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)
