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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 3
Adekunle Gold — FUJI (Somtin Different)
AFI — Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… (Run For Cover Records)
Agriculture — The Spiritual Sound (Flenser)
Ann Annie — El Prado (Nettwerk)
The Bloody Beetroots — Forever Part One EP (Out Of Line Music)
Blue Lake — The Animal (Tonal Union)
Carter Faith — Cherry Valley (MCA)
Cory Marks — Sorry For Nothing Volume 2 (Better Noise Music)
Deaf Havana — We’re Never Getting Out (So Recordings)
dodie — Not For Lack of Trying (Universal)
Dolo Tonight — DVD Rental Store (Epitaph)
Gatlin — The Eldest Daughter (Dualtone)
Harrison Storm — Empty Garden (Nettwerk)
Haerts — Laguna Road (HAERTS)
Ink — BIG BUSKIN’ EP (Mercury Records)
James Morrison — Fight Another Day (Cooking Vinyl)
Jamie Woon — 3, 10, Why, When (Also Can)
Johnny Clarke — African Roots (Cleopatra Records)
Joseph Arthur and Peter Buck — Arthur Buck 2 (Megaforce)
Ledisi — For Dinah (Candid Records)
Lovejoy — One Simple Trick (Anvil Cat Records)
Marta — Out the Way (False Idols)
Matisyahu — Ancient Child (Fallen Sparks)
Max Pope — Praise Animal (Kartel Music Group)
Mayday Parade — Sad (Many Hats Endeavors)
Michael Schenker Group — Don’t Sell Your Soul (Ear Music)
Moon Panda — Dumb Luck (Moon Panda)
Nicki Bluhm — Rancho Deluxe (Nicki Bluhm)
Noah Floersch — Francis Aquarius (Concord)
Prewn — System (Prewn)
Rachael Yamagata — Starlit Alchemy (Jullian Records)
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus — X’s For Eyes (Better Noise Music)
Richard Ashcroft — Lovin’ You (Virgin Music Group)
The Rions — Everything Every Single Day (Community Music)
Rocket — R Is for Rocket (Transgressive)
S. Carey — Watercress EP (Jagjaguwar)
Snooper — Worldwide (Third Man)
Sparks — MADDER! EP (Transgressive)
Stay Inside — Lunger (Tiny Engines)
Taylor Swift — The Life of a Showgirl (Taylor Swift)
teethin — Greed Between The Lines EP (Silent Kid Records)
Thrice — Horizons/West (Epitaph)
Upchuck — I’m Nice Now (Domino)
Vitamin String Quartet — VSQ Performs Billie Eilish (Vitamin Records)
Waylon Jennings — Songbird (Thirty Tigers)
Will Anderson — How Little Love Is / How Worth Everything (Independent Co.)
Worthitpurchase — Worthitpurchase (Worthitpurchase)
Friday, October 10
Amber Mark — Pretty Idea (Interscope)
The Antlers — Blight (Transgressive)
The Autumn Defense — Here and Nowhere (Yep Roc)
Blawan — SickElixir (XL Recordings)
The Besnard Lakes — The Besnard Lakes Are the Ghost Nation (Full Time Hobby)
Black Eyes — Hostile Design (Dischord)
Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe — Liminal (Verve)
dust — Sky Is Falling (Kanine)
Electric Guest — 10K (Independent Co.)
Flock of Dimes — The Life You Save (Sub Pop)
Forrest Day — Right On Time (Forrest Day’s Playground)
The Grahams — The Bridge (Three Sirens Music Group)
Greyhaven — Keep It Quiet (Solid State Records)
Guitar — We’re Headed to the Lake (Julia’s War Recordings)
HAAi — HUMANiSE (Mute)
Jay Som — Belong (Lucky Number)
Hannah Frances — Nested in Tangles (Fire Talk)
Jay Worthy — Once Upon A Time Vol. 2 (GDF Records/EMPIRE)
Jerskin Fendrix — Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire (untitled (recs))
John 5 — Ghost (60 Cycle Hum Records)
Khalid — After the Sun Goes Down (RCA Records)
Madi Diaz — Fatal Optimist (Anti)
Madison Cunningham — Ace (Verve)
Mansionair — Some Kind of Alchemy (Sony Music)
Mella — Or So I’ve Been Told… (Kill Iconic Records)
The Necks — Disquiet (Northern Spy)
Niia — V (Candid Records)
NoSo — When Are You Leaving? (Partisan Records)
Priscilla Block — Things You Didn’t See (UMG)
Rhett Miller — A lifetime of riding by night (ATO)
Robert Finley — Hallelujah! Don’t Let The Devil Fool Ya (Easy Eye Sound)
Sanguisugabogg — Hideous Aftermath (Century Media Records)
Silly Goose — Keys to the City EP (Blue Grape)
SOHN — Albadas (Dawn Songs) (APM Records)
Soul Blind — Red Sky Mourning (Closed Casket Activities)
St. Paul & The Broken Bones — St. Paul & The Broken Bones (Oasis Pizza Records)
The Telephone Numbers — Scarecrow II (Slumberland)
Weakened Friends — Feels Like Hell (Don Giovanni Records)
Wilby — Center of Affection (Harmonia Mundi Usa)
Friday, October 17
All Time Low — Everyone’s Talking! (Basement Noise/Photo Finish Records)
Anne Wilson — Stars (Capitol)
Ashnikko — Smoochies (Parlophone)
bar italia — Some Like It Hot (Matador)
The Bats — Corner Coming Up (Flying Nun Records)
Battle Beast — Steelbound (Nuclear Blast)
Biohazard — Divided We Fall (BLKIIBLK)
Brògeal — Tuesday Paper Club (PIAS)
Carter Vail — Coydog EP (RCA Records)
Casey Dienel — My Heart is an Outlaw (Jealous Butcher Records)
Chicks on Speed — HEARTopia (Greenland)
Chrissie Hynde & Pals — Duets Special (Parlophone)
Cusp — What I Want Doesn’t Want Me Back (Exploding In Sound Records)
Dear Boy — Celebrator (Last Gang Records)
Good Luck — Big Dreams, Mister (Specialist Subject)
Harmless — By Them, By You, By Me (Nettwerk)
I, Jordan — Free Falling EP (Ninja Tune)
The Last Dinner Party — From the Pyre (Island)
Living Hour — Internal Drone Infinity (Keeled Scales)
Mariel Buckley — Strange Trip Ahead (Birthday Cake Records)
Militaire Gun — God Save the Gun (Loma Vista Recordings)
Monkey on Mars — Monkey on Mars EP (Mrs Red Sound)
Nathan Sykes — Ultraviolet (Nathan Sykes)
Of Monsters and Men — All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade (Atlantic)
PARTYOF2 — AMERIKA’S NEXT TOP PARTY! (Def Jam)
Poliça — Dreams Go (Memphis Industries)
Rachel Bobbitt — Swimming Towards the Sand (Fantasy Records)
Ron Gallo — Checkmate (Kill Rock Stars)
Ruel — Kicking My Feel (Recess Records)
Ruen Brothers — Awooo (Yep Roc)
Sam Ryder — Heartland (Artist Theory)
Scorpions — From The First Sting (BMG)
Skullcrusher — And Your Song is Like a Circle (Dirty Hit)
Silvana Estrada — Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Altafonte)
Soulwax — All Systems Are Lying (Because Music)
The Subways — When I’m With You (Cooking Vinyl)
Sudan Archives — The BPM (Stones Throw)
Suzie True — How I Learned To Love What’s Gone (Get Better Records)
Tame Impala — Deadbeat (Columbia)
Todd Snider — HIGH, LONESOME AND THEN SOME. (Aimless Records)
Ty Dolla Sign — Tycoon (Atlantic)
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal — Mossy Oak Shadow (Run For Cover Records)
William Prince — Further From the Country (Six Shooter Records)
Friday, October 24
Alexander Stewart — What If? (Alexander Stewart)
Alice Phoebe Lou — Oblivion (Nettwerk)
Antibalas — Hourglass (Daptone)
Bahamas — My Second Last Album (Republic)
Begonia — Fantasy Life (Birthday Cake Records)
Billy Currington — King Of The World (UMG)
Brandi Carlile — Returning to Myself (Interscope Records/Lost Highway)
Brainwasher — 39 Lightyears from Heaven (Mothland)
Circa Waves — Death & Love ([PIAS])
Courting — How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story (Lower Third)
Cowboy Junkies — More Acoustic Junk (Cooking Vinyl)
Crayon — Home Safe (Erased Tapes)
Daniel Caesar — Son Of Spergy (Republic)
Dayseeker — Creature In The Black Night (Spinefarm)
Demi Lovato — It’s Not That Deep (Island Records)
Dion — The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher (KTBA Records)
Eliza McLamb — Good Story (Royal Mountain Records)
Erika Dohi — Myth of Tomorrow (Switch Hit Records)
Flycatcher — Wrench (Memory Music)
girlfriends — There Goes the Neighborhood (Big Noise)
Hannah Jadagu — Describe (Sub Pop)
Home Counties — Humdrum (Submarine Cat Records)
iLe — Como las canto yo (La Buena Fortuna Music)
Jesca Hoop — Selective Memory (Last Laugh)
Jim Keller — End Of The World (Jim Keller Music)
Jim White — Inner Day (Drag City)
Joelton Mayfield — Crowd Pleaser (Bloodshot)
Joshua Hedley — All Hat (New West Records)
Joyer — On The Other End of the Line… (Julia’s War Recordings)
Just Mustard — WE WERE JUST HERE (Partisan Records)
The Lemonheads — Love Chant (Fire Records)
Machine Girl — Psycho Warrior (MG Ultra X) (Future Classic)
Major Stars — More Colors of Sound (Drag City)
Mammoth — The End (BMG)
Max Winter — Mourning Routine EP (Secret Friend)
Natalie Jane — the world i didn’t want (Capitol)
Nell Mescal — The Closest We’ll Get EP (Finmara Songs)
Nitty Gritty Dirty Band — After Night EP (NGDB Records)
Low Girl — Is It Too Late to Freak Out? (Low Girl)
Roddy Ricch — The Navy Album (Atlantic)
Ronnie Romero — Backbone (Frontiers Records s.r.l.)
Serj Tankian — Covers, Collaborations & Collages (Serjical Strike Records)
Sigrid — There’s Always More That I Could Say (Universal)
Spiritual Cramp — RUDE (Blue Grape Music)
The Strumbellas — Burning Bridges Into Dust EP (Glassnote)
Tortoise — Touch (International Anthem)
Yazmin Lacey — Teal Dreams (AMF)
Friday, October 31
Anna von Hausswolff — ICONOCLASTS (YEAR0001)
The Belair Lip Bombs — Again (Third Man Records)
better joy — at dusk EP (Better Joy)
The Charlatans — We Are Love (BMG)
Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo — In the Earth Again (Computer Students/Modulor)
Danheim — Heimferd (Season of Mist)
Daniel Avery — Tremor (Domino)
Eleni Drake — CHUCK (MNRK Records)
Florence + The Machine — Everybody Scream (Universal)
Greensky Bluegrass — XXV (Big Blue Zoo Records)
Guided By Voices — Thick Rich And Delicious (GBV Inc)
Holy Sons — Puritan Themes (Thrill Jockey)
Howling Giant — Crucible & Ruin (Magnetic Eye Records)
keiyaA — hooke’s law (XL Recordings)
Lydia Luce — Mammoth (Tone Tree Music/Lydia Luce)
Maps — Welcome To The Tudor Gate (Mute)
Primitive Man — Observance (Relapse)
Roger Eno — Without Wind/Without Air (Deutsche Grammophon)
Saintseneca — Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs (Lame-O Records)
Shad — Start Anew (Secret City)
Trivium — Struck Dead EP (Roadrunner)
Zach Hill and Lucas Abela — Bag of Max Bag of Cass (Warp)
