As the music calendar enters its final stretch, a last flurry of releases are set to close out a marquee year for albums. Peruse the selection below to plan your soundtrack to crisp fall strolls and periods of cozy hibernation as the nights draw in.
The 1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language
October 14
Roughly two years after Notes on a Conditional Form, the 1975 are returning with Being Funny in a Foreign Language. The album’s first single, “Part of the Band” includes some guest vocals from Japanese Breakfast songwriter Michelle Zauner. And the third single, “I’m in Love With You,” has a Phoebe Bridgers cameo in the music video. Read more about the new album in the Pitchfork cover story “The 1975’s Matty Healy Turns On, Tunes In, and Logs Off.” –Rob Arcand
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Alex G: God Save the Animals
September 23
Like his previous albums, Alex G wrote and demoed God Save the Animals at home. But this time, the indie rock singer-songwriter recorded the new songs with a fleet of engineers at studios across Philadelphia to bring his vision to life. He’s shared lead single “Runner” from the new album, plus “Miracles,” “Blessing,” and “Cross the Sea,” all of which point to a bigger, brighter sound for the artist. “Some of the lyrics refer back to faith or God,” he told Pitchfork. “It’s not a concept album, but those types of lyrics came up more than usual so I figured it couldn’t hurt.” –Eric Torres
Alvvays: Blue Rev
October 7
Alvvays won hearts from the second “Archie, Marry Me” dropped, thanks to their brand of cozy, charming indie-pop, and that streak is set to continue with Blue Rev, their third studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s Antisocialites. Led by the singles “Easy on Your Own?” and “Pharmacist,” the album finds the Toronto band embracing bigger melodies and even catchier hooks in a tracklist stuffed with earworms, one blissful shoegaze strum at a time. That bolstered sound is in part thanks to Alvvays recording Blue Rev with indie producer Shawn Everett and welcoming new members Sheridan Riley on drums and Abbey Blackwell on bass. –Nina Corcoran
Arctic Monkeys: The Car
October 21
Arctic Monkeys’ 2018 album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino felt like a new direction entirely for a band that’s delivered a more consistent rock sound for the better part of two decades. The follow-up album, The Car, finds the band working with mainstay producer James Ford, and it was recorded in London, Suffolk, and Paris. “On this record, sci-fi is off the table,” frontman Alex Turner told The Big Issue. “We are back to Earth.” The lead single and album opener, “There’d Better Be a Mirrorball,” includes a lush orchestral arrangement that subtly evolves the lounge stylings of Tranquility Base. –Rob Arcand
Beth Orton: Weather Alive
September 23
Beth Orton started writing the songs for her eighth studio album, Weather Alive, on an old piano she’d bought after returning home to England from a two-year stint in Los Angeles. She wanted to write songs exclusively on her own terms, untethered from the expectations of producers and record labels. She eventually recruited bassist Tom Herbertt and drummer Tom Skinner to help flesh out the project, and multifaceted talents Alabaster dePlume and Shahzad Ismaily also make guest appearances on Weather Alive. Read the new feature “Beth Orton on the Music That Made Her.” –Allison Hussey
Bill Callahan: YTILAER
October 14
On his new album YTILAER (that’s “reality” backward), Bill Callahan stretches beyond pastoral bliss and rings celebratory bells. “I wanted sounds and words that made you feel and that lifted you up,” he said in a statement announcing the LP….
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