New albums are getting announced and released constantly. It’s tough to stay on top of it all. So that’s where we come in. Pitchfork is tracking notable new music releases with our guide to upcoming albums. In the coming months, there will be big new releases from Benjamin Booker, Panda Bear, FKA twigs, the Horrors, Mdou Moctar, Sasami, Mereba, DJ Koze, Richard Dawson, the Weather Station, Ethel Cain, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Saya Gray, Edith Frost, and plenty more artists. This guide features streaming and digital release dates and will be updated regularly.
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December 4
KMRU & Kevin Richard Martin: Otherness EP [Phantom Limb]
December 6
Advance Base: Horrible Occurrences [Run for Cover]
Angel Olsen: Cosmic Waves Volume 1 [Somethingscosmic]
Apollo Brown & Crimeapple: This, Is Not That [Mello Music Group]
Claire Rousay: Sentiment Remix [Thrill Jockey]
Clothing: Beauty Filter EP [Water Level]
Dua Lipa: Dua Lipa Live From the Royal Albert Hall [Warner]
Fennesz: Mosaic [Touch]
Interpol: Live at Third Man Records [Third Man]
Kassie Krut: Kassie Krut EP [Fire Talk]
Lauren Mayberry: Vicious Creature [Island]
Shabaka: Possession EP [Impulse!]
Siete7x: Stucc in the Hole [Empire]
Smino: Maybe in Nirvana [Zero Fatigue]
December 13
Daniel Blumberg: The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Milan]
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Lebo M Mufasa: The Lion King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Walt Disney]
The National: Rome [4AD]
Saint Etienne: The Night [Heavenly]
Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre: Missionary [Death Row/Aftermath/Interscope]
Valee & Surf Gang: Grey Sky London [Surf Gang]
December 20
Torn Hawk: Power Without Guilt, Love Without Doubt [Valcrond Video]
December 27
Ed Sheeran: +-=÷× (Tour Collection: Live) [Atlantic]
Robbie Williams: Better Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Arista]
January 8
Ethel Cain: Perverts [Daughters of Cain]
January 10
Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear [Domino]
January 17
Blue Lake: Weft [Tonal Union]
Ela Minus: Dia [Domino]
Frank Black: Teenager of the Year (30th Anniversary Edition) [4AD]
Mac Miller: Balloonerism [Warner]
Television Personalities: Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out - Radio Sessions 1980-1993 [Fire]
The Weather Station: Humanhood [Fat Possum]
January 24
Benjamin Booker: Lower [Fire Next Time]
Boilermaker: Not Enough Time to Get Anything Halfway Done [Numero Group]
Central Cee: Can’t Rush Greatness [Columbia]
FKA twigs: Eusexua [Young]
Mogwai: The Bad Fire [Temporary Residence Ltd.]
Studio: West Coast [Ghostly International]
The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow [XO/Republic]
January 31
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: The Purple Bird [No Quarter]
Eddie Chacon: Lay Low [Stones Throw]
Freckle: Freckle [God?]
Geologist & D.S.: A Shaw Deal [Drag City]
MIKE: Showbiz! [10k]
February 7
James Brandon Lewis: Apple Cores [Anti-]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010 [Slumberland]
Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory [Jagjaguwar]
Squid: Cowards [Warp]
Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman Vol.3 [Planet Mu]
Wilco: A Ghost Is Born (Expanded Edition) [Nonesuch]
February 14
Alessia Cara: Love & Hyperbole [Def Jam]
Bartees Strange: Horror [4AD]
John Glacier: Like a Ribbon [Young]
Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On [Matador]
Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire [Secretly Canadian]
Richard Dawson: End of the Middle [Weird World]
February 21
Sam Fender: People Watching [Capitol]
Saya Gray: Saya [Dirty Hit]
Tate McRae: So Close to What [RCA]
February 28
The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs [Fire]
Edith Frost: In Space [Drag City]
Everything Is Recorded: Temporary [XL]
Ichiko Aoba: Luminescent Creatures [Hermine/Psychic Hotline]
The Men: Buyer Beware [Fuzz Club]
Miya Folick: Erotica Veronica [Nettwerk]
Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice [Matador]
Panda Bear: Sinister Grift [Domino]
March 7
Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen [Domino]
March 21
The Horrors: Night Life [Fiction]
April 4
DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us [Pampa]
Penelope Trappes: A Requiem [One Little Independent]
