The Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Summer 2016
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]
07-04
Black Dice: Big Deal/Last Laugh [L.I.E.S]
07-07
Dinky: Casa [Crosstown Rebels]
Gonno & Nick Höppner: Fantastic Planet [Ostgut Ton]
07-07
Towkio: Community Service 2 EP [Self-released]
07-08
Alex 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]
07-11
VA: 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]
Kel Valhaal: New Introductory Lectures on the System of Transcendental Qabala [YLYLCYN]
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]
nonkeen: Oddments of the Gamble [R&S]
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 [L.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]
Kllo: 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]
08-19
Alex 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]
08-24
Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan: Take It, It’s Yours [Polyvinyl]
08-26
Bankz & Steelz: Anything but Words [Warner Bros.]
Beach Boys: Becoming the Beach Boys: The Complete Hite & Dorinda Morgan Sessions [Omnivore] [reissue] [compilation]
Cass McCombs: 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
09-02
Angel Olsen: My Woman [Jagjaguwar]
The Divine Comedy: Foreverland [Divine Comedy]
Eluvium: False Readings On [Temporary Residence]
The Hecks: The Hecks [Trouble in Mind]
P.S. Eliot: 2007-2011 [Don Giovanni] [compilation]
Manuel Göttsching: E2-E4 [MG.Art] [reissue]
Nathan Bowles: Whole & Cloven [Paradise of Bachelors]
Soundwalk Collective with Jesse Paris Smith feat. Patti Smith: Killer Road [Sacred Bones/Bella Union]
The Wedding Present: Going, Going… [PledgeMusic]
Wiley: Godfather [TBA]
Zomby: Ultra [Hyperdub]
09-09
Allah 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]
09-16
Cymbals 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: Dead Blue [Wrecking Light]
Tim Presley: The WiNK [Drag City]
Trentemøller: Fixion [In My Room]
Young Guns: Echoes [Wind-Up]
09-23
Devendra 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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