Music, like life, has its ups and downs. After watching the new-release counter slowly but surely creep from 300 up to 550 over the past month, I was a tad surprised to find it dipping back into the mid-400s next week. I’m sure it’s only a temporary aberration. On the plus side, it looks like you’ll finally have time to take up a new hobby. Perhaps knitting. But don’t do anything before you peruse the new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes on the way:
Abandoncy | Assailable // Agonism
Ævangelist | Perdition Ekstasis Meta
Afterimage | Faces To Hide
Aboney | Dictomía
Addie Alaimo | I’m Leaving California But It’s No Big Deal
Alaskan Tapes | Something Ephemeral
The Alchemist | The Genuine Articulate
Alemeda | Fk It EP
Alien Nose Job | Turns the Colour of Bad Shit
The Allergies | Freak The Speaker
Allie | Every Dog
Gregg Allman Band | Uncle Sam’s
All The Pretty Horses | All The Pretty Horses
All Time Low | Hate This Song
Almost Monday | Dive
Herb Alpert | 50
Alunah | Fever Dream
Phil Alvin | County Fair 2000 Reissue
Don Aman | Open
Amir | C Amir
Anna | The Fun
Joris Anne | Mijn Muze
Molly Annelle | Junebug
Anthers | Pedigree Pig
Anubis | The Unforgivable
Arkan | Lightworker Part 1
Arms and Sleepers | Misery EP
Kassi Ashton | Made From The Dirt
Jean-Louis Aubert | Pafini
Niek Baar | Schumann & Bruch: Violin Concertos
Bad Neighbour | Millions
Baloncesto | Primavera Tardia
Chris Bangs | Dream World
Jack Barksdale | Out of Order
Nessa Barrett | Dirty Little Secret
Basile3 | U Stole The Summer
Perla Batalla | A Letter To Leonard Cohen
Baumarius | Starlight Telepath
Beautiful Junkyards | Nova
Beef | Il Manzo
Kim Beggs | Beneath Your Skin
Beledo | Flotando En El Vacio
Big Bad | Black Umbrellas
Big Ups | Eighteen Hours Of Static Reissue + Remixes
Brant Bjork Trio | Once Upon A Time In The Desert
Black Artists Group | For Peace And Liberty, In Paris Dec 1972
The Black Dog | Seclusion EP
The Black Pacific | Here Comes Our Wave
Blackstarkids | Saturn Dayz
Blossoms | Gary
Blu & Exile | Love (the) Ominous World
Anthony Boccaleoni | Vanity
Tommy Bolin | Great Gypsy Soul
BornBroken | Am I Invisible
Bo Street Runners | Bo Street Runner / Never Say Goodbye
Lucile Boulanger | La Messagère: XVIIe-XXIe Siècles, un Portrait de la Viole de Gambe
Dougie Bowne | The Stars Are Indispensable
Randall Bramblett | Paradise Breakdown
Bright Eyes | Five Dice, All Threes
Zac Brown Band | No Wake Zone EP
Jackson Browne | For Everyman Remastered
Kyle Bruckmann | Duty Cycle / Active Cultures
Bob Bucko, Jr. | What If My Water
Jake Bugg | A Modern Day Distraction
George Burton | White Noise
Butthole Surfers | Cream Corn From the Socket of Davis Vinyl Reissue)
Butthole Surfers | Hairway to Steven Vinyl Reissue
Butthole Surfers | Locust Abortion Technician Vinyl Reissue
Luca Calabrese | I Shin Den Shin
The Calamatix | The Calamatix
Johan Carøe | The Great Silence
The Carp | Knock Your Block Off
Julian Casblancas + The Voidz | Like All Before You
Castrup / Emerge | Covalent Radii Revisited
Center Jenny | Echochamber.
Holly Channell | Not Just A Standard
Manu Chao | Viva Tu
Lloyd Charmers & Friends | Salvation Train: Splash Singles Collection 1971-73
Cher | Forever
Neil Christian | He’s Got The Action! Anthology 1962-1974
Circus Trees | This Makes Me Sad, And I Miss You
Citron Citron | Maréeternelle
MF Clarke | Arrays
Cliffdiver | Birdwatching
Clinic Stars | Only Hinting
Cloudy June | Sad Girl Era
Coffin Rot | Dreams Of The Disturbed
Crys Cole | Making Conversation
Phil Collins | Both Sides (All The Sides)
Erland Cooper | Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence
Neil Cowley Trio | Entity
Coyu | Percussion EP
Cropscropscrops & Steel Tipped Dove | Long-Light Derecho
Cryptovenics | Dream Television (The Complete Edition)
Cryptovenics | One Eyed Man
Curved Air | The Rarities Series
Ali Dada | Sum
The Damned | AD 2022: Live in Manchester
The Dandy Warhols | ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down Reissue
Daysormay | Moderation
DC The Don | Best Friends Only
Dead Butterflies | June, Your Wings Are Tattered
Death By Gong | Descalator
Defiled | Horror Beyond Horror
Kirk Degiorgio | The Statement
Depeche Mode | Spirit: The 12″ Singles
Indigo De Souza | Wholesome
Dive Time | Dive Time
The Dizzy Brains | Maso Mahita
Dizzy Spins | The Bars Are The Bank Codes
Dizzy Spins | Be There Few
Dizzy Spins | Expedite It
Dizzy Spins | Game Minus Bullsh*t
Dizzy Spins | Residential
Desiree Doiron | Remember Your Name
Dolores Forever | It’s Nothing
Double Exposure | My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings 1976-’79
Jerry Douglas | The Set
Downhaul | How to Begin
DoYouThinkSo | Compoundwords
Dreamend | May You Die Well
Dreamless Veil | Every Limb of the Flood
Toby Driver | Raven, I Know That You Can Give Me Anything
Dungeon Crawl | Maze Controller
Adanna Duru | Stuck In A Record Deal
Bob Dylan and The Band | The 1974 Live Recordings
Eagle Twin & The Otolith | Legends Of The Desert Vol. 4
Ebola Hunter | Euphoria . Dysphoria
Eclipse | Megalomanium II
18 Days | World Go By
Eihwar | Viking War Trance
Nicky Elisabeth | The Way Of Love
Emei | All These Kids
Panda Endoz | New Beginning
Lawrence English | A Colour For Autumn: 15th Anniversary Edition
Ennio | Schlaraffenland
Envy | Eunoia
Sertab Erener | Bi Polar (Live)
Sertab Erener | Sen İste
Noga Erez | The Vandalist
Esoctrilihum | Döth-Derniàlh
Excalibur | Battle Of Swords
Ezekiel | Llost Cat
Fidlar | Surviving The Dream
Fifty Fifty | Love Tune
Fight Dice | Total Party Kill
Marcus Fjellström | The Last Sunset Of The Year
Flagburner | Apocalypse
Fleetwood Mac | Mirage Tour ’82
The Flying Norsemen | The Flying Norsemen
Steve Forbert | Daylight Savings Time
Luca Formentini I Am Ghosts 1
Alex Henry Foster | A Measure Of Shape And Sounds
Alexis Ffrench | Classical Soul Vol. 1
Frostbite | Relentless Grief
Nelly Furtado | 7
Fury Weekend | Million Flares and Starlights
Future | Mixtape Pluto
Gæg | Anarcho Disco Vol. 2
Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90
Alice Longyu Gao | Bird W/O Nest
Nubya Garcia | Odyssey
Gates / Hirsh / Carter | Phosphene
Amerigo Gazaway | The Sunshine LP
Gencab | III I II (Third Eye Gemini)
Leo Genovese | Forward
The Get Up Kids | Something To Write Home About 20th Anniversary
Giants Dwarfs And Black Holes | Echo On Death Of Narcissus
Giant Walker | Silhouettes
Glacial Tomb | Lightless Expanse
Howard Gladstone | Crazy Talk
God Is War | Boogeyeman Inc.
Golden Feather | Golden Feather
Ian Gothe & Fernando Perdomo | Never Let Go: A Tribute to Camel
Grateful Dead | Duke ’78
Grateful Dead | Friend Of The Devils: April 1978
Grazer | I Always Follow
Groza | Nadir
G2G | The Gherkin
Dave Guy | Ruby
Half•Alive | Sophie’s House
Half Happy | Conversation Killer EP
Ross Harper | Knocked Back Hard
JP Harris | JP Harris Is A Trash Fire
Odetta Hartman | Restoration EP
The Hellp | Go Somewhere
The High Water Marks | Songs About The Ocean 20 Year Anniversary
Hippo Campus | Flood
Hollxw Pointz | The AMB Project
The Holophonics | Parking Garage Rally Circuit Original Soundtrack
Honeyglaze | Real Deal
Claire Huangci | Made in USA
Husqwarnah | Purification Through Sacrifice
Hwasa | O
Nam Woo Hyun | Boyfriend
Ibukun Sunday | Harmony / Balance
Iji | Automatically
Victor Ikaro | Exodus-14
Infekt | Back To Back
Interloper | A Forgotten Loss
Invocation | The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures)
Ist Ist | Light A Bigger Fire
Jade | Midnight Cowboy
Oreo James | Nephew
Sarah Jarosz | Polaroid Lovers Deluxe Edition
Jems! | Gems In The Cornerstore II
Emmett Jerome | Rocky Mountain Son EP
Jesse® | Jesse®
Jinho | Cho:rd
The JLB | My Sound
Joan As Police Woman | Lemons, Limes and Orchids
Joe & The Shitboys | The Reason For Hardcore Vibes III
Johnny Foreigner | How To Be Hopeful
Jack Jones | Jack Jones
Joy (Anonymous) | Joyous People (South East Corner) EP
Junior Varsity | Where The Groove Is
Kaeto | Intro
Kaivs | For Satan Your Flesh For God Your Soul Single
Kamra | Shift Circuit
Theo Kandel | Eating & Drinking & Being In Love
Kanonenfieber | Die Urkatastrophe
Jaz Karis | Safe Flight
Dan Kelly | Goldfeels
Isabella Kensington | Not In A Dollhouse Anymore EP
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party | Chain of Light
Kid Cudi | Don’t Worry
Kill Holiday | Seasonal
Kingdom Of Giants | Bleeding Star
Mikado Koko | Floating High
Krilloan | Return Of The Heralds
Dreddy Kruger | K.I.T.C.H.E.N.
Kublai Khan TX | Exhibition Of Prowess
Lady Shaka | E Tu Remixes
Lampen | Halogen
Lamin | SkyLL
The Last Gang | Obscene Daydreams
Jessica Lauren | Alefela / Shibuya
Lawns | Be A Better Man
Lazza | Locura
Brenda Lee | Greatest Hits
Dee C Lee | Extended Versions
Leo/need | Integral/Regulus
Lui Lepke | Late Night Movie
Lice | Third Time At The Beach
Alan Licht | Havens
The Lijadu Sisters | Horizon Unlimited Reissue
Lil Heroin | Bound 4
Lil Tecca | Plan A
Tatiana Lima | Zombie
Little Bit | Talk A Blue Streak EP
Looking Suite | Wide Range Dream State
Louis the Child | The Sun Comes Up
Louse | Passions Like Tar
Luna Sol | Vita Mors
Lutalo | The Academy
MC Lyte | 1 of 1
Ibrahim Maalouf | Trumpets Of Michel-Ange
Manapool | I Get So High
Mara | At Every Corner
Marigold Sun | Worlds Apart
Vixen Marq | Vix3n Hidden Track Edition
Johnny Marr & The Healers | Boomslang Reissue
Brian Marsella | Medietas
Ava Max | Spot A Fake
Mazza Vision | Ohm Spectrum
Lizzy McAlpine | Pushing It Down And Praying
Kelly McMichael | After The Sting Of It
Max McNown | Willfully Blind
Melanie | Old Bitch Warrior
Simone Menezes | Scheherazade, A Tale
Don Merckle | Same Devil New Skin
Merzbow | Nine Studies of Ephemeral Resonance Vol. 1
Merzbow | Nine Studies of Ephemeral Resonance Vol. 2
Midland | Barely Blue
Midnight Star | Definitive Collection
Sugar Minott | Beg You Put It Down b/w Put Down The Dub
Mista Crack Man | Crack
Mr.Kitty | Unreal
Elizabeth Moen | Purple Flowers / Empty Bottle
Vic Monroe | Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
Thurston Moore | Flow Critical Lucidity
More Eaze | Lacuna And Parlor
Mork | Syv
Kendra Morris | Banshee
Mortimer | From Within
John Murry And Michael Timmins | A Little Bit Of Grace And Decay
Mutant Academy | Keep Holly Alive
Natural Palace | Reeling
Neon Trees | Sink Your Teeth
The Neuro Farm | Voices
Nightwish | Yesterwynde
Kana Nishino | Love Again
Nodfeld | Oscillations
Noelle | Noelle Entertainment System
No Guidance | Late To The Party
Nonpareils | Rhetoric & Terror
NøtInVain | Boombox
Odious Spirit | The Treason of Consciousness
Oklou | Family And Friends
Annie O’Malley | All The Things That Skare Me
Orion Sun | Orion
Or:la | Trustig Theta
Otay:Onii | True Faith Ain’t Blind
Oxlade | Oxlade From Africa
Pallbearer Industry | Live at Ottawa Psych Fest III 2023
Malcolm Pardon | The Abyss
Pene Pati | Nessun Dorma
Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus | Harbortowne
Paulus | UnderWorld
P.D.O.A. | Expressions Of Obsessions
Pearl & The Oysters | Planet Pearl
Katy J Pearson | Someday, Now
Alix Perez | Entanglements
Perfume | Nebula Romance Part 1
Perfume Genius | Too Bright Vinyl Reissue
Katy Perry | 143
Alex Pester | Boy
Phantom Hound | From Boom Town To Ghost Town
Sam Phillips | A Boot and a Shoe Reissue
Photay | Windswept
Phuyu Y La Fantasma | A| Tetralogía de Bichos y Setas
P:ano | Ba Ba Ba
Kate Pierson | Radios & Rainbows
Pink Panther Project | Intoxicating Embrace
Playhouse | Broken And The Damned
P1Harmony | Sad Song
Poppy | They’re All Around Us
Jeremy Porter | Dynamite Alley
Prairiewolf | Deep Time
Prang | Bird Bath
Zbigniew Preisner | Effroyables Jardins
Alex Puddu | Deliria
Purple Disco Machine | Paradise
Luu Hong Quang | Transcendental Etudes
Quartet Diminished | Deerand
Rahaan | The Ones
Arun Ramamurthy Trio | New Moon
Ramper | Solo Postres
Mason Ramsey | I’ll See You In My Dreams
Tim Reaper & Kloke | In Full Effect
Regional Justice Center | Freedom Sweet Freedom
Terror Reid | Manifesto
Eric Reprid | Fuck You
Reymour | NoLand
Chase Rice | Go Down Singin’
Calvin Richardson | Five Years Later…
Rich The Kid | Rich Forever 5
Rio 18 | Radio Chévere
Rival Schools | Pedals Deluxe
DJ Robby Bobby | Oracle
Craig Robertson | Running The Other Way
Rogers & Butler | Studio 3
Jason Ross | Divergence
Claire Rousay | Sentiment Remixes
Rrose x Polygonia | Dermatology
Rubber Oh | Soil
The Rubens | Soda
RVSHVD | It’s Rashad
Nina Ryser | Water Giants
Sacred Skin | Born in Fire
Sade | Love Deluxe Vinyl Reissue
Sade | Lovers Rock Vinyl Reissue
Sade | Soldier Of Love Vinyl Reissue
St. Lundi | The Island
St. South | Big Sads EP
Sammy Rae & The Friends | Something For Everybody
Scar | Shadow & Light EP
The Scarlet Opera | Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Scarlxrd | Hidden Code: 7
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat | Orchestra Hits
Dred Scott | Cali Mambo
Seether | The Surface Seems So Far
Servant | Death Devil Magick
The Sewer Cats | Obnoxious
Otis Shanty | Up On The Hill
Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol. 2
Mega Shinnosuke | 君にモテたいっ
JD Simo and Luther Dickinson | Do the Rump!
Sister Species | Lena In The Bog
Skid Row | Live in London
Steve Slagg | I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World
Sleeping Awake | Heart[break]core
Kaizo Slumber | Tummyache
Smallpools | Ghost Town Road
Soft Violet | Sterner Stuff
Solitary Experiments | The 30th Anniversary Compilation
Space Ghost | Dream Tool
Spirit Mother | Trails
Starcleaner Reunion | Café Life EP
Steel City | Reverence
Jae Stephens | Sellout
DJ Stingray 313 | Industry 4.0 EP
Sunburned Hand Of The Man | Sizzled
Ibukun Sunday | Harmony / Balance
Sunset Rubdown | Always Happy To Explode
Sunset Wave | Like Yesterday Single
Tanukichan | Circles EP
Tasha | All This and So Much More
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers | I Love You Too
Mitchell Tenpenny | The 3rd Album
Francesco Terranova | Iron & Sea
Terrorvision | We Are Not Robots
Terry Gross | Huge Improvement
Lea Thomas | Cosmos Forever
Thorium | The Bastard
Tolouse Low Trax | Kiosque Versions
Kate Trajan | Ancient Fires
Tramhaus | The First Exit
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | Into the Wild EP
Twenty-Three Hanging Trees | Enclin Declin
Unjoyful Play | Unjoyful Play
Unto Others | Never, Neverland Deluxe Edition
Keith Urban | High
Cecilia Vacanti | Earth’s Dark Shore
Marcos Valle | Túnel Acustico
Kris Vango | Messenger (Gemini Edition)
Kris Vango | Messenger (Virgo Edition)
Nico Van Wersch | Psychose
Various Artists | Back Up Dos: Mexican Tecno Pop 1982-1989
Various Artists | Folk City: The Greenwich Village Musical
Various Artists | Musique Nomade: On the Road – Ekuanitshit
Various Artists | Playing Loud Our Useless Files Vol. 1
Various Artists | Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin
Various Artists | Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia Vinyl
Various Artists | Z Records Ibiza Closing Party 2024
Sarah Vaughan | Sassy Reissue
Veezy The Virgo | Digital Crunch
Vended | Vended
Vilchezz | Speaker Rules
Virgin Vampires | Virgin Vampires
Vision Divine | Blood And Angels’ Tears
Vlozey | Interstellar Dreams
Voicians | Eternalize
Void of Vision | What I’ll Leave Behind
Kat Von D | My Side Of The Mountain
The Waeve | City Lights
Jesse Waldman & Marc L’Esperance | The Shimmering Divide
Tom Walker | I Am
Water Bottle | Flatline
Charlotte Wessels | The Obsession
The White Buffalo | A Freight Train Through The Night
Drake White | Low Country High Road
White Poppy | Ataraxia
Why Bonnie | Wish On The Bone Vinyl
Widx. | Those Days
JJ Wilde | Vices
Wilderado | Talker
Wings Denied | Just the Basics
AJ Woods | Hawk Is Listenin’
Curtis Worgan | Where Am I Now?
Jamie xx | In Waves
Yeonjun | Ggum
Yseult | Mental
Zaber | Past-Life Memories
Zedned | Girl, I Don’t Fucking Know
John Zorn | Hannigan Sings Zorn Vol. 2
