Upcoming Albums: Metric, Depeche Mode, Doves

With new releases from artists like Animal Collective, Bruce Springsteen and Franz Ferdinand, 2009 is off to a successful start. As we near the lucrative festival season, we should only expect the pace of mind-blowing album releases to quicken. Here are a few that Beatcrave just got wind of:

• Metric will release their fourth album, “Fantasies in the United States and Canada,” on April 14. After rising steeply in popularity throughout the past two years by making various festival, TV and tour appearances, Metric took a break to record the new album in a “Utopian farmhouse studio in the woods outside Seattle, WA,” according to front-woman Emily Haines. Fans can pre-order the record directly from the band starting March 2 and will receive an immediate MP3 download of the first single, “Help I’m Alive.” An acoustic version of the song is also available for download on Metric’s website now. Check out the track-listing:

1. Help I’m Alive
2. Sick Muse
3. Satellite Mind
4. Twilight Galaxy
5. Gold Guns Girls
6. Gimme Sympathy
7. Collect Call
8. Front Row
9. Blindness
10. Stadium Love

• Depeche Mode has announced the track-listing for its upcoming album, “Sounds of the Universe,” which is due out April 20 (if you were looking for a 4/20 party soundtrack, look no further). The first single, “Wrong” is slated for release on April 6. Here’s the track-listing for “Sounds of the Universe”:

1. In Chains
2. Hole To Feed
3. Wrong
4. Fragile Tension
5. Little Soul
6. In Sympathy
7. Peace
8. Come Back
9. Spacewalker
10. Perfect
11. Miles Away/The Truth Is
12. Jezebel
13. Corrupt

• The Manchester rock trio, Doves, have announced the release of their new 11-track album, “Kingdom of Rust,” on April 6. The title track will be released as a single on March 30, but another of the songs, “Jetstream,” is already available for download at the band’s website. Radiohead producer John Leckie stepped in to lay down two tracks, “10.03″ and “Winter Hill,” so keep your ear out for those. The rest of album was produced by Dan Austin. Here’s a complete track-listing:

1. Jetstream
2. Kingdom Of Rust
3. The Outsiders
4. Winter Hill
5. 10.03
6. The Greatest Denier
7. Birds Flew Backwards
8. Spellbound
9. Compulsion
10. House Of Mirrors
11. Lifelines

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