There are more than 175 albums, EPs and singles being released next week. Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at the last minute:
Academy Killer | Lost In Make Believe
The Agonist | Orphans
Alaskan Tapes | Views From Sixteen Stories
Herb Alpert | Over the Rainbow
Amaia | Pero no pasa nada
Angel | White Hot Deluxe Collector’s Edition
Joe Armon-Jones | Turn To Clear View
As I Lay Dying | Shaped By Fire
The Ataris | Hang Your Head in Hope: The Acoustic Sessions
Babe Rainbow | Today
BABii, Kai Winston, Iglooghost | XYZ
Al Basile | B’s Hot House
Gerry Beckley| Five Mile Road
Marco Benevento | Let It Slide
The Berries | Berryland
Blinker the Star | Careful With Your Magic
Blink-182 | Nine
Body Hound | No Moon
Darrin Bradbury | Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs
Billy Bragg | Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC
Pieta Brown | Freeway
Zac Brown Band | The Owl
Jeremy Camp | The Story’s Not Over
Toronzo Cannon | The Preacher, the Politician or the Pimp
Tim Carman & The Street 45s | Tim Carman & The Street 45s
Cashmere Cat | Princess Catgirl
Chastity Belt | Chastity Belt
Allan Clarke | Resurgence
Bruce Cockburn | Crowing Ignites
Judy Collins | The Elektra Albums Vol. 2 (1970-1984)
Andrew Combs | Ideal Man
Charley Crockett | The Valley
Alex Cuba | Sublime
Cult of Luna | A Dawn to Fear
Cult of Sorrow | Invocation of the Lucifer
Daedelus | The Bittereinders
Shirin David | Supersize
The Dharmas | Old School
Dizraeli | The Unmaster
Nahawa Doumbia | La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1
Jamie Drake | Everything’s Fine
Dreamcatcher | Raid of Dream
DWART | Electricidade Estética
Ecstatic Vision | For the Masses
Efterklang | Altid Sammen
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats | Contemporary
Euro | Don’t Expect Nothing
Excuses Excuses | Mind Over Matter EP
Exhorder | Mourn the Southern Skies
Luc Ferrari | Photophonie
Firefall | The Complete Atlantic Albums
Samantha Fish | Kill or Be Kind
Fitz & The Tantrums | All the Feels
Floating Spectrum | A Point Between
Fly Pan Am | C’est ça
Colt Ford | We The People Volume 1
Nils Frahm | Encores 3
Frames | Cursed
Neal Francis | Changes
Frankiie | Forget Your Head
Liam Gallagher | Why Me? Why Not.
Ghost:Hello | Sound of Color in Space
Gloo | Xyz
The Grahams | Kids Like Us
Riley Green | Different ’Round Here
Groove Armada | Twenty One
Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi | In the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims with the push of the button
Hangman | One by One
Sinead Harnett | Lessons in Love
Chihei Hatakeyama | Forgotten Hill
Charlie Heat | Fireworks
Lindy-Fay Hella | Seafarer
Hembree & the Satan Sisters | F.Y.F.
Sarah Hennies | Reservoir 1: Preservation
Steve Hiett | Down on the Road by the Beach
Steve Hiett | Girls in the Grass
Hijokaidan X Yoshihide Otomo | Noise Join Inn
Hiromi | Spectrum
Hiss Golden Messenger | Terms of Surrender
Hot Club of Cowtown | TBA
Brittany Howard | Jaime
Inoyama Land | Commissions: 1977-2000
Stone Irr | Performance
Loraine James | For You & I
Joelma | Minhas Origens: Gigante
The Juan MacLean | The Brighter the Light
Keane | Cause & Effect
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights | Bobbie’s A Girl
Michael Klein | Yuzu EP
Klippa Kloppa | Liberty
Kobra And The Lotus | Evolution
Laboum | Two of Us
Hua Li | Dynasty
Casimir Liberski | Cosmic Liberty
Life | A Picture of Good Health
Like a Villain | What Makes Vulnerability Good
Lil’ Kleine | Het Album
Little Hours | Now the Lights Have Changed
Lizzo | Cuz I Love You Deluxe Edition
Tove Lo | Sunshine Kitty
Lost Orb | Low Ebb’s Lament
Ken M | Don’t Do This
Magma | Zëss Gold Vinyl
The Marrieds | Heavy Hearts
James Martin | Keep Movin’
Takafumi Matsubara | Strange, Beautiful & Fast
Franz Matthews & Local Suicide | Meditation / Tutan Jamon Remixes
Chance McCoy | Wander Wide
M83 | DSVII
Monograms | Living Wire
Monolord | No Comfort
Monster Rally | Adventures on the Floating Island
Thurston Moore Group | Spirit Counsel
Motionless in White | When Love Met Destruction Vinyl Reissue
Mudhoney | Morning in America
No One Knows What The Dead Think | No One Knows What the Dead Think
The Number Twelve Looks Like You | Wild Gods
OddFellas | OddFellas
J.S. Ondara | Tales of America: The Second Coming
One Eleven Heavy | Desire Path
One True Pairing | One True Pairing
oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls | Smokestacks & Bricks
Joel Paterson | Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays the Beatles
Jenna Paulette | Modern Cowgirl: Volume 1 EP
Peach Pyramid | Bright Blue EP
Caroline Polachek | So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings
Pony In The Pancake | Summer Sun
Prissy Whip | Swallow
Quebe Sisters | Quebe Sisters
Gerry Rafferty | Who Knows What the Day Will Bring?: The Complete Transatlantic Recordings 1969-71
The Ramones | It’s Alive 40th Anniversary
Reverend & The Makers | Best Of
Tebi Rex | The Young Will Eat the Old
Robbie Robertson | Sinematic
Poncho Sanchez | Trane’s Delight
Molly Sarle | Karaoke Angel
Michael Schenker Fest | Revelation
Scouting for Girls | The Trouble With Boys
Selfish Things | Logos
Nikka Sev | 1501
Seventeen | An Ode
T.G. Sheppard | Midnight in Memphis
Shigeto | Versions
Sir Was | Holding On to a Dream
Skyzoo & Pete Rock | Retropolitan
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators | Living the Dream Tour
Slayyyter | Slayyyter: The Mixtape
Smog | Knock Knock Vinyl Reissue
Juan Maria Solare | Mi Barrio, Tu Barrio
somesurprises | somesurprises
Dusty Springfield | Dusty in Memphis Half-Speed Mastered Vinyl
Carl Stone | Himalaya
S-Type | S-Type Beat EP
Rachid Taha | Je suis African
Teen Teen | Very, On Top
Telepathic Band | Electric Telepathy Vol. 1
Travis Thompson | Reckless Endangerment
Tiny Stills / Odd Robot | Split EP
Torpor | Rhetoric of the Image
Sofi Tukker | Dancing on the People
Twen | Awestruck
U.K. Subs | 1977-2017: 40 Years of U.K. Subs Singles
Midge Ure | Soundtrack 1978-2019 & Soundtrack The Singles 1980-1988
URN (Finland) | Iron Will of Power
Vazz | Cloud Over Maroma
Violet | Bed of Roses
Vivian Girls | Memory
West My Friend | In Constellation
White Ward | Love Exchange Failure
Alex Whorms | Burgundy
Shannon Wright | Providence
Yousef | 9 Moor Drive
John Zorn | The Hermetic Organ Vol. 7: St. John the Divine 2013