When I started writing about music back in the previous millennium, this time of year was a dead zone. Not any more — as you can see from this list of 330-plus new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes. If this craziness continues, the only thing that will be dead in February will be me. Let the carnage begin:
Acidgvrl | Svlfuric X
AEW | Who We Are: A Celebration of Excellence, Pt. 1
Shoeb Ahmad | Breather Loops
And So I Watch You From Afar | Jettison
Félicia Atkinson | Echo
Baba Ali | Living It Up / Black & Blue
George Alice | Growing Pains EP
Andrew | The Rain Knows What It’s Doing
And So I Watch You From Afar | Jettison
Ann Beratta | Rise
Annihilator | Metal II
The Anomalys | Glitch
Apink | Dilemma
Archil & Leon | Blooming
Arð | Take up my Bones Deluxe Edition
Asgaard | What If…
Ben Auld | Lemongrass
A Will Away | Stew
Gregor Barnett | Don’t Go Throwing Roses In My Grave
James Basdanis | Cosmos ‘n’ Duniyas
Basement Revolver | Embody
Bats | Blue Cabinet
Beach House | Once Twice Melody
Betty Benedeadly | The Adventures of Mabel & Carter
Liam Benzvi | Acts of Service
Beshken | Pantomime
Bézier | Valencia
Apulati Bien | Azone
Big K.R.I.T. | Digital Roses Don’t Die
Big Nothing | Dog Hours
Big Water | Park
The Birthday Massacre | Fascination
Black Altar & Vulture Lord | Deathiah Manifesto
Black Map | Melodoria
Black Rainbows | Live at Desertfest Belgium
Blamhaus | B-Haus011 EP
The Blank Canvas | Dark Mirage
Mischa Blanos | The Bald Soprano OST
Wynona Bleach | Moonsoake
Blinded By Hope | We Are
Bloodywood | Rakshak
Blue Hawaii | My Bestfriend’s House EP
The Body & OAA | Enemy Of Love
Bored at My Grandmas House | Detox Single
Sarah Borges | Together Alone
Brace ! Brace ! | Care
Brick By Brick | Dismal Existence
Broods | Space Island
Bunuel | Killers Like Us
Calibro 35 | Blanca (Colonna Sonora Originale)
Sabrina Carpenter | Fast Times
Peter Cat | The Magus
Catcher | The Fat Of A Broken Heart
Cheer-Accident | Here Comes The Sunset
Eric Chenaux | Say Laura
Kenny Chesney | Everyone She Knows
Choreomanic | Choreomanic
Church Of Trees | Pish Posh
Circa Arcana | Bridget Viginti EP
Circle Jerks | Wild In The Streets 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Rupert Clervaux | Zibaldone IV of CVX
Coals | Rewal
Cœur-joie | Allumettes Au Bout Des Îles
Commodo | Deft 1s
Consvmer | Obsession
Ash Cooke | Ash Cooke
Dana Cooper | I Can Face The Truth
JP Cooper | She
Nicholas Craven | Craven N 3
Crimson Throne | Instinct EP
Crush String Collective | Aeriform
Curren$y & The Alchemist | Continuance
Dagoba | By Night
Limsa D’Aulnay | Logique, Pt. 3
Dawnrider | The Fourth Dawn
DC the Don | My Own Worst 3nemy
Dead Years | Dead Years
Death On Fire | The Dying Light
Debit | The Long Count
Keno & Tristan De Liege | Transatlantyk Remixes
Desultory | Bitterness Reissue
Desultory | Into Eternity Reissue
The Detroit Escalator Company | Soundtrack [313] Reissue
Devoured Elysium | Void Grave
Etran De L’AÏr | Agadez
Die! Die! Die! | This Is Not An Island Anymore
Drama | Don’t Wait Up
Dreamtigers | Ellapsis
Ryan Dugre | Look See
Echo & The Bunnymen | Songs To Learn & Sing Vinyl Reissue
Electric Sheep Collective | Nope – Hope
Elephant Stone | Le Voyage de M. Lonely Dans La Lune
Stro Elliot | Black & Loud: James Brown Reimagined
Embryonic Autopsy | Prophecies Of The Conjoined
Endtime | Impending Doom
Ensia | Fake Love EP
Epik Hhigh | Epik High Is Here Pt. 2
ESA (Electronic Substance Abuse) | Designer Carnage
Etran de L’Aïr | Agadez
Euphemia Rise | Born A Cow
Ex Norwegian | Spook Du Jour
First Draft | Declines Are Long Gone EP
Flower-Corsano Duo | The Halcyon
Foreign Hands | Bleed The Dream EP
Fostermother | The Ocean
Fouk | Paradise EP
Foxy Shazam | The Heart Behead You
DJ Fucci | Fauna
Fulanno | Nadie Está A Salvo Del Mal
Fumigation | Structural Extermination
Oliver Future | A Year At Home
Ghedtair Composite | Music from Armenia
Alice Glass | Prey//IV
Glasya | Attarghan
God is God | Metamorphoses
Goodbye June | See Where The Night Goes
Kit Grill | Spirit
Carlie Hanson | Tough Boy
The Heavy Hours | Gardens
The Howard Hughes Suite | High & Lonesome
Howless | To Repel Ghosts
Human Is Alive | Summertime
James Hunter Six | With Love...The James Hunter Six
Hurray for the Riff Raff | Life on Earth
IFE Radio | If I Could…
Immolation | Acts Of God
In Arcadia | Hauntology
The Infamous Stringdusters | Toward The Fray
Brian Jackson | All Talk
Aarti Jadu | L’Ecole De La Caz
Jarguna | Neogene
Jasmeno | Lucid Horizon
JSPR | Severe Circuit EP
Karli June | Where You Come From EP
Jyocho | Let’s Promise To Be Happy
Kerbside Collection | Round The Corner
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges | Texas Moon
Natalia M. King | Woman Mind Of My Own
King Of The World | Roual Ten
King Yosef | Barbed Teeth
KnifeTrick | No One Is Having Fun
Rokia Koné & Jacknife | Bamanan
Gidon Kremer | Sonatas for Violin Solo
Kuoleman Galleria | Pystyyn kuollut
Kuru | Splitting time EP
Uèle Lamore | Loom
Michael Lane | Take It Slow
Anna Larson | Last Night Single
The Last Of Lucy | Moksha
Lau | Circumstance
Lavender Country | Blackberry Rose
Least | Dazed / Funktion None
Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci | Wind Bells Falls
Mickey Leigh’s Mutated Music | Variants Of Vibe
Lifted | 3
Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side | Miles From Nowhere
Jan Lisiecki | Night Music
Little Boots | Out (Out)
Lord Agheros | Koinè
Lord Apex & Cookin Soul | The Bullshit
Los Campesinos! | Hello Sadness Reissue
Los Campesinos! | Romance Is Boring Reissue
The William Loveday Intention | Cowboys Are SQ
Lucas/Heaven | Blues of the World
Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s Star One | Revel In Time
Lucero | Lucero Vinyl Reissue
Lumberob | Language Learner
Lunar Blood | Twilight Insurgency
Lunar Noon | Symbolic Creature
Ken M | You’re on Your Own Now
Tom MacDonald & Adam Calhoun | The Brave
MadeInParis | Voulez-vous Coucher Avec Moi?
Maita | I Just Want To Be Wild For You
Malaki | Breathing Room EP
Manic Sinners | King Of The Badlands
Market | The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong
Masakre | Morbid Extinction
Matrass | Inner Wars
Peter Matson | The Right Way
Del McCoury Band | Almost Proud
Tom McKay | Call To The Dæmon Sultan
Melting Palms | Abyss Deluxe Edition
Methyl Ethyl | Are You Haunted?
Microphones | Completely Everything, 1996-2021
Midnight Oil | Resist
Mr. Oizo & Phra | Voilà
Monkey And The Permavirgins | Internet Folk Songs
Monsoon | Ghost Party
Mario Monterosso | Take It Away
Mooch & Oh Jay | Keeper Of The Flame
Kendra Morris | Nine Lives
Mortem | Slow Death
Le Muffe | Down Down Down
The Neptune Power Federation | Le Demon De L’Amour
Network Nick | Johnny Synths
Nightrage | Abyss Rising
Nite Fleit & Umwelt | Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Noir Et Blanc | Wallflower Pedestrian
Danny Ocean | @dannocean by Danny Ocean
Lewis OfMan | Sonic Poems
Ognib | Omen EP
Ohgeesy | Geezyworld Deluxe
Terry Ohms | I Thought I Told You To Stay In The Car Vol. 1
Onemillionsteps | White Is All Colors
Orange Crate Art | Contemporary Guitar Music
Original Son | Currents
Joan Osborne | Radio Waves
Overkill | The Atlantic Years 1986-1994
Dean Owens | Sinner’s Shrine
Pan•American | The Patience Fader
Slim Papi | Châteauneuf-du-Papi EP
Patrick R. Pärk | Galactic Mirage Tapes
Parker & DoisPês | Listadecompras
Jeff Parker | The Relatives Vinyl Reissue
Pataki | Hajsza
Art Patience | The Unknown
Dani Lee Pearce | Spider Mountain
Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra | The Unfolding
Permsky Kray | Звездопад
Perpetual Paradox | Endless Cycle
Matt Pike | Pike Vs. The Automaton
The Pine Hearts | Lost Love Songs
Ariel Pink’s Dark Side | The Key of Joy is Disobedience
Pink Floyd | P.U.L.S.E. Restored & Re-Edited
Yoann Pisterman | Remix EP
Steve Poltz | Stardust & Satellites
Porsh Bet$ | Things In the Way EP
PPJ | Sonho EP: Remixes
Pure Wrath | Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
Anna Laura Quinn | Open The Door
Raays | Innervzm
Ran | 世存
Red Pants | When We Were Dancing
Morgan Reese | Letters From The Invisible Girl! EP
Swami John Reis | Ride the Wild Night
Jim Rider | The Final Straw EP
Euphemia Rise | Born A Cow
Ron-RonTheProducer | Ron-Ron Do That Shit Vol. 2
Rot TV | Tales of Torment
Zach Rowden | Like A Mirror Does
The Roxies | Don’t Wanna Dance Because I’m Told To
Royce | We Can Win
Bobby Rush | Chickenheads 50th Anniversary EP
RXmode | Tunnel EP
Sadness / Unreqvited | Sadness / Unreqvited
Said The Sky | Sentiment
Josef Salvat | Islands
Sammi | Silver
Savage Grace | After the Fall from Grace
Savage Grace | Master of Disguise
Schizophrenia | Recollections Of The Insane
Schoolly D | Cuz Schoolly D’s Crazy
Sea Power | Everything Was Forever
Selin | Give and Take
Sally Shapiro | Sad Cities
Adam Shead Quintet | Full Cycle, Thread New.
Alison Shearer | View From Above
ShittyBoyz | Trifecta
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers | Nightroamer
Shout Out Louds | House
Shovels & Rope | Manticore
Sign Of Death | Revival EP
Sipho | She Might Bleed
The Skinner Brothers | Soul Boy II
Sleepwulf | Sunbeams Curl
Soccer Committee | Soccer Committee
Sound Of Smoke | Tales
Southern California | Southern California Radio
Space Panther | Glamdemic
Spaceship | Ravines
Spirits Of Fire | Embrace The Unknown
Vince Staples & Mustard | Magic
Star One | Revel In Time
Howard Stelzer & Stuart Chalmers | The Extenuating Circumstance and All That It Implies
Sean Stemaly | Product of a Small Town
Colin Stetson | Texas Chainsaw Massacre Soundtrack
The Stolen Moans | Falling Into
Stone Foundation | Outside Looking In
Bob Stroger & The Headcutters | That’s My Name
Jazmine Sullivan | Heaux Tales, Mo’ Tales: The Deluxe
Sunset Sons | Too Many Humans, Not Enough Souls
Syko Friend | Stars Fight Many
Taeyeon | Invu
Tame Impala | The Slow Rush Deluxe Edition
C. Tangana | La Sobremesa
Taumel | Now We Stay Forever Lost In Space Together
Temporary Thoughts | Prelude/Tilt-Shift Lens
Tennyson | Rot
Mark Tester | Tumbleweed
Ellah A. Thaun | Arcane Majeur Deux
The Thing With Feathers | Sundays In The South
Thought Trials | Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
347aidan | Bad Kids
The Threshold HouseBoys Choir | Form Grows Rampant
Thrust OG × BoFaat | Like its 1994
Tinashe | Naturally
The Tin Can Collective | A Brief Look Back At Rising Tides
Tinlicker | In Another Lifetime
Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Philip Gibbs, Paul Dunmall | Mahogany Rain
Tour-Maubourg | Woodfloor Dubs EP
Tovi Sound System | Shake It
Treasure | The Second Step: Chapter One
Oliver Tree | Cowboy Tears
Katie Tupper | Towards The End EP
Vacuum | Vacuum
Various Artists | All His Decisions
Various Artists | The Black Joy Experience Vol. 2: Comrade
Various Artists | Dub Ditch Picnic 2011-2021: Ten Years of Weirdos
Various Artists | Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of the 1960s
Various Artists | FiXT Noir: Fight The Fade
Various Artists | Future Disco: Love Jams 2
Various Artists | Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono
Various Artists | Trip Recordings: All His Decisions
Vast Conduit | Always Be There
Veonity | Elements of Power
The Vex Collection | The Vex Collection
Vicious Pink | West View
Vonamor | Vonamor
Vulcan Tyrant | Vulcanocide
WateRR × Tone Beatz | Order Of The Day: Return Of The Cherry Tree
Bob Weir & Wolf Bros. | Live In Colorado
Cinder Well & Jim Ghedi | I Am a Youth That’s Inclined to Ramble
White Lies | As I Try Not To Fall Apart
Wifisfuneral | Black Heart Revenge 2
Astrid Williamson | Into The Mountain
Charli XCX | Baby
Fatima Yamaha | Built Back Bangers EP
Yawn | Materialism
Yeat | 2 Alivë
You and Us | For Children of All Ages
Youth Sector | Adult Contemporary
Mike Zito | Blues for the Southside
John Zorn | A Garden of Forking Paths
Zutomayo | Nobi Shigusa Korite Itomagoi
Zvrra | Origins
