Compared to last week’s tsunami of releases — and the even-bigger wave coming later this month — this week’s list is pretty average, with a mere 180 albums, EPs and singles on the way. Still, there’s plenty of goodness to be found if you know where to look. So mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at the last minute:
Above Waves | Fugitives
Coco Love Alcorn | Rebirth
Alphabeat | I Don’t Know What’s Cool Anymore
Anavae | 45
Angel Witch | Angel of Light
Sudan Archives | Athena
A Winged Victory For the Sullen | The Undivided Five
Jon Batiste | Chronology Of A Dream: Live At The Village Vanguard
Geoff Berner | Grand Hotel 
Cosmopolis
Björk | Utopia Box Set
Björk, The Knife & Fever Ray | Country Creatures
Black Stone Cherry | Black to Blues Vol. 2
Black Violin | Take the Stairs
Blackwood | Of Flies EP
Blinky | Heart Full of Soul: The Motown Anthology
Pip Blom | Boat
Blutengel | Damokles
Bella Boo | Once Upon a Passion
Booker T. & The MG’s | Complete Stax Singles Vol. 1 1962-1967 Blue Vinyl
Garth Brooks | The Legacy Collection
Apollo Brown | Sincerely, Detroit
Rocky Burnette | Rock Solid
Byzanthian Neckbeard | Minaton
Cannabis Corpse | Nug So Vile
Mariah Carey | Merry Christmas 25th Anniversary Edition
Chris Catalena | Chris Catalena
Chats | The Chats
Gabriella Cilmi | The Water EP
Clouds Taste Satanic | Second Sight
Cold War Kids | New Age Norms 1
Nat King Cole | Hittin’ The Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943)
Mary Jane Coles | Full Circle
Ags Connolly | Wrong Again
Cosmic Psychos | Glorius 
Barsteds Coloured Vinyl
Cosmic Psychos | Loudmouth Soup
Counterparts | Nothing Left to Love
Cradle Of Filth | Cruelty And The Beast: Re-Mistressed
Craven Faults | Lowfold Reworks
Cross Wires | A Life Extinct
Grace Cummings | Refuge Cove
Cunts | Cunts
CUP | Spinning Creature
The Damned | Black is the Night: The Definitive Anthology
Dayshell | Mr. Pain
Deaf Rat | Ban The Light
The Deer | Do No Harm
Delta 5 | Singles & Sessions 1979-1981 (Coloured Vinyl)
Owen Denver | Sticks EP
Destiny’s Child | The Writing’s on the Wall 20th Anniversary Vinyl Edition
Alessandro Di Puccio | One Instrument
Dome | Dome 4: Will You Speak This Word
The Doors | The Soft Parade: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Bob Dylan | Travelin’ Thru, 1967–1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15
Failed Flowers | Slumberland 7”
Fenella | Fehérlófia
Fire From the Gods | American Sun
Fires Were Shot | Fallen EP
Frail Body | A Brief Memoriam
Gang Starr | One of the Best Yet
Garden Centre | A Moon For Digging
Azizi Gibson | Hell & Back
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra | I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This
Goodbye Mr MacKenzie | Good Deeds and Dirty Rags
Grateful Dead | Dave’s Picks Vol. 32 – The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 3/24/73
Travis Greene | Broken Record
Greentea Peng | Rising EP
Rachel Grimes | The Way Forth
Half Moon Run | A Blemish In The Great Light
Sean Henry | A Jump from the High Dive
Highly Suspect | MCID (My Crew is Dope)
Honningbarna | Jeg Hører
Hootie & The Blowfish | Imperfect Circle
Hotel Books | Equivalency II: Everything We Left Out
Hunting | Whatever You Need
Interplanetary Criminals | Move Tools
Iris | Goliath’s Throne
IU | Love Poem
Aled Jones & Russell Watson | Back in Harmony
Jubilee | Call For Location
Krept & Konan | Revenge is Sweet
Lake Ruth | Extended Leave
Miranda Lambert | Wildcard
Sammi Lanzetta | Ceiling Mirror
Cyndi Lauper | Merry Christmas…Have a Nice Life! Red Vinyl
Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox | Myths 004
Legendry | The Wizard and the Tower Keep
Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage | Bad Wiring
Like Torches | Loves & Losses
Dua Lipa | Don’t Start Now
Locean | Chav Anglais
Long Distance Calling | 
Stummfilm: Live From Hamburg (A Seats & Sounds Show)
Jeff Lynne’s ELO | From Out of Nowhere
Lynyrd Skynyrd | Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour Lyve!
Natalie MacMaster | Sketches
Cartel Madras | Age of The Goonda EP
Malibu | One Life
Mamiffer | The Brilliant Tabernacle
Mappe Of | The Isle of Ailynn
Marillion | Afraid of Sunlight Deluxe Edition
Matty & BadBadNotGood | TBA
Mavericks | Play the Hits
Loreena McKennitt | Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Mechina | Telestrerion
Midland | The Alchemy of Circumstance EP
Midnight Odyssey | Biolume Part 1: In Tartarean Chains
Un Misere | Sermon
Moon Bros. | The Easy Way Is Hard Enough
Murderdolls | The Complete Albums
New Politics | An Invitation to an Alternate Reality
Nile | Vile Nilotic Rites
96 Back | Issue in Surreal
Nirvana | MTV Unplugged Vinyl Reissue
No Swoon | No Swoon
Yann Novak | Slowly Dismantling
Novembers Doom | Nephilim Grove
Aoife O’Donovan | In The Magic Hour Solo Sessions EP
Office Culture | A Life of Crime
Omni | Networker
Ostrea Lake | Don’t Sway Above Me
Output 1:1:1 | Retroactive Rock Record EP
Overmono | Poly011 EP
People Person | Look Outside, Watch Closely
Rain Phoenix | River
The Pop Group | Y Definitive Edition
Prohibition Dead | Unless You’re Afraid to Change
Project Pablo | Inside Unsolved
Project Renegade | Order of the Minus
Pumarosa | Devastation
R.E.M. | Monster 25th Anniversary
The Rolling Stones | Let it Bleed 50th Anniversary Box
Eli Rose | Eli Rose
Rosecrans Vic | A Ride Down Rosecrans
Ross From Friends / Dave Aju / Duplex | Panorama Bar 07 | Part II
Josh Rouse | The Holiday Sounds of Josh Rouse
Signe Marie Rustad | When Words Flew Freely
Ty Segall | Pig Man Lives Volume 1
Signe Marie Rustad | When 
Worlds Flew Freely
Silvertomb | Edge Of Existence
Simple Minds | 40: The Best Of – 1979-2019
Social Distortion | Mommy’s Little Monster Vinyl
Social Distortion | Mainliner (wreckage from the past) Vinyl
Social Distortion | Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll Vinyl
Sparks | Past Tense: The Best of Sparks
Los Straitjackets | The Utterly 
Fantastic and Totally Unbelievable Sound of Los Straitjackets Reissue
Los Straitjackets | ¡Viva! LosStraitjackets Reissue
Ulla Straus & Oceanic | Plafond 4
Stray From the Path | Internal Atomics
Sudan Archives | Athena
Sunset Sons | Blood Rush Déjà Vu
Superfly | Flare
Tawiah | Starts Again
TR/ST | The Destroyer 2
Tula | The Oak Sessions
Tungorna | Baby
Turkey Vulture | In the Pines 7″
Turnover | Altogether
Uncle Walt’s Band | An American in Texas Reissue
Underworld | Drift: Series 1 Box
Mika Vainio | The Heat Equation
Van Halen | The Japanese 
Singles 1978-1984 Vinyl Box
Various Artists | Brown Acid: The Ninth Trip
Various Artists | Charlie’s Angels Soundtrack
Various Artists | Friends of Friends at 10 Picture Disc
Various Artists | Got It Covered
Various Artists | Hadestown: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Various Artists | Home Alone Christmas (Red & White Candy 
Cane Vinyl)
Various Artists | Jay & Silent Bob Reboot Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists | Punk Rock Christmas Vol. 2
Various Artists | Wilco Covered
Vetiver | Up on High
Pagllo Vittar | 111
Kat Vokes | Clockwork
Leif Vollebekk | New Ways
Voyager | Colours in the Sun
Waco | Human Magic
Warmdüscher | Tainted Lunch
Whoop-Szo | Warrior Down
Mareike Wiening | Metropolis Paradise
Wilderun | Veil Of Imagination
Wished Bone | Sap Season
Woodhawk | Violent Nature
Wounded Touch | From Day 0 Forward EP
Yard Arms | A Glossary of Broken Humans & Beating Hearts EP
Yeah Is What We Have | Through the Window
Yelawolf | Ghetto Cowboy
Matt Zaddy | Be
