Jan. 12 has not been especially kind to musicians. Lisa Marie Presley and Robbie Bachman both died on this date in 2023 — exactly one year after Ronnie Spector, six years after Richard Carpenter, and 20 years after Maurice Gibb. On the plus side: There are more than 225 new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes arriving next week. That should help lighten your mood (and your wallet). Here’s the deal:
Gracie Abrams | The Secret of Us Deluxe Edition
Aevum | Kaleidoscope
Melissa Mary Ahern | Kerosene
Saba Alizadeh | Temple Of Hope
Ambrose Akinmusire | Honey From A Winter Stone
Amenity | This Is Our Struggle: Anthology 1989-2009
AntiMozdeBeast | The Alien Machine
Applesauce Tears | Balcony Confidential
Art Brut / Bis | Split Single
Cory Asbury | Cover to Cover
Willow Avalon | Southern Belle Raisin’ Hell
Axetasy | Withering Tides
Axolotl | Notte 27
BJ Baartmans & Wild Verband | A Pawnshop Love Affair
Banks | Love Is Unkind
Ansis Bētiņš & Artūrs Čukurs | Slavic Folk Songs
Tim Berne | Yikes Too
BiteIsMe’s V.Works | V.Works (Eyes Everywhere Drafts)
BiteIsMe’s V.Works | V.Works II: Honestly Sogmeister
Kasper Bjørke | Conversations ft. Sisy Ey (Johannes Albert Remix)
Frank Black | Teenager of the Year Vinyl Reissue
Rebecca Black | Salvation
A. Blomqvist | Pohjola
Blood Lemon | Petite Deaths EP
Blue Lake | Weft
Booker T & The Plasmic Bleeds | Ode To BC/LY... And Eye Know BO.... da Prez
Børns | Honeybee
Brunch With Rosie | Trouble
Joshua Burnside | Teeth Of Time
The Butcher Sisters | Das Weiße Album
Victoria Canal | Slowly, It Dawns
Carcrasher | Nokay
Lou-Adriane Cassidy | Journal d’un Loup-Garou
Cerebral Hemorrhage | Exempting Reality
Chien Méchant | Métamorphose
Chlothegod | I Feel Different Every Day EP
Seong-Jin Cho | Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works
The Cicada | Stay Away
CKRAFT | Uncommon Grounds
Renny Conti | Renny Conti
Piet Dalmolen | Time Stands Still
Damn Fabric | Sailor Mooning
Walter Daniels & The Del Valle Trustees | Work Release
Dark Fortress | Anthems From Beyond The Grave – Live In Europe 2023
Datura | Visions For the Celestial: Beneath the Desert Floor Chapter 8
Day By Day | Dust And Ashes
Daniel Decker | The Therapy Sessions
Decultivate | Decultivate
Delivery | Force Majeure
Delights | If Heaven Looks A Little Like This
Dislexia | Snowball
Dragonknight | Legions
Drop It First | Fundamentals
Drown In Sulphur | Vengeance
Dunes | Land Of The Blind
Isak Edberg | Belt of Orion
Edition Redux | Broadcast Transformer
Eidola | Mend
Elephant Stone | Back Into The Garage: The Back Into The Dream Demos
Mary Eliza | Spider
Ryan Ellis | Real Love
En Creux | Circumference
Enmossed | In Essence
Ex-Vöid | In Love Again
EZ Liv’n | Mike’s Farm
Fagata | Lil Fagata
Robert Farrugia | Natura Maltija Soundtrack
William Fitzsimmons | Incidental Contact
The Five Blind Boys of Alabama | The Singles Collection 1948-1962
Fleetwood Mac | Tango in the Night SACD Reissue
Fleur de Feu | Weep
49 Winchester | 49 Winchester Vinyl Reissue
49 Winchester | The Wind Vinyl Reissue
49 Winchester | III Vinyl Reissue
Free Floating Rotation | Reflections and Silence
David Frizzell | The Very Best of David Frizzell
Vaudou Game | Fintou
The Gentle Spring | Looking Back At The World
Geowulf | The Child
Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson | Glory Fades
Godzillionaire | Diminishing Returns
Leo Golo | Deciduous
Grateful Dead | Dick’s Picks Vol. 3: Pembroke Pines, FL 5/2/77
Grave Digger | Bone Collector
David Gray | Dear Life
Rose Gray | Louder, Please
Vince Guaraldi | Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown 50th Anniversary Edition
Guri Guri Boys | Fiyah
Steve Hackett | Live Magic At Trading Boundaries
Harakiri For The Sky | Scorched Earth
Ian Hawgood | Savage Modern Structures
Ian Hawgood | The Shattered Light
Häxkapell | Om Jordens Blod Och Urgravens Grepp
Hearts & Minds | Illuminescence
The Hellflowers | Deluxe
Hesperia | Fra Li Monti Sibillini (Black Medieval Winter Over The Sibylline Mounts)
Nick Heyward | North of a Miracle Deluxe Edition
Flora Hibberd | Swirl
Hierarchies | Hierarchies
Howling Giant | Howling Giant EP 10th Anniversary reissue
Huxlii | Odds And Ends But Mostly Ends
Iglo | Tau
Michael Jackson | Off the Wall SACD Reissue
Sophie Jamieson | I Still Want To Share
Jasmine.4.t | You Are The Morning
Jan Jelinek | Kosmischer Pitch
Jude & Frank, Pietro | Agua
MC Kahba | Grandma Nipples
Kele | The Singing Winds Pt. 3
Kerosene 454 | Came By To Kill Me Reissue
Doug Kershaw | Mama Kershaw’s Boy / Alive & Pickin’ / Ragin’ Cajun / Flip, Flop & Fly
Kidz Bop Kids | Kidz Bop 50
Thy Kingdom Will Burn | The Loss And Redemption
Mark Kirschenmann | Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet with Bamboo Mouthpipe
Knock2 | Nolimit
Kris & Jerry | A Sunny Day
Kyles Tolone | Youth
Lanco | We’re Gonna Make It
Denise LaSalle | Trapped By A Thing Called Love
Later. | Golden Bay
Kit Le Bihan | He Called Hex
Legendary Pink Dots | So Lonely In Heaven
Lehto | Sisu
Cher Lloyd | Head Down
Lots Of Hands | Into A Pretty Room
Erja Lyytinen | 20 Years of Blues Rock
Malaa | All In
Malaa’s Alter Ego | Blackout
Salvatore Maltana & Marcello Zappareddu | Nomads
Joya Marleen | The Wind Is Picking Up
Mas | Månen Er Min Ven
Brian John McBrearty | Remembering Repeating
Memory Pearl | Cosmic-Astral
Midlake | The Trials of Van Occupanther Vinyl Reissue
Mars Mignon | Icarus
Milk & Bone | Baby Dreamer EP
Mac Miller | Baloonerism
Ela Minus | Dia
Mirod | Too Icy
Monger | Leftovers
Davy Mooney & Ko Omura | The Word
Marlaena Moore | Because You Love Everything
Mourir | Insolence
MRKBH & Rico James | Righteous Gems
Myss Keta | Myss Keta
Napoleon Da Legend & JR Swiftz | Great Minds
Necrodeath | Arimortis
Necromaniac | Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable
The New Mourning | Songs of Confusion
Niambi | Taboo EP
Nosi (PL) | Ciemna Dolina
Ramón Oliveras | A Certain Darkness Is Needed To See the Stars
Omar | Lovey Dovey / This Thing Called Life (Instrumental)
OMB Peezy | Drifting Away
The On and Ons | Come On In
Onirophagus | Revelations From The Void
Moka Only & Reckonize Real | More Vibes & B-Sides
Outside the Sphere | Full Potential
Oyatan | Sick
Pale World | Abstractions of Dead Dreamers
Papa V | Mafia Slime 2
Parchman Prison Prayer | Another Mississippi Sunday Morning
Pastel | Souls in Motion
Pestilent Scars | Meadows of Misfortune
Pigeon Pit | Crazy Arms
Ken Presse | Someday
Previte Chandler | Previte Chandler
Prism Shores | Out From Underneath
Qrion | We Are Always Under The Same Sky
Radic The Myth | Back to You EP
Jerry Reed | Birth of a Legend: The Singles and Sessions Collection 1955-62
Ralphiie Reese | Uptown Theater
Busta Rhymes | Dragon Season
Kati Roover / J. Koho | Split EP
Alessi Rose | For Your Validation
Luther Russell | Happiness For Beginners
S4kur4tr33 | Sunset
Sarcator | Swarming Angels & Flies
Shrieking Demons | The Festering Dwellers
Shutdown | By Your Side
Silenced | Silenced
Skiifall | Lovers Til I’m Gone EP
Smellingsalts | We Used To Have Dreams
Smokedope2016 | The Peak
Soft Vein | Through Blinds
Songhoy Blues | Héritage
Son Lux | Risk Of Make Believe
Tiago Sousa | Organic Music Tapes Vol. 4
Suichu Spica | Lux
Konrad Sprenger | Set
Stemeseder Lillinger + Craig Taborn | Umbra III
Ben Sun | The Henge
Cecil Taylor | The Classic Albums
Teen Driver | No AC!
Television Personalities | Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: Radio Sessions 1980-’93
Thy Kingdom Will Burn | The Loss And Redemption
Time Rift | In Flight
Tokyo Blade | Time Is the Fire
Toru | Velours Dévorant
Joey Trap | Ruff Ryder 3
Zane Trow | For Those Who Hear Actual Voices: 20th Anniversary Edition
Turbostaat | Alter Zorn
20/20 | Back To California
256 Pi | Real Life and Postcard Use
Dawid Tyszkowski | Ćma
Vanarin | Hazy Days
Various Artists | The Hits Album: The 70’s Love Album
Various Artists | NOW 12” 80s: 1984 Part 1
Various Artists | Silver & Gold: The Sunshot Records Collection 1968-1971
Various Artists | Summer 2000: Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition
Veezy The Virgo | Mondo Cane
Vestamaran | A Touch Of Class
Wafia | Promised Land
Rufus Wainwright | Dream Requiem
Tom Ward | Ligand
The Weather Station | Humanhood
Melissa Weikart | Easy EP
Paul Whiteman Orchestra | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: Hits Collection Vol. 2 1928-54
Paul Whiteman Orchestra | Whispering: Hits Collection Vol. 1 1920-27
Olivia Wolf | Silver Rounds
Al Wootton | Calvinist Hospitality
Everett Wren | Cascades
Wu-Syndicate | Wu-Rona Virus
You Know Seth / The Sixth Sense | Split EP
Yyy891 | Disobey Vol. II
Zora | Belladonna
