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]