Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Winter 2016
Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to new music. Four times a year, we round up a list of albums, singles, EPs, reissues, and more arriving over the coming months. This installment covers winter 2016.
Please note that release dates may change.
January:
01-08
David Bowie: ★ [Columbia]
Hinds: Leave Me Alone [Mom & Pop/Lucky Number]
Joseph Trapanese: Straight Outta Compton: Original Motion Picture Score [Universal]
Various Artists: Straight Outta Compton OST [Capitol]
01-15
7 Year Bitch: Live at Moe [MOE]
Anderson.Paak: Malibu [OBE/Steel Wool/Art Club/EMPIRE]
Daughter: Not to Disappear [Glassnote]
Guy Blakeslee: The Middle Sister [LEAVING]
Keys N Krates: Midnite Mass EP [Dim Mak]
Lycus: Chasms [Relapse]
Various Artists: Rubble Kings: The Album [Mass Appeal] [compilation]
Wall: Wall EP [Wharf Cat]
Witchcraft: Nucleus [Nuclear Blast]
01-18
Migos: Young Rich Ni$$a$ 2 [Quality Control]
01-21
Jesu / Sun Kil Moon: Jesu/Sun Kil Moon [Caldo Verde]
01-22
Abbath: Abbath [Season of Mist]
African Head Charge: My Life In A Hole In The Ground/Environmental Studies/Drastic Season/Off The Beaten Track reissues [U Sound].
Adrian Younge: Something About April II [Linear Labs]
Alex Smoke: Love Over Will [R&S]
The Besnard Lakes: A Coliseum Complex Museum [Jagjaguwar]
Chairlift: Moth [Columbia]
Conrad Keely: Original Machines [Superball]
DUST: Agony Planet [2MR]
Eleanor Friedberger: New View [Frenchkiss]
Half Japanese: Perfect [Joyful Noise]
John Cale: M:FANS [Double Six/Domino]
Lush: Chorus [4AD] [compilation]
Megadeth: Dystopia [Universal]
Metz: “Eraser” b/w “Pure Auto” 7″ [Sub Pop]
Pop. 1280: Paradise [Sacred Bones]
Roly Porter: Third Law [Tri Angle]
Savages: Adore Life [Matador]
Shearwater: Jet Plane and Oxbow [Sub Pop]
Skilled Mechanics: Skilled Mechanics [False Idols]
Suede: Night Thoughts [Suede Limited]
This Heat: Deceit [Light in the Attic] [reissue]
This Heat: Health and Efficiency [Light in the Attic] [reissue]
This Heat: This Heat [Light in the Attic] [reissue]
Tindersticks: The Waiting Room [City Slang]
Tortoise: The Catastrophist [Thrill Jockey]
Ty Segall: Emotional Mugger [Drag City]
Yoko Ono: Yes, I’m a Witch Too [Manimal]
01-29
Benji Hughes: Songs in the Key of Animals [Merge]
Benny Boeldt: 8 of Cups [Carpark]
Black Tusk: Pillars of Ash [Relapse]
Bloc Party: HYMNS [Infectious/BMG/Vagrant]
Cian Nugent: Night Fiction [Woodsist]
Crooked Fingers: Bring on the Snakes [Merge] [reissue]
Crooked Fingers: Crooked Fingers [Merge] [reissue]
Cross Record: Wabi-Sabi [Ba Da Bing]
DJDS: Stand Up and Speak [Loma Vista/Body High]
Florist: The Birds Outside Sang [Double Double Whammy]
Harriet: American Appetite [Harvest]
Jenny Lewis With the Watson Twins: Rabbit Fur Coat [Love’s Way] [reissue]
Kevin Gates: Islah [Breadwinners’ Association]
Mac McCaughan: Staring at Your Hologram [Merge]
Nevermen: Nevermen [Ipecac/Lex]
Saul Williams: MartyrLoserKing [FADER]
Sia: This Is Acting [Monkey Puzzle]
Walter Martin: Arts & Leisure [Ile Flottante]
Wet: Don’t You [Columbia]
Your Friend: Gumption [Domino]
February:
02-05
Anna Homler / Steve Moshier: Breadwoman & Other Tales [Rvng Intl.]
Beacon: Escapements [Ghostly International]
Chimurenga Renaissance: Girlz With Gunz [Glitterbeat]
The Cult: Hidden City [Cooking Vinyl]
DIIV: Is the Is Are [Captured Tracks]
Elliott Smith: Heaven Adores You OST [Universal]
Elton John: Wonderful Crazy Night [Mercury]
Field Music: commontime [Memphis Industries]
Junior Boys: Big Black Coat [City Slang]
KING: We Are KING [KING Creative]
Lafawndah: Tan EP [Warp]
Majid Jordan: Majid Jordan [Warner Bros./OVO Sound]
Mass Gothic: Mass Gothic [Sub Pop]
Nap Eyes: Thought Rock Fish Scale [Paradise of Bachelors]
nonkeen: the gamble [R&S]
Porches.: Pool [Domino]
The Soft Moon: Deeper Remixed Vol. 1 [Captured Tracks / aufnahme + wiedergabe]
Sunflower Bean: Human Ceremony [Fat Possum]
Two Inch Astronaut: Personal Life [Exploding in Sound]
02-12
Flowers: Everyone’s Dying to Meet You [Kanine/Fortuna Pop!]
Radiation City: Synesthetica [Polyvinyl]
School of Seven Bells: SVIIB [Vagrant]
Thee Oh Sees: “Fortress” b/w “Man in a Suitcase” 7″ [Castle Face]
02-15
Crowdspacer: Crowdspacer Volume 1 [Crowdspacer]
02-19
Animal Collective: Painting With [Domino]
The Cave Singers: Banshee [self-released]
Cavern of Anti-Matter: Void Beats / Invocation Trex [Duophonic]
Choir Of Young Believers: Grasque [Ghostly International]
Doug Tuttle: It Calls Me [Trouble in Mind]
Golden Daze: Golden Daze [Autumn Tone]
Immersion: Analogue Creatures [Swim~]
Jordan Klassen: Javelin [Nevado]
Living Hour: Living Hour [Lefse]
Lushlife / CSLSX: Ritualize [Western Vinyl]
Marlon Williams: Marlon Williams [Dead Oceans]
Matmos: Ultimate Care II [Thrill Jockey]
Prins Thomas: Principe Del Norte [Smalltown Supersound]
Ra Ra Riot: Need Your Light [Barsuk]
Rangda: The Heretic’s Bargain [Drag City]
The Soft Moon: Deeper Remixed Vol. 2 [Captured Tracks / aufnahme + wiedergabe]
So Pitted: neo [Sub Pop]
Submotion Orchestra: Colour Theory [Counter]
TEEN: Love Yes [Carpark]
Wild Nothing: Life of Pause [Captured Tracks/Bella Union]
Wolfmother: Victorious [Universal]
02-26
The 1975: I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it [Dirty Hit/Interscope]
Andrew Weatherall: Convenanza [Rotters Golf Club]
Bullion: Loop the Loop [DEEK]
DMA’S: Hills End [Mom + Pop]
Mount Moriah: How to Dance [Merge]
Quilt: Plaza [Mexican Summer]
Santigold: 99¢ [Atlantic]
Sarah Neufeld: The Ridge [Paper Bag]
Various Artists: George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison [Hot/Vagrant] [compilation]
Various Artists: God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson [Alligator] [compilation]
March:
03-04
Anenon: Petrol [Friends of Friends]
Anna Meredith: Varmints [Moshi Moshi]
Heron Oblivion: Heron Oblivion [Sub Pop]
Jennifer O’Conner: Surface Noise [Kiam]
La Sera: Music for Listening to Music To [Polyvinyl]
Luke Top: Suspect Highs [Org Music/Grand Gallop]
M. Ward: More Rain [Merge]
Miike Snow: III [Jackalope/Atlantic]
Nada Surf: You Know Who You Are [Barsuk]
Poliça: United Crushers [Mom & Pop/Memphis Industries]
Prince Rama: Xtreme Now [Carpark]
Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place: You’re Doomed. Be Nice. [Temporary Residence]
Sego: Once Was Lost Now Just Hanging Around [Dine Alone]
The Snails: Songs From the Shoebox [self-released]
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down: A Man Alive [Ribbon]
yndi halda: Under Summer [Burnt Toast Vinyl]
03-11
Holy Wave: Freaks of Nature [The Reverberation Appreciation Society]
Jeff Buckley: You and I [Columbia]
Lucius: Good Grief [Mom & Pop]
03-18
The Body: No One Deserves Happiness [Thrill Jockey]
Damien Jurado: Visions of Us on the Land [Secretly Canadian]
Glenn Jones: Fleeting [Thrill Jockey]
HÆLOS: Full Circle [Matador]
MMOTHS: Luneworks [Because / OYAE]
Primal Scream: Chaosmosis [Ignition]
Public Memory: Wuthering Drum [felte]
Underworld: Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future [Caroline]
03-25
Elliphant: Living Life Golden [Kemosabe]
Margo Price: Midwest Farmer’s Daughter [Third Man]
April:
04-01
Charles Bradley: Changes [Dunham / Daptone]
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (Special 10th Anniversary Blue Marvel Edition) [Asthmatic Kitty] [reissue]
TBA:
A$AP Ferg: Always Strive and Prosper [RCA/Polo Grounds]
Action Bronson: The Human Highlight Reel [TBA]
ANOHNI: HOPELESSNESS [Secretly Canadian]
Ariana Grande: Moonlight [Republic]
Banquet: Volume I [TBA]
Bianca Casady & The C.i.A: Oscar Hocks [FANTASYmusic/Atlas Chair]
Chromatics: Dear Tommy [Italians Do It Better]
Cullen Omori: TBA [Sub Pop]
Daddy: Let Me Get What I Want [Kobalt/We Are Daddy]
D∆WN: The Red Era [Our Dawn Entertainment]
Death Grips: Bottomless Pit [TBA]
DJ Shadow: TBA [Liquid Amber]
Drake: Views From the 6 [TBA]
Father: Someone Get These New Niggas EP [Awful]
Frank Ocean: Boys Don’t Cry [Def Jam]
Glass Candy: Body Work [Italians Do It Better]
Glassjaw: TBA [TBA]
Holy Fuck: TBA [TBA]
The I Don’t Cares: Wild Stab [Dry Wood]
James Blake: Radio Silence [TBA]
Kanye West: SWISH [Def Jam]
Katy B: Honey [Rinse]
The Knocks: 55 [Big Beat/Neon Gold]
The Last Shadow Puppets: TBA [TBA]
Lawrence Rothman: TBA [Downtown]
Luna: Luna: Long Players (92-99) [Captured Tracks] [compilation] [reissue]
Lupe Fiasco: Droga [TBA]
Lupe Fiasco: Roy [TBA]
Lupe Fiasco: Skulls [TBA]
Lush: TBA EP [self-released]
M.I.A.: Matahdatah [Interscope]
M83: TBA [Mute]
Max D: Boost [Future Times]
Meek Mill: Dreamchasers 4 [Maybach]
Meyhem Lauren: Piatti D’Oro [Fool’s Gold]
Migos / Young Thug: MigoThuggin [TBA]
Modern Baseball: Holy Ghost [Run for Cover]
Mutual Benefit: TBA [Mom + Pop]
PJ Harvey: TBA [TBA]
Pusha T: King Push [Def Jam/GOOD]
RiFF RAFF: PEACH PANTHER [Mad Decent]
Rihanna: ANTI [Def Jam]
Rome Fortune: Jerome Raheem Fortune [Fool’s Gold]
Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 3 [TBA]
Sky Ferreira: Masochism [Capitol]
Starwalker: TBA [Prototyp/Bang ehf]
Symmetry: Still Life [Italians Do It Better]
Thee Oh Sees: TBA [Castle Face]
Tim Hecker: TBA [4AD]
Timbaland: Textbook Timbo [TBA]
Tinashe: Joyride [RCA]
Tink: Think Tink [Mosley/Epic]
YG: Still Krazy [Def Jam]
Young Thug: Hy!£UN35 [Atlantic/300 Entertainment]
Prepare to be blown away by Cleva Music/C.M’s latest hit, “Steppa Dreams.” With an astounding 4 million streams in just one week across all platforms, this track is setting the industry on fire. CM’s confident assertion, “People feel my shit,” reflects the undeniable connection he has with his audience. His distinctive sound and infectious lyrics have garnered him global attention, establishing him as a frontrunner in the music scene. With each release, CM pushes the boundaries of creativity, redefining what it means to be a true artist. His unwavering dedication and passion shine through in every note, leaving fans eager for more. As “Steppa Dreams” continues to soar, it’s clear that this rising star is destined for greatness, and the world eagerly awaits his next move.
The Genesis of a Brand: A Personal Story Through Music
The brand an artist creates is often a tapestry woven from their personal stories. For Deja Destinée, her name carries a legacy and an inspiration that fuels her artistic presence. “Deja Destiny is destiny… My first name was by my sister… Named after Tyra Banks’ character in Higher Learning… Destiny was named by my grandmother before I was born,” she recounts. This personal lineage adds depth to her music and offers her audience a piece of her narrative, creating a genuine connection that transcends the rhythms and lyrics.
In the music industry, the background behind a name often holds a significant weight, and Deja’s is intertwined deeply with her familial ties. Her music doesn’t just offer sound; it provides listeners with resonance, a shared experience that taps into the emotional fabric of the listener. This personal touch has become a beacon for her brand and her music, positioning her as an artist with a story to tell, a history to honor, and a future to shape.
Commanding the Stage: Performance as a Reflection of the Artist
A major theme from the discussion centered around Deja’s approach to performance. Stating that music comes as “first nature,” it’s evident that her on-stage persona is where she truly shines. Describing her performances, Deja says, “I give a lot of cocky energy. When I get on the stage, I usually bring my dancers, I have, you know, the flashy custom outfits… it makes them feel good, and for it to make them feel like they really that b\*\*\*h.”
This attitude exemplifies the confidence and showmanship that Deja brings to her craft, setting her apart in a crowded industry. The energy of a live performance, where the artist and audience feed off each other’s enthusiasm, is particularly crucial for Deja. Each show becomes an intimate conversation between them, a shared moment of empowerment and celebration of talent. It’s in these details that Deja’s commitment to her artistry, and her desire to elevate the music experience, shines brightest.
A Nexus of Creativity: Beyond Music
During the conversation, it became apparent that Deja is not content with being pigeonholed as just a musician. With interests in acting and entrepreneurship, such as her unique skincare line *Co-Skin*, she relays, “I do hair, I do makeup, I have my own like, skincare line doing shea butter… It’s so many things that I feel like I can tap into.”
Her tenacity to take on multiple creative endeavors showcases not only her talent but her understanding of the importance of diversification in a modern artist’s career. Deja leverages her platform in music to venture into other areas of interest, broadening her reach and solidifying her presence both in and out of the music world. This blend of artistry and enterprise spotlights a new generation of artists who are as business-minded as they are creative, indicative of the changing tides within the industry.
The Future Sounds of Success: Deja’s Continual Growth
As the conversation turned towards future prospects, Deja Destinée laid out her vision of evolving within the industry and her plans to be a game-changer. With new music on the horizon, including the engagingly titled single “ATE”, and a role in the upcoming film premiere set for June 6th at Newark Cinema, Deja’s grind is relentless.
Echoing her earlier sentiments on the significance of grinding, she reiterates, “To work and put in the work… when you don’t want to do it, put in the work then, too, because in the end, it’s gonna pay off.” It’s with this unwavering dedication and drive that Deja Destinée forges ahead, paving her path with an unshakeable belief in her art and her ability to influence the industry.
Deja’s narrative is one that is building upon the foundations of authenticity, perseverance, and an uncompromising vision for what she wants to achieve. With a solid grounding in the values instilled in her name and approach to music, the future beckons with infinite possibilities, each one an opportunity to further the imprint of Deja Destinée on the world.
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