Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommendations.
Well, here we are: another year full of new releases. In lieu of our weekly Release Day Roundup, we thought we’d preview the months ahead of us and highlight which albums we’re looking forward to most. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and we hope you’ll comment with some of your own anticipated albums.
January 5
Haunt – Mind Freeze (heavy metal)
January 10
Aiming For Enrike – Music For Working Out (math rock, noise rock)
Beach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City (power pop, alt-rock)
Bohren & Der Club of Gore – Patchouli Blue (dark jazz, dark ambient)
Lotus Thief – Oresteia (blackgaze, post-metal)
Snorlax – II (blackened deathgrind)
Unreqvited – Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse (blackgaze, atmospheric black metal)
January 17
Algiers – There Is No Way (post-punk, neo-soul)
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – X: The Godless Void and Other Stories (indie rock, art rock)
Antagonist A.D. – Through Fire (hardcore)
Anti-Flag – 20/20 Vision (punk)
Garganjua – Toward the Sun (progressive doom, sludge)
Gloe – Dead Wait (math rock, shoegaze)
The Good the Bad and the Zugly – Algorithm & Blues (skate punk)
Oberst – Paradise (post-hardcore)
of Montreal – UR FUN (indie pop, psych pop)
Oval – Scis (glitch, experimental electronic)
Pinegrove – Marigold (Midwest emo, indie rock)
Ryte – Ryte (stoner rock, heavy psych)
January 24
Acid Mammoth – Under Acid Hoof (doom metal)
Black Lips – Sing…in a World That’s Falling Apart (alt-country, garage rock)
Caspian – On Circles (post-rock)
Coogan’s Bluff – Metronopolis (prog rock, jazz fusion)
Elden – Nostromo (stoner rock, hard rock)
Higher Power – 27 Miles Underwater (alt-metal, crossover thrash)
Midnight – Rebirth by Blasphemy (heavy metal, black ‘n’ roll)
Nero Di Marte – Sisyphos (avant-garde metal, post-metal)