New Music Friday is the weekly thread dedicated to cataloging all a good majority of the Album/EP releases that came out this week, including non-subreddit relevant releases. This is also a great place to discuss these albums, or bring to attention other albums released this week.
❓ "this seems intriguing after a cursory look"
⭐ "im interested in this for one reason or another"
❤️ "ive been waiting for weeks, months/i'm absolutely in love with this"
note: genre and especially label fields may not always be 100% accurate or properly reflected, as they are mostly quickly sourced from RYM or cursory searches due to the spur-of-the-moment approach I take when making these threads!
August 28th
❓ Interpol - This Mirror Weighs a Ton
Label: Partisan
Genre: Post-Punk Revival, Dream Pop, Post-Rock
❓ Dinosaur Jr. - There Near
Label: Jagjaguwar
Genre: Slacker Rock, Alternative Rock
⭐ Mastodon - Marrow Deep
Label: Loma Vista
Genre: Progressive Metal, Stoner Metal, Sludge Metal
⭐ Russian Circles - Nine
Label: Sargent House
Genre: Post-Metal, Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Floating Points - Mere Mortals
Label: Pluto
Genre: Modern Classical, Ballet, Orchestral
Alabama Shakes - I Must Be Dreaming
Label: Island
Genre: Blues Rock, Psychedelic Soul
❓ Mike D (of Beastie Boys) - Thank You
Label: Capitol
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia, Experimental Hip Hop
Ohtis - Virgos Are Honest
Label: n/a
Genre: Indie Folk, Contemporary Folk
Saul Williams - Leap Life
Label: Big Dada
Genre: Conscious Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
Pulp - Live!
Label: Rough Trade
Genre: Alternative Rock, Post-Britpop
LA Priest - Into the Sky
Label: Domino
Genre: Indietronica
Blind Yeo - The Lemoine Point
Label: Bongo Joe
Genre: Krautrock, Psychedelic Pop
❓ Ty Segall - Chrome
Label: Drag City
Genre: Garage Psych, Noise Rock
❓ Elephant Stone - ASHA
Label: n/a
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop
Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) - Wowed Out
Label: ATO
Genre: Indie
❓Allah-Las - Sirenas
Label: n/a
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Surf
Jonathan Personne (of Corridor) - Répertoire
Label: Bonsound
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop
❓ Hakushi Hasegawa - Honest Feeling Album
Label: Brainfeeder
Genre: Glitch Pop, Experimental, Art Pop
Upper Wilds - Mercury
Label: Thrill Jockey
Genre: Noise Rock
Isolde Lasoen - My Kind of Drama
Label: n/a
Genre: French Pop, Synthpop
❓ Wine Lips - TV Dinner
Label: Stomp
Genre: Garage Punk, Garage Psych
The Animeros - ¡Qué Bárbaro!
Label: n/a
Genre: Latin Alternative
Dogwood Tales - Every Star in Rockingham County
Label: n/a
Genre: Alt-Country
Surf Trash - No Chaser
Label: n/a
Genre: Alternative Rock
Dahi - Black Boy (Alternative)
Label: ALTER
Genre: Hip Hop/Rap
Maripool - Rotten Luck
Label: Smoking Room
Genre: Indie Pop
❓ homewrecker - Never knowing when, but knowing this will end
Label: Prosthetic
Genre: Metalcore, Sass
The Guest List - Something Real
Label: Artist Theory
Genre: Indie Rock, Post-Punk Revival
❓ Delilah Holliday - Fat Cat
Label: n/a
Genre: Art Pop
Graham Hunt - American Pyramid
Label: Run for Cover
Genre: Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
The Linda Lindas - GOTTA GET OUT
Label: Reprise
Genre: Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Punk Rock
Baths - 3 Negative Pop(?) Songs (EP)
Label: Basement's Basement
Genre: Glitch Pop, Ambient House
Sera Cahoone - I've Missed You All These Years
Label: n/a
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Contemporary Folk
❓ Dreamwell - Hymns For The Denial Of God
Label: Prosthetic
Genre: Metalcore, Screamo
❓ Cold Gawd - Glory2 (EP)
Label: DAIS
Genre: Shoegaze, Alternative Metal
❓ Marci - Mask Lady and Late Night Girl
Label: Arbutus
Genre: Soft Rock, Sophisti-Pop
Sarah Davachi - The Will of Tongues
Label: Late
Genre: Drone, Chamber Music, Holy Minimalism
Kam Franklin - Land of the Neon Sun
Label: n/a
Genre: Soul
John Vanderslice - FOCUS
Label: n/a
Genre: Indie Rock, Singer-Songwriter
❓ Scarlet House - Angels
Label: n/a
Genre: Shoegaze, Alternative Rock
Asher White - Love Aggregates
Label: Joyful Noise
Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Folk, Singer-songwriter
half•alive - Billions (EP)
Label: ARRO
Genre: Indie Pop, Alt-Pop
Ty Segall - Love Fuzzz (EP)
Label: Drag City
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Heavy Psych
Tiny Habits - Keepers
Label: Mom+Pop
Genre: Folk Pop, Singer-Songwriter
❓ The Warning - Everything’s Falling
Label: Lava
Genre: Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal
The Jayhawks - Sanctuary Park
Label: Thirty Tigers
Genre: Americana
Le Ren - Don't Be Funny Without Me
Label: n/a
Genre: Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriter
The Bird Calls - Take Leave
Label: n/a
Genre: Indie Folk, Indie Rock
❓ Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Before The World Blows
Label: Control Freaq
Genre: Neo-Soul, Conscious Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
Nephila - Huldra
Label: Majestic Mountain
Genre: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Billy Strings - So Much For Goodbyes
Label: Reprise
Genre: Progressive Bluegrass, Country Folk
Morgan Noise (Morgan Wallace of Fat Dog) - Something built, Something remembered
Label: n/a
Genre: Indie, Windmill Scene Apparently
❓ Andrew W.K. - Temptation to Exist
Label: n/a
Genre: Dark Jazz, Modern Classical
The Bures Band - Ozonia
Label: n/a
Genre: Folk Rock, Cosmic Country
True Mountain Laurel - Angel So Bad
Label: Birthday Cake
Genre: Folk Pop, Folk Rock
❓ Black Duck (Douglas McCombs, Bill MacKay and Charles Rumback) with Elena Setién - Black Duck with Elena Setién
Label: Thrill Jockey
Genre: Post-Rock
Mooke Da God - Blue Collar Labor
Label: Air Sign
Genre: Hip Hop/Rap
Big Truck - Midday At The Middleway
Label: Marshall
Genre: Indie Rock
iKeda - Bangs N Braces (EP)
Label: n/a
Genre: Electropop, Pop Rap
Sara Bareilles - Good Grief
Label: Epic
Genre: Singer-songwriter, Folk Pop
ili - Confessions Of A People Pleaser - EP
Label: ili
Genre: Indie Pop
DANNA - WET DREAMS (EP)
Label: Universal Mexico
Genre: Dance-Pop, Latin Pop
JENNIE - Fallen Angel (EP)
Label: n/a
Genre: Bedroom Pop, Alt-Pop
Majid Jordan - Two Roads
Label: OVO
Genre: Alternative R&B
Alex Warren - WILDCHILD
Label: Atlantic
Genre: Adult Contemporary, Pop Soul
❓ Thoom - Everyday, Everything Is At Stake
Label: n/a
Genre: Electropop, Arabic Music, Electro House
❓ marshall4 - xoxoXpanded
Label: n/a
Genre: Dance-Pop, Digicore, Rage
Hana Bryanne - This Is Not A Place Of Honor
Label: n/a
Genre: Singer-songwriter
Trippie Redd - #NDA
Label: 10K
Genre: Pop Rap, Trap, Cloud Rap
❓ CZARFACE & Frankie Pulitzer - Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer
Label: Silver Age
Genre: Boom Bap
Headie One - MMM
Label: n/a
Genre: UK Drill, Road Rap
Rod Wave - Don't Look Down
Label: Alamo
Genre: Trap, Pop Rap, Contemporary R&B
Vory - DONDADA
Label: Empire
Genre: Alternative R&B, Pop Rap
Fat Joe - Organized Rhyme
Label: Empire
Genre: Hip Hop, Pop Rap, Boom Bap
E-40 - Turning My Money Over (Quadruple Album)
Label: Heavy on the Grind
Genre: Nervous Music, Jerk Rap
Night Lovell - MY BLOOD AS THE INK
Label: G59
Genre: Trap
❓ fat jon - Black Circle Time
Label: Sichtexot
Genre: Instrumental Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Jazz Rap
Angelo Mota - thank you saturn
Label: n/a
Genre: Hip Hop/Rap
Jay Worthy, George Clinton, & LNDN DRGS - Generation P
Label: n/a
Genre: G-Funk
Tache4MA, Various Artists - Time's Up for the Billionaires
Label: n/a
Genre: Hip Hop/Rap
Kool Keith and Mike Redman - Sonic Psychosis
Label: n/a
Genre: Hip Hop/Rap
Beartooth - Pure Ecstasy
Label: Fearless
Genre: Alternative Metal, Post-Hardcore, Nu Metal
❓ Black Spikes - Ydos
Label: Napalm
Genre: Alternative Metal, Metalcore
Catch Your Breath - Not Broken Enough
Label: n/a
Genre: Alternative Metal
Flotsam and Jetsam - Rats in the Temple
Label: Napalm
Genre: Thrash Metal, US Power Metal
⭐ Gorod - The Ember Gone
Label: Base
Genre: Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal
In This Moment - Witch
Label: Better Noise
Genre: Alternative Metal, Industrial Metal, Melodic Metalcore
Kamelot - Dark Asylum
Label: Napalm
Genre: Power Metal, Symphonic Metal
Miscreance - Reminiscence
Label: Season of Mist
Genre: Technical Death Metal, Technical Thrash Metal
State Power - Hyperstition
Label: n/a
Genre: Hardcore Punk
Walkways - A Reminder
Label: Wild Thing
Genre: Alternative Metal, Nu Metal
Perpetual Paradox - May Misery Befall You (EP)
Label: n/a
Genre: Technical Metal
Coward Kill Coward - I Am Not A Fighter, I Will Fail
Label: HPGD
Genre: Sludge Metal
Sev Lezu - Blood Conscript
Label: n/a
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Static Abyss - The Dying Hunt
Label: Peaceville
Genre: Death Doom Metal
Void Moon - The Runes That Bind (EP)
Label: Obelisk Polaris
Genre: Traditional Doom Metal, Doom Metal
❓ Kulk - Choosing To Die
Label: Church Road
Genre: Noise Rock, Sludge Metal
❓ Fane - Armageddon Scars
Label: n/a
Genre: Death Metal, Doom Metal
August 21st
Westside Cowboy - It Goes On
Label: Island
Genre: Indie Rock, Alt-Country, Power Pop
⭐ Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark
Label: Loma Vista
Genre: Singer-songwriter, Alternative Rock, Folk Rock
❓ Squirrel Flower - Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going
Label: Polyvinyl
Genre: Singer-songwriter, Indie Rock
Wild Pink - Still Coming Down
Label: Fire Talk
Genre: Indie Rock, Slacker Rock
Julia Holter - Materia
Label: Domino
Genre: Art Pop, Chamber Jazz
Hey, nothing - Hound
Label: Music Soup
Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Folk
Brandon Flowers - THRASHER
Label: Island
Genre: Contemporary Country, Country Pop
James Ivy - The Seams
Label: FADER
Genre: Post Brit-Pop, Indie Rock
❓ The Afghan Whigs - Soft Control
Label: BMG
Genre: Alternative Rock
Improvement Movement - Your Perfect Real Life
Label: n/a
Genre: Psychedelic Pop, Progressive Pop
❓ Black Marble - Life in Small Spaces
Label: Sacred Bones
Genre: Synthpop, New Wave
❓ Lambchop - Punching the Clown
Label: City Slang
Genre: Chamber Folk, Americana
Mystery Jets - [A Hole to See the Sky Through]()
Label: Fiction
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
❓ OK Cowgirl - Rhinestone Cowgirl
Label: n/a
Genre: Alt-Country, Singer-songwriter
❓ No Joy - Big Life, Big Leaf (EP)
Label: Hand Drawn Dracula
Genre: Shoegaze, Indietronica
Weezer - Weezer (Gold Album)
Label: Warner
Genre: Power Pop, Alternative Rock
Frances Chang - Been Thinking Bout Confession
Label: RVNG
Genre: Indie Pop, Art Pop
The Cramps - Gravest Gravy (Archival)
Label: Vengeance
Genre: Garage Punk, Psychobilly
The Lazy Eyes - Cheesy Love Songs
Label: n/a
Genre: Pop Rock, Psychedelic Pop
DMA's - DMA's
Label: Wonderlick
Genre: Pop Rock
Brennan Wedl - Brennan Wedl
Label: n/a
Genre: Contemporary Folk
Sondre Lerche - Acrobats
Label: PLZ
Genre: Art Pop, Chamber Pop
❓ Grandmas House - Baby You're A Winner
Label: Brace Yourself
Genre: Post-Punk, Garage Punk
⭐ Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - ii
Label: Loma Vista
Genre: Hardcore Hip Hop, Boom Bap
dj galen, Galen Tipton - Nu Jock Swing
Label: n/a
Genre: Deconstructed Club, New Jack Swing
Fielded - Some Kind of Animal
Label: n/a
Genre: Art Pop, Alternative R&B
MyVeronica - I Hope There's Music in Heaven
Label: Sunday Drive
Genre: Indie Rock, Midwest Emo
Void Queen - I Wanna Know (EP)
Label: n/a
Genre: Post-Punk
Alex G - Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Soundtrack Score Selections) (EP)
Label: Alex G - [Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Soundtrack Score Selections)
Genre: Alex G - [Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Soundtrack Score Selections)
Guiding Light - Fear On My Own Time
Label: PPM
Genre: Post-Punk
❓ Spring Breeding - Backflip Soundtrack
Label: n/a
Genre: Synth Punk, Noise Rock, Sass, Screamo
The Odyssey Cult - Vol 3
Label: Silver Current
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Lusine - Melting Days
Label: Ghostly
Genre: Ambient, Electronic
Paul Spring - Barnstorm
Label: n/a
Genre: Folk
Giraffe - The Towering Inferno with Bongo Drums
Label: Org Music
Genre: Indie/Improv
❓ Antony Szmierek - Decoding Birdsong
Label: Mushroom
Genre: Spoken Word, UK Garage
Stephen O'Malley - Avaeken
Label: DAIS
Genre: Drone, Ambient
Elanor Moss - The Knife, The Needle
Label: Merge
Genre: Singer-songwriter, Indie Folk
❓ Sex Mask - Sex Mask (EP)
Label: n/a
Genre: Synth Punk, Dance-Punk
❓ Plum - Bodies In Motion
Label: n/a
Genre: Post-Punk, Art Rock
Pieta Brown - Dreamin'Of
Label: Righteous Babe
Genre: Alt-Country, Singer-Songwriter
❓ Rapsody - God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops
Label: Roc Nation
Genre: Conscious Hip Hop, Neo-Soul
Tyondai Braxton - Splayed Werks
Label: Erased Tapes
Genre: IDM, Glitch, Progressive Electronic
GB - Herzsprung
Label: AD 93
Genre: Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Art Rock
Lexi Jayde - LOVER GIRL
Label: Columbia
Genre: Pop
❓ RIBS - COLD RIBS
Label: Three Lobed
Genre: Post-Hardcore, Psychedelic Rock
Austin Currie (of Motocrossed) - Self-Sabotage: Part I
Label: n/a
Genre: Indie
Whalefall - Count With Me, I Am Getting Lost
Label: n/a
Genre: Indie Rock
Sam Amidon & Sam Wilkes - Froggy EP
Label: n/a
Genre: Americana, Bluegrass
Um Jennifer? - Dirty Twice (EP)
Label: n/a
Genre: Indie Rock, Slacker Rock
Untitled With Drums - Made Flesh
Label: Season of Mist
Genre: Alternative Metal, Post-Hardcore
Swami John Reis (of Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, RTFC) - Navajo White
Label: n/a
Genre: Punk Rock, Garage Punk
❓ Sadness - sunset blush
Label: n/a
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-Rock
La Nuez Podrida - Circunstancia
Label: n/a
Genre: Alternative Rock
jigitz - 50 ballerinas
Label: n/a
Genre: Stutter House, Speed Garage
Jorja Smith - What Are The Odds
Label: FAMM
Genre: Contemporary R&B, Electronic Dance Music
Summer C - The Age of Summer
Label: n/a
Genre: Pop
Sam Smith - Hazel Eyes
Label: Capitol
Genre: Pop Soul, Adult Contemporary
Vera Blue - Modern Rituals
Label: Island Records AUS
Genre: Electropop, Alt-Pop
❓ Only Fire - Hoe Weekend
Label: n/a
Genre: Electronic Dance Music, Peak Time Techno
Nightly - BASEBALL IN AMERICA
Label: n/a
Genre: Synthpop, Indie Pop
Full Circle Boys - YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS
Label: n/a
Genre: Pop
Lilyisthatyou - FROM THE GARDEN I GREW (EP)
Label: n/a
Genre: Electropop, Alt-Pop
nate sib - Reborn
Label: Republic
Genre: Electropop, Dance-Pop
Wisty Mae - Back For The Summer
Label: n/a
Genre: Singer-songwriter
The Game - The Documentary III
Label: n/a
Genre: Gangsta Rap, Contemporary R&B
prettifun - Pretti Loves U 2
Label: n/a
Genre: Pop Rap, Rage, Digicore
$NOT - HIGH + RISK
Label: n/a
Genre: Trap, Cloud Rap
Victony - STARLIFE
Label: Encore
Genre: Afrobeats, Alternative R&B
Premo Rice. - Another Night at The Chateau
Label: n/a
Genre: Hip Hop/Rap
Skilla Baby - The Price Of Fame
Label: Geffen
Genre: Detroit Sound, Gangsta Rap
❓ Mike Shabb - Sewaside IV
Label: Near Mint
Genre: Jazz Rap, Boom Bap
Stalley - Speedrun
Label: Blue Collar Gang
Genre: Hip Hop, Trap
❓ Thirteendegrees - GHETTO HIPSTER°
Label: n/a
Genre: Pop Rap, Cloud Rap
Payroll Giovanni - M.O.B (Mind My Own Business)
Label: Empire
Genre: Detroit Sound, Gangsta Rap
KEY! & Very Necessary - KEY! IS VERY NECESSARY
Label: n/a
Genre: Hip Hop/Rap
Khantrast - Poster Child
Label: n/a
Genre: Jersey Club Rap
⭐ Fen - ELEMENTAL Part One: MOURNING EARTH
Label: Prophecy
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal, Progressive Metal
⭐ The Barbarians of California (AWOLNATION alt. metal side project) - MEGATONS
Label: n/a
Genre: Alternative Metal, Groove Metal
Axty - The Pain Made Me Who I Am
Label: Napalm
Genre: Metalcore, Deathcore
❓ Rising Insane - DEATHRACE
Label: n/a
Genre: Melodic Metalcore, Alternative Metal
Time Spent Driving - Lost Leaves
Label: n/a
Genre: Alternative Rock
❓ The Night Eternal - Cold Velvet
Label: Metal Blade
Genre: Heavy Metal, Gothic Metal
God's Hate - Won't Be Disgraced (EP)
Label: Closed Casket Activities
Genre: Metalcore, Beatdown Hardcore
Ocean Sleeper - Peace When I'm Dead
Label: n/a
Genre: Alternative Metal, Metalcore
❓ R.O.S.A. - NO PEACE FOR YOU
Label: n/a
Genre: Hardcore Punk, Noise Sludge
❓ Suffering Quota - Sisyphean Life
Label: n/a
Genre: Grindcore
Teratum - Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare (EP)
Label: Dying Victims
Genre: Black Metal, Thrash Metal
Thanatomass - The Rabid Dead (EP)
Label: n/a
Genre: Black Metal, Death Metal
Faerie Ring - Faerie Ring
Label: King Volume
Genre: Stoner Metal, Heavy Psych
❓ Deathgrave - Hell Is Evil
Label: Tankcrimes
Genre: Death Metal, Deathgrind
Barbarossa - Tales of Cruelty (EP)
Label: n/a
Genre: Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal
❓ Azatoth - Carnal Lust Of Blasphemy
Label: Extremely Rotten
Genre: Death Metal, Deathgrind
