October is usually one of the biggest and strongest release months. September set the bar very, very high, but October took the duel and overwhelmed us with a bunch of really amazing records.
To get a grip of all the good records out last month, I spared no expenses to provide you with a carefully curated list of goodness. As usual. Enjoy!
We Lost The Sea – Triumph & Disaster
October 4 // Translation Loss/dunk! Records/Holy Roar
Portico Quartet – Memory Streams
October 4 // Gondwana Records
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
October 4 // Ghosteen Ltd.
Masvidal – Human
October 4 // Unsigned
Joshuah Radin – Here, Right Now
October 4 // Nettwerk
Just beautiful and very warm.
DIIV – Deceiver
October 4 // Captured Tracks
Carla del Forno – Look Up Sharp
October 4 // Kallista
Billy Woods – Terror Management
October 4 // Backwoodz Studioz
Seizures – Reverie of the Revolving Diamond
October 4 // Unsigned
Lethvm – Acedia
October 10 // dunk! Records
Mavi – Let The Sun Talk
October 10 // Unsigned
Sarah Page – Dose Curves
October 11 // Backward Music
Opium Lord – Vore
October 11 // Sludgelord Records
Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain & Chris Potter – Good Hope
October 11 // Edition Records
When those kind of legends make this kind of music, well, that’s a win for all of us.
Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia
October 11 // Ropeadope
Richard Dawson – 2020
October 11 // Domino
Blue Hawaii – Open Reduction Internal Fixation
October 11 // Arbutus Records
Big Thief– Tow Hands
October 11 // 4AD
beabadoobee – Space Cadet
October 14 // Dirty Hit
Wonderful songs for fans of Kero Kero Bonito.
Sonosukimakara – Spear
October 16 // Unsigned
Ultra energetic and super expressive math rock for fans of Battles and Black Midi.
clipping. – There Existed an Addiction to Blood
October 18 // Sub Pop
Kneebody – Chapters
October 18 // Edition Records
Tourist – Wild
October 18 // Monday Records
Tourist creates great soundscapes with a mixture of deep house and Tycho.
Hovvdy – Heavy Lifter
October 18 // Doubly Whammy Whammy
Tourist creates great soundscapes with a mixture of deep house and Tycho.
Ghost Spirit – Hourglass
October 18 // Twelve Gauge Records/Blue Swan Records
Floating Points – Crush
October 18 // Ninja Tune
Foxes In Fiction – Trillium Killer
October 18 // Orchid Tapes
Battles – Juicy B Crypts
October 18 // Warp
I fucking love Battles, and so should you.
Slow Meadow – Happy Occident
October 18 // Hammock Music
KØDE – Discrete Transformation
October 18 // Division Records
Great Grandpa – Four of Arrows
October 25 // Double Double Whammy/Big Scary Monsters
Cigarettes After Sex – Cry
October 25 // Partisan Records
Alcest – Spiritual Instinct
October 25 // Nuclear Blast
The Brook & The Bluff – First Place
October 25 // Unsigned
This is so simple, yet so wonderful, confident and elegant.
The Bad Plus – Activate Infinity
October 25 // Edition Records
Come on, The Bad Plus are fucking legends.
Paniyolo + Akio Watanabe – 空も少し
October 25 // Schole
Consumer – In Computers
October 25 // The Flenser
Hemlock Ernst and Kenny Segal – Back at the House
October 25 // Unsigned
Hana Vu – Nicole Kidman / Anne Hathaway
October 25 // Luminelle
Ştiu Nu Ştiu – Sick Sad Love
October 25 // Widsith
Konradsen – Saints and Sebastian Stories
October 25 // Su Tissue Records
Timelost – Don’t Remember Me For This
October 25 // Timelost Records
Zutomayo – 潜潜話
October 30 // EMI Records
Freaking energetic Japanese jazz rock. Sold.
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