With those January blues well and truly set in we thought we'd give you a little bit of hope!
2011 delivered some crackers of albums from The Horrors' 'Skying', Florence And The Machine's 'Ceremonials' and PJ Harvey's - 'Let England Shake.
With the Maccabees superb new album 'Given To The Wild' released today (January 9) it seems 2012 is set to top last year.
Gigwise has put together a list of the most anticipated albums of 2012 from Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age to Sleigh Bells.
Leave your thoughts and comments below. What else are you looking forward to this year?
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Sleigh Bells - 'Reign Of Terror' (Released February 14) The New York duo's debut smashed 2011 and the follow-up is set to do the same. We love Alexis Krauss!

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