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 in the coming months. This installment covers summer 2016. Please note that release dates may change.
July
07-01
Bat for Lashes: The Bride [Parlophone/Warner Bros.]Beyond the Wizards Sleeve: The Soft Bounce [Phantasy] Blink-182: California [Viking Wizard Eyes] Boss Hog: Brood Star [In the Red]GØGGS: GØGGS [In the Red] Matthew Herbert: A Nude (The Perfect Body) [Accidental] Metronomy: Summer 08 [Because Music] Maxwell: blackSUMMERS’night [Columbia] Nite-Funk: Nite-Funk [Glydezone] Sara Watkins: Young In All The Wrong Ways [New West]Scharpling & Wurster: Live at Third Man Records [Third Man] Snoop Dogg: COOLAID [Doggystyle] Terry: Terry HQ [Upset the Rhythm] Thee Oh Sees: Live in San Francisco [Castle Face] Woodkid & Nils Frahm: Ellis [Erased Tapes] 07-04Black Dice: Big Deal/Last Laugh [L.I.E.S] 07-07Dinky: Casa [Crosstown Rebels] Gonno & Nick Höppner: Fantastic Planet [Ostgut Ton]
07-07Towkio: Community Service 2 EP [Self-released]
07-08Alex Somers: Captain Fantastic OST [Invada] Aphex Twin: Cheetah EP [Warp] The Avalanches: Wildflower [XL] BADBADNOTGOOD: IV [Innovative Leisure] Ben Trickey: Choke & Croon [Anthem Breath] Biffy Clyro: Ellipsis [14th Floor] Big Business: Command Your Weather [Joyful Noise] Boris: Pink [Sargent House] [reissue] Brotzmann/Parker/Drake: Song Sentimentale [Otoroku] Chrissy & Hawley: Chrissy & Hawley [The Nite Owl Diner] Dead Can Dance: Dead Can Dance [4AD] [reissue]Dead Can Dance: Spleen and Ideal [4AD] [reissue]Dead Can Dance: Into the Labyrinth [4AD] [reissue]Eric Copeland: Black Bubblegum [DFA] Frameworks: Smother [Deathwish] Gone Is Gone: Gone Is Gone [Rise] Ian William Craig: Centres [FatCat] Inter Arma: Paradise Gallows [Relapse] Jackmaster: DJ-Kicks [!K7] The Julie Ruin: Hit Reset [Hardly Art] Kelsey Lu: Church EP [True Panther Sounds] Konx-om-Pax: Caramel [Planet Mu] Lindstrøm: Windings EP [Smalltown Supersound/Feedelity] Martha: Blisters In the Pit of My Heart [Dirtnap Records/Fortuna Pop!]Moon Bros: These Stars [Western Vinyl]Omni: Deluxe [Trouble In Mind]Pauline Oliveros & Musiques Nouvelles: Four Meditations / Sound Geometries [Sub Rosa] Róisín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto [Play It Again Sam] Schoolboy Q: Blank Face [Top Dawg] Shura: Nothing’s Real [Polydor] Slow Season: Westing [RidingEasy] Tangents: Stateless [Temporary Residence] TTNG (fka This Town Needs Guns): Disappointment [Sargent House] Wymond Miles: Call by Night [Sacred Bones] Young Greatness: I Tried To Tell Em 2 [Quality Control/Motown]07-11VA: Oxfam Presents: Stand As One – Glastonbury Live 2016 [Glastonbury] [compilation] 07-15 16: Lifespan of a Moth [Relapse] ABRA: Princess EP [True Panther Sounds] Belly: Star [4AD] [reissue] Blu & Nottz: Titans in the Flesh [Coalmine]Clams Casino: 32 Levels [Columbia] Darkstar: Made To Measure [Warp] Deny The Cross: Alpha Ghoul [Tank Crimes] Dreezy: No Hard Feelings [Interscope] Flava D: Fabriclive 88 [fabric] Heliotropes: Over There That Way [The End Records]Inkke: Secret Palace EP [LuckyMe] Jack & Amanda Palmer: You Got Me Singing [Eight Foot] Little Richard: Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums [Speciality] [reissue] [compilation] MJ Guider: Precious Systems [Kranky] Nina Simone: The Philips Years [Verve] [compilation][reissue]No Joy: Drool Sucker [Topshelf] Psalm Zero: Stranger to Violence [Profound Lore] SKY H1: Motion EP [PAN] William S. Burroughs: Let Me Hang You [Khannibalism/Ernest Jenning Record Co.] [reissue] VA: Nigeria Freedom Sounds! Calypso, Highlife, Juju & Apala: Popular Music And The Birth Of Independent Nigeria 1960-63 [Soul Jazz] [reissue] [compilation] VA: Derrick Harriott Rock Steady 1966-1969 [Dub Store] [reissue] [compilation]VA: Re:works [Decca Classics] [compilation] Z-Ro: Drakin’ & Drivin’ [Deep Entertainment]07-22 The Amazing: Ambulance [Partisan] Conveyor: Ready Not Ready [Gold Robot] Elysia Crampton: Demon City [Break World] Endgame: Flesh [Hyperdub] Faun Fables: Born of the Sun [Drag City] Floating Points: Kuiper [Luaka Bop/Pluto] Florian Kupfer: Unfinished [Technicolour] Gap Dream: This Is Gap Dream [Burger Records] Gucci Mane: Everybody Looking [Atlantic] Mary Lattimore/Jeff Zeigler: Music Inspired by Philippe Garrel’s Le Révélateur [Thrill Jockey] MSTRKRFT: Operator [Last Gang] Lil Durk: Durk 2X [Def Jam] Nao: For All We Know [Little Tokyo/RCA] Ornette Coleman Quartet: Tribes of New York [Jeanne Dielman] Quays: Swoo [R&S/Chewy Motto]Sun Ra: Blue York [Jeanne Dielman] Sonzeira: Tam Tam Tam Reimagined [Brownswood]Tristan Perich: Noise Patterns [Physical Editions] Trust Punks: Double Bind [Wharf Cat] Wreck & Reference: Indifferent Rivers Romance End [The Flenser] 07-25 Pylon: Pylon Live [Chunklet] Tokyo Black Star: Fantasy Live 1999 [World Famous]07-29 Alan Lomax: Root Hog Or Die 100 Years, 100 Songs – An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute [Light in the Attic] [reissue] [compilation] A.M.S.G.: Hostis Universi Generis [Sacred Lore] Ben Chatwin: Heat & Entropy [Ba Da Bing] Descendents: Hypercaffium Spazzinate [Epitaph] DJ Khaled: Major Key [Epic] DM Stith: Pigeonheart [Octave/Outset] Fleetwood Mac: Mirage [Warner Bros] [reissue]Frankie Reyes: Boleros Valses Y Mas [Stones Throw]M. Geddes Gengras: Interior Architecture [Intercoastal Artists] Meshuggah: 25 Years of Musical Deviance [Nuclear Blast] [compilation] [reissue] Owen: The King Of Whys [Polyvinyl] The Ramones: The Ramones [Rhino] [reissue] R.E.M.: Dead Letter Office [Capitol Records/Universal Music Enterprises] [reissue]R.E.M.: Eponymous [Capitol Records/Universal Music Enterprises] [reissue]R.E.M.: Lifes Rich Pageant [Capitol Records/Universal Music Enterprises] [reissue]Ringworm: Snake Church [Relapse] Titus Andronicus: S+@dium Rock: Five Nights at the Opera [Merge] VA: 1-800 DINOSAUR Presents Trim [1-800 Dinosaur]
August
08-05 Cheena: Spend the Night With… [Sacred Bones] Chinx: Legends Never Die [Entertainment One] Delroy Edwards: Hangin’ at the Beach [A Club Resource] Dinosaur Jr.: Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not [Jagjaguwar] Elvis Presley: Way Down In The Jungle Room [RCA/Legacy]Field Music: Episodic [Topshelf]Haley Bonar: Impossible Dream [Gndwire] Kilo: Well Worn [Ghostly] Hieroglyphic Being: The Disco’s Of Imhotep [Technicolour] Nels Cline: Lovers [Blue Note] Prinze George: Illiterate Synth Pop [Sounds Expensive] Rival Consoles: Night Melody [Erased Tapes]Rolf Trostel: Inselmusik/Two Faces/Der Prophet [Bureau B] [reissue]Russian Circles: Guidance [Sargent House] Tobacco: Sweatbox Dynasty [Ghostly] VA: Start Your Own Fucking Showspace [Famous Class] [compilation] VA: Suicide Squad: The Album [Atlantic] [compilation] Wild Beasts: Boy King [Domino] 08-12 Atmosphere: Fishing Blues [Rhymesayers] Brendan Canning: Home Wrecking Years [Arts & Crafts] Katie Day: Flood Network [Joy Void] Rae Sremmurd: SremmLife 2 [Eardruma/Interscope]Thee Oh Sees: A Weird Exits [Castleface] Young the Giant: Home of the Strange [Fueled By Ramen]08-19Alex Cameron: Jumping The Shark [Secretly Canadian] Carl Broemel: 4th of July [Stocks in Asia/Thirty Tigers] The Chills: The Kaleidoscope World [Flying Nun] [reissue] Datach’i: System [Planet Mu]EDEN: i think you think too much of me [Astralwerks/MCMXCV]Factory Floor: 25 25 [DFA]Faith No More: We Care A Lot [Koolarrow] [reissue]French Montana: MC4 [Bad Boy/Epic] Lisa Hannigan: At Swim [ATO]Lydia Loveless: Real [Bloodshot]MYRKUR: Mausoleum [Relapse]Pill: Convenience [Mexican Summer] Peter Broderick: Partners [Erased Tapes]Roosevelt: Roosevelt [Greco-Roman/City Slang]Ryley Walker: Golden Sings That Have Been Sung [Dead Oceans]Sam Coomes: Bugger Me [No Quarter] Scott Walker: The Childhood of a Leader OST [4AD] Skeletonwitch: The Apothic Gloom [Prosthetic]Slow Club: One Day All Of This Won’t Matter Anymore [Moshi Moshi]Soilwork: Death Resonance [Nuclear Blast] Total Slacker: Parallels [ONErpm/Verge] WWWINGS: PHOENIXXX [Planet Mu] 08-24Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan: Take It, It’s Yours [Polyvinyl]08-26Bankz & Steelz: Anything but Words [Warner Bros.] Beach Boys: Becoming the Beach Boys: The Complete Hite & Dorinda Morgan Sessions [Omnivore] [reissue] [compilation] Cass McComb: Mangy Love [ANTI] Cassius: Ibifornia [Interscope]De La Soul: and the Anonymous Nobody… [AOI] Hoops: Hoops [Fat Possum]Glass Animals: How To Be A Human Being [Harvest] J Dilla: Shining [The Vinyl Factory]Jon Hopkins: Opalescent [Just Music] [reissue] Morgan Delt: Phase Zero [Sub Pop] Kornél Kovács: The Bells [Studio Barnhus] The Veils: Total Depravity [Nettwerk]The Verve: A Northern Soul [Universal] [reissue]
September
09-02Angel Olsen: My Woman [Jagjaguwar] The Divine Comedy: Foreverland [Divine Comedy] Eluvium: False Readings On [Temporary Residence]P.S. Eliot: 2007-2011 [Don Giovanni] [compilation] Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith: Killer Road [Sacred Bones/Bella Union] The Hecks: The Hecks [Trouble in Mind] The Wedding Present: Going, Going… [PledgeMusic]Wiley: Godfather [TBA] Zomby: Ultra [Hyperdub]09-09Allah Las: Calico Review [Mexican Summer] Grouplove: Big Mess [Canvasback/Atlantic] Ice Choir: Designs in Rhythm [Shelflife]Local Natives: Sunlit Youth [Loma Vista Recordings/Infectious Music]Okkervil River: Away [ATO]Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree [TBA] Nots: Cosmetic [Goner]Prefuse 73/Michael Christmas: Lady Parts [Lex]Teenage Fanclub: Here [Merge]Twin Atlantic: GLA [Red Bull]09-16Cymbals Eat Guitars: Pretty Years [Sinderlyn] El Perro Del Mar: Kokoro [The Control Group] Grumbling Fur: Furfour [Thrill Jockey] Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani: Sunergy [RVNG] Meatloaf: Braver Than We Are [SLG]Phantogram: Three [Republic] Preoccupations: Preoccupations [Jagjaguwar]Psychic TV: Alienist [Angry Love] Still Corners: Strange Pleasures [Wrecking Light] Tim Presley: The WiNK [Drag City]Trentemøller: Fixion [In My Room] Young Guns: Echoes [Wind-Up]09-23Devendra Banhart: Ape in Pink Marble [Nonesuch] Giraffe Tongue Orchestra: Broken Lines [Party Smasher/Cooking Vinyl] Neurosis: Fires Within Fires [Neurot] 09-30 Blonde Redhead: Masculin Féminin [Numero Group] [reissue] Bellows: Fist & Palm [Double Double Whammy] Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch [Sacred Bones] TBA: Action Bronson: Blue Chips 7 [TBA]Action Bronson: The Human Highlight Reel [TBA]AlunaGeorge: I Remember [Interscope/Island]Arca: Reverie [TBA]At the Drive-In: TBA [TBA]Boogie: Thirst 48 Pt. 2 [self-released]Chromatics: Dear Tommy [Italians Do It Better]Crystal Castles: TBA [TBA]Danny Brown: TBA [Warp] D∆WN: The Red Era [Our Dawn Entertainment]Frank Ocean: Boys Don’t Cry [Def Jam]Freddie Gibbs/Madlib: Bandana [TBA] Glass Candy: Body Work [Italians Do It Better]Glassjaw: TBA [TBA]Jeremih/PARTNEXTDOOR: Late Night Party [TBA] Kanye West: Turbo Grafx 16 [TBA]Kelela: TBA [TBA] LCD Soundsytem: TBA [Columbia]Linda Perhacs: TBA [Kickstarter]Lupe Fiasco: Droga [TBA]Lupe Fiasco: Roy [TBA]Lupe Fiasco: Skulls [TBA]M.I.A.: Matahdatah [Interscope]Merchandise: TBA [4AD]Mike WiLL Made It: Ransom 2 [Ear Drummer]Naughty By Nature: TBA EP [Kickstarter]NxWorries (Anderson.Paak + Knxwledge): TBA [Stones Throw]Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 3 [TBA]Sky Ferreira: Masochism [Capitol]Symmetry: Still Life [Italians Do It Better]Tinashe: Joyride [RCA]Various Artists: The Hamilton Mixtape [TBA]
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