There just might be a light at the end of the COVID tunnel (Delta variants and anti-vaxers notwithstanding) – here’s what to listen to along the ride.
SEPTEMBER
3rd | |
Big Boi & Sleepy Brown | The Big Sleepover |
Iron Maiden | Senjutsu |
LANY | gg bb xx |
Little Simz | Sometimes I Might Be Introvert |
Manic Street Preachers | The Ultra Vivid Lament |
Meatbodies | 333 |
Pearl & The Oysters | Flowerland |
SUUNS | The Witness |
Warmyear | I Wear the Memory |
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10th | |
Ross Adams | Escaping Southern Heat |
ALMA | Mosiac |
Amyl & The Sniffers | Comfort To Me |
Riddy Arman | Riddy Arman |
J Balvin | José |
Berry | Vault of Light |
James Blunt | Friends That Break Your Heart |
Common | A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 2 |
Elvis Costello & Sebastian Krys | Spanish Model |
Dead Sara | Ain’t It Tragic |
face to face | No Way Out But Through |
Samantha Fish | Faster |
GWAR | Scumdogs Live |
Heartless Bastards | A Beautiful Life |
King Krule | You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down (live) |
Lord Baltimore | Angel |
Low | HEY WHAT |
Metallica | The Metallica Blacklist |
more | 2/2 EP |
Kacey Musgraves | Star-Crossed |
Pere Ubu | Pennsylvania (reissue) |
Pere Ubu | St Arkansas (reissue) |
Diana Ross | Thank You |
Saint Etienne | I’ve Been Trying To Tell You |
Martin Sexton | Vision 2020 EP |
Sleigh Bells | Texis |
Slothrust | Parallel Timeline |
Sneaker Pimps | Squaring the Circle |
The Stranglers | Dark Matters |
The Vaccines | Back In Love City |
Andrew W.K. | God Is Partying |
Rufus Wainwright | Unfollow the Rules: The Paramour Sessions |
We Were Promised Jetpacks | Enjoy the View |
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17th | |
The Album Leaf | One Day XX |
The Beths | Auckland, New Zealand (live) |
Don Broco | Amazing Things |
Kirby Brown | Break Into Blossom |
Lindsey Buckingham | Lindsey Buckingham |
Cold Beat | War Garden |
Melissa Etheridge | One Way out |
The Felice Brothers | From Dreams To Dust |
Nik Freitas | Searching For Device EP |
José González | Local Valley |
Hamish Hawk | Heavy Elevator |
Lydia Hol | Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream |
Bren Holmes | Everything You Never Wanted |
Billy Idol | The Roadside EP |
Lil Nas X | Montero |
Colin Linden | bLOW |
Mild High Club | Going Going Gone |
MONO | Pilgrimage of the Soul |
Daniel Romano | Cobra Poems |
Smoke Bellow | Open For Business |
Sweet Nobody | We’re Trying Our Best |
Thrice | Horizons/East |
Adia Victoria | A Southern Gothic |
You, Me and Everyone We Know | Something Heavy |
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24th | |
Absolutely Free | Aftertouch |
Angels & Airwaves | LIFEFORMS |
Boys Noize | +/- |
Ryan James Brewer | Render |
Alessia Cara | In the Meantime |
Cold War Kids | New Age Norms 3 |
Spencer Cullum | Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection |
Elke | No Pain Here |
Brittany Howard | Jaime Reimagined |
Joyer | Perfect Gray |
Ada Lea | one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden |
Jesse Malin | Sad and Beautiful World |
Mac McCaughan | The Sound of Yourself |
The Muslims | Fuck These Fucking Fascits |
The Ophelias | Crocus |
Matt Pond PA | The State of Gold (reissue) |
Public Service Broadcasting | Bright Magic |
Quicksand | Distant Populations |
Michael Seyer | A Good Fool |
SOJA | Beauty In the Silence |
Ringo Starr | Change the World EP |
Christopher Paul Stelling | Forgiving It All |
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo de Augustine | A Beginner’s Mind |
Super Furry Animals | Rings Around the World (20th Anniversary Edition) |
Surfbort | Keep On Truckin’ |
Third Eye Blind | Our Bande Apart |
Amon Tobin | How Do You Live |
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OCTOBER
1st |
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Arkells |
Blink Once |
Asleep At the Wheel |
Half a Hundred Years |
Black Marble |
Fast Idol |
Jake Bowen |
The Daily Sun |
Brandi Carlile |
In These Silent Days |
The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live at The Apollo |
The Doobie Brothers |
Liberté |
Ducks Ltd. |
Modern Fiction |
Erasure |
Ne:EP |
Explosions In the Sky |
Big Bend (Original Soundtrack for Public Television) |
Film School |
We Weren’t Here |
Foamboy |
My Sober Daydream |
JW Francis |
WANDERKID |
Goodbye Honolulu |
Goodbye Honolulu |
Hovvdy |
True Love |
illuminati Hotties |
Let Me Do One More |
Inner Wave |
Apoptosis |
Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett |
Love For Sale |
Meek Mill |
Expensive Pain |
Me Lost Me |
The Circle Dance |
Ministry |
Moral Hygiene |
Petite Amie |
Petite Amie |
Pond |
9 |
Mark Rogers |
Rhythm of the Roads |
SHAD |
TAO |
The Specials |
Protest Songs 1924-2012 |
Strand of Oaks |
In Heaven |
Sun Atoms |
Let There Be Light |
Graham Wright |
The Cost of Doing Business |
Yes |
The Quest |
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8th | |
Alice TM | Little Body In Orbit |
BADBADNOTGOOD | Talk Memory |
Billy Bragg | The Million Things That Never Happened |
Efterklang | Windflowers |
Sam Fender | Seventeen Going Under |
Dave Grohl | The Storyteller (book) |
The High 70s | Glitter Box |
Lala Lala | I Want the Door Open |
Nothing | The Great Dismal B-Sides |
Porches | All Day Gentle Hold ! |
Josefin Runsteen | Hana – Three bodies (original soundtrack) |
Sam Himself | Power Ballads |
Taraka | Welcome To Paradise Lost |
Trivium | In the Court of the Dragon |
John Patrick Walker | The Rented Tuxedo & Other Songs |
We Are Scientists | Huffy |
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die | Illusory Walls |
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15th | |
Bedouine | Waysides |
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes | Sticky |
The Charlatans | A Head Full of Ideas (vinyl box set) |
Coldplay | Music of the Spheres |
Chelsea Cutler | When I Close My Eyes |
The Darkness | Motorheart |
Dos Santos | City of Mirrors |
Finneas | Optimist |
Fotoform | Horizons |
Gone To Color | Gone To Color |
Charlotte Greve | Sediments We Move |
Hank (!) | Guilty Pleasures (Are the Best Ones) |
Judas Priest | 50 Years of Heavy Metal Music (box set) |
Pokey LaFarge | In the Blossom of Their Shade |
Johnny Marr | Fever Dreams Pts 1 |
The Melvins | Five Legged Dog (acoustic collection) |
Buffalo Nichols | Buffalo Nichols |
Old Man of the Woods | Votives |
Xenia Rubinos | Una Rosa |
Julia Shapiro | Zorked |
TK & The Holy Know-Nothings | The Incredible Heat Machine |
Dean Wareham | I Have Nothing To Say To the Mayor of L.A. |
Wilderado | Wilderado |
Remi Wolf | Juno |
Young Thug | Punk |
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22nd | |
Abbreviations | ABBV |
Bedouine | Waysides |
Belaver | Lain Prone |
Black Marble | Fast Idol |
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | B-Sides & Rarities (box set) |
Circa Survive | A Dream About Love EP |
Clinic | Fantasy Island |
Clockwise On Fire | Clockwise On Fire |
The Copyrights | Alone In a Dome |
Deerhoof | Actually, You Can |
Dinner | Dream Work |
Dummy | Mandatory Enjoyment |
Duran Duran | Future Past |
Every Time I Die | Radical |
Good Morning | Barnyard |
Good Posture | Changin’ |
Jacques Greene | ANTH01 |
Grouper | Shade |
Guided By Voices | IT’S NOT THEM. IT COULDN’T BE THEM. IT’S THEM! |
Helado Negro | Far In |
The High Strung | HannaH |
Hiss Golden Messenger | O Come All Ye Faithful |
Honne | Let’s Just Say the World Ended a Week From Now, What Would You Do? |
Jackson+Sellers | Breaking Point |
Elton John | The Lockdown Sessions |
La Luz | La Luz |
Lewisberg | In Your Hands |
My Morning Jacket | My Morning Jacket |
Okay Kaya | The Incompatible Okay Kaya |
Oscar and the Wolf | The Shimmer |
Parquet Courts | Sympathy For Life |
Power Supply | In the Time of the Sabre-Toothed Tiger |
Said the Whale | Dandelion |
She/Beast | Violent Tendencies |
Superchunk | Here’s to Shutting Up (reissue) |
Together Pangea | DYE |
Trace Mountains | House of Confusion |
Wye Oak | Civilian (10th anniversary special edition) |
Xeno & Oaklander | Vi/deo |
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29th | |
Richard Ashcroft | Acoustic Hymns Vol 1 |
Bremer/McCoy | Natten |
Hayes Carll | You Get It All |
Death Cab for Cutie | The Photo Album (Deluxe Edition) |
Joan As Policewoman / Tony Allen / Dave Okumu | The Solution Is Restless |
Lotic | Water |
Reno McCarthy | Run Up River |
Minus the Bear | Farewell (live) |
Marissa Nadler | Path of the Clouds |
Naytronix | Other Possibilities |
Of Monsters and Men | My Head Is An Animal (10th Anniversary Edition) |
Pretty Embers | Under |
Salt Ashes | Killing My Mind |
Ed Sheeran | = |
SUSTO | Time In the Sun |
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | Temple (Deluxe Edition) |
They Might Be Giants | Book |
Thuy | I Hope You See This EP |
Velvet Starlings | Technicolour Shakedown |
Anna Vincent | Under the Glass |
The War On Drugs | I Don’t Live Here Anymore |
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NOVEMBER
5th | |
Aminé | TWOPOINTFIVE |
Jess Chalker | Hemispheres |
Chime School | Chime School |
John DeNicola | She Said |
Noga Erez | KIDS (Against the Machine) |
Neal Francis | In Plain Sight |
FUR | When You Walk Away |
God of Love | Do Your Worst |
Gold & Youth | Dream Baby |
Curtis Harding | If Words Were Flowers |
Houndmouth | Good For You |
Holly Humberstone | The Walls Are Way Too Thin EP |
Kenneth Ishak | Native Tongue |
Joan As Policewoman, Dave Okumu and Tony Allen | The Solution Is Restless |
Nick Malkin | Nothing Blues |
Aimee Mann | Queens of the Summer Hotel |
METZ | Live at the Opera House |
Connan Mockasin | Jassbusters Two |
MUNA | Voyage to Mars |
Dan Munkus | The Edge of the High Trace |
Nation of Language | A Way Forward |
Jennifer O’Connor | Born At the Disco |
Penelope Isles | Which Way To Happy |
Radiohead | Kid A Mnesia (21st Anniversary Triple Album Edition) |
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | The Future |
Emma Ruth Rundle | Engine of Hell |
serpentwithfeet | Deacon’s Grove EP |
Silk Sonic | An Evening With Silk Sonic |
Snail Mail | Valentine |
Tasha | Tell Me What You Miss the Most |
Dlina Volny | Dazed |
Hana Vu | Public Storage |
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12th | |
Gracie Abrams | This Is What It Feels Like |
Damon Albarn | The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows |
Alberta & The Dead Eyes | You Said Something |
Banoffee | Teartracks |
Courtney Barnett | Things Take Time, Take Time |
Rush Davis + Kingdom | Transmission |
The Dodos | Grizzly Peak |
French For Rabbits | The Overflow |
Geographer | Down and Out In the Garden of Earthly Delights |
Gov’t Mule | Heavy Load Blues |
Devin Hoff | Voices From the Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs) |
Keys N Krates | Original Classic |
IAMX | Machinate |
L.A. Guns | Checkered Past |
Land of Talk | Calming Night Partner EP |
Lightleak | Tender Fits |
Lionlimb | Spiral Groove |
Manchester Orchestra | Christmas Songs, Vol. 1 |
Nick Vivid | No More Secrets |
Nirvana | Nevermind (30th Anniversary Edition) |
Pip Blom | Welcome Break |
She & Him | A Very She & Him Christmas (10th anniversary edition) |
Allen Stone | Apart |
Warbly Jets | Monsterhouse |
Harrison Whitford | Afraid of Nothing |
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19th | |
The Album Leaf | In An Off White Room EP |
The Antlers | Losing Light EP |
Beach Fossils | The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads |
Converge | Bloodmoon: I |
Robert DeLong | Walk Like Me |
elbow | Flying Dream 1 |
Fine Place | This New Heaven |
James | The Campfire EP |
Willie Nelson | The Willie Nelson Family |
Papercuts | “Baxter’s Bliss” EP |
Andy Shauf | Wilds |
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts (CD/DVD) |
Sting | The Bridge |
Whoop | Whoop! |
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26th | |
Black Label Society | Doom Crew Inc. |
Julie Doiron | I Thought of You |
The KVB | Unity |
A Place To Bury Strangers | Hologram: Destroyed & Disassembled |
Fionn Regan | 100 Acres of Sycamore (vinyl reissue) |
Riki | GOLD |
(updated as more release dates are made known)