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 October. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.
Friday, October 5
- A Place To Bury Strangers — Re-Pinned (Dead Oceans)
- Adrianne Lenker (of Big Thief) — Abysskiss (Saddle Creek)
- Ah! Kosmos — Beautiful Swamp (Compost)
- Alkymist — Alkymist (Corde Raide Productions / Moriendi Music)
- Alright Alright — Nearby (AlrightAlright)
- AlunaGeorge — Champagne Eyes EP (AlunaGeorge)
- Ancient Shapes — Silent Rave (You’ve Changed Records)
- Atmosphere — Mi Vida Local (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- Author & Punisher — Beastland (Relapse Records)
- Behemoth — I Love You At Your Darkest (Metal Blade Records)
- Bloody Knees — You Can’t Have It EP (Distiller Records)
- The Brew — Art Of Persuasion (Napalm Records)
- Castlecomer — Castlecomer (Concord Records)
- Cat Power — Wanderer (Domino Recording Company)
- Coheed And Cambria — The Unheavenly Creatures (Roadrunner Records)
- Cursive — Vitriola (15 Passenger)
- David August — D’Angelo ([PIAS])
- David Nance Group — Peaced And Slightly Pulverized (Trouble In Mind)
- Dead Soft — New Emotion EP (Arts & Crafts)
- Death Valley Girls — Darkness Rains (Suicide Squeeze Records)
- Donny McCaslin — Blow. (Motéma Music)
- Doyle Bramhall II — Shades (Provogue Records)
- Drenge — Autonomy EP (Infectious Music)
- Echo And The Bunnymen — The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon (BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited)
- Electric Six — Bride Of The Devil (etropolis Records)
- Eric Church — Desperate Man (EMI Records Nashville)
- Erika Spring — Scars EP (Cascine)
- Exes — Before You Go (Exes)
- Fond Han — Wronked (Exploding In Sound Records)
- Foxtrott — Meditations I-II-III (One Little Indian Records)
- Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams (Merge Records)
- FVZZ POPVLI — Magna Fvzz (Heavy Psych Sounds)
- GABI — Empty Me (Double Double Whammy)
- Ghostface Killah — The Lost Tapes (X-Ray Records)
- Gregory Alan Isakov — Evening Machines (Dualtone Records)
- Haerts — New Compassion (Arts and Crafts)
- The Hazytones — Monarchs Of Oblivion (Ripple Music)
- Hellogoodbye — Fancy Outfit (Wasted Summer)
- High On Fire — Electric Messiah (Entertainment One Music)
- Hugh Cornwell — Monster (Sony Music CG)
- Ice Nine Kills — The Silver Scream (Fearless Records)
- Idle Bloom — Flood The Dial (Budding Romance Records)
- INFESTUS — Thrypsis (Debemur Morti)
- Jerusalem In My Heart — Daqa’iq Tudaiq (Constellation Records)
- Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) — Uniform Clarity (ATO Records)
- John Lennon — Imagine — The Ultimate Collection (Geffen/UMe)
- JP Harris — Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing (Free Dirt Records)
- Kelela — TAKE ME A_PART, The REMIXES (Warp)
- Kikagaku Moyo — Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain)
- Kristin Hersh — Possible Dust Clouds (Fire Records)
- KT Tunstall — Wax (Virgin Records)
- Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper — A Star Is Born (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Interscope)
- Logan Takahashi — Creama (Ghostly International)
- Maarja Nuut & Ruum — Muunduja (Fat Cat Records)
- Madeline Kenney — Perfect Shapes (Carpark Records)
- The Marcus King Band — Carolina Confessions (Fantasy Records)
- Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman (Ninja Tune)
- Matt Costa — Santa Rosa Fangs (Novella Edition) (Dangerbird Records)
- Matt Nathanson — Sings His Sad Heart (Acrobat Records)
- Max Frost — Gold Rush (Atlantic Records)
- Mewithoutyou — [Untitled] (Run for Cover Records)
- Mink’s Miracle Medicine — Pyramid Theories (Mink’s Miracle Medicine)
- Molly Burch — First Flower (Captured Tracks)
- Mongol — The Return (Sliptrick Records)
- Morgan Saint — Alien EP (Epic Records)
- Mozzy — Gangland Landlord (Mozzy Records / EMPIRE)
- Mueller_Roedelius — Imagori II (Grönland Records)
- Munya — Delmano EP (Luminelle Recordings)
- Mythic Sunship — Another Shape Of Psychedelic (El Paraiso Records)
- The Natvral (Kip Berman of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart) — Know Me More EP (Kanine Records)
- Nathan Bowles — Plainly Mistaken (Paradise of Bachelors)
- Obnox — Bang Messiah (Smog Veil Records)
- Pastel Ghost — Ethereality (leopatra Records)
- Peel Dream Magazine — Modern Meta Physic (Slumberland Records)
- Petite Noir — La Maison Noir / The Black House (Roya)
- PHORA — Love is Hell (Warner Bros. Records)
- Phosphorescent — C’est La Vie (Dead Oceans)
- Pilar Zeta — Moments Of Reality (Ultramajic)
- Pip Bloom — Paycheck EP (Nice Swan Records)
- Puce Mary — The Drought (PAN)
- Rabit — Life After Death (Halcyon Veil)
- The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band — Poor Until Payday (Family Owned Records)
- Rhian Sheehan — A Quiet Divide (Loop)
- Ron Gallo — Stardust Birthday Party (New West Records)
- Steve Perry (of Journey) — Traces (Fantasy Records)
- Swearin’ — Fall Into The Sun (Merge Records)
- Sylar — Seasons (Hopeless Records)
- Sylvia Rose Novak — Someone Else’s War (Sylvia Rose Novak)
- Tall Heights — Pretty Colors For Your Actions (Sony Classical Records)
- Tangent — Approaching Complexity (n5MD)
- Test Shot Starfish — Music For Space (Subtractive)
- Timmy’s Organism — Survival Of The Fiendish (Burger Records)
- Tokyo Police Club — TPC (Dine Alone Records)
- Tunde Olaniran — Stranger (Magic Wheel)
- Twenty One Pilots — Trench (Fueled by Ramen)
- Will Hoge — My American Dream (EDLO Records)
- Windhand — Eternal Return (Relapse Records)
- You Me At Six — VI (Underdog Records)
Friday, October 12
- Ambrose Akinmusire — Origami Harvest (Blue Note Records)
- Anna Connolly — After Thoughts (Runaway Girl Records)
- Anna St. Louis — If Only There Was A River (Woodsist and Mare Records)
- Arc Iris — Icon Of Ego (Ba Da Bing Records)
- Art d’Ecco — Trespasser (Paper Bag Records)
- Atreyu — In Our Wake (Spinefarm Records UK)
- Basement — Beside Myself (Warner Brothers / Fueled By Ramen / Run For Cover)
- Belly — Immigrant (Belly)
- Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser — Quarter Life Crisis (BUFU Records)
- Benighted — Dogs Always Bite Harder Than Their Master (Season of Mist)
- Beyond Creation — Algorythm (Season of Mist)
- Blues Traveler — Hurry Up & Hang Around (BMG Rights Management (US) LLC)
- The Bottle Rockets — Bit Logic (Bloodshot Records)
- The Brevet — LEGS (The Brevet)
- Broncho — Bad Behavior (Park The Van)
- Calvin Johnson — A Wonderful Beast (K Records)
- Cherubs — Short Of Popular (Trance Syndicate)
- Classified — Tomorrow Could Be The Day Things Change (Halflife Records)
- Colter Wall — Songs Of The Plains (Young Mary’s Record Co.)
- Colyn Cameron (of Wake Owl) — Sad & Easy (Killbeat Music)
- Connan Mockasin — Jassbusters (Mexican Summer)
- Daniel Brandt (of Brandt Brauer Frick) — Channels (Erased Tapes Records)
- Dave Davies (of The Kinks) — Decade (Red River Entertainment)
- Deadbird — III: The Forest Within The Tree (20 Buck Spin)
- Django Django — Winter’s Beach EP ( Because Music)
- The Dodos — Certainty Waves (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
- Ella Mai — Ella Mai (Interscope Records)
- Elvis Costello & The Imposters — Look Now (Concord Records)
- Eric Clapton — Happy Xmas (Bushbranch Records/Surfdog Records)
- Fade — Fall In Love EP (Luminelle Recordings)
- Graham Parker — Cloud Symbols (100% Records)
- Hands Like Houses — Anon (Hopeless Records)
- Haley (formerly Haley Bonar) — Pleasureland (Memphis Industries)
- Iron Reagan — Dark Days Ahead EP (Pop Wig)
- Jaakko Eino Kalevi — Out Of Touch (Weird World)
- Jackie Cohen — Tacoma Night Terror EP (Spacebomb)
- Jerry Paper — Like A Baby (Stones Throw Records)
- John Grant — Love Is Magic (Partisan)
- John Hiatt — The Eclipse Sessions (New West Records)
- Justin Courtney Pierre (of Motion City Soundtrack) — In The Drink (Epitaph Records)
- Kurt Vile — Bottle It In (Matador)
- Lando Chill — Black Ego (Mello Music Group)
- Larry And His Flask — This Remedy (Xtra Mile Recordings)
- Lee Corey Oswald — Darkness, Together (A-F Records)
- Les Big Byrd — Iran Iraq IKEA (PNKSLM Recordings)
- Mark Sultan — Let Me Out (Daptone Records)
- Martin Barre — Roads Less Travelled (Cleopatra Records)
- Matthew Dear — Bunny (Ghostly International)
- Morgan Evans — Things That We Drink To (Warner Bros. Records)
- Mountain Movers — Pink Skies (Trouble In Mind)
- Nazareth — Tattooed On My Brain (Frontiers Records)
- Northern Crown — Northern Crown (Northern Crown)
- Outer Heaven — Realms Of Eternal Decay (Relapse Records)
- Peter Holsapple And Alex Chilton — The Death Of Rock: Peter Holsapple vs. Alex Chilton (Omnivore Recordings)
- Polyphia — New Levels New Devils (Equal Vision Records)
- Seventh Wonder — Tiara Out (Frontiers Music)
- Sister Sparrow — Gold (Thirty Tigers)
- SKÁLMÖLD — Sorgir (Napalm Records)
- The Skiffle Players — Skiff (Spiritual Pajamas)
- The Sonder Bombs — Modern Female Rockstar (Take This To Heart)
- Terrorizer — Caustic Attack (The End Records)
- Tess Parks And Anton Newcombe — Tess Parks And Anton Newcombe (a recordings)
- Tom Morello — The Atlas Underground (Mom + Pop Music)
- Tom Robbins And Ben Lee — B Is For Beer — The Musical (Tom Robbins And Ben Lee)
- Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats — Wasteland (Rise Above Records)
- Valley Maker — Rhodendron (Frenchkiss Records)
- VOLA — Applause Of A Distant Crowd (Mascot Records)
- The Watson Twins — DUO (The Watson Twins)
- Wild Powwers — Skin (Nadine Records)
- William Basinski and Lawrence English — Selva Oscura (emporary Residence)
- Young Jesus — The Whole Thing Is Just There (Saddle Creek)
- Yowler — Black Dog In My Path (Double Double Whammy)
Friday, October 19
- 2Cellos — Let There Be Cello (Portrait/Sony Masterworks)
- Ace Frehley — Spaceman (Entertainment One Music)
- Aldo Nova — 2.0 (MRI)
- Amaranthe — Helix (Spinefarm Records/Universal Music)
- The Anix — Shadow_Movement (FiXT)
- Arkells — Rally Cry (Last Gang Records)
- Becky Warren — Undesirable (Becky Warren)
- Big Bliss — At Middle Distance (Exit Stencil Recordings)
- Black Lotus — Sons Of Saturn (Inverse Records)
- The Brother Brothers — Some People I Know (Compass Records)
- Buxton — Stay Out Late (New West Records)
- Castle — Deal Thy Fate (Ripple Music)
- CAVE — Allways ( Drag City)
- Chris Carter (of Throbbing Gristle) — Chemistry Lessons Volume 1.1 Coursework EP (Mute Artists Limited)
- Cloud Nothings — Last Building Burning (Carpark Records)
- Crimson Throne — Of Void & Solitude (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
- Deru — Torn In Two (Friends of Friends)
- Disturbed — Evolution (Reprise Records)
- Don The Tiger — Matanzas (Crammed Discs)
- Elle King — Shake The Spirit (RCA Records)
- Empress Of — Us (Terrible Records)
- Esperanza Spalding — 12 Little Spells EP (Concord Records)
- Farao — Pure-O (Western Vinyl)
- Geotic (Baths’ Will Wisenfeld) — Traversa (Ghostly International)
- Gorod — Aethra (Overpowered Records)
- Graham Van Pelt (Miracle Fortress) — Time Travel (Arbutus Records)
- Greta Van Fleet — Anthem Of The Peaceful Army (Republic Records)
- Handsome Jack — Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (Alive Naturalsound Records)
- Hellions — Rue (UNFD)
- Hillstomp — Monster Receiver (Fluff and Gravy)
- How To Dress Well — The Anteroom (Domino)
- The Jack Moves — Free Money (Everloving Records)
- James Francies — Flight (Blue Note Records)
- Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit — Live From The Ryman (Southeastern Records)
- Jessie Reyez — Being Human In Public EP (Polydor / FMLY)
- Jimmy Urine — Euringer (Metropolis Records)
- Keller Williams — SANS (Freeky Disc)
- Kramies — Of All The Places Been & Everything The End (Hidden Shoal)
- The Last Tycoon — Oppenheimer Blues (Yo Piñon)
- Lil Yachty — Nuthin’ 2 Prove (Quality Control Music)
- Luke Top — The Dumb-Show EP (Grand Gallop/Org Music)
- Marty Friedman — ONE BAD M.F. Live!! (Prosthetic Records)
- Matt Mays — Twice Upon A Hell Of A Time… (Matt Mays — Twice Upon A Hell Of A Time…)
- Mercy Union (featuring members Of The Gaslight Anthem and The Scandals) — The Quarry (Mt. Crushmore Records)
- Minus The Bear — Fair Enough EP (Suicide Squeeze Records)
- MØ — Forever Neverland (Chess Club/RCA Victor)
- Neneh Cherry — Broken Politics (Neneh Cherry)
- Nick Klein — The Bathroom Wall EP (BANK Records NYC)
- Papercuts — Parallel Universe Blues (Slumberland Records)
- Peter Bjorn And John — Darker Days (INGRID)
- R.E.M. — R.E.M. at The BBC (Craft Recordings)
- Rich Hope — I’m All Yours (Hopeforrain Music)
- Richard Ashcroft (of The Verve) — Natural Rebel (BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited)
- Sacral Rage — Beyond Celestial Echoes (Cruz del Sur Music)
- Satan’s Satyrs — The Lucky Ones (Bad Omen Records)
- Sci-Fi Romance — Dreamers & Runaways (Broken Image Entertainment)
- Shining — Animal (Spinefarm)
- Soft Center — No Pattern (Same Things Records)
- Soulfly — Ritual (Nuclear Blast)
- Steady Hands — Truth In Comedy (Lame-O Records)
- Sundrifter — Visitations (Sundrifter)
- Superhuman Happiness — Beacon (Yeggs Records)
- Upper Wilds — Mars (Thrill Jockey)
- Valley Lodge — Fog Machine (Tee Pee Records)
- Weakened Friends — Common Blah (Don Giovanni Records)
- Whitesnake — Unzipped (Rhino Entertainment)
- Will Oldham — Songs Of Love And Horror (Drag City)
- Yeses — Yeses EP (The Record Collective)
- Yoko Ono — Warzone (Chimera Music)
Friday, October 26
- Adeline Hotel — Away Together (Ruination)
- Airhead DC — Crush Hi (Danger Collective Records)
- Andrea Bocelli — Sì (Decca)
- Apollo Brown & Joell Ortiz — Mona Lisa (Mello Music Group)
- The Berries — Start All Over Again (Help Yourself Records)
- Blackberry Smoke — Ground Sessions EP (Earache Records)
- Bloodbath — The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn (Peaceville Records)
- Bloody Knees — You Can Have It EP (Distiller Records)
- The Blue Stones — Black Holes (eOne Music Canada)
- Booker Stardrum — Temporary etc. (NNA Tapes)
- Brix & The Extricated — Breaking State (Grit Over Glamour Records)
- The Browning — Geist (Spinefarm Records UK)
- Boy George And Culture Club — LIFE (WMG)
- Casey Dubie — Into The Moon (Casey Dubie)
- Constant Lovers — Pangs (US / THEM Group)
- David Crosby — Here If You Listen (BMG)
- Daughters — You Won’t Get What You Want (Ipecac Recordings)
- Dean Wareham And Cheval Sombre — Dean Wareham Vs. Cheval Sombre (Double Feature)
- Devon Church (of Exitmusic) — We Are Inextricable (felte)
- Dillon Carmichael — Hell On An Angel (Riser House Records)
- E^ST — Life Ain’t Always Roses EP (Warner Music Australasia)
- Echlo — Echolocation (Kowloon Records)
- Eliza Shaddad — Future (Beatnik Creative)
- Festerday — Cadaveric Virginity EP (Season of Mist)
- Georgia Anne Muldrow — Overload (Brainfeeder)
- Godless — Swarm EP (Instamojo)
- Haken — Vector (InsideOut Records)
- Hate Eternal — Upon Desolate Sands (Season of Mist)
- Hissing — Permanent Destitution (Relapse Records)
- Holy Shire — The Legendary Shepherds Of The Forest (Heavy Metal Records)
- Homeboy Sandman & Edan — Humble Pi (Stones Throw Records)
- Hush Kids — Hush Kids (Hush Kids)
- Ian Sweet — Crush Crusher (Sub Pop)
- Jessica Moss — Entanglement (Constellation Records)
- Jim Clements — A Failure (Jim Clements)
- Julia Holter — Aviary (Domino Recording Company)
- Klaus Johann Grobe — Du Bist So Symmetrisch (Trouble In Mind)
- Languish — Unworthy (Prosthetic Records)
- Laura Gibson — Goners (City Slang)
- Lukas Graham — 3 (The Purple Album) (Warner Bros. Records)
- Makaya McCraven — Universal Beings (International Anthem Recording Co.)
- Magic Potion — Endless Graffiti (PNKSLM Recordings)
- Megaton Leviathan — Mage (Blood Music)
- Mike Love — Reason For The Season (BMG)
- Mr. Mitch — Primary Progressive EP (Gobstopper Records)
- NAO — Saturn (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
- Nicholas Krgovich — Ouch (Tin Angel Records)
- Oh Pep! — I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You… (People Speak)
- Paul Smith (of Maxïmo Park) — Diagrams (Billingham Records)
- Pill — Soft Hell (Mexican Summer)
- Public Practice — Distance Is A Mirror EP (Public Practice)
- Public Service Broadcasting — White Star Liner EP (Play It Again Sam)
- Robyn — Honey (Konichiwa/Interscope)
- Royal Tusk — Tusk II (eOne Music Canada)
- Saves The Day — 9 (Equal Vision Records)
- Shad — A Short Story About A War (Secret City Records)
- Sirenia — Arcane Astral Aeons (Napalm Records)
- Slasher Dave — Frights (20 Buck Spin)
- Soap&Skin — From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend (PIAS Group)
- Sono Luminus — He(a)r (Sono Luminus)
- Spirit Houses — Two Passing Ships (Darkshore Music Group)
- SRSQ — Unreality (Dais Records)
- Street Sects — The Kicking Mule (The Flenser)
- The Struts — Young & Dangerous (The Struts)
- Sunshine And The Rain (formerly The Black Hollies) — Beneath The Stars (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
- Super Unison — Stella (Deathwish Inc.)
- Tasha — Alone At Last (Father/Daughter Records)
- THEM — Manor Of The Se7en Gables (Steamhammer)
- Thom Yorke — Suspiria (Music For The Luca Guadagnino Film) (XL Recordings)
- Together Pangea — Non Stop Paranoia EP (Nettwerk Records)
- Tropical Fuck Storm — A Laughing Death In Meatspace (Mistletone / TFS Records)
- Ty Segall — Fudge Sandwich (In the Red)
- Typesetter — Nothing Blues (6131 Records)
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra — IC-01 Hanoi (Jagjaguwar)
- Unleashed — The Hunt For White Christ (Napalm Records)
- Vaureen — Extraterra (Rising Pulse)
- Wasted Theory — Warlords Of The New Electric (Argonauta Records)
- Whitey Morgan And The 78’s — Hard Times And White Lines (Whitey Morgan Music)
- William Shatner — Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album (Cleopatra Records)
- Yoshinori Hayashi — Ambivalence (Smalltown Supersound)
