead [Rough Trade] [UK release]

Disappears: Guider [Kranky]

Various Artists: Trax 25: DJhistory.com Re-Edit Project Celebrating 25 Years of Trax Records, Chicago [Harmless Records]

White Lies: Ritual [Fiction] [UK release]

01-18

16 Horsepower: Yours Truly [Alternative Virus]

Aurelio: Laru Beya [Next Ambiance]

Braids: Native Speaker [Kanine]

Daniel Martin Moore: In the Cool of the Day [Sub Pop]

The Decemberists: The King Is Dead [Capitol]

Ducktails: Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics [Woodsist]

Fergus & Geronimo: Unlearn [Hardly Art]

First Aid Kit: "Universal Soldier" b/w "It Hurts Me Too" 7'' [Third Man]

Klaxons: Surfing the Void [Polydor] [deluxe edition reissue]

Madlib: Low Budget High Fi Music [Stones Throw] [3xCD]

Robert Pollard: Space City Kicks [Guided by Voices, Inc.]

Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde [Fat Possum]

Tennis: Cape Dory [Fat Possum]

Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death: Some of Us Are in This Together [Don't Stop Believin']

White Lies: Ritual [Geffen]

White Fence: ...Is Growing Faith [Woodsist]

01-24

Cloud Nothings: Cloud Nothings [Wichita] [UK release]

The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar [Canvasback/Atlantic] [UK release]

01-25

Andre Afram Asmar: Harmonic Emergency [Mush]

Apex Manor: The Year of Magical Drinking [Merge]

Ben + Vesper: Honors [Sounds Familyre]

The Books: Thought for Food [Temporary Residence] [reissue]

Brown Recluse: Evening Tapestry [Slumberland]

Chain and the Gang: "Cry, Cry, Cry Over You" b/w "Snakes on a Plane" 7'' [K Records]

Cloud Nothings: Cloud Nothings [Carpark]

Cold War Kids: Mine Is Yours [Downtown]

Ensemble: Excerpts [FatCat]

Epstein: Sealess See [Asthmatic Kitty]

Death: Spiritual, Mental, Physical [Drag City]

Deerhoof: Deerhoof Vs. Evil [Polyvinyl]

Destroyer: Kaputt [Merge]

Fujiya & Miyagi: Ventriloquizzing [Yep Roc]

Gang of Four: Content [Yep Roc]

The Holydrug Couple: Ancient Land EP 12'' [Sacred Bones Records]

I Was a King: Old Friends [Sounds Familyre]

Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean [Warner Bros./4AD]

John Vanderslice: White Wilderness [Dead Oceans]

Lake: "You Are Alone" b/w "Higher Than Merry" 7'' [K Records]

Lia Ices: Grown Unknown [Jagjaguwar]

Matthew Friedberger: Napoleonette [Thrill Jockey]

Michael Chapman: Trainsong: Guitar Compositions, 1967-2010 [Tompkins Square]

Mike Adams At His Honest Weight: Oscillate Wisely [St. Ives]

Monotonix: Not Yet [Drag City]

My Disco: Little Joy [Temporary Residence, Ltd.]

Phil Manley: Life Coach [Thrill Jockey]

The Radio Dept.: Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 [Labrador] [2xCD]

Sic Alps: Napa Asylum [Drag City]

Sidi Touré: Sahel Folk [Thrill Jockey]

Sonic Youth: SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu soundtrack [SYR] [digital release]

Sonny Smith: 100 Records Volume 2: I Miss the Jams [Turn Up Records]

Talib Kweli: Gutter Rainbows [Talibra]

Thank You: Golden Worry [Thrill Jockey]

Wanda Jackson: The Party Ain't Over [Third Man/Nonesuch]

Young Prisms: Friends For Now [Kanine]

Zs: New Slaves Part II: Essence Implosion! [The Social Registry]