September 2, 2012
Forget the election – check out the best new albums to hit this fall:
September
| 4th | |
| Animal Collective | Centipede Hz |
| Azure Ray | As Above So Below |
| Raymond Byron & The White Freighter | Little Death Shaker |
| California Wives | Art History |
| Crypts | Crypts |
| Deerhoof | Break Up Song |
| Elbow | Dead In the Boot (b-sides) |
| Elska | Middle of Nowhere |
| The Fresh & Onlys | Long Slow Dance |
| Gentleman Reg | Leisure Life, Vol. 2 EP |
| Judas Priest | Screaming For Vengeance (30th anniversary edition) |
| Jason Karabian | Shift |
| Jens Lekman | I Know What Love Isn’t |
| Sondre Lerche | Bootlegs (live) |
| Matchbox Twenty | North |
| MONO | For My Parents |
| Mount Eerie | Ocean Roar |
| The Music Tapes | Mary’s Voice |
| Sauna Youth | Dreamlands |
| Maika Spiegel | Every Day Is Like the First Day |
| Stars | The North |
| Ten Kens | Namesake |
| Two Door Cinema Club | Beacon |
| Two Gallants | The Bloom and the Blight |
| The Vaccines | Come of Age |
| Videotapes | This Is Disconnect |
| White Ash Falls | By the River Bend |
| Wonky Doll & The Echo | Pleasant Thoughts |
| 11th | |
| Adventures | Adventures EP |
| Agent Ribbons | Let Them Talk |
| Alameda | Procession |
| A$AP Rocky | LONGLIVE A$AP |
| The Avett Brothers | Carpenter |
| Buke & Gase | Function Falls EP |
| David Byrne & St. Vincent | Love This Giant |
| Calexico | Algiers |
| Castratii | Eora |
| Cat Power | Sun |
| Ethan Daniel Davidson | Silvertooth |
| Bob Dylan | Tempest |
| Field Report | Field Report |
| Tim Heidecker | Titanic and Other Songs |
| The Helio Sequence | Negotiations |
| Hoobastank | Fight or Flight |
| Patterson Hood | Heat Lightning Rumbles In the Distance |
| Dave Matthews Band | Away From the World |
| Miss Shevaugn & Yuma Wray | We’re From Here |
| Natural Child | Hard In Heaven |
| Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra | Theater Is Evil |
| Paper Route | The Peace of Wild Things |
| Parenthetical Girls | Privilege, pt. V: Portrait of a Reputation EP |
| Pet Shop Boys | Elysium |
| The Presets | Pacifica |
| The Raveonettes | Observator |
| Raychord | Ruban Ruban |
| Chris Robinson Brotherhood | The Magic Door |
| Seapony | Falling |
| Sic Alps | Sic Alps |
| 10 Years soundtrack | |
| Thee Oh Sees | Putrifiers II |
| TOY | TOY |
| Turbo Fruits | Turbo Fruits |
| The xx | Coexist |
| ZZ Top | La Futura |
| 18th | |
| The Album Leaf | Forward/Return EP |
| Alt-J | An Awesome Wave |
| Band of Horses | Mirage Rock |
| Big Scary | Vacation |
| Ryan Bingham | Tomorrowland |
| Bird By Snow | Offering |
| Peter Blachley | Nevada Sky EP |
| Boyfrndz | All Day Pass |
| The Burning of Rome | With Us |
| Cars & Trains | We Are All Fire |
| Chomp | Buddah Jabba Momma |
| Dinosaur Jr. | I Bet On Sky |
| Aaron Embry | Tiny Prayers |
| FAC. DANCE 02 | |
| Ben Folds Five | The Sound of the Life of the Mind |
| Grizzly Bear | Shields |
| Hey Sholay | ((O)) |
| James Iha | Look To the Sky |
| Wiz Khalifa | O.N.I.F.C. |
| The Killers | Battle Born |
| Kreayshawn | Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay |
| Lymbyc System | Symbolyst |
| Aimee Mann | Chamer |
| Carolyn Mark | The Queen of Vancouver Island |
| Menomena | Moms |
| Michna | Moving Mountains EP |
| One Finger Riot | Fly By Life |
| Pancho-san | Americans |
| Sarin Smoke | Vent |
| The Sea and Cake | Runner |
| Paul Simon | Paul Simon Live In New York City |
| The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Meat + Bone |
| Surrender the Fall | Burn In the Spotlight |
| Wax Tailor | Dusty Rainbow From the Dark |
| Woods | Bend Beyond |
| Dwight Yoakam | 3 Pears |
| 25th | |
| Caspian | Waking Season |
| The Chevin | Borderland |
| Jason Collett | Reckon |
| Django Django | Django Django |
| Dragonette | Bodyparts |
| Dum Dum Girls | End of Daze EP |
| Efterklang | Piramida |
| Obi Fernandez | Confessions, Waves and The Garden State |
| Frightened Rabbit | State Hpspital EP |
| John Frusciante | Pbx Funicular Intaglio Zone |
| Green Day | Uno! |
| Hauschka | Salon Des Amateurs Remixes |
| In Dying Arms | Boundaries |
| Larry & His Flask | Hobo’s Lament EP |
| Lavender Diamond | Incorruptible Heart |
| Lightning Bolt | Oblivion Hunter |
| Lupe Fiasco | Look a Little Closer |
| Melody’s Echo Chamber | Melody’s Echo Chamber |
| Mumford & Sons | Babel |
| Murder By Death | Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon |
| Olly Murs | In Case You Didn’t Know |
| No Doubt | Push and Shove |
| Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon | YOKOKIMTHURSTON |
| Onuinu | Mirror Gazer |
| Ozomatli | OzoKidz |
| Preservation Hall Jazz Band | The Preservation Hall Jazz Band 50 Anniversary Collection (box set) |
| Preservation Hall Jazz Band | St. Peter and 57th Street (live) |
| Ringo Deathstarr | Mauve |
| Pete Seeger | A More Perfect Union |
| Pete Seeger | Pets Remember Woody |
| Sex Pistols | Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (limited edition super deluxe box set) |
| The Whigs | Enjoy the Company |
| Wickerbird | The Crow Mother |
| Patrick Wolf | Sundark & Riverlight |
October
| 2nd | |
| Bastards of the Skies | Tarnation |
| Bong | Bong |
| Steve Bug | Noir |
| John Cale | Shifty Adventures In Nooky Wood |
| Mark Eitzel | Don’t Be a Stranger |
| ERAAS | ERAAS |
| Field Music | Play (covers) |
| Flying Lotus | Until the Quiet Comes |
| GANGI | gesture is |
| John Hodgman | That Is All (book) |
| Immigrant Union | Immigrant Union |
| Jets Overhead | Boredom and Joy |
| Diana Krall | Glad Rag Doll |
| Kendrick Lamar | Good Kid, m.A.A.d City |
| The Make-Up | I Want Some (reissue) |
| Matt & Kim | Lightning |
| Maybeshewill | I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| Tift Merritt | Traveling Alone |
| Moon Duo | Circles |
| The Mountain Goats | Transcendental Youth |
| Muse | The 2nd Law |
| 1010 Crustraceans | Train Bolt Roller |
| Beth Orton | Sugaring Season |
| The Pollies | Where the Lies Begin |
| The Royal Republic | Save the Nation |
| Shivastep | Shivastep EP |
| Slam Donahue | Hemlock Tea EP |
| The Soft Pack | Strapped |
| Sun Airway | Soft Fall |
| Taken By Trees | Other Worlds |
| Tilly & The Wall | Heavy Mood |
| Ultraísta | Ultraísta |
| The Wallflowers | Glad All Over |
| Bry Webb | Provider |
| Emily Wells | Mama Remixed |
| Andre Williams | Life |
| The Zolas | Ancient Mars |
| 9th | |
| The Acacia Strain | Death Is the Only Mortal |
| All Time Low | Don’t Panic |
| Tori Amos | Gold Dust |
| Bad Books | II |
| The Beatles | Magical Mystery Tour (DVD) |
| Between the Buried and Me | The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| The Birthday Massacre | Hide and Seek |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow | Cobra Juicy |
| Callers | Reviver |
| Chrome Canyon | Elemental Themes |
| Coheed & Cambria | The Afterman: Ascension |
| Converge | All We Love We Leave Behind |
| The Cringe | Hiding In Plain Sight |
| Defiler | Nematocera |
| The Delta Routine | Cigarettes & Caffeine Nightmares |
| Depatures | Still and Moving Lines |
| Martin Eden | Delicate Function |
| John Fogerty | Wrote a Song For Everyone |
| Freelance Whales | Diluvia |
| Gliss | Hunting EP |
| Goldenboy | Blue Swan Orchestra (reissue) |
| Ellie Goulding | Halcyon |
| Herbert Grönemeyer | I Walk |
| Vince Guaraldi | A Charlie Brown Christmas (remastered & expanded edition) |
| Guy Fantastico | Dreamboat |
| I Am Giant | The Horrifying Truth |
| Wanda Jackson | Unfinished Business |
| Kids of 88 | Modern Love |
| Kaki King | Glow |
| LCD Soundsystem | Shut Up and Play the Hits (DVD) |
| Legendary Wings | Making Paper Roses |
| Letting Up Despite Great Faults | Untogether |
| Lord Huron | Lonesome Dreams |
| Luther | Let’s Get You Somewhere Else |
| METZ | METZ |
| NativeMODE | The Lowell Curse EP |
| Naytronic | Dirty Glow |
| A.C. Newman | Shut Down the Streets |
| Yannick Noah | Hommage |
| Nonpoint | Nonpoint |
| PAWS | Cokefloat! |
| Ty Segall | Twins |
| Susanne Sundfør | The Silicone Veil |
| Tame Impala | Lonerism |
| Trash Talk | 119 |
| Tweak Bird | Undercover Crops EP |
| WHY? | Mumps, etc. |
| Xiu Xiu | Air Force (reissue) |
| 16th | |
| Amy Can Flyy | The Start EP |
| Trey Anastasio | Traveler |
| Bassnectar | Freestyle EP |
| Bat For Lashes | The Haunted Man |
| Colin Blunstone | The Best Is Yet To Come |
| Buried In Verona | Notorious |
| Dada Life | THe Rules of Dada |
| Earlimart | System Preferences |
| Escort | Escort Remixed |
| Evil Cowards | Moving Through Security |
| Field Music | Play… (covers) |
| Benjamin Gibbard | Former Lives |
| Glocca Morra | An Obscure Moon Lighting an Obscure World |
| I Like Trains | Beacons EP |
| Icona Pop | Iconic Pop EP |
| In Fear and Faith | In Fear and Faith |
| Kitsuné Maison Compliation 14 | |
| Mark Mallman | Double Silhouette |
| Matmos | The Ganzfield EP |
| Mean Creek | Youth Companion |
| Pinback | Information Retrieved |
| Savoir Adore | Our Nature |
| Ken Stringfellow | Danzig In the Moonlight |
| Tamaryn | Tender New Signs |
| Terraplane Sun | Friends |
| TKTTSM | TKTTSM |
| Two Giners | Stunt Rhythms |
| Martha Wainwright | Come Home to Mama |
| ZZ Ward | Til the Casket Drops |
| We Are the Union | You Can’t Hide the Sun |
| 23rd | |
| Cisco Adler | Aloha |
| The Amazing | Gentle Stream |
| …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead | Lost Songs |
| Autumn Owls | Between Buildings, Toward the Sea |
| Paul Banks | Banks |
| Matt Bauer | No Shape Can Hold Me Now EP |
| Tony Bennett | Viva Duets |
| Bento | Diamond Days |
| Broken Orchestra | Shibul |
| Andy Burrows | Company |
| Cemeteries | The Winderness |
| Gary Clark Jr. | Blak and Blu |
| Cuff the Duke | Union |
| ExDetectives | Farthest Star |
| Simone Felice | New York Times EP |
| Peter Gabriel | SO (25th anniversary edition) |
| GRMLN | Explore EP |
| Harouki Zombi | Objet Petit A |
| Hunter Valentine | Collide & Conquer |
| The Last Bison | Inheritance EP |
| The Man With the Iron Fists soundtrack | |
| The Menahan Street Band | The Crossing |
| Motörhead | The World Is Ours, Vol. 2 – Anyplace Crazy As Anywhere Else (live) |
| of Montreal | Daughter of Cloud (rarities) |
| People Get Ready | People Get Ready |
| A Plastic Rose | Camera.Shutter.Life |
| Sinkane | Mars |
| Dwight Smith | Lateral Drifts |
| Steffaloo | Would You Stay |
| Swedish House Mafia | Until Now |
| Taylor Swift | Red |
| The Sword | Apocryphon |
| Talk Normal | Sunshine |
| Titus Andronicus | Local Business |
| Paul F. Tompkins | Laboring Under Delusions: Live in Brooklyn |
| Tony Castles | Sharon Stone EP |
| U.S. Girls | GEM |
| Yellow Ostrich | Ghost |
| 30th | |
| The Airplanes | The Airplanes EP |
| The Ampersands | This Is Your Adventure Too |
| Andrew Bird | Hands of Glory |
| Barry Brusseau | Royal Violent Birds |
| Paul Buchanan | Mid Air |
| Cody ChesnuTT | Landing On a Hundred |
| The Faint | Danse Macabre (remastered) |
| The 45th Anniversary of The Velvet Underground and Nico | |
| Gabriel The Marine | Stars Collecting EP |
| H.I.M. | XX – Two Decades of Love Metal |
| Hearts & Hands | Hearts & Hands EP |
| Indian Handcrafts | Civil Disobedience For Losers |
| Irata | Vultures |
| Madness | Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja, Ja, Da, Da |
| Neurosis | Honor Found In Decay |
| Pelt | Effigy |
| Pictorials | Learning EP |
| RNDM | Acts |
| Vex Ruffian | Same Thing Tomorrow (cassette) |
| The Soft Moon | Zeros |
| Thrice | Anthology (live) |
| Trainwreck Riders | Ghost Yards |
| The Twang | 10:20 |
| Wax Fang | Mirror, Mirror |
| Wazu | Robobo |
| Wilkinson Blades | 4:00 AM |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Psychedelic Pill |
November
| 6th | |
| Aerosmith | Music From Another Dimension |
| All That Remains | A War You Cannot Win |
| Tim Barry | 40 Miler |
| Califone | Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People |
| The Casket Girls | Sleepwalking |
| The Casket Lottery | Real Fear |
| Club Smith | Lament |
| Cold Pumas | Persistent Malaise |
| Devilman | Devilman |
| Dragged Into Sunlight | Widowmaker |
| Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977–1980 | |
| The Epilogues | Cinematics |
| Fontalle | Vitamin F |
| Great Lakes USA | Live Fast, Die Whenever |
| Lonnie Holley | Just Before Music |
| Iowa City Song Project | |
| Isis | Temporal (rarities/remixes/unreleased) |
| Joshua James | From the Top of Willamette Mountain |
| Kylie Minogue | The Abbey Road Sessions |
| Mr MFN eXquire | Power & Passion EP |
| Nite Jewel | Good Evening (reissue) |
| The Parson Red Heads | Yearling (deluxe) |
| Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980 | |
| Prince Rama | Top Ten Hits of the End of the World |
| RATKING | Wiki93 EP |
| Rone | Tohu Rohu |
| Run From Robots | Roads That Don’t Lead Home EP |
| Sea Wolf | Old World Romance |
| The Secret | Agnus Dei |
| The Seeking | Yours Forever |
| Duncan Sheik | Covers 80s Remixed |
| The Slants | Yellow Album |
| Teen Daze | The Inner Mansions |
| 13th | |
| The Babies | Our House On the Hill |
| Big Boi | Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors |
| Boolfight | Feral |
| Bush Tetras | Happy |
| Clinic | Free Reign |
| Deftones | Koi No Yokan |
| El Perro Del Mar | Pale Fire |
| Brian Eno | Lux |
| Fans of Faye | Designed To Be |
| Fort Lean | Change Your Name EP |
| Green Day | Dos! |
| Guided by Voices | The Bears For Lunch |
| How To Destroy Angels | An Omen EP |
| Issues | Black Diamonds EP |
| Jim Jarmusch & Jozef Van Wissem | The Mystery of Heaven |
| Maker | Maker EP |
| Paul McCartney | Live Kisses (DVD) |
| MMOSS | Only Children |
| Mudhoney | Live In Berlin, 1988 (DVD) |
| Oneida | A List of the Burning Mountains |
| Jessica Pratt | Jessica Pratt |
| Radical Face | Always Gold EP |
| Bambi Lee Savage | Darkness Overshadowed |
| School of Seven Bells | Put Your Sad Down EP |
| Sleep Maps | Medals |
| Social Studies | Developer |
| Sonic Youth | Smart Bar Chicago 1985 (live) |
| Soundgarden | King Animal |
| Sufjan Stevens | Silver & Gold: Songs For Christmas, Vol. 6 – 10 |
| Sunglasses | Wild Life |
| Tyvek | On Triple Beams |
| Vinyl Williams | Lemniscate |
| Amy Winehouse | Live at The BBC (CD/DVD) |
| 20th | |
| AC/DC | Live at River Plate |
| Avatar | Black Waltz |
| Bad Brains | Into the Future |
| Crown the Empire | The Fallout |
| Dinosaur Jr. | Chocomel Daze (Live 1987) |
| The Evens | The Odds |
| Faunts | Left Here Alone EP |
| Gentleman Reg | Leisure Life |
| Goldenboy | The New Familiar |
| Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin | Instrumental Tourist |
| The Jame | The Gift (box set) |
| Kylesa | From the Vaults, Vol. 1 (rarities) |
| Massive Attack | Blue Lines (remixed & remastered) |
| Metric | Synthetica Deluxe (deluxe edition) (digital) |
| Naomi Punk | The Feeling |
| Kate Nash | Death Proof EP |
| The 1975 | Sex EP |
| Parakeet | Shonen Hearts EP |
| The Pharmacy | Stoned & Alone |
| Portraiture | Real As Ritual |
| Royal Trux | Accelerator (reissue) |
| Sondra Sun-Odean | Ætherea |
| Takka Takka | A.M. Landscapes |
| Team Ghost | Dead Film Star |
| The Twilight Sad | No One Can Ever Know – The Remixes |
| 27th | |
| Adler | Back From the Dead |
| AMENRA | Mass V |
| Bos Angeles | Taking Out the Trash |
| Deathline | Nova |
| Kevin Devine | Split the Country, Split the Street (reissue) |
| The Bryan Ferry Orchestra | The Jazz Age |
| Alicia Keys | Girl On Fire |
| Last Call | Dog Years |
| My Education | A Drink For All My Friends |
| Sunwølf | Beyond the Sun |
(updated as more release dates are made known)
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