Well, that escalated quickly. Last week there were about 100 releases. Next week there are more than 200. And 2024 is just getting started. Which means you’d better get started perusing this list of all the new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes on the way:
Jhené Aiko | Sail Out
All(h)ours | All Ours
Allman Brothers Band | Manley Field House, Syracuse University, April 7, 1972
Alluvial | Death Is But A Door
Biagio Antonacci | L’inizio
Kioto Aoki x Takashi Shallow | Paper, Not Plastic Dubs
A$AP Rocky | A$AP Code
@ | Are You There God? It’s Me, @ EP
The Awesome Machine | It’s Ugly or Nothing Reissue
Bad History Month | To Be Free
Bby Goyard | S-Files
B1A4 | Connect
Nicolas Bougaïeff | EP1
Kris Bowers | Origin Soundtrack
Gianni Brezzo | Filigrani
Bring Me The Horizon | Post Human: Nex Gen
Uriel Bromberg | Wings
Bronson Arm | Bronson Arm
Dennis Brown & Al Campbell | The Exit & Hold Your Corner
Kevin Burt | Thank You, Brother Bill: A Tribute to Bill Withers
BXB | Chapter 2: Wings
Willi Carlisle | Critterland
Casey | How To Disappear
Celer | Gems I
Chanel | ¡Agua!
Lloyd Charmers | Reggae Is Tight & Reggae Charm
Charles Chen | Charles, Play!
City of Dawn, Sherry Finzer, Karasvana | The Journeying Sun
The Clamps | Megamouth
Club Dogo | Club Dogo
Cocteau Twins | Four-Calendar Café Reissue
Cocteau Twins | Milk and Kisses Reissue
Earl Coleman | Early Years: The Collection 1946-56
Buddy Collette | The Classic Albums
Coma Cluster Void | Absurd Romanticism
Dark Ages | Twilight Of Europe
D-Block Europe | Rolling Stone
Dead Best | Second
Manni Dee | Boundless
Dethcaper | DTCPR
Dinosaur Jr | Where You Been 30th Anniversary Vinyl
Domination Campaign | A Storm Of Steel
Terry Draper | In the Beginning
Drown In Sulphur | Dark Secrets Of The Soul
Eastern Distributor / Jörmungandr | An Xileel Split EP
East Village | Drop Out
Eevie Echoes & The Locations | The Cons of Being a Wallflower
Lila Ehjä | Clivota
8Turn | Spot Video
Hannah Ellis | That Girl
Emerson String Quartet | The Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon
Engulf | The Dying Planet Weeps
Escuela Grind | Ddeeaatthhmmeettaall
Eunuchs | Estuary of Dreams
Exit Eden | Femmes Fatales
Extinction A.D. | Ruthless Intent
Fainting Dreams | Those Left Untouched By The Light
Art Farmer | The Art of Farmer: Classic Albums 1953-55
Michel Fernandez Quartet | A_Live (Live at Périscope)
Finding Mero | Need You
Roberta Flack | Lost Takes Reissue
Folly Group | Down There!
Vernon Football | One More Light 2
Lita Ford | Black Reissue
Fossil Archive aka Roberto | Rhythm Mechanism EP
Arnaud Fournier | 100% Black Puzzle Single
Four Tet | Loved
Froukje | Noodzakelijk Verdriet
David Gibson | Fellowship
Glas | Midnight Fay
G. Love & Special Sauce | G. Love & Special Sauce 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition
The Goddamsels | Better Than Single
Anna Goldsmith | Let Love Go Single
Good Kid | Bubbly
Vanisha Gould & Chris McCarthy | Life’s A Gig
Simon Grab x Simon Berz | Eruptive Shifts
Ariana Grande | Yes, And?
Grande Loge | Unruh
GV | Love Is An Odyssey Deluxe
Nino Gvilia | Nicole / Overwhelmed by the Unexplained
Marika Hackman | Big Sigh
Elias Hix | Stones & Waves
Linnea Hjerten | Nio systrar
Holler Choir | Songs Before They Write Themselves
Hoorsees | Big
Trevor Horn | Echoes: Ancient & Modern
Nailah Hunter | Lovegaze
Lyn Inaizumi | johaLyn
Inner City | Reach (Syncia Digs Deeper Mix)
Infant Island | Obsidian Wreath
Inver | On This Earth
Island Apes | Island Apes
Itzy | Born To Be
Boldy James & Nicholas Craven | Penalty of Leadership
Knea | Serotonina Deluxe
Kid Cudi | Insano
Killed Bubbles | You’re Nothing To Me
The Korgis | Orchestrations
Kreidler | Twists (A Visitor Arrives)
Krvna | The Rhythmus Of Death Eternal
Kyuhyun | Restart
Last In Time | Too Late
Lifesick | Love and Other Lies
The Lightning Kids | All Of Those Nights Instrumentals
Limelight | Last Dance
Looty Trio | Boxer Rebellion
Jennifer Lopez | Can’t Get Enough
Loukeman | SD-2
Ajsa Luna | Mother Luna
Lush | Lovelife Reissue
Lush | Split Reissue
Lush | Spooky Reissue
Lyrical Lemonade | Fallout
Magnum | Here Comes The Rain
Massa Nera | Quatro Vientos // Cinco Soles
Elan Mehler | Trouble In Mind
Mining | Chimet
Morris Mobley | Meditations
MOR | Kick off
Neal Morse | The Restoration – Joseph: Part Two
Mourning Dawn | The Foam of Despair
MXLX | Kicking Away At The Decrepit Walls Til The Beautiful Sunshine Blisters Thru The Cracks
Mỹ Anh | Em
NateWantsToBattle | Unravel (Tokyo Ghoul)
Nature Of The Beast | Radio Hauntings
Neoni | Body Bag
Nerves | Empty Single
Niel | Parting Emotion
Night Chemistry | Photosynth
Arjuna Oakes, John Psathas | Sierra
Chris O’Leary | The Hard Line
Om La Luna | O Sperietură
OnlyOneOf | Things I Can’t Say Love
JWPaton | Submerged
Peony | Live At TQ Live
Pink Hawks | Boo
Pink Hawks | Elote EP
The Plot In You | Vol. 1 EP
Popcorn Kid | Monochrome Single
Andy Pratt | Trio
The Prairie States | Trouble Is
Pregoblin | II
Preme | Penthouse
Qilin | Parasomnia
Reneé Rapp & Auli’i Cravalho | Mean Girls Soundtrack
Rebe | Es Q Acaso No Me Oyes??
Lou Reed | Hudson River Wind Meditations Reissue
Reks & Samir | Rather Unique
Re6ce | Luvsick
Retr0Bright | To Him
Ritual Earth / Kazak | Turned To Stone Chapter 9 Split
Rone | D’Argent & De Sang Soundtrack
Esther Rose | Safe 2 Run
Milyssa Rose | The Collection
Rubber Tea | From A Fading World
Russell / Guns | Medusa
Bill Ryder-Jones | Iechyd Da
Ryujin | Ryujin
Ryu Su Jeong | 2Rox
Ha Hyun Sang | With All My Heart
Saevus Finis | Facilis Descensus Averno
Michelangelo Scandroglio | Gently Broken
Lily Seabird | Alas
Sentries | Snow As A Metaphor For Death
SF9 | Sequence
Matthew Shipp & Steve Swell | Space Cube Jazz
Sippix | A Dream’s Atmosphere
Skating Polly | Chaos County Line
Sleeping Awake | When Did We Fall
Slift | Ilion
Southlight ft. Mia Palencia | Bound By Rhythm (Remixes)
Splitknuckle | Breathing Through The Wound
Stegosaurus | Spicy Sweet Chili
Wynn Stewart | The Bakersfield Pioneer: Complete Releases 1954-1962
Harrison Storm | Wonder, Won’t You
Dave Stryker Trio With Bob Mintzer | Groove Street
Subsonica | Realtà Aumentata
Suburban Studs | Slam
Swazy* | Bullet Therapy
Sympathy Pain | Swan Dive
TeHôm | Legacy
The Tibbs | Ain’t It Funny / Give Me a Reason
Tjdes | Constant Rearview Fright
TMSV | Prism
Totô De Babalong | Volume II
Tournament Arc | Tournament Arc
Tr¡ck D¡ce | ₩hale Action
Kali Uchis | Orquídeas
Unknown T | Blood Diamond
Vacations | No Place Like Home
The Vaccines | Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations
Armin van Buuren | Breathe In
Van1a | Casatyl
Various Artists | Harmony: A New Musical Broadway Cast Recording
Various Artists | Ikigai (生き甲斐)
Various Artists | Merrily We Roll Along Broadway Cast Recording
Victim Of The Ambient | Nostalgia Damns The Future
The Violent Youth | Na Igle
Waker | Mission Of School
Watchhouse | Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign | Vultures
Hannah Wicklund | The Prize
J. Wiegold | At Breydon Water
Wilson Fairchild | Statler Made
Bruiser Wolf | My Story Got Stories
Xanacova | Ativan (Sad Again)
X-Ray Spex | Conscious Consumer Reissue
Yersin | The Scythe Is Remorseless
Yplo | Ob Tru
