The music biz has basically been on vacation this week, and so have I. As for next week, there are more than 150 albums, EPs and singles coming out. But big-name releases are still few and far between, unless you’re interested in compilations, box sets, reissues and collaborations. Here’s the list. As always, mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at the last minute:
THE LONG LIST
AD & Sorry Jaynari | By the Way 2
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah | Al Hadaoui
Africa Express (feat. Damon Albarn) | EGOLI
Amaal | Black Dove
America | 50th Anniversary: The Collection
Andromo & Chris Fortier | Gradient Skies EP
Leonisa Ardizzone | All in Good Time
Arrowhead | Coven of the Snake
Auras | Binary Garden
Average Joes Entertainment | Mud Digger 10
Banks | III
Batushka | Hospodi
BEA1991 | Brand New Adult
David Berman | Purple Mountains
Big Baller B & Lil Mosquito Disease | Swarm
Big K.R.I.T. | K.R.I.T. Iz Here
Birdman & Juvenile | Just Another Gangsta 2
Bistro | The Foetus
Bleached | Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough?
Mal Blum | Pity Boy
Bones UK | Bones UK
Clare Bowen | Clare Bowen
David Bowie | Space Oddity 50th Anniversary Box Set
Burial Party | Please, Electric Move Slow
Carol C | Seven
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma | Tracing Back The Radiance
Cazador | Failure to Thrive
CFCF | Liquid Colours
Chuck Cleaver | Send Aid
Cold Hart | Good Morning Cruel World
Coldplay | Brothers & Sisters Coloured Vinyl Reissue
Kyle Craft & Showboat Honey | Showboat Honey
Curse Of Lono | 4am and Counting (Live at Toe Rag Studios)
Davina & The Vagabonds | Sugar Drops
Doris Day | The Hits Collection 1945-62
Def Con Sound System | Silver Bullets
Disentomb | The Decaying Light
Dizzy | EP
Dollyrots | Daydream Explosion
Dope Lemon | Smooth Big Cat
Drab Majesty | Modern Mirror
Isaac Dunbar | balloons don’t float here
808 State | Initial Granada Report EP
EJS | Decades A Part to Play
Erasers | Pulse Points
Fog Light | New Element
Foreigner | Live at the Rainbow ’78
Will Fox | Which Way
Freighter | The Den
Futuristic | I Am…
Girlfriend Material | Cool Car
Glitterer | Looking Through the Shades
Glitter Moneyyy | Binge
Gomez | Liquid Skin Deluxe
Pinto Graham | Dos
Grand Vapids | Eat the Shadow
Karen Gwyer | Man on Mountain
Gyze | Asian Chaos
Hamell on Trial | Choochtown 20th Anniversary Edition
Matt Harlan | Best Beasts
Have Gun, Will Travel | Strange Chemistry
Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez | Italuba Big Band
Joe Hisaishi | The Studio Ghibli 7-inch Boxset
Hocico | Artificial Extinction
Holy Holy | My Own Pool of Light
Dean Hurley | Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond
Imperial Teen | Now We Are Timeless
Inspectah Deck | Chamber No. 9
Penelope Isles | Until The Tide Creeps In
Thomas Jackson | Cowbells & Temples EP
Charley Jordan | The Charley Jordan Collection 1930-37
K.Flay | Solutions
Kaina | Next to The Sun
Kamandi | Voices (Album Instrumentals)
Khruangbin | Hasta El Cielo
Kool Keith | Keith
Marielle Kraft | The Deep End EP
Christina LaRocca | These Are My Whiskey Dreams…
Lights | Skin&Earth
Mabel | High Expectations
Noah Mac | Pretty Boy
The Magic E’s | Into The Fading Light
Magic Island | High Note
Maliibu Miitch | If Dead Men Could Talk
Paul McCartney | Amoeba Gig Remastered
Paul McCartney | Choba B CCCP Remastered
Paul McCartney | Paul Is Live Remastered
Paul McCartney | Wings Over America Remastered
Merzbow | Noise Mass
Nate Mercereau | Joy Techniques
Merzbow Collective | Marryweather Pulse Demos
Bobby Messano | Lemonade
Metz | Automat
Rachel Musson, Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders | Shifa: Live at Cafe Oto
My Octopus Mind | Maladyne Cave
New Masters | All the Stars ReWorks Vol. 1 EP
New Order + Liam Gillick | ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif): So it goes..
Nguvu | Julie
Julio Nickels | Feeling Fickle
Nineteen | 11:11
NU-95 | Fall Until We Fly
Oceans of the Moon | Oceans of the Moon
Pacific Rhythm | Daucile Moon
Palace | Life After
Penelope Isles | Until the Tide Creeps In
Thelma Plum | Better in Blak
Pretty Vicious | Beauty Of Youth
Prurient | Garden Of The Mutilated Paratroopers
Purple Mountains (David Berman of Silver Jews) | Purple Mountains
Ranky Tanky | Good Time
Roi | Deixo EP
The Roots | Tipping Point Vinyl Edition
Nora Rothman | Nothing New EP
Rude Audio | Street Light Interference
Seraph In Travail | Lest They Feed Upon Your Soul
Ed Sheeran | No. 6 Collaborations Project
Billy Sherwood | Citizen: In the Next Life
Shindy | Drama
Wayne Shorter | Early Albums & Rare Grooves
Smaller Hearts | Honesty
The Steel Wheels | Over the Trees
Stereo Total | Ah! Quel Cinéma!
Joanna Sternberg | Then I Try Some More
Angie Stone | Full Circle
Suicide Silence | Live & Mental
Sunsleeper | You Can Miss Something & Not Want it Back
Supersonic Blues Machine | Road Chronicles
Theatre Of Tragedy | Remixed
311 | Voyager
Throwaway | WHAT?
Tijuana Panthers | Carpet Denim
масло черного тмина | Kensshi
Torche | Admission
Tycho | Weather
Umberto | Helpless Spectator
Uzeda | Quocumque jeceris stabit
Jerry Vale | The Jerry Vale Singles Collection 1953-62
Various Artists | Brought to Light
Various Artists | Godspell (London Cast Recording)
Various Artists | The Lion King Soundtrack
Various Artists | Red Dead Redemption 2 Soundtrack
Various Artists | Red Gold Green & Blue
Various Artists | Tiny Changes: A Celebration of the Midnight Organ Fight
Elle Varner | Ellevation
The Velvet Underground | The Complete Matrix Tapes Vinyl Box
Carmen Villain | Both Lines Will Be Blue
Jimmy Wakely | The Jimmy Wakely Collection 1940-53
Marty Wilde | The Marty Wilde Collection 1958-62
Wear Your Wounds | Rust on the Gates of Heaven
Yuna | Rouge
