Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Summer 2015
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, and DVDs arriving over the coming months. Hey, maybe you’ll buy some of them! This installment covers summer 2015.
Beginning next week, albums will be released on Fridays all over the world. Please note that release dates may change.
July:
07-04
Lil Wayne: Free Weezy Album [self-released]
Young Thug / London on Da Track: Slime Season [self-released]
07-07
Fort Romeau: Frankfurt Versions EP [Spectral Sound]
Lockah: It Gets More Cloudy… [Donky Pitch]
Statik Selektah: Lucky 7 [Showoff/Duck Down]
07-10
Alchemist: Retarded Alligator Beats [ALC]
Aye Nako: The Blackest Eye [Don Giovanni]
Envy: Atheist’s Cornea [Temporary Residence]
Eric Copeland: The Remixes EP [DFA]
EZTV: Calling Out [Captured Tracks]
Four Tet: Morning/Evening [Text]
Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge: Twelve Reasons to Die II [Linear Labs]
Heather Woods Broderick: Glider [Western Vinyl]
Lee Bannon: Pattern of Excel [Ninja Tune]
Little Boots: Working Girl [On Repeat/Dim Mak]
Matrixxman: Homesick [Ghostly]
Negative Scanner: Negative Scanner [Trouble In Mind]
Prefuse 73: Every Color of Darkness EP [Temporary Residence]
Richard Buckner: The Hill [Merge] [reissue]
Sleaford Mods: Key Markets [Harbinger Sound]
Slim Thug: Hogg Life, Vol. 2: Still Surviving [Hogg Life]
Superchunk: Come Pick Me Up [Merge] [reissue]
The-Dream: Crown Jewel [Contra Paris/Capitol]
Various Artists: Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone [RCA]
Veruca Salt: Ghost Notes [El Camino]
White Magic: I’m Hiding My Nightingale EP [Leaving]
Years & Years: Communion [Interscope/Polydor]
07-17
The Bird And The Bee: Recreational Love [Rostrum]
Camera Shy: Camera Shy [Run for Cover]
The Chemical Brothers: Born in the Echoes [Astralwerks]
Falcons: Terra EP [Fool's Gold]
Flying Saucer Attack: Instrumentals 2015 [Drag City/Domino]
Happy Diving: So Bunted EP [Topshelf]
Iron & Wine / Ben Bridwell: Sing Into My Mouth [Black Cricket/Brown]
Jason Isbell: Something More Than Free [Southeastern]
Mountain Language: Caustic Surge of Weary Oceans [HeWhoCorrupts, Inc.]
MS MR: How Does It Feel [Columbia]
Peacers: Peacers [Drag City]
Pictureplane: Hyper Real: The Remixes EP [IHC 1NFINITY]
Ratatat: Magnifique [XL]
Tame Impala: Currents [Interscope]
White Reaper: White Reaper Does It Again [Polyvinyl]
07-24
Ashley Monroe: The Blade [Warner]
Capone-N-Noreaga: Lessons [Thugged Out Militainment/Penalty]
Ducktails: St. Catherine [Domino]
Eleventh Dream Day: Works for Tomorrow [Thrill Jockey]
Fox Millions Duo: Lost Time [Thrill Jockey]
Gwenno: Y Dydd Olaf [Heavenly] [reissue]
Jessy Lanza: You Never Show Your Love EP [Hyperdub]
Joe Satriani: Shockwave Supernova [Sony]
Lamb of God: VII: Sturm und Drang [Epic]
L’Orange / Kool Keith: Time? Astonishing! [Mello Music Group]
Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires: Sweet Disorder! [Sub Pop]
Locrian: Infinite Dissolution [Relapse]
Mas Ysa: Seraph [Downtown]
Philadelphia Collins: Derp Swervin’ [Exploding in Sound]
Ricked Wicky: King Heavy Metal [GBV]
Roger Waters: Amused to Death [Columbia/Legacy] [reissue]
Seven Davis Jr.: Universes [Ninja Tune]
Omar Souleyman: Bahdeni Nami [Monkeytown]
Strange Wilds: Subjective Concepts [Sub Pop]
Vacation: Non-Person [Don Giovanni]
Various Artists: Carpark Sweet Sixteen Basketball Picture Disc 12 [Carpark]
Various Artists: Southpaw OST [Shady/Interscope]
Watkins Family Hour: Watkins Family Hour [Family Hour]
07-28
Adult Mom: Momentary Lapse of Happily [Tiny Engines]
The Sediment Club: Psychosymplastic [Wharf Cat]
Titus Andronicus: The Most Lametable Tragedy [Merge]
07-31
Albert Hammond Jr.: Momentary Masters [Vagrant]
CFCF: Radiance and Submission [Driftless]
The Jesus and Mary Chain: Live at Barrowlands [Demon]
Led Zeppelin: Coda [Atlantic/Swan Song] [reissue]
Led Zeppelin: In Through the Out Door [Atlantic/Swan Song] [reissue]
Led Zeppelin: Presence [Atlantic/Swan Song] [reissue]
The Maccabees: Marks to Prove It [Caroline]
Migos: YRN: Tha Album [300 Entertainment/Quality Control/Atlantic]
Rat Columns: Fooling Around E.P. [Blackest Ever Black]
Seaweed: Actions and Indications [Merge] [reissue]
August:
08-01
I’lls: Can I Go With You to Go Back to My Country EP [Solitaire]
o8-04
Jackson C. Frank: Jackson C. Frank: The Complete Recordings [Ba Da Bing!] [compilation] [reissue]
08-07
Blondes: Persuasion EP [RVNG]
Chelsea Wolfe: Abyss [Sargent House]
Deaf Wish: Pain [Sub Pop]
HEALTH: Death Magic [Loma Vista]
Heathered Pearls: Body Complex [Ghostly]
La Luz: Weirdo Shrine [Hardly Art]
Mac DeMarco: Another One [Captured Tracks]
The Mynabirds: Lovers Know [Saddle Creek]
Night Beds: Ivywild [Dead Oceans]
Obie Trice: The Hangover [Black Market Entertainment]
Slim Twig: Thank You for Stickin’ With Twig [DFA]
Telepathe: Destroyer [BZML]
Ultimate Painting: Green Lanes [Trouble in Mind]
Worriers: Imaginary Life [Don Giovanni]
08-11
Parquet Courts / Joey Pizza Slice: Split 7″ [Wharf Cat]
Pavement: The Secret History, Vol. 1 [Matador] [compilation] [reissue]
08-14
Blackalicious: Imani, Vol. 1 [self-released]
Dornik: Dornik [PMR]
The Good Life: Everybody’s Coming Down [Saddle Creek]
Palehound: Dry Food [Exploding in Sound]
Parquet Courts / Big Ups: Live 7″ [VERA/LIVE]
Slime: Company [Weird World]
Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline [Kranky] [reissue]
Stars of the Lid: The Tired Sounds Of [Kranky] [reissue]
Sweet Baboo: The Boombox Balalds [Moshi Moshi]
Various Artists: Wondaland Presents: The Eephus EP [Wondaland/Epic]
08-18
The Ukiah Drag: Crypt Cruiser [Wharf Cat]
08-21
Carly Rae Jepsen: E•MO•TION [Schoolboy/Interscope]
Christian Rich: FW14 [Good Luck Chuck]
Deradoorian: The Expanding Flower Plant [Anticon/Tugboat]
DRINKS: Hermits on Holiday [Birth/Heavenly]
Gardens & Villa: Music for Dogs [Secretly Canadian]
Ghost B.C.: Meliora [Spinefarm/Loma Vista]
Hate Eternal: Infernus [Season of Mist]
Method Man: The Meth Lab [Hanz On/Tommy Boy]
Myrkur: M [Relapse]
Oberhofer: Chronovision [Glassnote]
Owen / Into It. Over It.: Split EP [Polyvinyl]
Reatards: Grown Up, Fucked Up [Goner] [reissue]
Royal Headache: High [What's Your Rupture?]
08-28
Beach House: Depression Cherry [Sub Pop/Bella Union/Mistletone]
Cold Showers: Matter of Choice [Dais]
Destroyer: Poison Season [Merge/Dead Oceans]
Dope Body: Kunk [Drag City]
Foals: What Went Down [Warner Music Group]
Frog Eyes: Pickpocket’s Locket [Paper Bag]
Mike Krol: Turkey [Merge]
Motörhead: Bad Magic [UDR/Motörhead]
Natural Information Society / Bitchin Bajas: Automaginary [Drag City]
Tamaryn: Cranekiss [Mexican Summer]
Willis Earl Beal: Noctunes [Tender Loving Empire]
Yo La Tengo: Stuff Like That There [Matador]
Young Thug: Hy!£UN35 [Atlantic/300 Entertainment]
September:
09-04
Against Me!: 23 Live Sex Acts [Total Treble/INgrooves]
The Arcs: Yours, Dreamily [Nonesuch]
Dâm-Funk: Invite the Light [Stones Throw]
Diane Coffee: Everybody’s a Good Dog [Western Vinyl]
FIDLAR: Too [Mom & Pop]
Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls [Parlophone]
Joan Shelley: Over and Even [No Quarter]
Max Richter: SLEEP [Deutsche Grammophon]
Painted Palms: Horizons [Polyvinyl]
Public Image Ltd.: What the World Needs Now… [PiL]
Supergrass: I Should Coco [Parlophone] [reissue]
Ty Dolla $ign: Free TC [Atlantic]
Unwound: Empire [Numero Group] [compilation] [reissue]
Widowspeak: All Yours [Captured Tracks]
09-11
Beirut: No No No [4AD]
Ben Folds / yMusic: So There [New West]
Craig Finn: Faith in the Future [Partisan]
Low: Ones and Sixes [Sub Pop]
Petite Noir: La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful [Domino]
Phil Cook: Southland Mission [Thirty Tigers]
Romare: Rainbow [Ninja Tune]
Shannon and the Clams: Gone by the Dawn [Hardly Art]
Slayer: Repentless [Nuclear Blast]
09-18
Baio: The Names [Glassnote]
The Black Dahlia Murder: Abysmal [Metal Blade]
Bob Moses: Days Gone By [Domino]
Chris Cornell: Higher Truth [TBA]
Darwin Deez: Double Down [Lucky Number]
Destruction Unit: Negative Feedback Resistor [Sacred Bones]
Duran Duran: Paper Gods [Warner Bros.]
Grateful Dead: 30 Trips Around the Sun [Rhino] [compilation]
HeCTA: The Diet [Merge]
Hibou: Hibou [Barsuk]
Lucero: All A Man Should Do [ATO]
Mercury Rev: The Light in You [Bella Union]
Metric: Pagans in Vegas [MMI]
Robert Forster: Songs to Play [Tapete]
Roger Lion: Roger Lion [Team Love]
Rudimental: We the Generation [Major Tom's/Big Beat]
Saul Williams: MartyrLoserKing [FADER]
Skylar Spence: Prom King [Carpark]
Telekinesis: Ad Infinitum [Merge]
Windhand: Grief’s Internal Flower [Relapse]
09-25
David Bowie: Five Years 1969 – 1973 [Parlophone]
Disclosure: Caracal [PMR/Island]
Dungen: Allas Sak [Mexican Summer/Smalltown Supersound]
Graveyard: Innocence & Decadence [Nuclear Blast]
New Order: Music Complete [Mute]
Peaches: Rub [I U She/INgrooves]
Tobias Jesso Jr.: “True Love” b/w “Without You (Alternate Version)” 7″ [True Panther]
October:
10-02
Children of Bodom: I Worship Chaos [Nuclear Blast]
Eagles of Death Metal: Zipper Down [T-Boy/UMe]
Girls Names: Arms Around a Vision [Tough Love]
10-08
PJ Harvey / Seamus Murphy: The Hollow of the Hand [Bloomsbury Circus] [book]
10-09
Mogwai: Central Belters [Rock Action]
10-13
Elvis Costello: Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink [Blue Rider] [book]
10-16
Dan Friel: Life [Thrill Jockey]
Dave Heumann: Here in the Deep [Thrill Jockey]
Maritime: Magnetic Bodies/Maps of Bones [Dangerbird]
Matmos: Ultimate Care II [Thrill Jockey]
10-27
Carrie Brownstein: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl [Riverhead] [book]
10-30
Various Artists: Ork Records: New York, New York [Numero Group] [compilation]
TBA:
ANOHNI: HOPELESSNESS [Warp]
Beak> / <Kaeb: River Avon Blue EP [Invada]
Chromatics: Dear Tommy [Italians Do It Better]
Darlene Love: Introducing Darlene Love [Columbia/Wicked Cool]
Death From Above 1979: Live at Third Man Records [Third Man]
DIIV: Is the Is Are [Captured Tracks]
Drake: Views From the 6 [TBA]
Fucked Up: Live at Third Man Records [Third Man]
Glass Candy: Body Work [Italians Do It Better]
Janet Jackson: TBA [Rhythm Nation/BMG]
Jean-Michel Jarre: TBA [Columbia]
Kanye West: SWISH [Def Jam]
Kate Boy: ONE [Fiction/Island/IAMSOUND]
Kurt Vile: b’lieve i’m goin down [Matador]
Lana Del Rey: Honeymoon [Interscope/Polydor]
Luna: Luna: Long Players (92-99) [Captured Tracks] [compilation] [reissue]
Majical Cloudz: Are You Alone? [Matador]
Nicolas Godin: Contrepoint [Because Music]
The Parlor: Wahzu Wahzu [self-released]
Power: Electric Glitter Boogie [Cool Death]
RiFF RAFF: Peach Panther [Mad Decent]
Rihanna: TBA [Def Jam]
Robyn and La Bagatelle Magique: TBA [Konichiwa/Cherrytree/Interscope]
Run the Jewels: Meow the Jewels [TBA]
Sound of Ceres: Nostalgia for Infinity [TBA]
Symmetry: Still Life [Italians Do It Better]
Tink: Think Tink [Mosley/Epic]
Travi$ Scott: Rodeo [Epic]
The Weeknd: TBA [Republic]
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