New albums for 2009

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Cover stars Kasabian reveal the story behind their new album in this week’s NME. Find out more, including how Hollywood actress Rosario Dawson got involved and played their track to Quention Tarantino. As Serge points out: "That’s when you sit at home in Leicester tucking into your beans on toast going, ‘Fucking hell man, what’s going on?’". Release date: April 2009.

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With a rave track, a collaboration with drum’n’bass producer Shy FX, and a search for a "northern, working-class" voice for another cut, the new Dizzee Rascal album sounds promisingly eclectic. Get the New Albums ’09 issue of NME this week for more details. Release date: Expected late 2009.

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With a roll call including Wolfman, Dot Allison, the Babyshambles boys and even Graham Coxon, Pete Doherty’s new album is a relatively star-studded affair. Find out more in this week’s New Albums ’09 issue of NME. Release date: March 9. Pic: Kevin Westenberg

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Superproducer James Ford has brought Klaxons to Nantes, France (where he recorded The Last Shadow Puppets album) to work on their follow-up to 2007’s ‘Myths Of The Near Future’. "It’s more ‘world music’ than the first album," Jamie Reynolds tells NME of the album so far. "Not like Yeasayer or anything but we’ve been making music in foreign scales. Babylonian scales." Release date: Expected late 2009. Pic: Tom Oxley

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"We just saw a press release that said ‘The Wombats are growing up’ – I’d rather grow backwards," says Murph on The Wombats’ new direction. Find out what this means – and how they’ve made a country track – in this week’s mag. Release date: Expected late 2009.

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Horses and whoreses (whores crossed with horses apparently) play a big part in Biffy Clyro’s new album, according to the band’s Simon Neil. This week’s NME is a New Albums ’09 special, and has exclusive in-the-studio interviews and pictures with Klaxons, The Enemy, PJ Harvey, Dizzee Rascal and Kasabian. Release date: Expected mid-late 2009.

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"It’s fucking bleak. It is really, really horrible. Really offensive. It’s completely anti-dogma, anti-authority. It’s pretty much anti-life." So says Frank Carter of the forthcoming Gallows record. Find out more in this week’s New Albums 2009 issue of NME, which has everything you need to know about the year’s biggest albums, including Kasabian, Klaxons, Lily Allen and The View. Release date: Early May 2009. Pic: Tim Cochrane

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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs three left their native New York to work on album number three, and found themselves first under three feet of snow in rural Massachusetts then in "Wild West" territory by the Mexican border in Texas. Find out how these extreme locales influenced the new tracks in this week’s mag. Release date: Spring 2009.

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Lily Allen – who doesn’t condone drugs – spoke to NME for our New Albums ’09 issue (out this week). Recorded in LA and due out on February 9, it boasts a melody stolen (with permission) from Take That, some faux country and western and a whole load of pop gems, with help from producer Greg Kurstin. Release date: Feb 9.

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Arctic Monkeys are working hard on album #3 in the Mojave desert (with producer Josh Homme) with a view to releasing something in the second half of 2009. They are one of a multitude of bands releasing material this year that includes Kasabian, Klaxons and The View. Release date: Late 2009.

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Believe it or not, what looks likely to be called ‘Tadlock’s Glasses’ will be Beastie Boys’ eight studio album. Recorded in their own New York studio and using samples plucked from shops the world over, it sees them ditch politics and going back to their party-starting roots. Expect steel drums, a collaboration with Santogold and a huge world tour in 2009. Release date: Expected late Spring 2009.

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From a converted farmhouse deep within the Monmouthshire hills, The Enemy have been beavering away at their second album. The mostly nocturnal sessions have spawned some Led Zep and PiL-sounding tracks. Check out this week’s mag for the full lowdown. Release date: Expected Summer 2009.

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The View have ditched their "macho man" image for their new album ‘Which Bitch?’, instead choosing to get more in touch with their emotions. With a contribution from Drew McConnell, and frontman Kyle Falconer taking up part-time production duties, it looks set to be well worth the wait. Release date: Feb 2.

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