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 4
- Afriqua — Colored (R&S Records)
- Alexa Rose — Medicine For Living (Big Legal Mess)
- Angel Olsen — All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)
- Anna Rose — The Light Between (White Pony/AWAL)
- The Avett Brothers — Closer Than Together (American/Republic Records)
- Bayside — Interrobang (Hopeless Records)
- Bill Frisell — Harmony (Blue Note Records)
- Boris — LφVE & EVφL (Third Man Records)
- Brantley Gilbert — Fire & Brimstone (The Valory Music Co.)
- Bruno Bavota — Get Lost (Temporary Residence)
- Busy Signal — Parts Of The Puzzle (VP Records)
- Carla Dal Forno — Look Up Sharp (Kallista)
- Carlos Vara — Have You Ever Seen A Boy Break Down EP (Warner)
- City And Colour — A Pill For Loneliness (Still Records)
- Dallas Moore — Tryin’ To Be A Blessing (Sol Records)
- Danny Brown — Uknowhatimsayin (Warp)
- The Darkness — Easter Is Cancelled (Cooking Vinyl)
- Deadmau5 — Here’s The Drop! (Mau5trap)
- DIIV — Deceiver (Captured Tracks)
- Finneas — Blood Harmony EP (OYOY)
- Flying Colors — Third Degree (Radiant Records)
- Freez — Always Friends (Wild Honey Records)
- Imani Coppola — The Protagonist (Ipecac Recordings)
- Jason James — Seems Like Tears Ago (Melodyville Records)
- Jeb Loy Nichols And The Westwood All-Stars — June Is Short, July Is Long (Compass Records)
- Jeff Mills — Sight, Sound And Space (Axis)
- Jessica Pavone — Brick And Mortar (Birdwatcher Records)
- Jez Dior — Handle With Care (Epic Records)
- Jon Regen — Higher Ground (Ropeadope)
- Josie Cotton — Everything Is On Yeah (Cleopatra)
- Joshua Radin — Here, Right Now (Nettwerk Music Group)
- Kacy & Clayton — Carrying On (New West Records)
- Kelsey Waldon — White Noise/White Lines (Oh Boy)
- King Calaway — Rivers (BBR Music)
- King Nun — Mass (Dirty Hit)
- Lagwagon — Railer (Fat Wreck Chords)
- Lesibu Grand — The Legend Of Miranda EP (Relapse Records)
- Levitation Room — Headspace (Greenway)
- Logan Ledger — I Don’t Dream Anymore (Rounder Records)
- Los Lobos — Llegó Navidad (Rhino Records)
- Maisie Peters — It’s Your Bed Babe EP (Atlantic Records)
- Major Stars — Spun Around (Waterloo Records)
- The Menzingers — Hello Exile (Epitaph Records)
- Neave Trio — Her Voice (Chandos Records)
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds — Ghosteen (Bad Seed Ltd.)
- North Mississippi Allstars — Up And Rolling (New West Records)
- Portico Quartet — Memory Streams (Gondwana Records)
- Rhi — The Pale Queen (Tru-Thoughts)
- Sabrina Claudio — Truth Is (C Entertainment)
- That Dog. — Old LP (UMe)
- The Sherlocks — Under Your Sky (Infectious Music)
- Skylark & The Scorpion — Weather The Storm (Skinny Dog Records)
- Vinnie Caruana — Aging Frontman EP (Know Hope Records)
- Who Brought The Dog — No World Order (MDD Records)
- Wildwood Kin — Wildwood Kin (Silvertone)
- Wilco — Ode To Joy (dBpm Records)
Friday, October 11
- 808 State — Transmission Suite (808 State))
- 88rising — Head In The Clouds II (88rising))
- Allah Las — LAHS (Mexican Summer)
- Alunah — Violet Hour (Heavy Psych Sounds)
- The Anix — Hologram (FiXT)
- Asa — Lucid (Shanachie)
- BABYMETAL — Metal Galaxy (Babymetal Records)
- Bent Knee — You Know What They Mean (InsideOut Musi)
- Big Thief — Two Hands (4AD)
- Blood Orange — Fields (Cedille)
- Bodega — Shiny New Model EP (What’s Your Rupture)
- Boy Harsher — Country Girl Uncut (Ascetic House)
- Broken Hands — Split In Two (Atlantic)
- Bryce Dessner — Tenebre (Resonanzraum/PIAS)
- Can’t Swim — Foreign Language EP (Pure Noise Records)
- Casanova — Behind These Scars (Roc Nation/Republic Records)
- Chris Knight — Almost Daylight (Thirty Tigers)
- Christopher Tignor — A Light Below (Western Vinyl)
- Dan Luke And The Raid — Out Of The Blue (New West Records)
- Dave Koz — Gifts Of The Season (Just Koz)
- The Devil Wears Prada — The Act (Atom Splitter)
- Devon Welsh — True Love (You Are Accepted)
- DJ Tennis & Red Axes — Redrago (Life And Death)
- Elbow — Giants Of All Sizes (Polydor/Verve Label Group)
- Fantasia — Sketchbook (Rock Soul/BMG)
- Fury Weekend — Escape From Neon City (FiXT)
- Gold Dime — My House (Fire Talk Records)
- Golden Dawn Arkestra — Falls On The Edge Of Time (11A Records)
- The Hecks — My Star (Trouble In Mind Records)
- James McArthur And The Head Gardeners — Intergalactic Sailor (Moorland Records)
- Joe Goodkin — Paper Arrows (CD Baby)
- Joseph Arthur — Come Back World (Moonage Rebel)
- Julien Chang — Jules (Transgressive)
- Karen & The Sorrows — Guaranteed Broken Heart (Ocean Born Mary Music)
- Kelleigh Bannen — Favorite Colors (self-released)
- Kelly Carmichael — Heavy Heart (Black Widow Records)
- Kendell Marvel — Solid Gold Sounds (Easy Eye Sound)
- Kim Gordon — No Home Record (Matador)
- La Santa Cecilia — La Santa Cecilia (Rebelon Entertainment)
- Lindstrøm — On A Clear Day I Can See Forever (Smalltown Supersound)
- Michael Monroe — One Man Gang (Silver Lining Music)
- Michael Sneed — Days We Lost (Text Me Records!)
- Pizzagirl — First Timer (Heist Or Hit)
- Ruston Kelly — Dirt Emo Vol. 1 (Rounder Records)
- Simple Creatures — Everything Opposite EP (BMG)
- Son Little — Invisible EP (ANTI-)
- Stephen Clair — Strange Perfume (Rock City Records)
- Steven A. Clark — Hypervigilant (Super Music Group)
- Trigger Happy — Full Circle & Then Some (Turkey Grass Records/Thirty Tigers)
- Wale — Wow… That’s Crazy (Warner)
- Waterparks — Fandom (Hopeless Records)
- Wayward Sons — The Truth Ain’t What It Used To Be (Frontiers Music)
- Wet Tuna — Water Weird (Three Lobed Recordings)
October 18
- Alice Jemima — Everything Changes (Sunday Best)
- Alter Bridge — Walk The Sky (Napalm Records)
- Alunah — Violet Hour (Heavy Psych Sounds)
- Battles — Juice B Crypts (Warp)
- Beabadoobee — Space Cadet EP (Dirty Hit)
- Blue Lab Beats — Voyage (All Points/Blue Adventure)
- Bremer/McCoy — Utopia (Luaka Bop)
- Caroline Polachek — Pang (Columbia)
- Clipping — There Existed An Addiction To Blood (Sub Pop)
- Cody Jinks — The Wanting (Late August Records)
- DJ Spinn — Da Life EP (Hyperdub)
- Dominic Sen — Hear Me (Roll Call Records)
- Dream State — Primrose Path (UNFD)
- Electric Guest — Kin (Across The Universe)
- Fastball — The Help Machine (33 1/3)
- Floating Points — Crush (Ninja Tune)
- Foals — Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 (Warner)
- GA-20 — Lonely Soul (Karma Chief Records)
- Horror Movie Marathon — Good Scare (Beachball)
- Hovvdy — Heavy Lifter (Double Double Whammy)
- Jacques Greene — Dawn Chorus (LuckyMe)
- Jake La Botz — They’re Coming For Me (Hi-Style Enterprises)
- Japanese Wallpaper — Glow (Wonderlick)
- Jim James, Teddy Abrams, and the Louisville Orchestra — The Order Of Nature (Decca Gold)
- Jimmy “Duck” Holmes — Cypress Grove (Easy Eye Sound)
- Jimmy Eat World — Surviving (RCA Records)
- John DeNicola — The Why Because (Omad Records)
- Lil Zay Osama — Hood Bible (Warner Records)
- Lionize — Panic Attack! (Electric Reckoning Music)
- The Magpie Salute — High Water II (Mascot Label Group)
- Mark Lanegan Band — Somebody’s Knocking (Heavenly Recordings)
- Michael Monroe — One Man Gang (Silver Lining Music)
- The Milk Carton Kids — The Only Ones (Milk Carton Records)
- Moonchy & Tobias — Atmosfere (Tiny Room Records)
- The Muffs — No Holiday (Omnivore Recordings)
- Nils Frahm — Encores 3 EP (Erased Tapes))
- Patrick Watson — Wave (Domino)
- Refused — War Music (Spinefarm/Search And Destroy)
- Roberto Fonseca — Yesun (Mack Avenue Records)
- Russ Waterhouse — 1 Minute 2 Midnight (Drag City)
- Sebastian Straw — Welcome Yesterday (Seahorse Recordings)
- Songhoy Blues — Meet Me In The City EP (Yellow Vinyl)
- Sorry Girls — Deborah (Arbutus Records)
- Sports Team — Making Hay EP (Bright Antenna Records)
- Sufjan Stevens — The Decalogue (AKR)
- Third Eye Blind — Screamer (Mega Collider)
- Uneven Structure — Paragon (Long Branch Records)
- Vagabon — Vagabon (Nonesuch Records)
- Walrus — Cool To Who (Outside Music)
- White Reaper — You Deserve Love (Elektra)
- The Yummy Fur — Piggy Wings (Rock Action)
Friday, October 25
- Anamai — Dream Baby (Halocline Trance)
- Anamanaguchi — [USA] (Polyvinyl Records)
- Anna Of The North — Dream Girl (Play It Again Sam)
- Anna Meredith — FIBS (Moshi Moshi)
- Armin Van Buuren — Balance (Armada Music)
- The Bad Plus — Activate Infinity (Edition Records)
- Black Marble — Bigger Than Life (Sacred Bones Records)
- Blackthorne — Blackthorne (Damien Records)
- Calvin Richardson — Gold Dust (Shanachie)
- Cigarettes After Sex — Cry (Partisan)
- David Norland — Glam Tear Stain (Denovali)
- Dawn Ray’d — Behold Sedition Plainsong (Prosthetic Records)
- Dearly Beloved — Times Square Discount (Aporia Records)
- Donato Dozzy — 12H (Presto!?)
- Doug Wieselman — From Water (Figureight Records)
- Dry Cleaning — Boundary Road Snacks And Drinks EP (It’s OK)
- Fink — Bloom Innocent (R’Coup’D)
- FKA Twigs — Magdalene (Young Turks)
- Gon — Diagonal Fields (CEN/The Orchard)
- Grace Potter — Daylight (Fantasy)
- Great Grandpa — Four Of Arrows (Double Double Whammy)
- The Great Old Ones — Cosmicism (Season Of Mist)
- Guided By Voices — Sweating The Plague (Forced Exposure)
- Iguana Death Cult — Nude Casino (Innovative Leisure)
- James Blunt — Once Upon A Mind (Custard/Atlantic Records)
- Jan Akkerman — Close Beauty (Mascot Label Group/Music Theories Recordings)
- King Princess — Cheap Queen (Zelig Records)
- Lankum — The Livelong Day (Rough Trade Records)
- Little Scream — Speed Queen (Merge Records)
- Locket — All Out (Fearless Records)
- Longwave — If We Live Forever (Bodan Kuma)
- Mikal Cronin — Seeker (Merge Records)
- Mind Rays — Course Of Action (PNKSLM Recordings)
- Modern Love Child — MLC (Believe Music)
- Negativland — True False (Midheaven)
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Colorado (Reprise)
- Nicholas Payton — Relaxin’ With Nick (Paytone Records)
- Norma Jean — All Hail (Solid State Records)
- Raven — Jeté EP (PRAH Recordings)
- Rex Orange County — Pony (Sony Music)
- Ringo Starr — What’s My Name (UMe)
- Shana Falana — Darkest Light (Arrowhawk Records)
- Slothrust — Peach EP (Dangerbird Records)
- The Soul Rebels — Poetry In Motion (Rebelution Music Group)
- Spielbergs — Running All The Way Home EP (By The Time It Gets Dark Records)
- Stereophonics — Kind (Stylus Records)
- Suck Brick Kid — Salt To Taste (Smartpunk Records)
- Sunn O))) — Pyroclasts (Southern Lord Recordings)
- Swans — Leaving Meaning (Room 40)
- Tempers — Private Life (Dais Records)
- TWINS — New Cold Dream (2MR)
- Van Morrison — Three Chords And The Truth (Exile/Caroline International)
- The Vegan Leather — Poor Girls / Broken Boys (Midnight Pink/Believe)
- The Wedding Present — Tommy 30 (Scopitones)
- Wolves Like Us — Brittle Bones (Pelagic Records)