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 2
- Ami Dang — Parted Plains (Leaving Records)
- Black Milk — DiVE EP (Mass Appeal Records)
- Channel Tres — Black Moses EP (Fader Label)
- Clairo — Immunity (Fader Label)
- Cory Wong — Motivational Music For The Syncopated Soul (self-released)
- Cross Record — Cross Record (Ba Da Bing Records)
- Dave Bass — No Boundaries (All About Jazz)
- Davina And The Vagabonds — Sugar Drops (Red House Records)
- Derek Hunter Wilson — Steel, Wood, & Air (ECM)
- FFN — Such Is Life EP (MerchNOW)
- Floral Print — Floral Print EP (Tiny Engines)
- Forgetter — Parts Of Anything (Blight Records)
- The Giraffes — Flower Of The Cosmos (Silver Sleeve Records)
- GRLwood — I Sold My Soul To The Devil When I Was 12 (sonaBLAST! Records)
- Haiku Salut — The General (Secret Name Records)
- The Harmaleighs — She Won’t Make Sense (Nettwerk Records)
- Have Mercy — The Love Life (Hopeless Records)
- Jade Imagine — Basic Love (Remote Control Records)
- Little Boots — Jump EP (On Repeat Records)
- Mabel — High Expectations (Capitol Records)
- Mauno — Really Well (Tin Angel Records)
- Mister Lies — Mister Lies (Lefse)
- Miynt — Stay On Your Mind EP (B3SCI Records)
- Molly Burch — Ballads EP (Captured Tracks)
- Moon Diagrams — Trappy Bats (Sonic Cathedral)
- The New Roses — Nothing But Wild (Napalm Records)
- Northlane — Alien (UNFD)
- Outsider — When Love Dies EP (Flatspot Records)
- Penny And Sparrow — Finch (Thirty Tigers)
- Possible Humans — Everybody Split (Trouble In Mind Records)
- Rancho Bizzarro — Possessed By Rancho EP (Argonauta Records)
- RF Shannon — Rain On Dust (Keeled Scales)
- The Rocket Summer — Sweet Shivers (Aviate Records)
- Russian Circles — Blood Year (Sargent House)
- SiXforNinE — Parallel Universe (Eclipse Records)
- So Sensitive — Bedroom Drama (Soft Boy Songs)
- Skillet — Victorious (Atlantic Records)
- Slaughter Beach, Dog — Safe And Also No Fear (Lame-O Records)
- Taylor Hollingsworth — Tap Dancing Daddy (Flower Moon Records)
- Tennis System — Lovesick (Graveface Records)
- The Teskey Brothers — Run Home Slow (Glassnote)
- Ty Segall — First Taste (Drag City)
- Tyler Childers — Country Squire (Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records)
- Volbeat — Rewind, Replay, Rebound (Republic Records)
- Young Guv — Guv I (Run For Cover Records)
Friday, August 9
- Acres — Lonely World (A Wolf At Your Door Records)
- Broken Hands — Split In Two (Atlantic)
- Che Apalache — Rearrange My Heart (Free Dirt Records)
- The Contortionist — Our Bones EP (Entertainment One/Good Fight Music)
- Dirty Heads — Super Moon (Five Seven Records)
- East Forest & Ram Dass — East Forest & Ram Dass (Aquilo Records)
- Electric Youth — Memory Emotion (Watts Arcade Inc./Last Gang Records)
- Feeder — Tallulah (Believe)
- Fionn Regan — Cala (Abbey Records)
- Gaffa Tape Sandy — Family Mammal EP (Alcopop)
- Horseburner — The Thief (Ripple Music)
- Infinity Crush — Virtual Heaven (Joy Void)
- Jon Crompton — Intuit (New Lab Records)
- Junius Meyvant — Rearview Paradise EP (Glassnote)
- Kevin George — My Darling’s A Demon (Young Forever/Island)
- Marc Cohn And The Blind Boys Of Alabama — Work To Do (BMG)
- Marika Hackman — Any Human Friend (Sub Pop)
- Olivia Lane — The One EP (BMLG Records)
- Pete Yorn — Caretakers (Shelly Music)
- PJ Morton — PAUL (Morton Records)
- Purple Pilgrims — Perfumed Earth (Tiny Ruins)
- Ra Ra Riot — Superbloom (Barsuk)
- Reptile Room — Jade (Om Records)
- Rick Ross — Port Of Miami 2 (Epic)
- Rucci — Tako’s Son (Empire)
- Sail By Summer — Casual Heaven (Apollon Records)
- Sam Fender — Hypersonic Missiles (Interscope)
- Seeker Lover Keeper — Wild Seeds (Liberation)
- Slipknot — We Are Not Your Kind (Roadrunner)
- Snow Patrol — Reworked EP 1 (Polydor)
- Spread Eagle — Subway To The Stars (Frontiers Music Srl)
- Tori Kelly — Inspired By True Events (Schoolboy Records)
- WHY? — AOKOHIO (Joyful Noise Recordings)
- Wilder Woods — Wilder Woods (Atlantic Records)
Friday, August 16
- Blanck Mass — Animated Violence Mild (Sacred Bones)
- Chris Rivers — G.I.T.U. (Mello Music Group)
- Domiciles — This Is Not A Zen Garden (Last Night From Glasgow)
- Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors — Dragons (Thirty Tigers)
- Dry Cleaning — Sweet Princess EP (self-released)
- Dying In Designer — Nobody’s Happy (Hopeless Records)
- Eilen Jewell — Gypsy (Signature Sounds)
- Frank Turner — No Man’s Land (Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor)
- Friendly Fires — Inflorescent (Polydor)
- The Hold Steady — Thrashing Thru The Passion (Frenchkiss)
- Homeshake — Helium Remixes (Northern Transmissions)
- Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) — NYLONANDJUNO (Dangerbird Records)
- Jessi McNeal — The Driveway (Easy Eye Sound)
- Killswitch Engage — Atonement (Metal Blade)
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Infest The Rats’ Nest (Flightless/ATO)
- The Lilacs — The Lilacs Endure (Pravda Records)
- Lillie Mae — Other Girls (Third Man Records)
- Major Stars — Roots Of Confusion Seeds Of Joy (Drag City)
- The Murder Capital — When I Have Fears (Human Season Records)
- No Hot Ashes — Hardship Starship (Modern Sky UK)
- Off With Their Heads — Be Good (Epitaph Records)
- Oh Sees — Face Stabber (Castle Face)
- Old Salt Union — Where The Dogs Don’t Bite (Compass Records Group)
- Oso Oso — Basking In The Glow (Triple Crown Records)
- Press Club — Wasted Energy (Hassle Records)
- Rae Spoon — Mental Health (Coax Records)
- Reader — Engrams (Spartan Records)
- Ride — This Is Not A Safe Place (Wichita Recordings)
- Shura — Forevher (Secretly Canadian)
- Silver Bars — Center Of The City Lights (Shifting Sounds)
- Skyelephant — I Am The Ghost (Musical Bear Records)
- Sleater-Kinney — The Center Won’t Hold (Mom + Pop)
- Surfer Blood — Hourly Haunts EP (Joyful Noise Recordings)
- Taylor McFerrin — Love’s Last Chance (Brainfeeder)
- Yousef — 9 Moor Drive (Circus Recordings)
Friday, August 23
- 8Kids — Bluten (Napalm Records)
- Alexander Noice — NOICE (Orenda Records)
- Andreas Moe — Love Fast, Heal Slow EP (Nettwerk)
- The Band Camino — Tyhard EP (Elektra)
- Black Doldrums — She Devine EP (Club AC30)
- Carriers — Now Is The Time For Loving Me, Yourself & Everyone Else (Good Eye Records)
- Ceremony — In The Spirit World (Relapse)
- Coco Montoya — Coming In Hot (Alligator Records)
- Dalton Domino — Songs From The Exile (Lightning Rod Records)
- David Wax Museum — Line Of Light (Nine Mile Records)
- De La Noche — Blue Days, Black Nights (Get Loud Recordings)
- Dwayne Gretzky — Dwayne Gretzky (Dwayne Music Inc.)
- Esther Rose — You Made It This Far (Father/Daughter Records)
- Forgetting The Memories — Known Darkness EP (Long Branch Records)
- Ghost Funk Orchestra — A Song For Paul (Colemine Records)
- The Hangmen — Cactusville (Acetate Records)
- Infinity Shred — Forever, A Fast Life (3DOT Recordings)
- Jason Hawk Harris — Love & The Dark (Bloodshot Records)
- Jay Som — Anak Ko (Polyvinyl)
- Jidenna — 85 To Africa (Epic)
- Joyero — Release The Dogs (Merge Records)
- Knocked Loose — A Different Shade Of Blue (Pure Noise Records)
- Leslie Stevens — Sinner (Thirty Tigers)
- Lina Tullgren — Free Cell (Captured Tracks)
- Lunch Lady — Angel (Upset The Rhythm)
- Modern Nature — How To Live (Bella Union)
- Nemesea — White Flag (Napalm Records)
- New Model Army — From Here (earMUSIC)
- Noah Gundersen — Lover (Cooking Vinyl)
- The Rails — Cancel The Sun (Psychonaut Sounds)
- Raphael Saadiq — Jimmy Lee (Columbia)
- Redd Kross — Beyond The Door (Merge Records)
- Robert Randolph And The Family Band — Brighter Days (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)
- Rose Dorn — Days You Were Leaving (Bar None Records)
- Sacred Reich — Awakening (Metal Blade Records)
- Shannon Lay — August (Sub Pop)
- Sheer Mag — A Distant Call (Wilsuns RC)
- Tanya Tucker — While I’m Livin’ (Fantasy Records)
- Taylor Swift — Lover (Republic)
- Them Coulee Boys — Die Happy (LoHi Records)
- Vince Gill — Okie (MCA Nashville)
- Yu Su — Watermelon Woman EP (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
Friday, August 30
- !!! (Chk Chk Chk) — Wallop (Warp)
- Aldo — Trembling Eyelids EP (Full Time Hobby)
- All Eyes West — Like Lightning (Jumpstart Records)
- Andrew Munsey — High Tide (Birdwatcher Records)
- Anne-Sophie Mutter And John Williams — Across The Stars (Deutsche Grammophon )
- Black Belt Eagle Scout — At The Party With My Brown Friends (Saddle Creek.)
- Black Futures — Never Not Nothing (Music for Nations.)
- Bodywash — Comforter (Luminelle)
- Bon Iver — i,i ( Jagjaguwar)
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Bryce Dessner & Eighth Blackbird — When We Are Inhuman (37d03d)
- Common — Let Love Have The Last Word (Loma Vista)
- Ezra Furman — Twelve Nudes (Bella Union)
- Gender Roles — Prang (Big Scary Monsters)
- Hope Drone — Void Lustre (Sludgelord Records)
- Jedd Hughes — WEST (MCA Nashville)
- Jesse Malin — Sunset Kids (Wicked Cool)
- Joan Shelley — Like The River Loves The Sea (No Quarter)
- Joell Ortiz — Monday (Mello)
- Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell (Polydor/Interscope)
- Natasha Bedingfield — Roll With Me (Universal)
- The Newcomer — Inner Being (Astro Nautico)
- Next Year — Waterfalls EP (Standby Records)
- Noël Wells — It’s So Nice! (self-released)
- Olivia Jean — Night Owl (Third Man Records)
- Paranoid London — PL (Paranoid London Records)
- Parsnip — When The Tree Bears Fruit (Anti-Fade)
- Phebe Starr — Ice Tea Liberace EP (Palace)
- Samantha Fish — Kill Or Be Kind (Rounder Records)
- Shards — Find Sound (Erased Tapes)
- Sheryl Crow — THREADS (Big Machine)
- The Silence — Metaphysical Feedback (Drag City)
- Summer Flake — Seasons Change (Rice Is Nice)
- Trisha Yearwood — Every Girl (Walkie Talkie Records)
- Tracy Bryant — Hush (Taxi Gauche Records)
- Velvet Negroni — Neon Brown (4AD)
- Veronica Swift — Confessions (Mack Avenue Records)
- Wage War — Pressure (Fearless Records)
- Whitney — Forever Turned Around (Secretly Canadian)
- YACHT — Chain Tripping (DFA Records)
Some artists mentioned are Warner Music artists. .
