We have today information on two new albums that we will hear in the new year.
First Magnetic Fields with their next step, after 'Distortion' of 2008, titled 'Realism' to be released by Nonesuch on 26 January. It is their third album in the series (after 'i' and 'Distortion' ) which is recorded without the use of synthesizers.
Songs of 'Realism' are: 
01 You Must Be Out of Your Mind
02 Interlude
03 We Are Having a Hootenanny
04 I Don't Know What to Say
05 The Dolls' Tea Party
06 Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree
07 Walk a Lonely Road
08 Always Already Gone
09 Seduced and Abandoned
10 Better Things
11 Painted Flower
12 The Dada Polka
13 From a Sinking Boat
In the album participate Leo Taylor of Londoners Invisible and Charles Hayward of the experimental 70's group This Heat.
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe You
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought