The Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Winter 2017

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 winter 2017, starting with this Friday, January 13. (Please note that release dates may change.) For more about the albums we’re most excited for in 2017, including Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Drake, Lorde, Haim, and more, check out our recent feature.

January:

01-13

• Bonobo: Migration [Ninja Tune]
• Cavern of Anti-Matter: Blood Drums [Duophonic] [reissue]
• Chavez: Cockfighters EP [Matador]
• Code Orange: Forever [Roadrunner]
• Dear Nora: Mountain Rock [Orindal] [reissue]
• The Flaming Lips: Oczy Mlody [Warner Bros.]
• Flo Morrissey / Matthew E. White: Gentlewoman, Ruby Man [Glassnote]
• Half Japanese: Hear the Lions Roar [Fire]
• Nackt: Night System [The Night Owl Diner]
• Sepultura: Machine Messiah [Nuclear Blast]
• Sohn: Rennen [4AD]
• SUSTO: & I’m Fine Today [Missing Piece/Caroline]
• The Stooges: Music From the Motion Picture “Gimme Danger” [Rhino]
• Various Artists: Up Too Early [Friends of Friends] [compilation]
• A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Iris OST [Erased Tapes]
• The xx: I See You [Young Turks]

01-19

• Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold: Sferic Ghost Transmits [Honest Jon’s]

01-20

• AFI: AFI (The Blood Album) [Concord]
• Austra: Future Politics [Domino]
• Bash & Pop: Anything Could Happen [Fat Possum]
• Cherry Glazerr: Apocalipstick [Secretly Canadian]
• Foxygen: Hang [Jagjaguwar]
• The Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead [Grateful Dead] [reissue]
• Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene Trilogy [Sony Legacy] [reissue]
• Joan of Arc: He’s Got the Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hands [Joyful Noise]
• Kid Koala: Music to Draw to: Satellite [Arts & Crafts]
• Michael Chapman: 50 [Paradise of Bachelors]
• Mick Harvey: Intoxicated Women [Mute]
• Pink Floyd: The Final Cut/A Momentary Lapse of Reason [Capitol] [reissue]
• Shintaro Sakamoto: Love If Possible [Zelone]
• Tim Cohen: Luck Man [Sinderlyn]
• Uniform: Wake in Fright [Sacred Bones]
• Vitalic: Voyager [Citizen]
• William Basinski: A Shadow in Time [2062/Temporary Residence Limited]

01-25

• Dr. Bronner: Sisters & Brothers [Dr. Bronner] [reissue/compilation]

01-27

• Allison Crutchfield: Tourist in This Town [Merge]
• Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes / Live at Earl’s Court [Eagle Rock] [DVD/Blu-ray]
• Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood: Myths 002 [Mexican Summer]
• The Avalanches: Since I Left You [Astralwerks] [reissue]
• Banana: Live [Leaving]
• Cate Le Bon: Rock Pool EP [Drag City]
• Cloud Nothings: Life Without Sound [Carpark/Wichita]
• Delicate Steve: This Is Steve [Anti-]
• Ennio Morricone: Un Uomo Da Rispettare [Superior Viaduct] [reissue]
• Fred Thomas: Changer [Polyvinyl]
• Gabriel Garzón-Montano: Jardín [Stones Throw]
• Japandroids: Near to the Wild Heart of Life [Anti-]
• Julie Byrne: Not Even Happiness [Ba Da Bing!]
• Kehlani: SweetSexySavage [Artist Partner Group]
• Kreator: Gods of Violence [Nuclear Blast]
• Mark Eitzel: Hey Mr Ferryman [Merge]
• Matthew Dear: DJ-Kicks [!K7]
• Max Richter: Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works [Deutsche Grammophon]
• Migos: C U L T U R E [300/Quality Control]
• P.O.S: Chill, dummy [Doomtree]
• Priests: Nothing Feels Natural [Sister Polygon]
• Richard Osborn: Endless [Tompkins Square]
• Sleater-Kinney: Live in Paris [Sub Pop]
• Ty Segall: Ty Segall [Drag City]
• Various Artists: Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa [Discrepant] [compilation]
• Various Artists: Dreamy Harbor [Tresor] [compilation]

February: 

02-03

• Andy Suzuki & The Method: The Glass Hour [self-released]
• Big Sean: I Decided [Def Jam/GOOD]
• Communions: Blue [Fat Possum]
• Elbow: Little Fictions [Polydor]
• Homeshake: Fresh Air [Sinderlyn]
• Iron Reagan: Crossover Ministry! [Relapse]
• Matteo Vallicelli: Primo [Captured Tracks]
• Mega Bog: Happy Together [Nicey]
• The Menzingers: After the Party [Epitaph]
• Moon Duo: Occult Architecture Vol. 1 [Sacred Bones]
• Rose Cousins: Natural Conclusion [Outside Music]
• Sampha: Process [Young Turks]
• Surfer Blood: Snowdonia [Joyful Noise]
• Vangelis: Delectus [UMC/Polydor] 

02-10

• Hand Habits: Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void) [Woodsist]
• Jesca Hoop: Memories Are Now [Sub Pop]
• Lupe Fiasco: DROGAS Light [TBA]
• Meatbodies: Alice [In the Red]
• The Necks: Unfold [Ideologic Organ]
• The Sadies: Northern Passages [Yep Roc]
• Thievery Corporation: The Temple of I & I [ESL]
• Tinariwen: Emmaar [Anti-]
• Trevor de Brauw: Uptown [The Flenser]

02-14

• Marilyn Manson: SAY10 [TBA]

02-17

• Bing & Ruth: No Home of the Mind [4AD]
• The Courtneys: The Courtneys II [Flying Nun]
• Grails: Chalice Hymnal [Temporary Residence Limited]
• Jens Lekman: Life Will See You Now [Secretly Canadian]
• Maggie Rogers: Now That the Light Is Fading [Capitol]
• Mind Over Mirrors: Undying Color [Paradise of Bachelors]
• Molly Burch: Please Be Mine [Captured Tracks]
• Mozart’s Sister: Field of Love [Arbutus]
• Nikki Lane: Highway Queen [New West]
• Novella: Change of State [Sinderlyn]
• The Orwells: Terrible Human Beings [Canvasback]
• Ryan Adams: Prisoner [Pax Am/Blue Note]
• Sam Patch: Yeah You, And I [Dep]
• Six. by Seven: The Closer Your Get [Beggars Arkive] [reissue]
• Son Volt: Notes of Blue [Transmit Sound]
• Strand of Oaks: Hard Love [Dead Oceans]
• Tim Darcy: Saturday Night [Jagjaguwar]

02-24

• Alasdair Roberts: Pangs [Drag City]
• Circus Devils: Laughs Last and Laughs Best (The Kids Eat It Up) [Rockathon]
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: The Tourist [Undertow] 
• Crystal Fairy: Crystal Fairy [Ipecac]
• Dams of the West: Youngish American [30th Century/Columbia]
• Dude York: Sincerely [Hardly Art]
• Emel Mathlouthi: Ensen [Partisan]
• The Feelies: In Between [Bar/None]
• Hippo Campus: Landmark [Grand Jury]
• Immolation: Atonement [Nuclear Blast]
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Flying Microtonal Banana [ATO]
• King Woman: Created in the Image of Suffering [Relapse]
• Los Campesinos!: Sick Scenes [Wichita]
• Oddisee: The Icebergs [Mello Music]
• Old 97’s: Graveyard Whistling [ATO]
• Peter Silberman: Impermanence [Anti-]
• Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now [Sub Pop]
• Power Trip: Nightmare Logic [Southern Lord]
• Rhiannon Giddens: Freedom Highway [Nonesuch]
• Six Organs of Admittance: Burning the Threshold [Drag City]
• Vagabon: Infinite Worlds [Father/Daughter]
• Xiu Xiu: Forget [Polyvinyl]

02-27

• Sun Kil Moon: Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood [Caldo Verde]

March: 

03-03

• Grandaddy: Last Place [30th Century]
• The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir [Nonesuch]
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: One More Time With Feeling [Bad Seed Ltd] [DVD/Blu-ray]
• Sleaford Mods: English Tapas [Rough Trade]
• Temples: Volcano [Heavenly]
• Why?: Moh Lhean [Joyful Noise]

03-07

• High Plains: Cinderland [Kranky]

03-10

• Elliott Smith: Either/Or: Expanded Edition [Kill Rock Stars] [reissue]
• Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Navigator [ATO]
• Laura Marling: Semper Femina [More Alarming]
• Planning for Burial: Below the House [The Flenser]
• The Shins: Heartworms [Aural Apothecary/Columbia]
• Sunny Sweeney: Trophy [Thirty Tigers]
• Tennis: Yours Conditionally [Mutually Detrimental]
• Valerie June: The Order of Time [Concord]

03-17

• Paul Shaffer & The World’s Most Dangerous Band: Paul Shaffer & The World’s Most Dangerous Band [Rhino]

03-24

• Craig Finn: We All Want the Same Things [Partisan]
• The Jesus and Mary Chain: Damage and Joy [ADA/Warner Music]
• Pallbearer: Heartless [Profound Lore]
• Paul McCartney: Flowers in the Dirt [MPL/Capitol/UMe] [reissue]

03-31

• British Sea Power: Let the Dancers Inherit the Party [Golden Chariot]
• Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2: Star Stuff [Company]
• The Doors: The Doors [Rhino] [reissue]
• Gold Connections: Gold Connections EP [Fat Possum]
• Julia Holter: In the Same Room [Domino Documents]
• Nelly Furtado: The Ride [Nelstar]
• Pile: A Hairshirt of Purpose [Exploding in Sound]

TBA: 

• Alice Glass: TBA [TBA]
• Amber Coffman: City of No Reply [Columbia]
• Arca: Reverie [TBA]
• Arcade Fire: TBA [TBA]
• At the Drive-In: TBA [Rise]
• Beck: TBA [Capitol]
• Chic: It’s About Time [TBA]
• Chromatics: Dear Tommy [Italians Do It Better]
• Chuck Berry: Chuck [Dualtone]
• Dan Auerbach: TBA [TBA]
• Depeche Mode: Spirit [Columbia]
• Dirty Projectors: TBA [Domino]
• Drake: More Life [Cash Money/Young Money Entertainment]
• Earl Sweatshirt: TBA [TBA]
• Fischerspooner: SIR [TBA]
• Fleet Foxes: TBA [TBA]
• G.O.O.D. Music: Cruel Winter [G.O.O.D. / Def Jam]
• Girlpool: Powerplant [TBA]
• Gorillaz: TBA [TBA]
• Grizzly Bear: TBA [TBA]
• Haim: TBA [Polydor]
• Kelela: TBA [Warp]
• King Krule: TBA [TBA]
• LCD Soundsystem: TBA [Columbia]
• Lil B: Black Ken [self-released]
• LIV: TBA [Ingrid]
• Lorde: TBA [TBA]
• Mac DeMarco: TBA [Captured Tracks]
• Mary J. Blige: Strength of a Woman [Capitol]
• Mastodon: TBA [TBA]
• Meek Mill: DC 4.5 [TBA]
• Real Estate: TBA [Domino]
• Rick Ross: Rather You Than Me [Epic]
• Sky Ferreira: Masochism [TBA]
• Spoon: TBA [Matador]
• St. Vincent: TBA [TBA]
• U2: Songs of Experience [TBA]
• Vampire Weekend: TBA [TBA]
• The War on Drugs: TBA [TBA]
• Wavves: TBA [TBA]
• Wolf Parade: TBA [TBA]
• Zack de la Rocha: TBA [TBA]

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