Some weeks it’s about quantity. Others, it’s about quality. This time it’s a bit of both. There are more than 110 albums, EPs and singles being released next week. Honestly, that’s about average. But this week, unlike some others, there are a ton of releases I want to hear. So many, in fact, that rather than spend hours writing blurbs for them all — and make you waste your time reading all that piffle — I’m just going to highlight them in the list and toss in a few videos. Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at the last minute:
Abrahma | In Time For the Last Rays of Light
The Aggrolites | Reggae Now!
Aliens | Long Way to Run
Amazons | Future Dust
Amyl & The Sniffers | Amyl & The Sniffers
Beast Coast | Escape From New York
Birth | Live in Tucson
Black Mountain | Destroyer
Blanchez | Just The Start
Blancmange | The Blanc Tapes LP Box
Blu & Exile | True & Livin
Collie Buddz | Hybrid
Budokan Boys | Dad is Bad
Albert Castiglia | Masterpiece
Charles in the Kitchen | The Fifth Mechanism EP
The Claim | The New Industrial Ballads
Rupert Clervaux | After Masterpieces
Cold Showers | Motionless
https://youtu.be/axHcpuqcY4c
Billy Ray Cyrus | The SnakeDoctor Circus
Dalton | Take Shelter
Deathspell Omega | The Furnaces Of Palingenesia
Destrage | The Chosen One
Diamond Head | The Coffin Train
Captain Kirk Douglas | Turbulent Times
junk-E-cat | Kreatur
Justin Townes Earle | The Saint of Lost Causes
Earth | Full Upon Her Burning Lips
L’Eclair | Sauropoda
Edward | Underwater Jams
Emil Bulls | Mix Tape
Fleshgod Apocalypse | Veleno
Flower Crown | Sundries
Flying Lotus | Flamagra
Orla Gartland | Why Am I Like This? EP
The Glow | Am I
GOT7 | Spinning Top
Guards | Modern Hymns
Halfsour | Sticky
Heavenstamp | Love Builders
Adam Holt | Kind of Blues
Honeyblood | In Plain Sight
Hot Water Music | Shake Up the Shadows EP
Human Switchboard | Who’s Landing In My Hangar?
The Intelligence | Un-Psychedelic In Peavy City
Irah | Diamond Grid
ISA | Debut Album
J-E-T-S | Zoospa
Joan As Police Woman | Joanthology
Elton John | Rocketman: Music From the Motion Picture
Kablam | Confusia
Kool | dialect
The La’s | BBC In Session Coloured Vinyl
Steve Lacy | TBA
Cate Le Bon | Reward
Jean Leloup | L’étrange pays
Shay Lia | Dangerous
Fenne Lily | Live at Festival No. 6
Duncan Lloyd | Outside Notion
Lonesome River Band | Outside Looking In
LuckyAndLove | Transitions
Steve Marion | Fluff
Martyrdöd | Hexhammaren
Middle Kids | New Songs For Old Problems EP
Milk & Bone | Dive EP
Morabeza Tobacco | Morabeza Tobacco
Morrissey | California Son
Myrrors | Curved Entrances
NCT 127 | We Are Superhuman
Neckbeard Deathcamp | So Much For The Tolera
NOCTURNUS AD | Paradox
ORKID | I Don’t Give A Damn
Ozuna | Nibiru
PicaPica | Together & Apart
Plastic | Drink Sensibly
Plastic Mermaids | Suddenly Everyone Explodes
Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters | Live at the Grey Eagle
PRETTYMUCH | Phases EP
Primal Scream | Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll: The Singles
The Progerians | Crush The Wise Men Who Refuse To Submit
pronoun | i’ll show you stronger
Lee Ranaldo/Jim Jarmusch/Marc Urselli/Balazs Pandi | Lee Ranaldo/Jim Jarmusch/Marc Urselli/Balazs Pandi
The Royal Concept | The Man Without Qualities
Salem’s Bend | Spacecluster
Sebadoh | Act Surprised
Soto | Origami
Emily Sprague | Water Memory / Mount Vision
Mavis Staples | We Get By
Sting | My Songs
Stray Cats | 40
$uicideboy$ & Travis Barker | Live Fast, Die Whenever
Swimming Tapes | Morningside
TANDM | Reflections, Vol. 2
Texas Horns | Get Here Quick
Thee Oh Sees | Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion / Live Performances Sans Stages And Whatnots With Thee Oh Sees Remastered
Hayden Thorpe | Diviner
Toebow | Themes
Toto | All In
Adreya Triana | Life in Colour
Trudy & The Romance | Sandman
Toshiya Tsunoda | Extract From Field Recording Archive
Valley of the Sun | Old Gods
Various Artists | Aladdin
Various Artists | Echo in the Canyon
Various Artists | Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996
Franck Vigroux | Totem
The Waterboys | Where the Action Is
Faye Webster | Atlanta Millionaires Club
G. Calvin Weston & The Phoenix Orchestra | Dust and Ash
Whenyoung | Reasons to Dream
Wild Wes | The New Funk
Marlon Williams | Live At Auckland Town Hall
Jesse Colin Young | Dreamers