New Indie Albums 2020 Release List
2020 is going to be another exciting year for the indie music scene and the beginning of a new decade. With lots of new albums from bands such as Bombay Bicycle Club, Twin Atlantic, Blossoms or The 1975 in the making, 2020 promises to be just as good as 2019. While some records already have a definite release date and title, others are in early production stages or have merely been announced.
Debut albums have been confirmed for Torres (Jan 31), Flawes (Jan 31) and Drama (Feb 14). The Orielles, Gengahr and Seafret have announced their sophomore albums. New York rockers The Strokes have recently revealed they will release a new album in 2020, their first since 2013, while Aussie trio DMA’s have announced their third studio album for April 24 (rescheduled to July 10th).
The 1975 will follow up 2018’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships with a new album titled Notes On A Conditional Form (rescheduled to May 22nd). Blossoms have announced their third album Foolish Loving Spaces for January 31st. Mystery Jets also have a new album in the works, titled A Billion Heartbeats, which has been pushed back to April 3rd.
Rescheduled / postponed albums
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many artists decided to postpone their albums. We’ve added an additional column showing the original release date for any rescheduled albums.
This list is regularly updated, so check back soon for new information.
Indie Albums 2019 | Indie Albums 2018
New Indie Albums 2020
| Date | Artist | Album | Label | Rescheduled from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Jan | We Are Only Human Once | Fox | ||
| 10 Jan | Beach Slang | The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City | Bridge 9 | |
| 10 Jan | Circa Waves | Happy | PIAS | |
| 10 Jan | Georgia | Seeking Thrills | Domino | |
| 10 Jan | Echosmith | Lonely Generation | Echosmith | |
| 10 Jan | The Big Moon | Walking Like We Do | Fiction | |
| 10 Jan | Field Music | Making a New World | Memphis Industries | |
| 10 Jan | Bohren & Der Club of Gore | Patchouli Blue | Play It Again Sam | |
| 10 Jan | David Keenan | A Beginner's Guide To Bravery | Rubyworks | |
| 10 Jan | Alexandra Savior | The Archer | AWAL | |
| 13 Jan | Maria McKee | La Vita Nuova | American Fire | |
| 17 Jan | ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead | X: The Godless Void and Other Stories | Dine Alone Music | |
| 17 Jan | Gabrielle Aplin | Dear Happy | AWAL | |
| 17 Jan | Aoife Nessa Frances | Land of No Junction | Ba Da Bing! | |
| 17 Jan | Bombay Bicycle Club | Everything Else Has Gone Wrong | Caroline | |
| 17 Jan | Laumė | Waterbirth | Carpark | |
| 17 Jan | The Courteeners | More. Again. Forever. | Ignition | |
| 17 Jan | Holy Fuck | Deleter | Last Gang | |
| 17 Jan | Algiers | There Is No Year | Matador | |
| 17 Jan | Alice Boman | Dream On | PIAS | |
| 17 Jan | Mura Masa | R.Y.C | Polydor | |
| 17 Jan | Of Montreal | UR FUN | Polyvinyl | |
| 17 Jan | Pinegrove | Marigold | Rough Trade | |
| 17 Jan | Moontwin | Moon TV | self-released | |
| 17 Jan | Pintandwefall | Your Stories Baby | Soliti | |
| 17 Jan | The Innocence Mission | see you tomorrow | Thérèse | |
| 17 Jan | AJJ | Good Luck Everybody | Dine Alone Music | |
| 24 Jan | Lola Marsh | Someday Tomorrow Maybe | Anova Music | |
| 24 Jan | Andy Shauf | The Neon Skyline | Anti- | |
| 24 Jan | Black Lips | Sing in a World That's Falling Apart | Fire | |
| 24 Jan | October Drift | Forever Whatever | Physical Education Records | |
| 24 Jan | Wire | Mind Hive | pinkflag | |
| 24 Jan | Super Drama | Marigold | Rough Trade | |
| 24 Jan | We Are The City | RIP | Sinnbus | |
| 24 Jan | Wolf Parade | Thin Mind | Sub Pop | |
| 24 Jan | Caspian | On Circles | Triple Crown | |
| 24 Jan | Twin Atlantic | Power | Virgin EMI | |
| 24 Jan | COIN | Dreamland | Thérèse | |
| 24 Jan | Vukovi | Fall Better | Anti- | |
| 31 Jan | Son Little | aloha | Anti/Epitaph | |
| 31 Jan | Isobel Campbell | This Is No Other | Cooking Vinyl | |
| 31 Jan | Dan Deacon | Navarasa : Nine Emotions | Domino | |
| 31 Jan | Nathan Gray | Working Title | End Hits | |
| 31 Jan | Children | Hype | Grönland | |
| 31 Jan | Tall Tall Trees | A Wave of Golden Things | Joyful Noise Recordings | |
| 31 Jan | Gengahr | Sanctuary | Liberator Music | |
| 31 Jan | Squirrel Flower | I Was Born Swimming | Poly Vinyl | |
| 31 Jan | Dune Rats | Hurry Up And Wait | Ratbag / BMG | |
| 31 Jan | Flawes | Highlights | Red Bull | |
| 31 Jan | Dashboard Confessional | The Best Ones Of The Best Ones | Rough Trade | |
| 31 Jan | Frances Quinlan | Likewise | Saddle Creek | |
| 31 Jan | Alice Jemima | Everything Changes | Sunday Best | |
| 31 Jan | Blossoms | Foolish Loving Spaces | Universal | |
| 31 Jan | Mint Julep | Stray Fantasies | Western Vinyl | |
| 31 Jan | Pet Shimmers | Face Down In Meta | self-released | |
| 31 Jan | Smoke Fairies | Darkness Brings The Wonders Home | Year Seven | |
| 31 Jan | Son Little | Aloha | Anti- | |
| 31 Jan | The Flavians | Ordinary People in an Ordinary World | AWAL | |
| 31 Jan | Torres | Silver Tongue | Merge | |
| 31 Jan | Poliça | When We Stay Alive | Memphis Industries | |
| 7 Feb | La Roux | Supervision | Believe | |
| 7 Feb | Nada Surf | Never Not Together | City Slang | |
| 7 Feb | Shopping | All Or Nothing | FatCat | |
| 7 Feb | Ásgeir | Bury The Moon | Little Indian | |
| 7 Feb | HMLTD | West of Eden | Lucky Number | |
| 7 Feb | Mighty Oaks | All Things Go | BMG | |
| 7 Feb | The Homesick | The Big Exercise | Sub Pop | |
| 7 Feb | Xorox | Xorox | Truant | |
| 7 Feb | Oh Wonder | No One Else Can Wear Your Crown | Universal | |
| 14 Feb | The Saxophones | Eternity Bay | Full Time Hobby | |
| 14 Feb | Bambara | I Stray | Wharf Cat | |
| 14 Feb | Boniface | Boniface | Transgressive | |
| 14 Feb | Drama | Dance Without Me | Ghostly International | |
| 14 Feb | Riki | Riki | Dais | |
| 14 Feb | Psycho Comedy | Performance Space Number One | Silver Machine | |
| 14 Feb | Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | Interscope | |
| 14 Feb | Tan Cologne | Cave Vaults On The Moon In New Mexico | LABRADOR (LBD) | |
| 14 Feb | Beach Bunny | Honeymoon | Mom+Pop | |
| 14 Feb | Tennis | Swimmer | Mutually Detrimental | |
| 14 Feb | Kennebec | Departure | Night Time Stories | |
| 14 Feb | Nathaniel Rateliff | And It’s Still Alright | Stax Records | |
| 14 Feb | Ash | Teenage Wildlife: 25 Years Of Ash | ||
| 21 Feb | Purr | Like New | Anti/Epitaph | |
| 21 Feb | Lanterns on the Lake | Spook The Herd | Bella Union | |
| 21 Feb | Agnes Obel | Myopia | Blue Note | |
| 21 Feb | Banoffee | Look At Us Now Dad | Cascine | |
| 21 Feb | Best Coast | Always Tomorrow | Concord | |
| 21 Feb | Humanist | Humanist | Ignition | |
| 21 Feb | Peggy Sue | Vices | Peggy Sue | |
| 21 Feb | Greg Dulli | Random Desire | Royal Cream/BMG | |
| 21 Feb | Wilsen | Ruiner | Secret | |
| 28 Feb | Haunt The Woods | Opaque | self-released | |
| 28 Feb | Hayley Ross | The Weight of Hope | Barracuda Recordings | |
| 28 Feb | Hudson Taylor | Loving Everywhere I Go | Rubyworks | |
| 28 Feb | Jane Hership | The Home Record | self-released | |
| 28 Feb | Johnossi | Torch // Flame | BMG | |
| 28 Feb | Kevin Krauter | Full Hand | Bayonet | |
| 28 Feb | Caribou | Suddenly | City Slang | |
| 28 Feb | The Orielles | Disco Volador | Heavenly Recordings | |
| 28 Feb | Chandeen | Mercury Retrograde | Kalinkaland | |
| 28 Feb | Ratboys | Printer's Devil | Topshelf | |
| 28 Feb | Real Estate | The Main Thing | Domino | |
| 28 Feb | Slowly Slowly | Race Car Blues | UNFD | |
| 6 Mar | Cathedral Bells | Velvet Spirit | self-released | |
| 6 Mar | Disq | Collector | Saddle Creek | |
| 6 Mar | Honey Harper | Starmaker | ATO | |
| 6 Mar | Islet | Eyelet | Fire | |
| 6 Mar | Lauv | ~how i’m feeling~ | AWAL | |
| 6 Mar | White Tail Falls | Age Of Entitlement | Physical Education | |
| 13 Mar | Seafret | Most Of Us Are Strangers | self-released | |
| 13 Mar | Circa Waves | Sad Happy | PIAS | |
| 13 Mar | False Heads | It’s All There, But You’re Dreaming | Lovers Music | |
| 13 Mar | Grouplove | Healer | Parlophone | |
| 13 Mar | Hillary Woods | Birthmark | Sacred Bones | |
| 13 Mar | Joywave | Possession | Hollywood | |
| 13 Mar | The Districts | You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere | Fat Possum | |
| 13 Mar | Porridge Radio | Everyl Bad | Secretly Canadian | |
| 13 Mar | Orchards | Lovecore | Big Scary Monsters | |
| 13 Mar | Peter Bjorn and John | Endless Dream | INGRID | |
| 13 Mar | JFDR | New Dreams | White Sun Recording | |
| 20 Mar | Halloweens | Morning Kiss At The Acropolis | Super Easy | |
| 20 Mar | Ian William Craig | Red Sun Through Smoke | 130701 | |
| 20 Mar | Moaning | Uneasy Laughter | Sub Pop | |
| 20 Mar | Morrissey | I Am Not A Dog On A Chain | BMG | |
| 20 Mar | Rustin Man | Clockdust | Domino | |
| 20 Mar | The Slow Readers Club | The Joy Of The Return | Modern Sky | |
| 27 Mar | Basia Bulat | Are You In Love? | Secret City | |
| 27 Mar | Brian Fallon | Local Honey | Lesser Known Records | |
| 27 Mar | Cable Ties | Far Enough | Merge | |
| 27 Mar | Catholic Action | Celebrated By Strangers | Modern Sky | |
| 27 Mar | Deeper | Auto-Pain | Fire Talk | |
| 27 Mar | Activity | Unmask Whoever | Western Vinyl | |
| 27 Mar | Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real | Movie In My Mind | Fantasy | |
| 27 Mar | Nap Eyes | Snapshot Of A Beginner | Jagjaguwar | |
| 27 Mar | Pearl Jam | Gigaton | Universal | |
| 27 Mar | Ringo Deathstarr | Ringo Deathstarr | Club AC30 | |
| 27 Mar | Waxahatchee | Saint Cloud | Merge | |
| 27 Mar | Sorry | 925 | Domino | |
| 3 Apr | Benjamin Gordon | Where Did We Get Lost | Blurred | |
| 3 Apr | Fire In The Radio | Monuments | Wednesday | |
| 3 Apr | Lunch Money Life | Immersion Chamber | ||
| 3 Apr | M. Ward | Migration Stories | Anti/Epitaph | |
| 3 Apr | Mentrix | My Enemy, My Love | House Of Strength | |
| 3 Apr | Mount Forel | Small Worlds | Fallen Swine | |
| 3 Apr | Ren Harvieu | Revel In The Drama | Bella Union | |
| 3 Apr | Mystery Jets | A Billion Heartbeats | Caroline International | |
| 3 Apr | Violent Soho | Everything Is A-Ok | Pure Noise | |
| 10 Apr | Jackie Lynn | Jacqueline | Drag City | |
| 10 Apr | The Strokes | The New Abnormal | Cult/RCA | |
| 10 Apr | Watkins Family Hour | Brother Sister | Thirty Tigers | |
| 17 Apr | Enter Shikari | Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible | So Recordings | |
| 17 Apr | EOB | Earth | UMG | |
| 17 Apr | Gerry Cinnamon | The Bonny | AWAL | |
| 17 Apr | Jerskin Fendrix | Winterreise | untitled | |
| 17 Apr | MOSES | Everything Else Is Bullshit | self-released | |
| 17 Apr | Soul Asylum | Hurry Up & Wait | Blue Elan | |
| 17 Apr | Twinnie | Hollywood Gypsy | BMG | |
| 24 Apr | Awolnation | Angel Miners & The Lightning Riders | Better Noise Music | |
| 24 Apr | Braids | Shadow Offering | Secret City | |
| 24 Apr | Harkin | Hand Mirror | ||
| 24 Apr | Lucinda Williams | Good Souls Better Angels | Highway20/Thirty Tigers | |
| 24 Apr | John Carroll Kirby | My Garden | Stones Throw | |
| 24 Apr | Rufus Wainwright | Unfollow The Rules | BMG | |
| 1 May | Car Seat Headrest | Making A Door Less Open | Matador | |
| 1 May | Damien Jurado | What's New, Tomboy? | Mama Bird | |
| 1 May | Diet Cig | Do You Wonder About Me | Frenchkiss | |
| 1 May | Happyness | Floatr | Infinit Suds | |
| 1 May | The Psychedelic Furs | Made Of Rain | Cooking Vinyl | |
| 8 May | Karma She | My Naked Devotion | Martin Hossbach | |
| 8 May | Margo Price | That’s How Rumors Get Started | Loma Vista Recordings | |
| 8 May | The Airborne Toxic Event | Hollywood Park | Rounder | |
| 15 May | CLT DRP | Without The Eyes | Small Pond | |
| 15 May | Biffy Clyro | A Celebration Of Endings | 14th Floor | |
| 15 May | Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit | Reunions | Thirty Tigers | |
| 15 May | Land Of Talk | Indistinct Conversations | Saddle Creek | |
| 15 May | Nahko and Medicine for the People | Take Your Power Back | Tribe/Sideonedummy | |
| 15 May | Perfume Genius | Set My Heart On Fire Immediately | Matador | |
| 15 May | Weezer | Van Weezer | Crush, Atlantic | |
| 15 May | Moses Sumney | græ | Jagjaguwar | |
| 22 May | Katie Von Schleicher | Consummation | Full Time Hobby | |
| 22 May | Party Dozen | Pray For Party Dozen | Grupo | |
| 22 May | The 1975 | Notes on a Conditional Form | Dirty Hit | 24 Apr |
| 29 May | Jade Hairpins | Harmony Avenue | Merge | |
| 29 May | Static | X | ||
| 29 May | Sweet Whirl | How Much Works | Chapter Music | |
| 29 May | The Howl & The Hum | Human Contact | AWAL | |
| 29 May | The Reflectors | First Impression | Burger Records | |
| 5 Jun | Hinds | The Prettiest Curse | Mom + Pop | 3 Apr |
| 5 Jun | Ohmme | Fantasize Your Ghost | Joyful Noise | |
| 5 Jun | Sébastien Tellier | Domesticated | ||
| 5 Jun | Sports Team | Deep Down Happy | Big Desert | |
| 12 Jun | Henry Green | Half Light | Akira Records | |
| 12 Jun | GoGo Penguin | GoGo Penguin | Blue Note | |
| 12 Jun | Kodaline | One Day At A Time | AWAL | |
| 12 Jun | Larkin Poe | Self Made Man | Tricki-Woo | |
| 12 Jun | Spacey Jane | Sunlight | AWAL | |
| 19 Jun | Gordi | Our Two Skins | Jagjaguwar | |
| 19 Jun | Pabst | Deuce Ex Machina | Ketchup Tracks / The Orchard | |
| 19 Jun | Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | Dead Oceans | |
| 19 Jun | Scarlet Pleasure | Garden | Copenhagen | |
| 26 Jun | Yes Please | Updog | self-released | |
| 3 Jul | Dream Wife | So When You Gonna... | Lucky Number | |
| 10 Jul | DMA's | The Glow | Illusive Sounds | 24 Apr |
| 10 Jul | Glass Animals | Dreamland | Polydor | |
| 10 Jul | Love Fame Tragedy | Wherever I Go, I Want To Leave | Good Soldier Songs/AWAL | |
| 10 Jul | The Midnight | Monsters | Counter | |
| 10 Jul | The Streets | None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive | Island | |
| 17 Jul | Asylums | Genetic Cabaret | Cool Things | |
| 17 Jul | The Aces | Under My Influence | Red Bull | 12 Jun |
| 17 Jul | Lianne La Havas | Lianne La Havas | Warner | |
| 17 Jul | The Blinders | Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath | Modern Sky | 8 May |
| 24 Jul | Finnian | Under The Influence | self-released | |
| 24 Jul | Sail By Summer | Casual Heaven | Apollon | |
| 24 Jul | Haim | Women in Music Pt. III | Polydor | 24 Apr |
| 31 Jul | Hockey Dad | Brain Candy | The Owl/BMG | 29 May |
| 31 Jul | Ian Skelly | Drifters Skyline | Domino | |
| 31 Jul | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero’s Death | Partisan | |
| 31 Jul | Martha Rose | Undress & Drive After | Treibender Teppich | |
| 31 Jul | Song Sung | This Ascension Is Ours | Night Time Stories | |
| 31 Jul | The Coronas | True Love Waits | So Far So Good | |
| 7 Aug | Broken Hands | Split In Two | So | |
| 7 Aug | Yellow Days | A Day in a Yellow Bea | Columbia | |
| 7 Aug | Another Sky | I Slept On The Floor | Missing Piece / Fiction | |
| 7 Aug | Washed Out | Purple Noon | Sub Pop | |
| 14 Aug | All We Are | Providence | Domino | |
| 14 Aug | Ernest Ellis | Be The Pariah | Heroism/Prospect | |
| 14 Aug | Bill Frisell | Valentine | Blue Note | |
| 14 Aug | Bloxx | Lie Out Loud | Chess Club | |
| 14 Aug | Marsicans | Ursa Major | Killing Moon | 22 May |
| 14 Aug | Sea Girls | Open Up Your Head | Polydor | 22 May |
| 14 Aug | Son Lux | Tomorrows I | City Slang | |
| 21 Aug | Alex The Astronaut | The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing | Nettwerk | |
| 21 Aug | Bully | Sugaregg | Sub Pop | |
| 21 Aug | Cuty Copy | Freeze, Melt | Cutters / The Orchard | |
| 21 Aug | Dan Croll | Grand Plan | Communion | |
| 21 Aug | Declan McKenna | Zeros | Columbia | 15 May |
| 21 Aug | Kid Dad | In A Box | Long Branch | |
| 21 Aug | Naked Giants | The Shadow | New West | |
| 21 Aug | No Joy | Motherhood | Joyful Noise | |
| 21 Aug | Sneaks | Happy Birthday | Merge | |
| 21 Aug | The Killers | Imploding The Mirage | Universal | 29 May |
| 21 Aug | The Magic Gang | Death Of The Party | Warner | 8 May |
| 28 Aug | Disclosure | Energy | Island | |
| 28 Aug | Half Gringa | Force To Reckon | self-released | |
| 28 Aug | Moon Attendant | One Last Summer | Big Potato | |
| 28 Aug | Private World | Aleph | Dias | |
| 28 Aug | Waco | Hope Rituals | Venn | |
| 31 Aug | NOFX / Frank Turner | West Coast Vs. Wessex | Fat Wreck | |
| 4 Sep | Cold Years | Paradise | self-released | 8 May |
| 4 Sep | Greta | Ardent Spring | Celebration | |
| 4 Sep | Hannah Georgas | All That Emotion | Brassland / Arts & Crafts | |
| 4 Sep | Lomelda | Hannah | Double Double Whammy | |
| 4 Sep | Yelle | L'Ère Du Verseau | ||
| 4 Sep | Young Knives | Barbarians | Gadzook | |
| 11 Sep | Delta Spirit | What Is There | New West | |
| 11 Sep | Doves | The Universal Want | Virgin EMI | |
| 11 Sep | Everything Everything | Re-Animator | Infinity Industries | 21 Aug |
| 11 Sep | Mammal Hands | Captured Spirits | Gondwana | |
| 11 Sep | Matt Costa | Yellowcoat | ||
| 11 Sep | Susanna | Baudelaire & Piano | SusannaSonata | |
| 11 Sep | Suzanne Vega | An Evening Of New York Songs And Stories | Amanuensis/Cooking Vinyl | |
| 18 Sep | Bear's Den | Fragments | Caroline | |
| 18 Sep | Into It. Over It. | Figure | Big Scary Monsters | |
| 18 Sep | Joan Osborne | Trouble & Strife | Womanly Hips | |
| 18 Sep | Sunship Balloon | Everywhen | AWAL | |
| 18 Sep | Yours Truly | Self Care | UNFD | |
| 25 Sep | Death Bells | New Signs of Life announced | Dais | |
| 25 Sep | Thurston Moore | By The Fire | Daydream Library Series | |
| 25 Sep | Sylvan Esso | Free Love | Loma Vista | |
| 25 Sep | Sufjan Stevens | The Ascension | Asthmatic Kitty | |
| 30 Sep | Tempesst | Must Be A Dream | Pony | |
| 2 Oct | Death Valley Girls | Under the Spell of Joy | Suicide Squeeze | |
| 2 Oct | Luka Kuplowsky | Stardust | Mama Bird | |
| 2 Oct | Matt Berninger | Serpentine Prison | Concord | |
| 2 Oct | The Jaded Hearts Club | You've Always Been Here | Infectious | |
| 9 Oct | Travis | 10 Songs | BMG | |
| 13 Oct | Low Cut Connie | Private Lives | Contendor / MidCitizen | |
| 16 Oct | Holy Motors | Horse | Wharf Cat | |
| 16 Oct | Delmer Darion | Morning Pageants | Practise Music | |
| 23 Oct | Boy Pablo | Wachito Rico | 777 Music | |
| 23 Oct | Nothing But Thieves | Moral Panic | Sony | |
| 23 Oct | Plants and Animals | The Jungle | Secret City | |
| 23 Oct | Skyway Man | The World Only Ends When You Die | Mama Bird | |
| 23 Oct | The Last Dinosaur | Wholeness | Phases | |
| 30 Oct | Elvis Costello | Hey Clockface | Concord | |
| 30 Oct | Stella Sommer | Northern Dancer | Northern Dancer | |
| 6 Nov | Apre | Always In My Head | Polydor | |
| 6 Nov | Babeheaven | Home For Now | AWAL | |
| 13 Nov | Katy J Pearson | Return | Heavenly | |
| 13 Nov | The Cribs | Night Network | Sonic Blew / [PIAS] | |
| 27 Nov | Will Joseph Cook | Something To Feel Good About | Bad Hotel | |
| TBA | Flyying Colours | Fantasy Country | Club AC30 | |
| TBA | Hundreds | The Current | Embassy of Music |