List of 2016 albums

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The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2016. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.

For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2016 in music.

First quarter

January

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Release date Artist Album Genre Label Ref.
January
1		 Rachel Platten Wildfire Pop, power pop, soul Columbia [1]
January
6		 Misia Love Bebop Pop, soul, dance-pop Ariola [2]
January
8		 David Bowie Blackstar Art rock, experimental rock, jazz Columbia, RCA, Sony Music
Full of Hell Amber Mote in the Black Vault Grindcore Bad Teeth Recordings
Hinds Leave Me Alone Garage rock, lo-fi Mom + Pop
Ignite A War Against You Melodic hardcore Century Media
Marshmello Joytime Future bass, progressive house, trap Joytime Collective [3]
Villagers Where Have You Been All My Life? Indie folk Domino [4]
January
15		 Anderson .Paak Malibu Hip-hop, R&B, soul Steel Wool, OBE, EMPIRE
Ben Monder, Pete Rende, Andrew Cyrille, Paul Motian Amorphae Jazz ECM [5]
Blaze Ya Dead Homie The Casket Factory Gangsta rap, horrorcore Majik Ninja Entertainment [6]
Brothers Osborne Pawn Shop Country EMI Nashville [7]
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels I Long to See You Jazz Blue Note [8]
Classified Greatful Hip-hop Halflife Records, Universal Music Canada [9]
Daughter Not to Disappear Alternative pop 4AD
Daz and Snoop Cuzznz West Coast hip-hop, G-funk Felder Entertainment Inc. [10]
Hank Williams Jr. It's About Time Country, Southern rock Nash Icon
Lecrae Church Clothes 3 Christian hip-hop, conscious hip-hop Reach
Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor Pop rock, pop, rock DCD2, Fueled by Ramen
Randy Rogers Band Nothing Shines Like Neon Country Tommy Jackson Records [11]
Show of Hands The Long Way Home Folk Hands on Music [12]
Skunk Anansie Anarchytecture Alternative rock earMUSIC, Carosello
January
21		 Jesu and Sun Kil Moon Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Post-metal, indie folk, electronic music Caldo Verde, Rough Trade
January
22		 The Besnard Lakes A Coliseum Complex Museum Psychedelic rock, progressive rock, indie rock Jagjaguwar [13]
Cait Brennan Debutante Indie rock Alternative Distribution Alliance [14]
Chairlift Moth Synth-pop, indie pop, electropop Columbia
Conrad Keely Original Machines Rock Superball [15]
Eleanor Friedberger New View Indie rock Frenchkiss
Half Japanese Perfect Art punk, indie rock Joyful Noise [16]
The I Don't Cares Wild Stab Rock Dry Wood Music
John Cale M:FANS Experimental rock, industrial rock, electronic Double Six
Lionheart Love Don't Live Here Hardcore punk, metalcore LHHC Records, Beatdown Hardwear Records [17]
Megadeth Dystopia Thrash metal Tradecraft, Universal
The Mute Gods Do Nothing till You Hear from Me Progressive rock, pop rock Inside Out [18]
Mystery Jets Curve of the Earth Indie rock Caroline
Roam Backbone Pop punk Hopeless
Rüfüs Bloom Alternative dance Sweat It Out
Savages Adore Life Post-punk Matador
Shearwater Jet Plane and Oxbow Indie rock Sub Pop
Steve Angello Wild Youth Indie rock, electro house Size Records
Steven Wilson 4½ Progressive rock Kscope
Suede Night Thoughts Art rock Warner Bros.
Tank Sex Love & Pain II R&B Atlantic [19]
Tindersticks The Waiting Room Chamber pop City Slang, Lucky Dog
Tortoise The Catastrophist Post-rock Thrill Jockey
Tricky Skilled Mechanics Trip hop False Idols, !K7 Records
Ty Segall Emotional Mugger Garage rock, hard rock, glam rock Drag City
Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP Experimental, psychedelic rock House of Mythology
January
28		 Massive Attack Ritual Spirit Trip hop, electronica Virgin [20]
Rihanna Anti Pop, dancehall, alternative R&B Westbury Road, Roc Nation
January
29		 Aubrie Sellers New City Blues Country, country pop Carnival [21]
Avantasia Ghostlights Symphonic metal, hard rock, power metal Nuclear Blast [22]
Basement Promise Everything Alternative rock Run for Cover
Bill Frisell When You Wish Upon a Star Jazz Okeh
Bloc Party Hymns Indie rock, alternative dance Infectious, BMG, Vagrant
Bury Tomorrow Earthbound Metalcore Nuclear Blast
Charlie Puth Nine Track Mind Pop, R&B Atlantic
Dream Theater The Astonishing Progressive metal, progressive rock Roadrunner
Kevin Gates Islah Hip-hop Atlantic, Bread Winners' Association
Michael W. Smith Hymns II The MWS Group
Money Suicide Songs Bella Union [23]
Sia This Is Acting Pop Monkey Puzzle, RCA
St. Lucia Matter Synth-pop Columbia [24]
Tedeschi Trucks Band Let Me Get By Blues, rock, R&B Fantasy
Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander, Jarle Vespestad What Was Said Jazz ECM [25]
Wet Don't You Indie pop, indie electronic, dream pop Columbia
Yanni Sensuous Chill Easy listening, new-age Portrait, Sony Masterworks [26]
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February

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Release date Artist Album Genre Label Ref.
February
3		 BIGBANG Made Series Dance-pop, PBR&B, hip-hop YG Entertainment, Avex Trax [27]
Magnum Sacred Blood "Divine" Lies Rock SPV/Steamhammer [28]
February
5		 Anchor & Braille Songs for the Late Night Drive Home Alternative rock, electronic rock, shoegaze Tooth & Nail [29]
Charles Kelley The Driver Country Capitol Nashville [30]
The Cult Hidden City Hard rock Cooking Vinyl
DIIV Is the Is Are Indie rock, shoegaze, krautrock Captured Tracks
Dr. Dog The Psychedelic Swamp Indie rock, blues rock, neo-psychedelia Anti-
Elton John Wonderful Crazy Night Rock, soft rock, vocal jazz Capitol, Mercury
Eric Prydz Opus House, progressive house, electro house Virgin
Field Music Commontime Indie pop, funk Memphis Industries
Fleshgod Apocalypse King Symphonic metal Nuclear Blast
Foxes All I Need Synth-pop Sign of the Times, Epic, RCA
Junior Boys Big Black Coat Electronic, technopop, EDM City Slang
Lion Babe Begin R&B, neo soul, electronica Interscope, Polydor
Lucinda Williams The Ghosts of Highway 20 Country Highway 20 Records
Majid Jordan Majid Jordan R&B, PBR&B, synth-pop OVO Sound, Warner Bros.
Obscura Akrøasis Progressive metal, technical death metal Relapse
Prong X – No Absolutes Groove metal, thrash metal Steamhammer/SPV
Textures Phenotype Progressive metal, metalcore Nuclear Blast [31]
Trixie Whitley Porta Bohemica [32]
Wiz Khalifa Khalifa Hip-hop Taylor Gang, Rostrum, Atlantic [33]
February
6		 Future Evol Hip-hop, trap A1, Freebandz, Epic
February
8		 Haywyre Two Fold Pt. 2 Future bass, house Monstercat [34]
February
12		 Basia Bulat Good Advice Indie pop, folk Secret City
Beyond the Black Lost in Forever Symphonic metal, power metal Airforce1 Records, We Love Music, Universal
Daughtry It's Not Over...The Hits So Far Alternative rock, hard rock, pop rock RCA, 19 [35]
El Guincho Hiperasia R&B, Latin Everlasting Records, Canada
The Jezabels Synthia Indie rock, alternative rock Dine Alone [36]
Kula Shaker K2.0 Rock, psychedelic rock, raga rock StrangeF.O.L.K. [37]
Lacey Sturm Life Screams Hard rock, Christian rock Followspot Records [38]
Lissie My Wild West Folk, rock Lionboy, Thirty Tigers
Pinegrove Cardinal Americana Run for Cover [39]
That Poppy Bubblebath Pop Island
Radiation City Synesthetica Alternative rock, dream pop Polyvinyl [40]
Ronan Keating Time of My Life Pop Decca [41]
Rotting Christ Rituals Black metal, dark metal Season of Mist [42]
The Suffers The Suffers Soul Rhyme & Reason Records [43]
Vince Gill Down to My Last Bad Habit Country MCA Nashville
Wynonna & the Big Noise Wynonna & the Big Noise Country Curb [44]
February
14		 Currensy and the Alchemist The Carrollton Heist Hip-hop ALC Records, Jet Life
Kanye West The Life of Pablo Hip-hop GOOD Music, Def Jam
Mýa Smoove Jones R&B, soul, hip-hop Planet 9
February
15		 Illenium Ashes Electronic, progressive house, dubstep Kasaya, Seeking Blue [45]
February
17		 CFCF On Vacation International Feel
February
19		 After the Burial Dig Deep Progressive metal, djent Sumerian
Animal Collective Painting With Psychedelic pop Domino
BJ the Chicago Kid In My Mind R&B Motown
Creeper The Stranger Horror punk, punk rock Roadrunner
The Fall Wise Ol' Man Post-punk Cherry Red
Jack Garratt Phase Indie pop, PBR&B Island
Lake Street Dive Side Pony Pop, indie pop Nonesuch [46]
Marlon Williams Marlon Williams Rock Caroline Australia
Mavis Staples Livin' on a High Note R&B, soul, roots rock Anti-, Epitaph
Myrath Legacy Progressive metal, Oriental metal, Arabic music Groove Master Records, King [47]
Ra Ra Riot Need Your Light Indie rock Barsuk [48]
Ralph Alessi, Gary Versace, Drew Gress, Nasheet Waits Quiver Jazz [49]
Simple Plan Taking One for the Team Pop punk, punk rock, power pop Atlantic [50]
Wolfmother Victorious Hard rock, heavy metal, stoner rock Universal
Yo Gotti The Art of Hustle Hip-hop Epic, CMG [51]
Yoko Ono Yes, I'm a Witch Too Manimal [52]
February
26		 The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It Indie rock, new wave, synth-pop Interscope, Dirty Hit, Polydor
Anthrax For All Kings Thrash metal Megaforce, Nuclear Blast
Anvil Anvil Is Anvil Heavy metal, speed metal SPV/Steamhammer
Bonnie Raitt Dig In Deep Rock, blues, Americana Redwing Records
Charli XCX Vroom Vroom Experimental pop, wonky pop, electronic Vroom Vroom Recordings
The Dirty Nil Higher Power Punk rock, rock and roll Dine Alone
The Gloaming 2 Folk Brassland
Hands Like Houses Dissonants Post-hardcore, alternative rock Rise
Lucy Dacus No Burden Indie rock, indie folk, power pop EggHunt, Matador
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis This Unruly Mess I've Made Hip-hop Macklemore LLC
Quilt Plaza Indie folk, psychedelic folk Mexican Summer
Santigold 99¢ Art pop, alternative dance, new wave Atlantic
School of Seven Bells SVIIB Indie rock, dream pop, shoegaze Vagrant, Full Time Hobby
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra with Kim Myhr and Jenny Hval In the End His Voice Will Be the Sound of Paper Jazz Hubro Music [53]
TV Girl Who Really Cares Indie pop [54]
Tweet Charlene R&B, soul, neo soul eOne [55]
Voivod Post Society Progressive metal Century Media [56]
Willie Nelson Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin Country Legacy [57]
Yuck Stranger Things Indie rock, alternative rock Mamé Records [58]
February
29		 Lemon Demon Spirit Phone Pop Needlejuice
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March

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March
4		 2 Chainz ColleGrove Hip-hop, trap Def Jam
Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+Evolution Jazz, jazz fusion, funk Concord [59]
Face to Face Protection Punk Fat Wreck Chords [60]
Kendrick Lamar Untitled Unmastered Hip-hop, jazz rap Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope
The Knocks 55 EDM Big Beat, Neon Gold [61]
Låpsley Long Way Home Electronic, ambient, alternative R&B XL [62]
Miike Snow iii Indie rock, electropop Downtown [63]
Nada Surf You Know Who You Are Barsuk, City Slang
Ninja Sex Party Under the Covers Rock, synth-pop, pop rock [64]
Poliça United Crushers Synth-pop, indie electronic Mom + Pop
The Qemists Warrior Sound Drum and bass Amazing Record [65]
Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros Psychedelic rock RCA [66]
Reckless Love InVader Glam metal, hard rock Spinefarm [67]
RuPaul Butch Queen Dance RuCo Inc. [68]
La Sera Music for Listening to Music To Indie pop Polyvinyl [69]
Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds Fowl Play Rock, alternative Party Fowl Records, Thirty Tigers [70]
Steven Curtis Chapman Worship and Believe Worship, Christian pop Essential Worship, Reunion
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Alternative folk Ribbon Music [71]
Tonight Alive Limitless Pop rock Sony Music Australia, Fearless [72]
Urthboy The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat Australian hip-hop Elefant Traks [73]
Violent Femmes We Can Do Anything Rock PIAS [74]
March
8		 They Might Be Giants Phone Power Alternative rock Idlewild Recordings, Lojinx [75]
March
9		 Alexandra Stan Alesta Dance Victor, Roton, Global, Warner Bros., Vae Victis, Ego
March
11		 3 Doors Down Us and the Night Post-grunge, pop rock, alternative rock Republic
Adore Delano After Party Dance, electronic, pop Producer Entertainment Group [76]
Aurora All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend Art pop, electropop Decca, Glassnote
Bethel Music Have It All Contemporary Christian music, worship Bethel Music
Brian Fallon Painkillers Rock, alternative rock, heartland rock Island
Citizen Way 2.0 Christian music, Christian rock, Christian EDM Fair Trade
Emmy the Great Second Love Bella Union [77]
Julian Lage Arclight Jazz, jazz blues Mack Avenue [78]
Killswitch Engage Incarnate Metalcore Roadrunner [79]
Matt Corby Telluric Alternative R&B, dream pop Mercury, Universal Music Australia [80]
Nine Lashes Ascend Christian rock, electronic rock, pop rock BEC
Van Canto Voices of Fire A cappella, power metal earMUSIC
Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke Jazz ECM
March
18		 Clark The Last Panthers Electronic Warp
Dustin Kensrue Thoughts That Float on a Different Blood Contemporary folk music, alternative rock, indie rock Vagrant [81]
The Falcon Gather Up the Chaps Punk rock Red Scare Industries [82]
Grant-Lee Phillips The Narrows Americana, indie rock Yep Roc
Gwen Stefani This Is What the Truth Feels Like Pop Interscope
Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression Art rock, garage rock, hard rock Loma Vista
James Girl at the End of the World Alternative rock BMG
Primal Scream Chaosmosis First International, Ignition
Redfoo Party Rock Mansion Pop Rykodisc, Party Rock [83]
Soul Asylum Change of Fortune Alternative rock Entertainment One [84]
Underworld Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future Electronic Universal
Violent Soho Waco Grunge, alternative SideOneDummy
The Word Alive Dark Matter Metalcore, alternative metal Fearless
March
24		 Azealia Banks Slay-Z Hip-hop, EDM
March
25		 American Head Charge Tango Umbrella Nu metal Napalm
Amon Amarth Jomsviking Melodic death metal Metal Blade
Anthony Hamilton What I'm Feelin' R&B RCA
Asking Alexandria The Black Metalcore Sumerian
Birdy Beautiful Lies Indie folk, indie pop Atlantic
Bob Mould Patch the Sky Alternative rock Merge
The Body and Full of Hell One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache Sludge metal, grindcore, noise Neurot
Elisa On Pop, dance, pop rock Sugar Music
Hana Pestle Hana Synth-pop [85]
The Joy Formidable Hitch Alternative rock C'mon Let's Drift, Caroline [86]
K. Michelle More Issues Than Vogue R&B, soul, pop Atlantic
Lincoln Durham Revelations of a Mind Unraveling Rock, alternative folk, Southern gothic Droog Records [87]
Metal Church XI Heavy metal Rat Pak
RJD2 Dame Fortune Hip-hop, soul RJ's Electrical Connections
White Denim Stiff Indie rock, garage rock, progressive rock Downtown
Young Thug Slime Season 3 Hip-hop 300, Atlantic
Zayn Mind of Mine Alternative R&B, R&B RCA
March
27		 dvsn Sept. 5th R&B OVO Sound, Warner Bros. [88]
March
28		 Oh My Girl Pink Ocean K-pop WM
March
29		 Babymetal Metal Resistance J-pop, heavy metal BMD Fox, Toy's Factory
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Second quarter

April

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Release date Artist Album Genre Label Ref.
April
1		 Andrew Bird Are You Serious Indie folk Loma Vista
Autolux Pussy's Dead Experimental rock, electronic 30th Century Records, Columbia
Black Stone Cherry Kentucky Hard rock, Southern rock, alternative metal Mascot [89]
Bombino Azel Blues, folk Partisan [90]
Cheap Trick Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello Rock Big Machine
Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness Post-rock Temporary Residence Limited
The Field The Follower Ambient techno, techno Kompakt
Gareth Emery 100 Reasons to Live EDM Garuda, Armada [91]
Hammock Everything and Nothing Ambient Hammock Music [92]
The Heavy Hurt & the Merciless Indie rock, funk rock, blues rock Counter Records, Bad Son Recording Company [93]
Kaada/Patton Bacteria Cult Experimental Ipecac
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Ears Electronic, new-age, ambient pop Western Vinyl
The Last Shadow Puppets Everything You've Come to Expect Indie rock Domino
Laura Gibson Empire Builder Rock City Slang [94]
Melvins Three Men and a Baby Sludge metal, noise rock, powerviolence Sub Pop
Moderat III Electronic Monkeytown
Mogwai Atomic Post-rock Rock Action
Pet Shop Boys Super Synth-pop x2
Terrace Martin Velvet Portraits R&B, jazz fusion, G-funk Sounds of Crenshaw, Ropeadope
Weezer Weezer (White Album) Alternative rock, power pop, pop punk Atlantic, Crush
Yeasayer Amen & Goodbye Experimental rock Mute [95]
April
6		 Gallant Ology Alternative R&B Mind of a Genius [96]
April
8		 Álex Anwandter Amiga Latin alternative, pop rock Nacional [97]
All Saints Red Flag Pop, R&B London
Art Bergmann The Apostate Alternative rock weewerk [98]
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Call It What It Is Rock, blues rock, pop rock Stax
Black Peaks Statues Easy Life, RED Music [99]
Deftones Gore Alternative metal, post-metal, experimental rock Reprise
Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack Indie rock Atlantic
Future of the Left The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left Noise rock Prescriptions Music
Ihsahn Arktis Progressive metal, black metal, experimental metal Candlelight
Jean-Michel Blais Il Minimal, neoclassical Arts & Crafts
JJ Weeks Band As Long as We Can Breathe Worship, Christian pop, Christian rock Centricity
The Lumineers Cleopatra Americana, folk rock, indie folk Dualtone [100]
M83 Junk Synth-pop Naïve, Mute
Mayer Hawthorne Man About Town Vagrant
Niki and the Dove Everybody's Heart Is Broken Now Pop TEN Music Group [101]
Parquet Courts Human Performance Indie rock, art punk, experimental rock Rough Trade
Ronnie Spector English Heart Pop rock 429
Teleman Brilliant Sanity Indie pop Moshi Moshi
Tim Hecker Love Streams Experimental 4AD, Paper Bag
Woods City Sun Eater in the River of Light Woodsist
April
13		 Ace Frehley Origins Vol. 1 Hard rock Entertainment One
April
15		 Bear Hands You'll Pay for This Experimental rock, indie rock, post-punk Spensive Records
Blaqk Audio Material Electronic, new wave Blaqknoise, Kobalt
Cate Le Bon Crab Day Neo-psychedelia, indie pop, art pop Drag City, Turnstile, Caroline International
The Coathangers Nosebleed Weekend Punk rock Suicide Squeeze
Del Barber & the No Regretzkys The Puck Drops Here True North [102]
Fanfare Ciocărlia Onwards to Mars! Balkan brass Asphalt Tango Records
J Dilla The Diary Hip-hop Pay Jay Productions, Mass Appeal
Keb' Mo' Keb' Mo' Live – That Hot Pink Blues Album Kind of Blue Music, RED Distribution [103]
Kevin Morby Singing Saw Folk rock, indie folk Dead Oceans
Lush Blind Spot Indie pop, dream pop, shoegaze Edamame
Otep Generation Doom Nu metal Napalm [104]
PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project Indie rock Island
Santana Santana IV Latin rock
Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide to Earth Country soul, alternative country Atlantic
Suuns Hold/Still Secretly Canadian
Wild Belle Dreamland Psychedelic pop, alternative rock, indie pop Columbia
April
16		 Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks Experimental rock, dark ambient Polyvinyl [105]
April
18		 Up10tion Spotlight K-pop TOP Media [106]
April
20		 The Fall of Troy OK Mathcore, post-hardcore, progressive rock The Fall of Troy [107]
April
22		 The 69 Eyes Universal Monsters Gothic rock Nuclear Blast [108]
ASAP Ferg Always Strive and Prosper Hip-hop ASAP Worldwide, Polo Grounds Music, RCA [109]
Bankroll Mafia Bankroll Mafia Hip-hop Grand Hustle, EMPIRE [110]
Blue October Home Alternative rock Up/Down Records [111]
Dälek Asphalt for Eden Experimental hip-hop, industrial hip-hop, shoegaze Profound Lore
Katy B Honey EDM, dubstep, electronica Rinse, Virgin EMI
NF Therapy Session Hip-hop, Christian hip-hop Capitol CMG
April
23		 Beyoncé Lemonade R&B Parkwood, Columbia
April
25		 Twice Page Two K-pop, dance JYP
April
29		 Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid Hip-hop Rhymesayers
Brian Eno The Ship Ambient Warp
The Boxer Rebellion Ocean by Ocean Indie rock Amplify Music
Discharge End of Days Hardcore punk Nuclear Blast [112]
Drake Views Hip-hop, dancehall, R&B OVO Sound, Cash Money, Young Money [113]
Fallujah Dreamless Technical death metal, progressive metal Nuclear Blast [114]
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity Psychedelic rock, garage rock, heavy metal ATO, Flightless [115]
Martina Stoessel Tini Pop Hollywood [116]
Rob Zombie The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser Industrial metal Zodiac Swan Records, T-Boy Records, Universal [117]
Sixx:A.M. Prayers for the Damned: Vol. 1 Hard rock Eleven Seven [118]
Travis Everything at Once Post-Britpop, alternative rock, indie rock Red Telephone Box [119]
Zucchero Black Cat Blues rock Universal [120]
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May

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May
2		 BTS The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever Hip-hop, dance-pop, R&B Big Hit Entertainment
May
6		 Anohni Hopelessness Electronic, experimental, synth-pop Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade
Beverly The Blue Swell Kanine Records [121]
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, and Steve Swallow Andando el Tiempo Jazz ECM
Cuong Vu Trio meets Pat Metheny Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny Jazz Nonesuch
Cyndi Lauper Detour Country, country rock, country blues Sire
Death Grips Bottomless Pit Experimental hip-hop, digital hardcore Third Worlds
Homeboy Sandman Kindness for Weakness Hip-hop Stones Throw
Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison In Movement Jazz ECM
James Blake The Colour in Anything Electronic pop, R&B, soul Polydor, 1–800 Dinosaur
Jean-Michel Jarre Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise Electronic music Sony Music
Julianna Barwick Will Ambient, experimental Dead Oceans
Kate Ceberano Anthology Pop, soul, jazz ABC Music [122]
Kaytranada 99.9% Electronic XL, HW&W
Keith Urban Ripcord Pop, country pop Hit Red, Capitol Nashville
Little Scream Cult Following Merge, Dine Alone
Meghan Trainor Thank You Dance-pop, R&B Epic, Sony Music
Mike Posner At Night, Alone. Pop Island
Pat Metheny The Unity Sessions Jazz Nonesuch
Rittz Top of the Line Hip-hop Strange Music [123]
Tim Garland One Jazz Edition [124]
Vektor Terminal Redux Thrash metal Earache
White Lung Paradise Punk rock Domino
Yoni Wolf and Serengeti Testarossa Hip-hop, indie pop Joyful Noise
May
8		 Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool Art rock, electronic XL
May
13		 3OH!3 Night Sports Pop, trap, hip-hop Fueled by Ramen, Atlantic, Photo Finish
Astronautalis Cut the Body Loose Hip-hop SideOneDummy
Chance the Rapper Coloring Book Hip-hop, gospel rap
Corinne Bailey Rae The Heart Speaks in Whispers R&B Virgin
DevilDriver Trust No One Groove metal Napalm [125]
Digitalism Mirage Electro house Magnetism Recording Co, PIAS
Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional Metalcore Nuclear Blast
Jessy Lanza Oh No Electronic, R&B, pop Hyperdub
Kvelertak Nattesferd Heavy metal Roadrunner
Kygo Cloud Nine Tropical house Sony Music, Ultra Music, B1
Modern Baseball Holy Ghost Indie rock, pop punk Run for Cover
Nothing Tired of Tomorrow Shoegaze, dream pop Relapse
Pierce the Veil Misadventures Post-hardcore Fearless
May
20		 Against the Current In Our Bones Fueled by Ramen, Warner Chappell
Ana Popović Trilogy Blues rock, soul, jazz ArtisteXclusive records [126]
Andy Shauf The Party Anti-
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman Pop, R&B Republic
Bent Knee Say So Art rock, progressive rock, baroque pop Cuneiform
Bob Dylan Fallen Angels Traditional pop Columbia
Boys Noize Mayday Electronic Boysnoize Records
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial Indie rock Matador
Eric Clapton I Still Do Blues, blues rock, folk Bushbranch/Surfdog
Highasakite Camp Echo Indie rock Propeller [127]
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts Progressive rock Peaceville
Kent Då som nu för alltid Alternative rock, pop rock RCA, Sony Music
Lali Soy Pop, R&B Sony Music Argentina [128]
Lonely the Brave Things Will Matter Alternative rock Hassle, RCA
Marissa Nadler Strangers Sacred Bones [129]
Mudcrutch 2 Southern rock, country rock Reprise [130]
Pantha du Prince The Triad Electronic [131]
Richard Ashcroft These People Alternative rock Cooking Vinyl
Saosin Along the Shadow Post-hardcore, alternative rock Epitaph
Yuna Chapters Pop, R&B Verve
May
27		 ABC The Lexicon of Love II Pop Virgin EMI
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us Metalcore Epitaph, UNFD, New Damage
Band of Skulls By Default Blues rock, dance-rock BMG
Beth Orton Kidsticks Electronic Anti-
Catfish and the Bottlemen The Ride Alternative rock, indie rock Capitol
Clare Maguire Stranger Things Have Happened Indie pop, jazz, blues Virgin [132]
Dierks Bentley Black Country Capitol Nashville
Fifth Harmony 7/27 Pop, R&B, tropical house Epic, Syco
Flume Skin Electronic Future Classic
Gold Panda Good Luck and Do Your Best Electronic City Slang
Holy Fuck Congrats Innovative Leisure [133]
Lacuna Coil Delirium Gothic metal, alternative metal Century Media
The Monkees Good Times! Rock, power pop Rhino
PUP The Dream Is Over Punk rock SideOneDummy, Royal Mountain
Real Friends The Home Inside My Head Pop punk Fearless
Robert Glasper & Miles Davis Everything's Beautiful Jazz Blue Note, Columbia, Legacy
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere Post-hardcore Vagrant
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June

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June
3		 Beartooth Aggressive Metalcore, hardcore punk Red Bull, UNFD
Cat's Eyes Treasure House Alternative rock Kobalt Label Services [134]
Classixx Faraway Reach Electronic Innovative Leisure [135]
The Claypool Lennon Delirium Monolith of Phobos Psychedelic rock, art rock, experimental rock ATO
Craig Morgan A Whole Lot More to Me Country Black River
Dan + Shay Obsessed Country Warner Bros. Nashville
Dark Funeral Where Shadows Forever Reign Black metal Century Media [136]
Fantastic Negrito The Last Days of Oakland Blues rock Blackball Universe
Hellyeah Unden!able Heavy metal, groove metal Eleven Seven [137]
Jimmy Barnes Soul Searchin' Rock, soul Liberation Music [138]
The Kills Ash & Ice Indie rock Domino
Ladyhawke Wild Things Indie electronic, alternative dance, synth-pop Polyvinyl
The Lonely Island Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Comedy hip-hop Republic [139]
Maren Morris Hero Country, pop Columbia Nashville
Melvins Basses Loaded Sludge metal, stoner rock Ipecac
Netsky 3 Drum & bass, dance-pop, electropop Sony Music, Hospital, Epic [140]
Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger Folk rock, worldbeat Concord
Psychic Ills Inner Journey Out Sacred Bones
Roxette Good Karma Pop Parlophone
Tegan and Sara Love You to Death Synth-pop Vapor, Warner Bros.
Volbeat Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie Heavy metal, groove metal, rockabilly Republic, Universal
Whitney Light Upon the Lake Americana, country soul, indie pop Secretly Canadian
Yanni The Dream Concert: Live from the Great Pyramids of Egypt Contemporary instrumental Portrait, Sony Masterworks [141]
June
8		 Dave Douglas Dark Territory Jazz Greenleaf Music
June
9		 Wye Oak Tween Indie rock, indie folk Merge, City Slang
June
10		 Band of Horses Why Are You OK Indie rock, Southern rock Interscope
Brandy Clark Big Day in a Small Town Country Warner Bros.
Fitz and the Tantrums Fitz and the Tantrums Indie pop, neo soul Elektra
Garbage Strange Little Birds Alternative rock, electronic rock, industrial rock Stunvolume
Jon Bellion The Human Condition Hip-hop, PBR&B, pop rock Visionary, Capitol [142]
Kaleo A/B Blues rock, garage rock Elektra
letlive. If I'm the Devil... Post-hardcore, progressive rock, jazz fusion Epitaph [143]
Nick Jonas Last Year Was Complicated Pop, R&B Island, Safehouse
Peter Bjorn and John Breakin' Point Indie pop, indie rock Ingrid [144]
Rick Astley 50 Pop BMG [145]
Rival Sons Hollow Bones Blues rock, hard rock Earache [146]
Saliva Love, Lies & Therapy Universal [147]
Sumac What One Becomes Post-metal, sludge metal Thrill Jockey
The Temper Trap Thick as Thieves Indie rock Liberation, Glassnote, Infectious
Tom Odell Wrong Crowd Indie pop, indie electronic RCA [148]
June
15		 Disclosure Moog for Love Electronic Island, PMR
June
17		 case/lang/veirs case/lang/veirs Folk rock
The Game Streets of Compton West Coast hip-hop, gangsta rap eOne [149]
Gojira Magma Technical death metal, progressive metal, groove metal Roadrunner
Jake Bugg On My One Indie rock Virgin EMI, Island
Jon Pardi California Sunrise Country Capitol Nashville
Laura Mvula The Dreaming Room Soul, R&B RCA, Columbia [150]
Let's Eat Grandma I, Gemini Pop Transgressive
Mitski Puberty 2 Indie rock Dead Oceans
Neil Young & Promise of the Real Earth Rock Reprise
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway Funk rock, alternative rock, pop rock Warner Bros.
Reik Des/Amor Latin pop Sony Music Latin [151]
Swans The Glowing Man Experimental music Young God, Mute
Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale Christian rock, hard rock TFK Music, The Fuel Music
The Tragically Hip Man Machine Poem Rock Universal Music Canada [152]
Will Butler Friday Night Indie rock Merge [153]
June
22		 Delorean Muzik PHLEX [154]
June
24		 Alice Bag Alice Bag Punk rock, rock Don Giovanni
Broods Conscious Electropop, synth-pop, dance Island, Capitol, Universal Music Australia
Cash Cash Blood, Sweat & 3 Years Electro house, progressive house Big Beat, Atlantic
Deerhoof The Magic Polyvinyl
Dorothy Rockisdead Rock Roc Nation
DJ Shadow The Mountain Will Fall Hip-hop, instrumental hip-hop, electronic Mass Appeal
Drowners On Desire Indie rock Frenchkiss
Fred Frith Trio Another Day in Fucking Paradise Experimental, free improvisation Intakt
Jay Chou Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories Mandopop Sony Music Taiwan [155]
Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky Avant-rock, electronic rock, progressive rock The Flenser
Marisa Anderson Into the Light American folk, Americana Chaos Kitchen Music
Mikey Erg Tentative Decisions Punk rock Don Giovanni
Nice As Fuck Nice As Fuck Punk, funk, pop Love's Way Records [156]
Steve Vai Modern Primitive Epic [157]
Whitechapel Mark of the Blade Deathcore, groove metal Metal Blade
June
27		 Marsheaux Ath.Lon Synth-pop, electronica Undo [158]
June
28		 Blood Orange Freetown Sound R&B, funk, jazz Domino
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July

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July
1		 American Authors What We Live For Indie rock, alternative rock Island [159]
Area 11 Modern Synthesis Alternative rock Cooking Vinyl [160]
The Avalanches Wildflower Plunderphonics, electronic, neo-psychedelia Astralwerks, Modular, EMI
Bat for Lashes The Bride Baroque pop, rock Parlophone
Blink-182 California Pop punk, alternative rock BMG
Delta Goodrem Wings of the Wild Pop Sony Music Australia
Diesel Americana Rock Liberation
Fates Warning Theories of Flight Progressive metal Inside Out [161]
Grace FMA hip-hop soul RCA [162]
Magic! Primary Colours Pop, reggae fusion, reggae Latium, RCA, Sony Music [163]
Maxwell blackSUMMERS'night Soul, neo soul Columbia
Metronomy Summer 08 Indie electronic Because Music
Sara Watkins Young in All the Wrong Ways Americana, country New West [164]
Silent Planet Everything Was Sound Metalcore, post-hardcore, post-metal Solid State
Snoop Dogg Coolaid West Coast hip-hop Doggystyle, eOne Music
July
5		 Lindsey Abudei ...and the Bass Is Queen Neo soul, blues, jazz Stealth [165]
July
8		 BadBadNotGood IV Innovative Leisure
Biffy Clyro Ellipsis Alternative rock, electronic rock 14th Floor [166]
Boys Night Out Black Dogs Post-hardcore, alternative rock, rock Good Fight [167]
Chevelle The North Corridor Alternative metal, hard rock, post-grunge Epic
Damien Done Stay Black Post-punk, gothic rock Demons Run Amok
Emarosa 131 Alternative rock Hopeless [168]
Heart Beautiful Broken Hard rock, folk rock Concord Bicycle Music
Nonpoint The Poison Red Alternative metal Spinefarm
Róisín Murphy Take Her Up to Monto Electropop, art pop PIAS
Schoolboy Q Blank Face LP West Coast hip-hop, hip-hop, gangsta rap Top Dawg, Interscope
Show Me the Body Body War [169][170]
Shura Nothing's Real Electropop Polydor [171]
Switchfoot Where the Light Shines Through Alternative rock, pop rock Vanguard [172]
Tanzwut Schreib es mit Blut AFM [173]
Vanna All Hell Hardcore punk Pure Noise [174]
July
10		 Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle Colvin & Earle Americana, folk Fantasy
July
11		 GFriend LOL K-pop Source Music
July
12		 Snail Mail Habit Indie rock, shoegaze Sister Polygon
July
15		 Benny Benassi Danceaholic Progressive house Ultra [175]
Cane Hill Smile Nu metal Rise
David Nail Fighter Country MCA Nashville [176]
Dirty Heads Dirty Heads Reggae rock Five Seven [177]
Good Charlotte Youth Authority Pop punk MDDN
Kel Valhaal New Introductory Lectures on the System of Transcendental Qabala Electronic, experimental music YLYLCYN
Michael Kiwanuka Love & Hate Indie rock, folk rock Polydor
Needtobreathe Hard Love Atlantic
Steven Tyler We're All Somebody from Somewhere Country rock Dot
July
17		 Logic Bobby Tarantino Hip-hop Visionary, Def Jam
Sarah Jarosz Undercurrent Folk, Americana Sugar Hill [178]
July
18		 F.T. Island Where's the Truth? Rock FNC [179]
July
22		 Crown the Empire Retrograde Rise
Despised Icon Beast Deathcore Nuclear Blast
Gucci Mane Everybody Looking Hip-hop, trap 1017, Atlantic
Lil Durk Lil Durk 2X Drill, trap Only the Family, Def Jam [180]
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty Progressive metal, djent Sumerian, Century Media, Roadrunner [181]
Karmakanic DOT Inside Out [182]
Relient K Air for Free Pop rock, alternative rock Mono vs Stereo [183]
July
29		 Anarbor Anarbor Alternative rock, pop rock [184]
Billy Talent Afraid of Heights Alternative rock, punk rock, post-hardcore Warner Music Canada, The End [185]
The Bouncing Souls Simplicity Punk rock Rise, Chunksaah [186]
Descendents Hypercaffium Spazzinate Punk rock Epitaph [187]
DJ Khaled Major Key Hip-hop, trap, R&B Epic, We the Best [188]
Fantasia The Definition Of... R&B 19, RCA [189]
Jake Owen American Love Country RCA Nashville [190]
Jinjer King of Everything Metalcore, post-metal Napalm
Nao For All We Know Alternative R&B RCA, Little Tokyo Recordings
Sinsaenum Echoes of the Tortured Blackened death metal earMUSIC
Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail Progressive rock Evil Ink Records [191]
Viola Beach Viola Beach Indie rock, indie pop Fuller Beans Records [192]
Zhu Generationwhy Electronic Mind of a Genius, Columbia
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August

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Release date Artist Album Genre Label Ref.
August
5		 Blossoms Blossoms Indie rock, indie pop Virgin EMI [193]
Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not Alternative rock, indie rock Jagjaguwar
DJ Snake Encore EDM, trap Interscope [194]
Dog Party Til You're Mine Asian Man [195]
Elvis Presley Way Down in the Jungle Room RCA, Legacy
Giggs Landlord British hip-hop SN1 Records
Russian Circles Guidance Instrumental rock, post-metal, post-rock Sargent House [196]
Skillet Unleashed Christian metal, hard rock Atlantic [197]
Tarja The Shadow Self Symphonic metal earMUSIC
Wild Beasts Boy King Synth-pop Domino
August
9		 Nels Cline Lovers Jazz Blue Note
August
12		 The Amity Affliction This Could Be Heartbreak Metalcore, post-hardcore UNFD, Roadrunner [198]
Justin Moore Kinda Don't Care Country Valory Music
of Montreal Innocence Reaches Electronic, synth-pop, psychedelic Polyvinyl
PartyNextDoor PartyNextDoor 3 OVO
The Pineapple Thief Your Wilderness Kscope
Rae Sremmurd SremmLife 2 Hip-hop Ear Drummer, Interscope
Rome The Hyperion Machine Neofolk Trisol [199]
Young the Giant Home of the Strange Indie rock, alternative rock Fueled by Ramen [200]
August
18		 AJJ The Bible 2 Folk punk SideOneDummy [201]
August
19		 The Color Morale Desolate Divine Post-hardcore, hard rock, emo Fearless
Courtney Marie Andrews Honest Life Americana, indie folk Mama Bird Recording Co.
Crystal Castles Amnesty (I) Electropunk, witch house Fiction, Casablanca [202]
Dolly Parton Pure & Simple Country Dolly Records, RCA Nashville
Ed Harcourt Furnaces Polydor [203]
Frank Ocean Endless Ambient pop, R&B Def Jam [204]
Gonjasufi Callus Warp
John Williamson His Favourite Collection Country Warner Music Australasia [205]
Lindsey Stirling Brave Enough EDM, classical crossover, electro house Lindseystomp [206]
Lisa Hannigan At Swim Folk, indie Hoop Recordings, PIAS [207]
Myrkur Mausoleum Relapse [208]
Sabaton The Last Stand Power metal Nuclear Blast [209]
Scott Walker The Childhood of a Leader Classical 4AD
Soilwork Death Resonance Melodic death metal Nuclear Blast [210]
Tobacco Sweatbox Dynasty Ghostly International
Tory Lanez I Told You PBR&B, hip-hop, dancehall Mad Love, Interscope
Trapt DNA Hard rock, alternative metal, post-grunge The End [211]
August
20		 Frank Ocean Blonde R&B Def Jam, Boys Don't Cry [212]
August
23		 Will Wood and the Tapeworms Self-ish Dark cabaret, punk jazz
August
24		 Radwimps Your Name Rock [213]
August
26		 The Album Leaf Between Waves Relapse [214]
The Bad Plus It's Hard Jazz Okeh
Barbra Streisand Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway Traditional pop Columbia
Britney Spears Glory Pop RCA
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B Pop 604, School Boy, Interscope
Cass McCombs Mangy Love Indie rock, soft rock Anti-
Celine Dion Encore un soir Pop Columbia
De La Soul and the Anonymous Nobody... Hip-hop A.O.I. Records
Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots Country Big Machine [215]
Glass Animals How to Be a Human Being Indie pop, art pop, alternative R&B Wolf Tone, Caroline International, Harvest
Ingrid Michaelson It Doesn't Have to Make Sense Cabin 24 Records, Mom + Pop
Marius Neset Snowmelt Jazz ACT Music [216]
Omar Rodríguez-López Arañas en la Sombra Experimental rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock Ipecac [217]
Sodom Decision Day Thrash metal SPV/Steamhammer
Trygve Seim Rumi Songs Jazz ECM [218]
Vince Staples Prima Donna Alternative hip-hop ARTium, Def Jam
Young Thug Jeffery Trap, psychedelic rap 300, Atlantic
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September

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September
2		 Angel Olsen My Woman Indie rock Jagjaguwar
Big Scary Animal Pop rock Pieater
A Day to Remember Bad Vibrations Metalcore, pop punk ADTR, Epitaph
The Divine Comedy Foreverland Orchestral pop Divine Comedy
Eluvium False Readings On Temporary Residence
King Creosote Astronaut Meets Appleman Domino
La Femme Mystère Psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock Born Bad Records
Freddie Mercury Messenger of the Gods: The Singles Rock, pop rock, opera Mercury, Hollywood, Universal Music [219]
Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade Hip-hop Top Dawg
James Vincent McMorrow We Move Alternative R&B Faction Records, Believe Recordings, Mahogany Books
Sophie Ellis-Bextor Familia Indie pop, folk, disco EBGB's, Red Essential
Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, and Jan Bang Atmosphères Ambient music, jazz, chamber music ECM
Travis Scott Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight Hip-hop Grand Hustle, Epic
Zomby Ultra Electronic Hyperdub
September
9		 Bastille Wild World Indie rock Virgin EMI, Virgin, Universal Music Group
Clipping Splendor & Misery Experimental hip-hop Sub Pop
The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional Progressive rock, indie rock Equal Vision [220]
Devin Townsend Project Transcendence Progressive metal, symphonic metal HevyDevy Records
Gavin DeGraw Something Worth Saving Pop RCA
Grouplove Big Mess Alternative rock, indie rock Canvasback, Atlantic
The Head and the Heart Signs of Light Indie folk, indie pop, indie rock Warner Bros. [221]
Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016 Acoustic, blues Third Man, Columbia
Jason Aldean They Don't Know Country, country rock Broken Bow, Macon Music [222]
Jennifer Rostock Genau in diesem Ton Rock, punk, pop rock Four Music [223]
KT Tunstall Kin Pop rock, indie rock Caroline, Sony/ATV Music
Leagues Alone Together Bufalotone Records [224]
Local Natives Sunlit Youth Indie rock Loma Vista, Infectious
M.I.A. AIM Hip-hop Interscope, Polydor
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree Alternative rock, electronica, ambient Bad Seed Ltd.
Norma Jean Polar Similar Metalcore, post-hardcore Solid State
Of Mice & Men Cold World Nu metal, alternative metal, post-hardcore Rise
Okkervil River Away Indie rock ATO
Pansy Division Quite Contrary Queercore Alternative Tentacles [225]
Safia Internal Electronic, indie pop Parlophone, Warner Music Australasia
St. Paul and The Broken Bones Sea of Noise Records
Scott Tixier Cosmic Adventure Jazz Sunnyside [226]
Teenage Fanclub Here Alternative rock PeMa, Merge
Twin Atlantic GLA Alternative rock Red Bull
September
16		 Aaron Lewis Sinner Country Dot, Big Machine [227]
Against Me! Shape Shift with Me Punk rock Total Treble Music [228]
AJR What Everyone's Thinking AJR Productions
AlunaGeorge I Remember Island
Amanda Shires My Piece of Land Country, Americana BMG
The Black Sorrows Faithful Satellite Blues, rock, soul Head Records [229]
Beware of Darkness Are You Real? Alternative rock Bright Antenna [230]
Bobby Rush Porcupine Meat Blues Rounder [231]
Deap Vally Femejism Garage rock, alternative rock Nevado Music
Die Antwoord Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid Alternative hip-hop, rave
Dinosaur Together, As One Jazz Edition [232]
Gong Rejoice! I'm Dead! Progressive rock Madfish
Jóhann Jóhannsson Orphée Modern classical Deutsche Grammophon
Kool Keith Feature Magnetic Hip-hop MMG
Lordi Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy) Hard rock, heavy metal, shock rock AFM [233]
Mac Miller The Divine Feminine Alternative hip-hop, jazz rap REMember Music, Warner Bros.
Madeleine Peyroux Secular Hymns Vocal jazz Impulse!
Moor Mother Fetish Bones Experimental Don Giovanni
Mykki Blanco Mykki Hip-hop Dogfood Music Group, !K7
Robert Glasper ArtScience Alternative R&B, jazz-funk Blue Note
The Shondes Brighton [234]
Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave Alternative rock, hard rock Hopeless
Touché Amoré Stage Four Post-hardcore, screamo, melodic hardcore Epitaph
Usher Hard II Love R&B RCA
Willie Nelson For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price Country Legacy
Young Guns Echoes Alternative rock Windup [235]
September
21		 Feeder All Bright Electric Alternative rock, post-grunge, art rock Cooking Vinyl
September
22		 The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 1 History Always Favours The Winners
September
23		 Airbourne Breakin' Outta Hell Hard rock Spinefarm
Andrew Cyrille The Declaration of Musical Independence Jazz ECM
Beach Slang A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings Punk rock Polyvinyl, Big Scary Monsters [236]
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad Folk Cooking Vinyl
Crowder American Prodigal CCM, worship Sparrow, sixsteps, Capitol CMG
Devendra Banhart Ape in Pink Marble Indie folk, indie, alternative Nonesuch
Every Time I Die Low Teens Metalcore, hardcore punk, Southern rock Epitaph
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam I Had a Dream That You Were Mine Indie rock Glassnote
How to Dress Well Care Art pop Domino, Weird World
Idina Menzel Idina Pop Warner Bros. [237]
John Scofield Country for Old Men Jazz Impulse!
Marillion Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R) Neo-prog earMUSIC [238]
Neurosis Fires Within Fires Post-metal, experimental metal, doom metal Neurot
Rachael Yamagata Tightrope Walker Frankenfish, Thirty Tigers [239]
Shawn Mendes Illuminate Pop Island, Universal [240]
Skylar Grey Natural Causes Alternative pop KidinaKorner, Interscope [241]
Vangelis Rosetta Electronic, ambient, classical Decca [242]
Various artists Trolls: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack RCA [243]
Warpaint Heads Up Indie rock Rough Trade
September
27		 Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition Experimental hip-hop Warp
September
29		 Lori McKenna The Bird and the Rifle Country CN Records
September
30		 Andrew Cyrille and Bill McHenry Proximity Jazz Sunnyside
Banks The Altar Alternative R&B Harvest
Bob Weir Blue Mountain Rock, folk, country Legacy, Columbia
Bon Iver 22, A Million Indie folk, folktronica Jagjaguwar
Craig David Following My Intuition UK Garage, dance, tropical house Sony Music, Insanity
Drive-By Truckers American Band Country rock, alternative rock, alternative country ATO
Epica The Holographic Principle Symphonic metal Nuclear Blast
Eric Clapton Live in San Diego Reprise
Gruff Rhys Set Fire to the Stars Jazz, lounge pop, rock 'n' roll Twisted Nerve
Jenny Hval Blood Bitch Experimental pop Sacred Bones
Mr. Oizo All Wet Electronic music, techno Ed Banger [244]
Opeth Sorceress Progressive rock Nuclear Blast, Moderbolaget
Pixies Head Carrier Alternative rock, indie rock, pop rock Pixiesmusic, PIAS
Regina Spektor Remember Us to Life Pop, alternative Warner Bros., Sire
Slaves Take Control Punk rock Virgin EMI
Solange A Seat at the Table Neo soul, R&B Saint, Columbia
Suicidal Tendencies World Gone Mad Crossover thrash Suicidal Records
Tycho Epoch Ambient, electronic, post-rock Ghostly International
Van Morrison Keep Me Singing Rock Caroline
William Michael Morgan Vinyl Country Warner Bros. Nashville [245]
Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter Black metal Candlelight
The Wytches All Your Happy Life Garage punk, alternative rock, indie rock Heavenly
Yello Toy Electronic dance music Universal
Yellowcard Yellowcard Alternative rock, pop punk Hopeless
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October

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October
4		 C Duncan The Midnight Sun Baroque pop, dream pop FatCat
October
5		 Shinee 1 of 1 K-pop SM, KT Music [246]
October
7		 Alter Bridge The Last Hero Alternative metal, hard rock, heavy metal Caroline, Napalm
Balance and Composure Light We Made Vagrant, Big Scary Monsters
Barry Gibb In the Now Rock, country Columbia [247]
Colbie Caillat The Malibu Sessions Pop PlummyLou Records [248]
Dance Gavin Dance Mothership Post-hardcore, experimental rock Rise [249]
Daya Sit Still, Look Pretty Electropop, dance-pop, synth-pop Z Entertainment, Artbeatz, RED Distribution [250]
The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues Metalcore Rise
Goat Requiem Alternative rock, psychedelic Sub Pop, Rocket Recordings [251]
Green Day Revolution Radio Punk rock, pop punk, alternative rock Reprise
Joyce Manor Cody Emo, pop punk, indie rock Epitaph
Kae Tempest Let Them Eat Chaos Fiction, Lex
Kaiser Chiefs Stay Together Pop rock Fiction
Lizzo Coconut Oil R&B Atlantic
Loretta Lynn White Christmas Blue Country Legacy
Melissa Etheridge MEmphis Rock and Soul Rock, soul Stax
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason Extreme metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal Nuclear Blast
Mo Pitney Behind This Guitar Country Curb [252]
NOFX First Ditch Effort Punk rock Fat Wreck Chords
Norah Jones Day Breaks Jazz, pop rock Blue Note
Olivia Newton-John, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Amy Sky Liv On Sony Music Australia [253]
OneRepublic Oh My My Pop, pop rock Mosley, Interscope
Phantogram Three Republic [254]
Phish Big Boat Rock JEMP
Placebo Life's What You Make It Alternative rock [255]
Sonata Arctica The Ninth Hour Symphonic metal, power metal Nuclear Blast
Sum 41 13 Voices Alternative metal, alternative rock, punk rock Hopeless
White Lies Friends Indie rock BMG [256]
October
10		 BTS Wings Hip-hop, EDM, R&B Big Hit
October
14		 Beth Hart Fire on the Floor Blues rock Provogue [257]
Black Marble It's Immaterial Synth-pop, coldwave Ghostly International
Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra Time/Life Jazz Impulse!
Chris Young It Must Be Christmas Country, Christmas RCA Nashville [258]
Conor Oberst Ruminations Nonesuch
Crying Beyond the Fleeting Gales Run for Cover
Darkthrone Arctic Thunder Black metal Peaceville [259]
Dave Holland Aziza Jazz Dare2 Records [260]
David Bromberg Band The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues Blues Red House [261]
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation Mathcore, progressive metal Party Smasher, Cooking Vinyl
The Game 1992 West Coast hip-hop, gangsta rap Blood Money Entertainment, eOne
Hillsong Worship Let There Be Light Worship Hillsong, Sparrow, Capitol [262]
Jeff Rosenstock Worry Punk rock, indie rock SideOneDummy
Jessica Mauboy The Secret Daughter: Songs from the Original TV Series Pop Sony Music Australia [263]
JoJo Mad Love R&B Atlantic
Katie Melua In Winter BMG [264]
Kings of Leon Walls Rock RCA [265]
The Lemon Twigs Do Hollywood Pop, progressive rock 4AD
Lisa Mitchell Warriors Pop Warner Music Australia [266]
L'Orange and Mr. Lif The Life & Death of Scenery Hip-hop Mello Music
The Naked and Famous Simple Forms Somewhat Damaged, Kobalt Label Services [267]
The Orb COW / Chill Out, World! Electronica, dub, IDM Kompakt
Rebecca Ferguson Superwoman Syco, Sony Music [268]
Sabrina Carpenter Evolution Electropop Hollywood [269]
Sleaford Mods T.C.R. New wave, post-punk Rough Trade
Tom Chaplin The Wave Pop Island [270]
Two Door Cinema Club Gameshow Indie rock Parlophone [271]
Wadada Leo Smith America's National Parks Jazz Cuneiform
October
21		 Agnes Obel Citizen of Glass Folk, classical, indie pop PIAS
Amaranthe Maximalism Metalcore, power metal Spinefarm
American Football American Football Rock Polyvinyl
Amy Grant Tennessee Christmas Christmas, Contemporary Christian Capitol, Sparrow
Cakes da Killa Hedonism Ruffians, Thirty Tigers [272]
David Crosby Lighthouse Folk GroundUP Music [273]
The Dean Ween Group The Deaner Album Alternative rock ATO [274]
DRAM Big Baby DRAM Hip-hop Atlantic, Empire
Elvis Presley The Wonder of You Orchestral pop RCA, Legacy
Far East Movement Identity EDM, pop Transparent Agency, Spinnin', eOne [275]
Hooton Tennis Club Big Box of Chocolates [276]
I Prevail Lifelines Post-hardcore, metalcore, alternative rock Fearless [277]
Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues Alternative rock RCA
Joe Budden Rage & The Machine Hip-hop Mood Muzik Entertainment, Empire
Kevin Devine Instigator Procrastinate! Music Traitors [278]
Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation Electropop Double Denim, Sony Music Japan
Korn The Serenity of Suffering Nu metal Roadrunner
Lady Gaga Joanne Soft rock, dance-pop Interscope
Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker Folk rock Columbia
Melanie C Version of Me Pop Red Girl, RCA
Michael Bublé Nobody but Me Reprise
NxWorries Yes Lawd! Stones Throw
Pentatonix A Pentatonix Christmas A cappella, Christmas RCA [279]
The Pretenders Alone Rock BMG
The Pretty Reckless Who You Selling For Rock Razor & Tie
R. Kelly 12 Nights of Christmas R&B, soul RCA [280]
The Radio Dept. Running Out of Love Dream pop, indie pop, electronic Labrador [281]
Rascal Flatts The Greatest Gift of All Country, Christmas Big Machine [282]
Saint Motel saintmotelevision Indie pop Elektra, On The Records, Parlophone
Sarah McLachlan Wonderland Christmas Verve [283]
Tanya Tagaq Retribution Inuit throat singing Six Shooter
October
24		 Twice Twicecoaster: Lane 1 K-pop, dance JYP
October
26		 Arashi Are You Happy? Pop, R&B J Storm [284]
October
27		 Saba Bucket List Project Hip-hop Saba Pivot, LLC
October
28		 Avenged Sevenfold The Stage Thrash metal, progressive metal Capitol
Black M Éternel insatisfait French hip-hop, French pop Wati B, Sony Music, Jive [285]
Blue Rodeo 1000 Arms Country rock Warner Music Canada [286]
Brett Eldredge Glow Country, Christmas Atlantic Nashville
Courteeners Mapping the Rendezvous Indie rock Ignition Records
CRX New Skin Hard rock, stoner rock, industrial rock Columbia
Dope Blood Money Part 1 Industrial metal, metalcore, alternative metal eOne
Empire of the Sun Two Vines Virgin EMI [287]
Helmet Dead to the World Alternative metal earMUSIC
The Hidden Cameras Home On Native Land Folk, country Outside
James Arthur Back from the Edge Pop Columbia [288]
Jeezy Trap or Die 3 Hip-hop Def Jam, CTE World [289]
Jennifer Nettles To Celebrate Christmas Country, Christmas Big Machine [290]
Kacey Musgraves A Very Kacey Christmas Country, Christmas Mercury Nashville
Kenny Chesney Cosmic Hallelujah Country Blue Chair, Columbia Nashville [291]
LeAnn Rimes Remnants Country, rock, country pop Sony Music [292]
Madness Can't Touch Us Now Ska, pop, reggae Lucky 7
Mannequin Pussy Romantic Punk rock Tiny Engines
Memphis May Fire This Light I Hold Metalcore, post-hardcore, hard rock Rise
She & Him Christmas Party Indie pop, Christmas Columbia
Testament Brotherhood of the Snake Thrash metal Nuclear Blast
Tkay Maidza Tkay Synth-pop, hip-hop Downtown, Interscope
Tony Molina Confront the Truth Power pop Slumberland [293]
Tove Lo Lady Wood Electropop, synth-pop, dance-pop Island
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November

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November
4		 Alicia Keys Here R&B, soul RCA
B.o.B. Elements Conscious hip-hop, political hip-hop Label No Genre [294]
Bon Jovi This House Is Not for Sale Arena rock, pop rock Island
The Chainsmokers Collage Disruptor, Columbia [295]
Client Liaison Diplomatic Immunity Electropop, indie pop, new wave Dot Dash Recordings, Remote Control, Inertia
Common Black America Again Hip-hop ARTium, Def Jam
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions Until the Hunter Alternative rock Tendril Tales
Jaws Simplicity Post-punk
Jim James Eternally Even Indie rock, psychedelic rock, alternative rock ATO, Capitol
Keke Palmer Lauren R&B Island [296]
Kungs Layers Deep house, tropical house House of Barclay [297]
Laura Pausini Laura Xmas Christmas music, jazz, swing Warner [298]
Marcus & Martinus Together Pop Sony Music Entertainment Norway [299]
Queen On Air Rock, hard rock Virgin EMI, Hollywood [300]
Robbie Williams The Heavy Entertainment Show Pop Columbia
Shirley Collins Lodestar Folk Domino
Susan Boyle A Wonderful World Operatic pop, crossover, easy listening Syco, Columbia, Sony Music [301]
Tinashe Nightride Alternative R&B RCA [302]
Waterparks Double Dare Pop punk Equal Vision [303]
Yussef Kamaal Black Focus Jazz-funk, broken beat Brownswood
November
5		 French Montana MC4 Hip-hop Bad Boy, Maybach Music Group, Epic [304]
November
8		 Wakrat Wakrat Alternative rock Earache [305]
November
9		 Bad Gyal Slow Wine Mixtape Bad Gyal
November
11		 Bob Dylan The 1966 Live Recordings Folk Columbia [306]
Cliff Richard Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Rock and roll Sony Music [307]
David Bowie Legacy (The Very Best of David Bowie) Rock Sony Music [308]
Emeli Sandé Long Live the Angels R&B, soul Virgin [309]
Enigma The Fall of a Rebel Angel New-age, pop, electronica Baloo Music S.A. [310]
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood Christmas Together Christmas, country Pearl, Gwendolyn [311]
In Flames Battles Alternative metal Eleven Seven, Nuclear Blast [312]
John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John Friends for Christmas Pop, Christmas music Sony Music Australia
Lorenzo Senni Persona Hard trance, intelligent dance music Warp
Mina & Celentano Le migliori Pop Clan, PDU [313]
Nathan Sykes Unfinished Business Pop, R&B, EDM Global Entertainment
Olly Murs 24 Hrs Pop Epic
Ronnie Dunn Tattooed Heart Country Nash Icon [314]
Simple Minds Acoustic Acoustic Caroline International [315]
Sirenia Dim Days of Dolor Gothic metal, symphonic metal, doom metal Napalm [316]
Sleigh Bells Jessica Rabbit Indie pop Torn Clean
Sting 57th & 9th Pop rock Cherrytree, Interscope, A&M
A Tribe Called Quest We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service East Coast hip-hop, jazz rap Epic
You Blew It! Abendrot Indie rock Triple Crown
November
18		 6lack Free 6lack Hip-hop, R&B LoveRenaissance, Interscope [317]
Bic Runga Close Your Eyes Sony Music New Zealand [318]
Bridgit Mendler Nemesis Soul, indie, R&B Black Box [319]
Bruno Mars 24K Magic Funk Atlantic [320]
DNCE DNCE Pop Republic
Dragonette Royal Blues [321]
E-40 The D-Boy Diary: Book 1 Hip-hop Heavy on the Grind Entertainment [322]
E-40 The D-Boy Diary: Book 2 Hip-hop Heavy on the Grind Entertainment [322]
High Valley Dear Life Country Atlantic, Warner Nashville [323]
Highly Suspect The Boy Who Died Wolf Alternative rock 300 Entertainment
Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone Deathcore, mathcore Good Fight
Justice Woman Disco, funk Because, Ed Banger
Kerser Tradition Warner Australia [324]
Kevin Abstract American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story Indie pop, alternative hip-hop, alternative R&B Brockhampton Records [325]
Little Mix Glory Days Dance-pop, R&B Syco, Columbia [326]
Metallica Hardwired... to Self-Destruct Thrash metal Blackened Recordings [327]
Miranda Lambert The Weight of These Wings Country RCA Nashville [328]
Pink Martini Je dis oui! Heinz Records [329]
Sixx:A.M. Prayers for the Blessed Alternative metal, hard rock Eleven Seven [330]
Thee Oh Sees An Odd Entrances Garage rock, psychedelic rock Castle Face [331]
November
21		 Up10tion Burst K-pop TOP Media [332]
November
22		 Prince 4Ever Pop, rock, funk NPG, Warner Bros. [333]
November
23		 Lil Uzi Vert and Gucci Mane 1017 vs. The World Hip-hop, trap Generation Now, GUWOP [334]
November
25		 Flume Skin Companion EP 1 [335]
Garth Brooks Gunslinger Country Pearl [336]
Kate Bush Before the Dawn Progressive pop, art pop, art rock Concord, Fish People [337]
Kylie Minogue Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition Christmas, traditional pop Parlophone, Warner Bros. [338]
Rumer This Girl's in Love: A Bacharach and David Songbook Pop East West, Warner Bros. [339]
The Weeknd Starboy Alternative R&B XO, Republic [340]
November
29		 Dr. Dog Abandoned Mansion Indie rock, blues rock, neo-psychedelia Anti- [341]
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Release date Artist Album Genre Label Ref.
December
2		 Animotion Raise Your Expectations Invisible Hands Music [342][343]
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" R&B, soul, funk Glassnote
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Grace VanderWaal Perfectly Imperfect Pop Columbia
Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygène 3 Electronic Sony Music, Columbia
John Legend Darkness and Light R&B Columbia, GOOD
Nails / Full of Hell Nails / Full of Hell Grindcore Closed Casket Activities
The Narrative Golden Silence Indie rock, synth-pop [344]
Pete Doherty Hamburg Demonstrations Indie rock Cloud Hill
The Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome Blues rock Polydor [345]
Tiziano Ferro Il mestiere della vita Pop Universal [346]
Various artists The Hamilton Mixtape Hip-hop, R&B, pop Atlantic [347]
December
9		 Ab-Soul Do What Thou Wilt. Hip-hop Top Dawg [348]
Hodgy Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide Hip-hop Odd Future, Columbia [349]
J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only Conscious hip-hop Dreamville, Roc Nation [350]
LP Lost on You Indie rock Vagrant [351]
Maria Taylor In the Next Life Indie folk Flower Moon Records
Neil Young Peace Trail Rock Reprise
Post Malone Stoney Country, R&B Republic
Tech N9ne The Storm Hip-hop Strange [352]
Various artists Doing It In Lagos: Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980s Nigeria Pop, disco, afro-pop Soundway [353]
December
12		 Big Bang Made Dance-pop, R&B, hip-hop YG [354]
December
15		 Injury Reserve Floss [355]
December
16		 Gabrielle Aplin Miss You Never Fade [356]
Kid Cudi Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' Hip-hop Wicked Awesome, Republic
Little Simz Stillness in Wonderland Hip-hop Age 101 Music
T.I. Us or Else: Letter to the System Political hip-hop Grand Hustle, Roc Nation
December
21		 Dec 99th December 99th [357]
December
22		 Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events Industrial rock The Null Corporation
December
24		 Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 Hip-hop RBC
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