Technically, the fall music season starts this week. But in reality, things won’t really get cooking until after Labour Day. You can warm up by listening to these 300-plus albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks and vinyl reissues. Your autumn playlist starts here:
Lee Abraham | Only Human
Abramelin | Never Enough Stuff
Lauren Alaina | Sitting Pretty on Top of the World
The Allergies | Love Somebody
Alpha Chrome Yayo | Dead Air
Anohni | Hopelessness Vinyl Reissue
Antediluvian | The Divine Punishment
Apallic | Edge of Desolation
Craig Armstrong | Nocturnes: Music for 2 Pianos
Ásgeir | The Sky Is Painted Gray Today EP
Asher | Astrothesia
Astpai | True Capacity
Auri | II | Those We Don’t Speak Of
Baby Queen | The Yearbook
Bad Waitress | No Taste
Julien Baker | Little Oblivions Remixes EP
Patricia Barber | Clique
Bataille | Reverb
Behemoth | Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) Vinyl Reissue
Paige Beller | I’ll Be Better
Beyond Grace | Our Kingdom Undone
Big Boi & Sleepy Brown | The Big Sleepover
Black Francis | Live in Nijmegen Vinyl Reissue
Black Francis | Svn Fingers Vinyl Reissue
James Blake | Friends That Break Your Heart
BLK Ocyssy | BLK Vintage
Bloodjinn | Leave This World Breathing
F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm | 2×1=4
Blush Response | Reconstitution
Bokassa | Molotov Rocktail
Usain Bolt | Country Yutes
Booker T. & The MG’s | The Complete Stax Singles Vol. 1 (1962-1967)
Booker T. & The MG’s | The Complete Stax Singles Vol. 2 (1968-1974)
Bootblacks | Thin Skies Remixed
Botany | Portal Orphanage
Buck Gooter | Head In A Bird Cage
Calicoco | Underneath
Cannabis Corpse | Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise Vinyl Reissue
Carnifex | Graveside Confessions
Caro♡ | Heartbeats/Heartbreaks
Chris Carter | Electronic Ambient Remixes One & Three Reissue
Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner, Djibril Toure, Federico Ughi | New York United, Volume 2
Dolph Chaney | This Was Dolph Chaney
Chase Icon | Domination
David Chesworth & Bill McDonald | Drive Time (1984)
Christian Death | The Dark Age Renaissance Collection Part 4: The New Dark Age
Cindy | 1:2
The Claudia Quintet & Eileen Myles | Evidence-Based
Closet Disco Queen & The Flying Raclettes | Omelette du Fromage
Colloboh | Entity Relation EP
Connie Constance | Prim & Propa EP
Liz Cooper | Hot Sass
Jhay Cortez | Timelezz
Cosmicdust | Snow Noise Assemblage
Ashland Craft | Travelin’ Kind
Creepy Nuts | Case
Damu The Fudgemunk | Conversation Peace
Dappy | Fortune
Dawn of Ashes | Blood Of The Titans Remixed
Dead Romantic | Voices
Dear Laika | Pluperfect
Deeper | Auto-Pain Deluxe Edition
Deformatory | Inversion of The Unseen Horizon
DeLaurentis | Unica
Miranda Del Sol | Supply & Demand
Joy Denalane | Let Yourself Be Loved Deluxe Edition
Dana Dentata | Pantychrist
Mägo De Oz | Bandera Negra
Diamond Hands | Thank You
Directions | Echoes Anniversary Edition
Dntel | Away
Doctor Smoke | Dreamers and the Dead
D.O.G. | Anti/Mental Destroyer
Maria Domark | Flawless EP
Down Again | Bury The Bones EP
Drake | Certified Lover Boy
Dregs One | Corner Store Poetry
Lauren Dukes | Lauren Dukes EP
Dyerwulf | Doomsday Deferred
Earth Groans | The Body EP
The Earth Orchestra | Together Is Beautiful
Callum Easter | System
Emapea | Bees, Trees and Flowers
Lawrence English | A Mirror Holds The Sky
Fair Visions | Modern Kids
Falling Man | A Christening
FamishGod | Rotting Ceremony
Father & Tony Shhnow | Only Built 4 Hermès Linx
David Ferguson | Nashville No More
M Field | M Field EP
First Fragment | Gloire Éternelle
Flyjack | Pan Am
Foreign Pain | Death Of Divinity
Forever Autumn | Hail the Forest Dark
Robin Fox | Waking Fever Dream
Pia Fraus | Now You Know, It Still Feels The Same
Fromis_9 | Talk & Talk
Front Line Assembly | The Initial Command Deluxe Edition
Ziggy Funk | Brondesbury Park
Future Disco | Starlight (Never Dull Remix)
Rory Gallagher | Rory Gallagher 50th Anniversary Edition
Gerycz / Powers / Rolin | Lamplighter
Ghost Hounds | A Little Calamity
Kristoffer Gildenlöw | Let Me Be A Ghost
Gizmo | The Gremlin
Tony Glausi | Everything At Once
Gold Star | Headlights USA EP
Great Pagans | Aux Folies
Cee-Lo Green | The Lady Killer Vinyl Reissue
Green Lung | Black Harvest
Tom Grennan | Evering Road Special Edition
Grizzly Bear | Yellow House 15th Anniversary Edition
Groom Epoch | Soft Explosion Single
David Grubbs & Mats Gustafsson | Off-Road
DJ Gutta Butta and Slimmy B | All Net EP
Baptiste W. Hamon & Barbagallo | Barbaghamon
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers | Ramble In Music City: The Lost Concert (1990)
Frank Hatchett | Sensational
Chesney Hawkes | Living Arrows
The Hawkins | Aftermath
Heathersett | Heathersett
Heckel & Jeckel | Sarbalakio
Nico Hedley | Painterly
Keaton Henson | Fragments EP
Here We Go Magic | A Different Ship Vinyl Reissue
Hannah Holland | Tectonic
Horoscope | _M.E.C.C.A.
Hot Mustard | Mother Sauce
Susan Howe and David Grubbs | Concordance
Hunting Dog | Pseudobody
Iamgawd & DocDaMindbenda | Hell’s Angels & Heaven’s Demons
Idolos Futuros | Canticos EP
Ill Niño | Revolution Revolución Vinyl Reissue
Imagine Dragons | Mercury Act 1
Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas & Billy Bultheel | Sex
Immersion / Various Artists | Nanocluster Vol. 1
In The Absence Of Words | A Collection II
In The Company of Serpents | Lux
Iron Maiden | Sunjutsu
I Start Counting | Ejected
I Start Counting | Re-fused
Jaguar | Madremonte
Jail Socks | Coming Down
Jenevieve | Division
JMSN | Heals Me
Robert Jon & the Wreck | Shine a Light on Me Brother
Senhor Jorge | Sr. Jorge
Joshua Ben Joseph | I Want The Old World Back
Juilliard String Quartet | The Early Columbia Recordings 1949-56
Junkyard | Junkyard Vinyl Reissue
Damien Jurado | Where Shall You Take Me? Vinyl Reissue
Kasztan | Rare Earth Elements EP
KingDow | Spiritual Eyes
Connor Kissel | The Forest of Things Lost and Found
Jenna Kyle | Ojos EP
Lady Blackbird | Black Acid Soul
Lady Pulse | Absolutely Ruthless
Claire Laffut | Bleu
LANY | GG BB XX
Alison Faith Levy | You Are Magic
Little King | Amuse De Q
Little Simz | Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Vana Liya | Little Kahuna
Lizbon | Deuteranopia
Lizki | Dynamite Single
L’Orange | The World Is Still Chaos, But I Feel Better
W. H. Lung | Vanities
Lurcher | Coma EP
Lux | In the Company of Serpents
Steve Maddock | The Blues Project
The Magic Bus | The Magic Bus
Malison | Death’s Embrace
Manic Street Preachers | Ultra Vivid Lament
Manu | Earth
Bob Marley & The Wailers | The Capitol Sessions ’73
The Mars Volta | Amputechture Vinyl Reissue
Matsunaga Was Right | Kings Of The Deathmatch
Peter Mawanga & Trevor Bystrom | Mawanga & Bystrom
Sean McCabe | Rotations & Reworks
Finny McConnell | The Dark Streets of Love
Evann McIntosh | Character Development
Meatbodies | 333
Megan and Shane | Daughter of Country
Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra | Tinctures In Time (Community Music, Vol. 1)
Minder | Telepathy
Modernlove. | Monochrome Blue EP
Monnone Alone | Stay Foggy
Lolita Moore | Loved
Mötley Crüe | Dr. Feelgood Reissue
Motörhead | Train Kept A Rollin Vinyl Single
Motorists | Surrounded
Mourn | The Next Life
My Fictions | Time Immemorial
My Morning Jacket | Live 2015
Native Soul | Teenage Dreams
The Necrosexual | Seeds of Seduction
Never End | The Cold & The Craving
New Found Glory | Forever And Ever x Infinity Deluxe Vinyl Reissue
New York United | Volume 2
Matthew Liam Nicholson | Universal Soldier
Nidala | Colours Of My People
The Night Flight Orchestra | Aeromantic II
Nimbus Sextet | Helix EP
Maty Noyes | The Feeling’s Mutual
Nuummite | Celestial Triarchy
Víkingur Ólafsson | Mozart & Contemporaries
Ominous Conclusions | The Outsider
On Our Own Clock | On Our Own Clock
Orchestre National Des Pays De La Loire / Karen Gomyo / Stephanie Jones | A Piazzolla Trilogy
Bernard Parmegiani | Mémoire Magnétique, vol. 2 (1966-1993)
Lukasz Pawlik | Long-Distance Communication
P.E. | The Reason for My Love EP
Peach Hat | Spore Sessions No. 9
Pearl & The Oysters | Flowerland
Pell | Floating While Dreaming II
Petey | Lean Into Life
Pettereldh | Projekt Drums Vol. 1
The Picturebooks | The Major Minor Collective
Pil & Bue | The World Is A Rabbit Hole
P.O.D. | Satellite: 20th Anniversary Edition
Pool House | The Magic Of Night Skies
Porridge Fist | California Resort
Porto Geese | Duck
Portrait | At One with None
Power Toke | Slabs Of Pain
Gerry Rafferty | Rest In Blue
Priya Ragu | Damnshestamil
Betty Reed | Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned EP
Chris Renzema | Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart
Replicant | Malignant Reality
Markus Reuter | Anchor and Burden
Ridney & Diana Miro | Gravity
Rise To The Sky | Per Aspera Ad Astra
Jehry Robinson | The Name is Not Important
Rodrido Y Gabriela | Jazz Mettal EP
Ropes Of Night | Impossible Space
Renee Rosnes | Kinds of Love
Asher Roth | Greenhouse Effect Vol. 3
Rotting Christ | Der Perfekte Traum EP Vinyl
Rudimental | Ground Control
R.Y.F. | Everything Burns
Sampology | Regrowth
Satellite Citi | Fear Tactics
Brinsley Schwarz | Tangled
Scratcha DVA | Afrotek EP
The Screaming Jets | All for One 30th Anniversary Edition
Seam | Headsparks
Jeroen Search | Alpha Centauri
Seething Akira | Dysfunctional Wonderland
DJ Seinfeld | Mirrors
Michael Sembello | Maniac Vinyl Single
Shackleton | Departing Like Rivers
Shade | Fallen Skies
The Shattered Mind Machine | Apparatschik
David Shea | AM/PM
Shred Flintstone | Unlimited Power
S1mba | Good Time Long Time
Nala Sinephro | Space 1.8
Slade | Slayed? Deluxe Vinyl Reissue
Solar Mantra | Away
SOS OG | Bag Music
Soul Mass Transit System | The Dubble Trubble EP
SpermChurch | Merdeka Atau Mati
Spirits Having Fun | Two
Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher | Bone Architecture
Chris Standring | Wonderful World
Jesse Jo Stark | A Pretty Place To Fall Apart EP
Tommy Stewart’s Dyerwulf | Doomsday Deferred
Stone Deaf | Killers
Strange Magic | Feel Good
Strong Boys | Homo
Logan Strosahl with the Charles Rosen Ensemble | Book II of Arthur: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Bub Styles & Farma Beats | Bubdini: Escape Artist
Summer Heart | Insecurities
Sun Spot | Clipping
Super Furry Animals | Rings Around The World 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Suuns | The Witness
Richard Swift | Dressed Up for the Letdown Vinyl Reissue
Taylor Swift | Fearless (Taylor’s Version) Vinyl
Stephen W Tayler | Da Capo
Richard Thompson | Mirror Blue Vinyl Reissue
Tigress | Pura Vida
Tillison Reingold Tiranti | Allium: Una Storia
TobyMac | Live In Denver
Toner | White Buffalo Roam
David Toop, Akio Suzuki, Lawrence English | Breathing Spirit Forms
Tora | A Force Majeure
Trilitrate | Está de Grelo
Trna | Istok
Troldhaugen | idio+syncrasies
Tuesday The Sky | The Blurred Horizon
Turn Cold | Break Your Faith
Two Cent Revival | Demons
Tzar | I’m OK EP
Valhall | Neversleep
Van der Graaf Generator | The Charisma Years 1970-1978
Christina Vantzou, Jan Matthé, Christophe Piette, Lieven Martens | Serrisme
Various Artists | A Month of Sundays: Volume 1
Various Artists | Arthur Baker presents Dance Masters: Shep Pettibone – The Classic Master-Mixes
Various Artists | Arkham Friends (Part 1 & 2)
Various Artists | Cameroon Garage Funk
Various Artists | Cinderella: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists | Mas Alto! Vol. 3
Various Artists | Migung 미궁
Various Artists | New York United Vol. 2
Various Artists | Secretly Canadian: SC25 Anniversary Single
Various Artists | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists | Shapes Series: Pyramids
Various Artists | Two Tribes Volume Two
Vessel of Iniquity | The Permian-Triassic Extinction Event
Warmyear | I Wear The Memory
Werewolf Hair | Werewolf Hair
Western Bloc | Monkey Christ
When In Rome | The Promise Single
Wiener Planquadrat | Stillstand EP
The Wildhearts | 21st Century Love Songs
Wingtips | Cutting Room Floor
O.V. Wright | A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades Vinyl Reissue
Charli XCX | Good Ones
XYR | Anciente EP
Yea Big | An Emptiness Supreme Reimagined
Brett Young | Weekends Look A Little Acoustic These Days
Zbub | I Will Never Touch Grass
