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 January. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.
Tuesday, January 1
- Chrome Sparks — Be On Fire EP (Counter Records)
Thursday, January 3
- T-Rextasy — Prehysteria (Boogie Agency Records)
Friday, January 4
- Gandalf’s Owl — Who’s The Dreamer? (Club Inferno)
- Legion Of The Damned — Slaves Of The Shadow Realm (Napalm Records)
- Mark Deutrom (formerly Of Melvins) — The Blue Bird (Season Of Mist)
- Old Sea Brigade — Ode To A Friend (Nettwerk Records)
- YATRA — Death Ritual (Grimoire Records)
Thursday, January 10
- HERO — Dirty Work EP (Fool’s Gold Records)
Friday, January 11
- Angelic Milk — Divine Biker Lover (2670records)
- Angelo De Augustine — Tomb (Asthmatic Kitty Records)
- The Earthly Frames — Light Reading (self-released)
- Jacob Banks — Village (UMGRI / Interscope)
- The Jon Hill Project — Rebirth (self-released)
- Matt Owens (of Noah & The Whale) — Whisky & Orchids (self-released)
- Miss Grit — Talk Talk EP (self-released)
- Neyla Pekarek (formerly of The Lumineers) — Rattlesnake (S-Curve Records)
- Radar State (featuring members Of The Get Up Kids, The Anniversary, and The Architects) — Strays (Wiretap Records)
- Randy Houser — Magnolia (Stoney Creek Records)
- Rob Baird — After All (Hard Luck Recording Company)
- Soilwork — Verkligheten (Nuclear Blast)
- Taking Back Sunday — Twenty (Concord Music Group)
- Tallies — Tallies (Kanine Records)
- Tommy Emmanuel and John Knowles — Heart Songs (CGP Sounds/Thirty Tigers)
- Violblast — Theater Of Despair (Hostile Media)
- Watsky — Complaint (self-released)
- You Tell Me (Field Music’s Peter Brewis and Admiral Fallow’s Sarah Hayes) — You Tell Me (Memphis Industries)
Wednesday, January 16
- Altitudes & Attitude (Anthrax’s Frank Bello and Megadeth’s David Ellefson) — Get It Out (Megaforce)
Friday, January 18
- A Pale Horse Named Death — When The World Becomes Undone (Long Branch Records)
- Alice Merton — Mint (Mom + Pop Music)
- AVER — Orbis Majora (Ripple Music)
- Bexley — Lost in The Moment EP (self-released)
- Bossy Love — Whiplash EP (self-released)
- Buke and Gas — Scholars (Brassland)
- Cane Hill — Kill The Sun (Rise Records)
- Dahlia Sleeps — Love, Lost EP (Ferryhouse Productions)
- Dani Bell And The Tarantist — Wide Eyed (Fat Beats Records)
- Deerhunter — Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD)
- Dodie — Human EP (Doddleoddle)
- FEVER 333 — STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS (Roadrunner Records/333 Wreckords Crew)
- The Flesh Eaters (featuring Dave Alvin and John Doe) — I Used To Be Pretty (Yep Roc Records)
- Frances Cone — Late Riser (Living Daylight Records)
- Frankley Everlong — Till The Dance Do Us Part (Eclipse Records)
- Go Dark — Neon Young (Bella Union)
- Greensky Bluegrass — All For Money (Big Blue Zoo Records)
- Guster — Look Alive (Nettwerk Records)
- Hawk And Dove — Our Childhood Heroes (self-released)
- Hedvig Mollestad Trio — Smells Funny (Rune Grammofon)
- Hikaru Utada — Face My Fears EP (Epic Records Japan)
- Jack & Jack — A Good Friend Is Nice (Universal Island Records)
- Joe Jackson — Fool (earMUSIC)
- Joey Walker — Supersoft (Darling Recordings)
- Julian Lynch — Rat’s Spit (Ya Reach / Underwater Peoples)
- Juliana Hatfield — Weird (American Laundromat Records)
- Kyle Crane — Crane Like A Bird (self-released)
- Liz Brasher — Painted Image (Fat Possum Records)
- Loi Loi — Me: Dystopia (Blight Records)
- Lost Under Heaven — Love Hates What You Become (Mute Records)
- Maggie Rogers — Heard It In A Past Life (Capitol Records)
- Malibu Ken (Aesop Rock and Tobacco) — Malibu Ken (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- Mike Posner — A Real Good Kid (Universal Island Records)
- Night Beats — Myth Of A Man (Heavenly)
- OOMPH! — Ritual (Napalm Records)
- Papa Roach — Who Do You Trust? (Eleven Seven Music)
- Pedro The Lion — Phoenix (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
- Pierce Pettis — Father’s Son (Compass Records)
- Polyenso — Year Of The Dog EP (Other People Records)
- The Prescriptions — Hollywood Gold (His Songs)
- Rich The Kid — The World is Yours 2 (Rich Forever Music)
- Sharon Van Etten — Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)
- The Steel Woods — Old News (Woods Music)
- Steve Gunn — The Unseen In Between (Matador Records)
- Steve Mason — About The Light (Double Six Records)
- Switchfoot — Native Tongue (FanTasy)
- Tender — Fear Of Falling Asleep (PTKF)
- Toro Y Moi — Outer Peace (Carpark Records)
- The Twilight Sad — It Won’t Be Like This All The Time (Rock Action)
- Utkarsh Ambudkar — Vanity (self-released)
- The Vegabonds — V (Blue Elan Records)
- Whitehorse — The Northern South Vol. 2 (Six Shooter Records)
- Wristmeetrazor — Misery Never Forgets (Prosthetic Records)
- Young Culture — (This Is) Heaven (Equal Vision Records)
Friday, January 25
- Backstreet Boys — DNA (RCA Records)
- Balthazar — Fever (Play It Again Sam)
- Black To Comm (Marc Richter) — Seven Horses For Seven Kings (Thrill Jockey)
- Blood Red Shoes — Get Tragic (Jazz Life)
- Bring Me The Horizon — Amo (RCA)
- Charlene Soraia — Where’s My Tribe (Peacefrog Records)
- Cold Weather Company — Find Light (self-released)
- The Dandy Warhols — Why You So Crazy (Dine Alone Records)
- DAWN (formerly Dawn Richard) — New Breed (Local Action Records)
- Eerie Wanda — Pet Town (Joyful Noise Recordings)
- Erlen Meyer — Sang et Or (Argonauta Records)
- Fidlar — Almost Free (Mom + Pop Music)
- Gin Annie — 100% Proof (self-released)
- Incite — Built To Destroy (Minus Head Records)
- Hecate Enthroned — Embrace Of The Godless Aeon (M-Theory Audio)
- Hunt Sales — Get Your Shit Together (Big Legal Mess)
- Juan Wauters — La Onda de Juan Pablo (The World Of Juan Pablo) (Captured Tracks)
- Judiciary — Surface Noise (Closed Casket Activities)
- Júníus Meyvant — Across The Borders (Glassnote Records)
- Keuning (Dave Keuning of The Killers) — Prismism (Pretty Faithful)
- Kid Koala — Music To Draw To: Io (Arts & Crafts)
- LIP TALK — D A Y S (Northern Spy Records)
- Lula Wiles — What Will We Do (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
- Meghan Trainor — Treat Myself (Epic Records)
- Michael Franti & Spearhead — Stay Human Vol. II (Boo Boo Wax)
- Michael McArthur — Ever Green, Ever Rain (Dark River Records)
- Mike Krol — Power Chords (Merge Records)
- Mono — Nowhere Now Here (Temporary Residence Limited)
- Mozes and The Firstborn — Dadcore (Burger Records)
- My Diligence — Sun Rose (Mottow Soundz)
- Norma — Female Jungle (Shortcuts)
- Pavo Pavo — Mystery Hour (Bella Union)
- Puppy — The Goat (Spinefarm Records)
- Rat Boy — Internationally Unknown (Hellcat Records)
- Rival Sons — Feral Roots (Atlantic Records)
- Rosie Carney — Bare (Akira Records)
- Royal Canoe — Waver (Paper Bag Records)
- Sarah Louise — Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars (Thrill Jockey)
- Say Anything — Oliver Appropriate (Dine Alone Records)
- Skunk Anansie — 25LIVE@25 (V2 Records Benelux)
- Slenderbodies — Soraya EP (Avant Garden)
- Slow — Mythologiae (GS Productions)
- Sneaks — Highway Hypnosis (Merge Revords)
- Sound Of Sirens — This Time (DMF Records)
- Steve Hackett — At The Edge Of Light (InsideOut Records)
- Surachai — Come, Deathless (BL_K NOISE)
- Swallow The Sun — When A Shadow is Forced Into The Light (Century Media Records)
- Swervedriver — Future Ruins (Dangerbird Records)
- Swindle — No More Normal (Brownswood Recordings)
- Tesha — Growing Pain II EP (Sober Sorbet Recordings)
- Toy — Happy In The Hollow (Tough Love Records)
- Trapper Schoepp — Primetime Illusion (Xtra Mile Recordings)
- Twain — 2 E.P.s (Keeled Scales)
- White Fence — I Have To Feed Larry’s Hawk (Drag City)
- William Tyler — Goes West (Merge Records)
- Writhing Squares — Out Of The Ether (Trouble In Mind)