September 7, 2018
What to listen to while we await the mid-terms (a.k.a., our last chance to avert the end):
September
| 7th | |
| Adult. | This Behavior |
| Ava Luna | Moon 2 |
| Boston Manor | Welcome To the Neighborhood |
| Chilly Gonzales | Solo Piano III |
| Stephen A. Clark | Where Neon Goes To Die |
| Clutch | Book of Bad Decisions |
| Escape-ism | The Lost Record |
| Ghostland Observatory | See You Later, Simulator |
| Gold Star | Uppers & Downers |
| Macy Gray | Ruby |
| JEFF The Brotherhood | Magick Songs |
| Lenny Kravitz | Raise Vibration |
| LA Force | LA Force |
| Paul McCartney | Egypt Station |
| Milo Greene | Adult Contemporary |
| Mirah | Understanding |
| MNEK | Language |
| The Molochs | Flowers In the Spring |
| Mothers | Render Another Ugly Method |
| The Night Game | The Night Game |
| Papadosio | Content Coma |
| Nile Rodgers & CHIC | It’s About Time |
| Rudimental | Toast To Our Differences |
| Sauna Youth | Deaths |
| Say Hi | Caterpillar Centipede |
| Paul Simon | In the Blue Light |
| Spiritualized | And Nothing Hurt |
| St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Young Sick Camillia |
| Sudakistan | Swedish Cobra |
| Swamp Dogg | Love, Loss and Autotone |
| Richard Swift | The Hex |
| Waxahatchee | Great Thunder |
| 14th | |
| Active Bird Community | Amends |
| Aphex Twin | Collapse EP |
| Asleep At the Wheel | New Routes |
| The Chills | Snow Bound |
| Dilly Dally | Heaven |
| The Dirty Nil | Master Volume |
| Jack Drag | 2018 |
| Alejandro Escovedo | The Crossing |
| Future Generations | Landscape |
| Good Charlotte | Generation Rx |
| The Goon Sax | We’re Not Talking |
| Guerilla Toss | Twisted Crystal |
| The Guess Who | The Future Is What It Used To Be |
| The Holydrug Couple | Hyper Super Mega |
| Jean-Michael Jarre | Planet Jarre |
| JUNGLE | For Ever |
| Leland & The Silver Wells | Leland & The Silver Wells |
| Low | Double Negative |
| Lyrics Born | Quite a Life |
| Ben Millburn | Sunglass Moustache |
| Willie Nelson | My Way |
| Night Shop | In the Break |
| Orbital | Monsters Exist |
| Pale Waves | My Mind Makes Noises |
| Sandro Perri | In Another Life |
| Sextile | 3 EP |
| 6LACK | East Atlanta Love Letter |
| Slothrust | The Pact |
| Fred Thomas | Altering |
| Richard Thompson | 13 Rivers |
| Thrice | Palms |
| The Trews | Civilianaires |
| Carrie Underwood | Cry Pretty |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks | The More I Sleep the Less I Dream |
| Paul Weller | True Meanings |
| 21st | |
| Advance Base | Animal Companionship |
| Lauren Balthrop | This Time Around |
| BEAK> | >>> |
| Joe Bonamassa | Redemption |
| Brockhampton | Iridescence |
| Carl Broemel | Wished Out |
| Broken Baby | Broken Baby |
| Christine & The Queens | Chris |
| The Field | Infinite Moment |
| Frontperson | Frontrunner |
| Billy Gibbons | The Big Bad Blues |
| Jess Glynne | Always In Between |
| Josh Groban | Bridges |
| Heartthrob Chassis | Nicolas Winding Refn Presents Arrythmia |
| Amy Helm | This Too Shall Light |
| Lonnie Holley | MITH |
| Joyce Manor | Million Dollars To Kill Me |
| Kid Rock | Greatest Hits You Never Saw Coming |
| The Last Bison | SÜDA |
| Ricky Lewis | See You In the Morning |
| Liars | Titles With the Word Fountain (digital/cassette) |
| Metric | Art of Doubt |
| Motorama | Many Nights |
| Mount Eerie | (after) (live) |
| Mutual Benefit | Thunder Follows Light |
| Night Birds | Roll Credits |
| The Paper Kites | On the Corner Where You Live |
| Richard Reed Parry | Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1 |
| Prince | Piano & A Microphone: 1983 (live) |
| Slash ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators | Living the Dream |
| Story So Far | Proper Does |
| Suede | The Blue Hour |
| Villagers | The Art of Pretending To Swim |
| Zula | New Years |
| 28th | |
| alt-J | Reduxer |
| Amber Arcades | European Heartbreak |
| Animanz and Juanita Euka | Exotic Other |
| Anti-Flag | American Reckoning |
| Arrested Youth | Fear |
| Barenaked Ladies | Struts (20th anniversary edition) |
| Bayside | Acoustic Volume 2 |
| Beartooth | Disease |
| Brother Reverend | The Tables Turn Too Often |
| John Butler Trio | Home |
| Cher | Dancing Queen |
| Tim Cohen | Modern World |
| The Crystal Method | The Trip Home |
| Cypress Hill | Elephants On Acid |
| Dark Knights: Metal | |
| Den-Mate | Loceke |
| Dillon Francis | Wut Wut |
| Doe | Grow Into It |
| Exploded View | Obey |
| The Fibs | The Fibs |
| GØGGS | Pre Strike Sweep |
| Tim Hecker | Konoyo |
| Hippo Campus | Bambi |
| The Joy Formidable | AAARTH |
| The Knocks | New York Narcotic |
| Lala Lala | The Lamb |
| The Living End | Wunderbar |
| Logic | Young Sinatra IV |
| Lydmor | I Told You I’d Tell Them Your Story |
| Loretta Lynn | Wouldn’t It Be Great |
| Moon Honey | Mixed Media On Women |
| Mudhoney | Digital Garbage |
| Marissa Nadler | For My Crimes |
| Tom Petty | An American Treasure (box set) |
| Roosevelt | Young Romance |
| Nate Smith | Some Kind of Dancing |
| Spain | Mandala Brush |
| Spesh | Famous World |
| Rod Stewart | Blood Red Roses |
| Tauk | Shapeshifter II: Outbreak |
October
| 5th | |
| Alberta | MMMMM |
| Atmosphere | Mi Vida Local |
| David August | Plainly Mistaken |
| Nathan Bowles | Evolution |
| Lindsay Buckingham | Solo Anthology: The Best of Lindsay Buckingham |
| Molly Burch | First Flower |
| Cat Power | Wanderer |
| Eric Church | Desperate Man |
| Coheed and Cambria | Unheavenly Creatures |
| Hugh Cornwell | Monster |
| Cursive | Vitriola |
| Dangermaker | Fun |
| Death Valley Girls | Darkness Rains |
| Echo & The Bunnymen | The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon |
| Electric Six | Bride of the Devil |
| Estrons | You Say I’m Too Much, I Say You’re Not Enough |
| Max Frost | Gold Rush |
| Fucked Up | Does Your Dreams |
| Ron Gallo | Stardust Birthday Party |
| Ghostface Killah | The Lost Tapes |
| Vince Guaraldi | It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (soundtrack) |
| HAERTS | New Compassion |
| Hammell On Trial | The Night Guy at The Apocalypse Profiles of a Rushing Midnight |
| Kristin Hersh | Possible Dust Clouds |
| High On Fire | Electric Messiah |
| In the Valley Below | Pink Chateau |
| Gregory Alan Isakov | Evening Machines |
| Jim James | Uniform Clarity |
| Jerusalem In My Heart | Daqa’iq Tudaiq |
| Idina Menzel | Idina: Live |
| mewithoutyou | [untitled] |
| Matt Nathanson | Sings His Sad Heart |
| Peel Dream Magazine | Modern Meta Physic |
| Phosphorescent | C’est La Vie |
| Pilar Zeta | Moments of Reality |
| Erika Spring | Scars EP |
| A Star Is Born (soundtrack) |
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| Swearin’ | Fall Into the Sun |
| Tall Heights | Pretty Colors For Your Actions |
| Ward Thomas | Restless Minds |
| Timmy’s Organism | Survival of the Fiendish |
| Tokyo Police Club | TPC |
| KT Tunstall | Wax |
| Twenty One Pilots | Trench |
| Windhand | Eternal Return |
| You Me At Six | VI |
| 12th | |
| Adwaith | Melyn |
| Arc Iris | Icon of Ego |
| Atreyu | In Our Wake |
| Basement | Beside Myself |
| Belly | Immigrant |
| Blues Traveler | Hurry Up & Hang Around |
| Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | Rockey |
| BRONCHO | Bad Behavior |
| Eric Clapton | Happy Xmas |
| Anna Connolly | After Thoughts |
| Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Look Now |
| Dave Davies | Decade |
| Matthew Dear | Bunny |
| Django Django | Winter’s Beach EP |
| The Dodos | Certainty Waves |
| John Grant | Love Is Magic |
| HALEY | Pleasureland |
| John Hiatt | The Eclipse Sessions |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | Warmest Christmas Wishes |
| Calvin Johnson | A Wonderful Beast |
| Larry and His Flask | This Remedy |
| Les Big Byrd | Iran Iraq IKEA |
| Michael McDonald | Season of Peace: The Christmas Collection |
| Tom Morello | The Atlas Underground |
| Primal Scream | Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Sessions |
| Michael Sackler-Berner | Accounting For Taste |
| Sister Sparrow | Gold |
| Anna St. Louis | If Only There Was a River |
| St. Vincent | MassEducation |
| Valley Maker | Rhododendrom |
| Colter Wall | Songs of the Plains |
| The Watson Twins | DUO |
| Young Jesus | The Whole Things Is Just Here |
| Young the Giant | Mirror Master |
| 19th | |
| Arkells | Rally Cry |
| Richard Ashcroft | Natural Rebel |
| Big Bliss | At Middle Distance |
| Buxton | Stay Out Late |
| Neneh Cherry | Broken Politics |
| Cloud Nothings | Last Building Burning |
| Deru | Torn In Two |
| The Dig | Afternoon With Caroline EP/Moonlight Baby EP |
| The Dirty River Boys | Mesa Starlight |
| Disturbed | Evolution |
| Doe Paoro | Soft Power |
| Rachel Eckroth | When It Falls |
| Empress Of | Us |
| Farao | Pure-O |
| Ace Frehley | Spaceman |
| John Grant | Love Is Magic |
| Greta Van Fleet | Anthem of the Peaceful Army |
| Hairband | Hairband |
| How To Dress Well | The Anteroom |
| Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit | Live From the Ryman |
| The Jack Moves | Free Money |
| Kiran Leonard | Western Culture |
| MØ | Forever Neverland |
| Nebula Rosa | Bengala |
| Will Oldham | Songs of Love and Horror |
| Yoko Ono | Warzone |
| Papercuts | Parallel Universe Blues |
| Peter Bjorn and John | Darker Days |
| Elvis Presley | The Searcher (DVD/Blu-Ray) |
| R.E.M. | R.E.M. At The BBC |
| Savoir Adore | First Bloom |
| Stephen Steinbrink | Utopia Teased |
| Upper Wilds | Mars |
| Yeses | Yeses |
| 26th | |
| Anchorsong | Cohesion |
| Michael Azerrad | Rock Critic Law: 101 Unbreakable Rules for Writing Badly About Music (book) |
| Azure Ray | Waves |
| BETS | Future Color |
| Black Eyed Peas | Masters of the Sun Vol. 1 |
| Boy George & Culture Club | Life |
| Cantaloupe | Error States |
| Chest High Fires | Honeymoon |
| Jim Clements | A Future |
| John Wesley Coleman III | Cuckoo Bird Sings a Song |
| Leo James Conroy | Plastic Chairs & Cigarette Fumes |
| Daughters | You Won’t Get What You Want |
| Gang of Youths | MTV Unplugged Live In Melbourne |
| Laura Gibson | Goners |
| Micah P. Hinson & The Musicians of the Apocalypse | When I Shoot At You With Arrows, I Will Shoot To Destroy You |
| Julia Holter | Aviary |
| Jessie J | This Christmas Day |
| Magic Potion | Endless Graffiti |
| New Tarot | Book of Promises |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Full Moon Fever (full album cover) |
| Robyn | Honey |
| Saves the Day | 9 |
| Ty Segall | Fudge Sandwich |
| Shad | A Short Story About War |
| Soap&Skin | From Gas To Solid / you are my friend |
| SRSQ | Unreality |
| The Struts | YOUNG&DANGEROUS |
| Sun Breaks | All On Camera |
| Surfbort | Friendship Music |
| Tropical Fuck Storm | A Laughing Death In Meatspace |
| Dean Wareham & Cheval Sombre | Dean Wareham vs. Cheval Sombre |
November
| 2nd | |
| Bad Sports | Constant Stimulation |
| Frankie Davies | Wherever I Go |
| Dead Can Dance | Dionysus |
| Gabby’s World | Beast On Beast |
| Good Witch | Double Life |
| The Holy Knives | Year of the Black Dog |
| I Am the Polish Army | The Dream |
| Kazyak | Reflection |
| Majetic | Club Dread |
| The Mavericks | Hey! Merry Christmas! |
| Moonface | This One’s For The Dancer & This One’s For The Dancer’s Bouquet |
| The Prodigy | No Tourists |
| Sick Of It All | Wake the Sleeping Dragon! |
| Jon Spencer | Spencer Sings the Hits! |
| Sun Kil Moon | This Is My Dinner |
| Tenacious D | Post-Apocalypto |
| The Traveling Wilburys | The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (30th anniversary edition) |
| Sofie Winterson | Sophia Electric |
| 9th | |
| Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore | Ghost Forests |
| Charles Bradley | Black Velvet |
| J Fernandez | Occasional Din |
| Fleet Foxes | First Collection 2006 – 2009 |
| Jonathan Franco | Swimming Along Around the Room |
| Jeff Goldblum | The Capitol Studios Sessions |
| Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers | Bought To Rot |
| Grapetooth | Grapetooth |
| Hanson | String Theory |
| Mick Harvey & Christopher Richard Barker | The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War |
| Larkin Poe | Venom & Faith |
| LowRay | Friends and The Fakers |
| J Mascis | Elastic Days |
| The Men | Hated: 2008 – 2011 |
| Liela Moss | My Name Is Safe In Your Mouth |
| Muse | Simulation Theory |
| Public Memory | Demolition |
| The Revivalists | Take Good Care |
| SAVAK | Beg Your Pardon |
| SHVPES | Greater Than |
| Timber | THE FAMILY |
| Vera Sola | Shades |
| Vessel | Queen of the Golden Dogs |
| 16th | |
| Axis: Sova | Shampoo You |
| Rebecca Blasband | Here |
| Chorusgirl | Shimmer and Spin |
| The Good, The Bad & The Queen | Merrie Land |
| Sloucher | Be True |
| Ryley Walker | The Lillywhite Sessions |
| We the Kings | Season’s Greeting From The Sandbar |
| Xuan | Have Some Fun |
| 23rd | |
| Art Brut | Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out! |
| Jerry Garcia | Almost Acoustic (30th anniversary edition) |
| Jacco Gardner | Somnium |
| Ed Harcourt | Beyond the End |
| Pastel Ghost | Ethereality |
| 30th | |
| Arctic Flowers | Straight To the Hunter |
| The Boy Least Likely To | The Greatest Hits |
| CUTS | A Gradual Decline |
| Monteagle | Midnight Noon |
| Reverend Horton Heat | Whole New Life |
| Jeff Tweedy | WARM |
| Neil Young | Songs for Judy (live) |
(updated as more release dates are made known)
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