All The New Albums Coming Out In August 2018

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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in August. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, August 3

  • Amanda Shires — To The Sunset (Silver Knife Records)
  • Bad Bad Hats — Lightning Round (Afternoon Records)
  • Campdogzz — In Rounds (15 Passenger)
  • Chicago Farmer — Quarter Past Tonight (self-released)
  • Crossfaith — EX_MACHINA (UNFD)
  • DJ Muggs — Assassination Day (Rappcats)
  • Diana Gordon — Pure EP (self-released)
  • Dorian Concept — The Nature Of Imitation (Brainfeeder)
  • Free Cake For Every Creature — The Bluest Star (Double Double Whammy)
  • Gabe Gurnsey — Physical (Phantasy)
  • Givers — Movin On (Glassnote Records)
  • Helena Hauff — Qualm (Ninja Tune)
  • Houndmouth — Golden Age (Reprise Records)
  • Iggy Azaela — Survive The Summer EP (Universal-Island Records Ltd)
  • Integrity & Kreig — Integrity & Kreig (Relapse Records)
  • Izzy True — SadBad (Don Giovanni Records)
  • James — Living In Extraordinary Times (Infectious Music)
  • Jim Lauderdale — Jim Lauderdale And Roland White (Yep Roc Records)
  • Jim Lauderdale — Time Flies (Yep Roc Records)
  • The Love Language — Baby Grand (Merge Records)
  • Lovelytheband — Finding It Hard To Smile (Century Media)
  • Lucero — Among The Ghosts (Liberator Music)
  • Mac Miller — Swimming (Warner Bros. Records)
  • Michael Nau — Michael Nau & The Mighty Thread (Full Time Hobby)
  • Miss Eaves — ME AF (776193 Records DK2)
  • Rezz — Certain Kind Of Magic (mau5trap Venture Limited)
  • Robert Poss (of Band Of Susans) — Frozen Flowers Curse The Day (Trace Elements Records)
  • Sarah White — High Flyer (self-released)
  • Shemekia Copeland — America’s Child (Alligator Records)
  • Shy Boys — Bell House (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
  • Spider Bags — Someday Everything Will Be Fine (Merge Records)
  • Spirit Animal — Born Yesterday (Atlantic Records)
  • Steve Hauschildt — Dissolvi (Ghostly International)
  • The Temperance Movement — A Deeper Cut (Earache Records)
  • Trophy Eyes — The American Dream (Hopeless Records)
  • YG — Stay Dangerous (Def Jam Recordings)

Friday, August 10

  • 3.2 (Robert Berry) — The Rules Have Changed (Frontiers Records)
  • Bad Rabbits — Mimi (BAD Records)
  • The Beths — Future Me Hates Me (Carpark Records)
  • Bird Streets (John Brodeur and Jason Falkner) — Bird Streets (Omnivore Recordings)
  • The Coral — Move Through The Dawn (Ignition Records)
  • Deaf Havana — Rituals (Warner Music Australasia)
  • Enuff Z’nuff — Diamond Boy (Frontiers Records)
  • Erra — Neon (Sumerian Records)
  • Foxing — Nearer My God (Triple Crown)
  • Golden Drag (Greys’ Shehzaad Jiwani) — Pink Sky (Buzz Records)
  • Il Divo — Timeless (Universal Music Classics)
  • Jake Shears (of Scissor Sisters) — Jake Shears (Freida Jean Records)
  • Jason Eady — I Travel (Old Guitar Records)
  • Jason Mraz — Know (Atlantic Records)
  • Kodaline — Politics Of Living (B-Unique/RCA)
  • Liz Cooper & The Stampede — Window Flowers (Sleepyhead Records)
  • Lola Kirke — Heart Head West (Downtown)
  • The Love Language — Baby Grand (Merge Records)
  • The Magpie Salute (featuring Rich Robinson of Black Crows) — High Water I (Eagle Records)
  • Man With A Mission — Chasing The Horizon (Sony Music Labels Inc.)
  • Miles Kane — Coup de Grace (Virgin EMI Records)
  • Nicki Minaj — Queen (Young Money/Cash Money Records)
  • Primal Fear — Apocalypse (Frontiers Records)
  • Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis — Wild! Wild! Wild! (Bloodshot Records)
  • Shooter Jennings — Shooter (Elektra)
  • Sinsaenum — Repulsion For Humanity (earMUSIC)
  • Tirzah — Devotion (Domino Recording Company)
  • Tomberlin — At Weddings (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Walter Salas-Humara (of The Silos) — Walterio (Rhyme & Reason Records)
  • The War And Treaty — Healing Tide (Strong World Entertainment)

Friday, August 17

  • Adam Remnant (of Southeast Engine) — Sourwood (self-released)
  • Animal Collective — Tangerine Reef (Domino Recording Company)
  • Ariana Grande — Sweetener (Republic Records)
  • Austin Lucas — Immortal Americans (Cornelius Chapel Records)
  • Belmont — Belmont (Mutant League Records)
  • Blue October — I Hope You’re Happy (Up/Down Records)
  • Carnation — Chapel Of Abhorrence (Season Of Mist)
  • Circles Around The Sun — Let It Wander (Rhino Entertainment)
  • Connor Youngblood — Cheyenne (Counter Records)
  • Cory Wong (of Vulfpeck) — The Optimist (self-released)
  • Cullen Omori (formerly of Smith Westerns) — The Diet (Sub Pop)
  • Cults — The Motels (Turntable Kitchen)
  • Davey Woodward — Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans (Tapete Records)
  • Death Cab For Cutie — Thank You For Today (Atlantic Records)
  • Dizzy — Baby Teeth (Royal Mountain Records)
  • Dragon Inn 3 — Double Line (American Laundromat)
  • Forming The Void — Rift (Kozmik Artifactz)
  • Great Lake Swimmers — The Waves, The Wake (Nettwerk Records)
  • Julee Cruise — Three Demos (Sacred Bones Records)
  • Justin Hiltner & Jon Weisberger — Watch It Burn (Robust Records)
  • Mitski — Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
  • The Myrrors — Borderlands (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
  • Mystic Braves — The Great Unknown (Lolipop Records)
  • Oh Sees — Smote Reverser (Castle Face)
  • Papa M — A Broke Moon Rises (Drag City)
  • Slaves — Acts Of Fear And Love (Virgin EMI Records)
  • Still Corners — Slow Air (Wrecking Light Records)
  • Tom Baxter — The Other Side Of Blue (Sylvan Records)
  • TRAPPIST — Ancient Brewing Tactics (Relapse Records)
  • Trevor Powers (formerly Youth Lagoon) — Mulberry Violence (Baby Halo)
  • Uniform — The Long Walk (Sacred Bones Records)

Friday, August 24

  • Alexander Tucker — Don’t Look Away (Thrill Jockey Records)
  • Alice In Chains — Rainier Fog (BMG Rights Management (US) LLC)
  • Alicia Witt — 15,000 Days (self-released)
  • The Amity Affliction — Misery (Roadrunner Records)
  • Automatisme — Transit (Constellation Records)
  • Autechre — NTS Sessions (Warp)
  • BC Camplight — Deportation Blues (Bella Union)
  • Blood Orange — Negro Swan (Domino Records)
  • BTS — Love Yourself: Answer (Big Hit Entertainment)
  • Candi Staton — Unstoppable (Beracah Records, Inc.)
  • Crack The Sky — Crackology (Loud & Proud Records)
  • Crack The Sky — Living in Reverse (Loud & Proud Records)
  • Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes — Fashion (Color Party Records)
  • Darren Jessee — The Jane Room 217 (Bar None Records)
  • The Devil Makes Three — Chains Are Broken (New West Records)
  • Devon Welsh (formerly of Magical Cloudz) — Dream Songs (You Are Accepted)
  • DeVotchKa — This Nights Fall Forever (Concord Records)
  • Emily Kinney — Oh, Jonathan (self-released)
  • The Frights — Hypochondriac (Epitaph Records)
  • Glenn Jones — The Giant Who Ate Himself And Other New Works for 6 & 12 String Guitar (Thrill Jockey)
  • Glorietta (featuring Matthew Logan Vasquez, Noah Gundersen, Kelsey Wilson, David Ramirez, Jason Robert Blum, and Adrian Quesada) — Glorietta (Nine Mile Records)
  • Goo Goo Dolls — The Audience Is This Way (Warner Bros. Records)
  • Gringo Star — Back To The City (Nevado Music)
  • Her’s — Invitation To Her’s (Heist Or Hit Records)
  • Hiro Kone — Pure Expenditure (Dais Records)
  • Interpol — Marauder (Matador)
  • Jesus Piece — Only Self ((RED) Southern Lord)
  • Joey Dosik — Inside Voice (Secretly Canadian)
  • Justice — Woman Worldwide (GENESIS)
  • Laurel — Dogviolet (Counter Records)
  • The Lemon Twigs — Go To School (4AD)
  • Lucie Silvas — E.G.O. (Furthest Point)
  • Loren Cole — For The Sake Of Being Honest (self-released)
  • Mark Lanegan And Duke Garwood — With Animals (Heavenly)
  • Mountain Tamer — Godfortune Dark Matters (Nasoni Records)
  • Murder By Death — The Other Shore (Bloodshot Records)
  • Neil Finn And Liam Finn — Lightsleeper ([PIAS])
  • Nonpoint — X (Spinefarm Records UK)
  • Nothing — Dance On The Blacktop (Relapse Records)
  • Ohmme — Parts (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Ólafur Arnalds — Re:member (Mercury KX)
  • Plain White T’s — Parallel Universe (Fearless Records)
  • Rubblebucket — Sun Machine (Grand Jury Music)
  • Ryan Culwell — The Last American (Missing Piece Records)
  • Shannon McArdle — A Touch Of Class (self-released)
  • Steady Holiday — Nobody’s Watching (Barsuk Records)
  • Third Eye Blind — Thanks For Everything (Mega Collider Records)
  • Tunng — Songs You Make At Night (Full Time Hobby)
  • Wayne Shorter — Emanon (Blue Note)
  • White Denim — Performance (City Slang)
  • Whitney Ballen — You’re A Shooting Star, I’m A Sinking Ship (Substitute Scene Records)
  • Wilson — Tasty Nasty (Century Media)

Friday, August 31

  • Aaron Lee Tasjan — Karma For Cheap (New West Records)
  • Alice Cooper — Paranormal Evening At The Olympia Paris (earMUSIC)
  • Alien Boy — Sleeping Lessons (Tiny Engines)
  • Alkaline Trio — Is This Thing Cursed? (Epitaph Records)
  • Amos Lee — My New Moon (Dualtone Music Group)
  • Anna Calvi — Hunter (Domino Recording Company)
  • Beanpole (Les Claypool and Larry LaLonde) — All My Kin (Chimera Music)
  • Big Red Machine (Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon) — Big Red Machine (PEOPLE)
  • Black Mirrors — Look Into The Black Mirror (Napalm Records)
  • Courtney Hartman And Taylor Ashton — Been On Your Side (Free Dirt Records)
  • Daniel Davies — Events Score (Burning Witches Records)
  • Darwin Deez — 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart (Lucky Number Music Limited)
  • Donnie Fritts — June (Single Lock Records)
  • Frøkedal — How We Made It (Propeller Recordings)
  • Helios — Veriditas (Ghostly International)
  • Idles — Joy As An Act Of Resistance (Partisan Records)
  • Iron & Wine — Weed Garden (Sub Pop)
  • The Kooks — Let’s Go Sunshine (Lonely Cat)
  • Mass Gothic — I’ve Tortured You Long Enough (Sub Pop)
  • Mateo — Some Strange Reason (Young Heavy Souls)
  • Meghan Trainor — Treat Myself (Epic/Sony Records)
  • Menace Beach — Black Rainbow Sound (Memphis Industries)
  • Michael Price — Tender Symmetry (Erased Tapes)
  • Mogwai — KIN: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
  • Muncie Girls — Fixed Ideals (Specialist Subject Records)
  • Passenger — Runaway (Black Crow Records)
  • Pip Blom — Paycheck (Juno Records)
  • Saintseneca — Pillar Of Na (ANTI‐)
  • Tash Sultana — Flow State (Mom + Pop Music)
  • Thou — Magus (Sacred Bones Records)
  • Troye Sivan — Bloom (Capitol)
  • The Vintage Caravan — Gateways (Nuclear Blast)
  • Wild Nothing — Indigo (Captured Tracks)