New Indie Albums 2021 Release List
2021 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 Foo Fighters, Django Django and Maximo Park in the making, 2021 promises to be just as good as 2020. 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 TV Priest (Feb 5), Arlo Parks (Jan 29) and The Luka State (Jan 29). Black Honey, Tom Grennan and Pale Waves have announced their sophomore albums. New albums are also expected for Roosevelt, Cloud Nothings, Royal Blood and London Grammar.
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.
New Indie Albums 2021
| Date | Artist | Album | Label | Rescheduled from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | The Dirty Nil | Fuck Art | Dine Alone | |
| Jan 8 | Aaron Frazer | Introducing... | Dead Oceans | |
| Jan 8 | Henrik Appel | Humanity | PNKSLM Recordings | |
| Jan 8 | Lice | Wasteland | Settled Law | |
| Jan 8 | Passenger | Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted | Nettwerk Records | |
| Jan 9 | Casper Clausen | Better Way | City Slang | |
| Jan 15 | You Me At Six | SUCKAPUNCH | Underdog / AWAL | |
| Jan 15 | Buck Meek | Two Saviors | Keeled Scales | |
| Jan 15 | Celeste | Celeste | Polydor | |
| Jan 15 | Midnight Sister | Painting The Roses | Jagjaguwar | |
| Jan 15 | Pearl Charles | Magic Mirror | Kanine Records | |
| Jan 15 | Pom Poko | Cheater | Bella Union | |
| Jan 15 | Shame | Drunk Tank Pink | Dead Oceans | |
| Jan 15 | Sleaford Mods | Spare Ribs | Rough Trade | |
| Jan 15 | Fickle Friends | Weird Years | Cooking Vinyl | |
| Jan 22 | James Yorkston And The Second Hand Orchestra | The Wide, Wide River | Domino | |
| Jan 22 | Kinlaw | The Tipping Scale | Bayonet | |
| Jan 22 | Lonely The Brave | The Hope List | Easy Life | |
| Jan 22 | Moon Taxi | Silver Dream | 12th South Records | |
| Jan 22 | Rhye | Home | Vista | |
| Jan 22 | Still Corners | The Last Exit | Wrecking Light Records | |
| Jan 29 | Anna B Savage | A Common Turn | City Slang | |
| Jan 29 | Arlo Parks | Collapsed In Sunbeams | Transgressive Records | |
| Jan 29 | Baio | Dead Hand Control | Glassnote | |
| Jan 29 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | New Fragility | CYHSY, Secretly Distribution | |
| Jan 29 | Goat Girl | On All Fours | ||
| Jan 29 | Lucero | When You Found Me | Thirty Tigers | |
| Jan 29 | Modern Hinterland | Diving Bell | Fandango | |
| Jan 29 | Steven Wilson | The Future Bites | ||
| Jan 29 | The Besnard Lakes | The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings | Fat Cat | |
| Jan 29 | The Luka State | Fall In Fall Out | Shelter / BMG | |
| Feb 5 | Black Country, New Road | For the first time | Ninja Tune | |
| Feb 5 | Colin Macleod | Hold Fast | So Recordings | |
| Feb 5 | Foo Fighters | Medicine at Midnight | Roswell, RCA | |
| Feb 5 | Kid Kapichi | This Time Next Year | self-released | |
| Feb 5 | Peace Chord | Peace Chord | Unheard of Hope | |
| Feb 5 | Sarah Mary Chadwick | Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby | Ba Da Bing! | |
| Feb 5 | slowthai | Tyron | ||
| Feb 5 | Sun June | Somewhere | Run For Cover Records | |
| Feb 5 | TV Priest | Uppers | Sub Pop | |
| Feb 5 | The Hold Steady | Open Door Policy | Thirty Tigers | |
| Feb 5 | The Staves | Good Women | Atlantic | |
| Feb 12 | A.A.Williams | Songs From Isolation | Bella Union | |
| Feb 12 | Django Django | Glowing in the Dark | Because Music Ltd. | |
| Feb 12 | Julia Stone | Sixty Summers | BMG Rights Management (Australia) Pty Ltd. | |
| Feb 12 | Luna Shadows | Digital Pacific | 1 Records | |
| Feb 12 | Pale Waves | Who Am I? | Dirty Hit | |
| Feb 12 | Pentatonix | The Lucky Ones | RCA Records | |
| Feb 12 | Run River North | Creatures In Your Head | Monster Calling Home | |
| Feb 12 | Teenage Wrist | Earth Is A Black Hole | Epitaph Records | |
| Feb 12 | Virginia Wing | private LIFE | Fire Records | |
| Feb 15 | Isabella James | Isabella James | ||
| Feb 19 | Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | Hunter and the Dog Star | Shuffle Records | |
| Feb 19 | Katy Kirby | Cool Dry Place | Keeled Scales | |
| Feb 19 | Mogwai | As The Love Continues | Rock Action | |
| Feb 19 | Nothing,Nowhere. | Trauma Factory | DCD2 | |
| Feb 19 | Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs | Real One | Dine Alone | |
| Feb 19 | Tash Sultana | Terra Firma | Mom+Pop | |
| Feb 19 | The Wedding Present | Locked Down And Stripped Back | Scopitones | |
| Feb 19 | Wild Pink | A Billion Little Lights | Royal Mountain | |
| Feb 26 | Architects | For Those That Wish To Exist | Epitaph | |
| Feb 26 | Maximo Park | Nature Always Wins | Prolifica Inc | |
| Feb 26 | Roosevelt | Polydans | City Slang | |
| Feb 26 | Balthazar | Sand | PIAS | |
| Feb 26 | Cloud Nothings | The Shadow I Remember | Carpark | |
| Feb 26 | Elijah Wolf | Brighter Lighting | Trash Casual | |
| Feb 26 | Flyying Colours | Fantasy Country | Club AC30/Poison City | |
| Feb 26 | Glitterer | Life Is Not A Lesson | Anti- | |
| Feb 26 | Julien Baker | Little Oblivions | Matador | |
| Feb 26 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | L.W. | ||
| Feb 26 | Lost Horizons | In Quiet Moments | Bella Union | |
| Feb 26 | Lucy Spraggan | Choices | Cooking Vinyl | |
| Feb 26 | Mouse on Mars | AAI | Thrill Jockey | |
| Feb 26 | Nightshift | Zöe | Trouble in Mind | |
| Mar 5 | Dodie | Build a Problem | ||
| Mar 5 | Gabrielle | Do It Again | BMG | |
| Mar 5 | Jane Weaver | Flock | Fire Records | |
| Mar 5 | Mason Hill | Against The Wall | 7hz | |
| Mar 5 | The Anchoress | The Art Of Losing | Kscope | |
| Mar 5 | Tigers Jaw | I Won't Care How You Remember Me | Hopeless | |
| Mar 5 | Tom Grennan | Evering Road | Insanity | |
| Mar 5 | William The Conquerer | Maverick Thinker | Chrysalis | |
| Mar 5 | Zara Larsson | Poster Girl | Black Butter | |
| Mar 12 | Lake Street Dive | Obiously | Nonesuch | |
| Mar 12 | Bad Boys | Threesome | Jury Music | |
| Mar 19 | Black Honey | Written & Directed | Foxfive | 29 Jan |
| Mar 19 | Alice Phoebe Lou | Glow | self-released | |
| Mar 19 | David Gray | Skellig | AWAL | |
| Mar 19 | Michael Beach | Dream Violence | Goner | |
| Mar 19 | Middle Kids | Today We're The Greatest | Lucky Number Music | |
| Mar 19 | Morgan Wade | Reckless | Thirty Tigers | |
| Mar 19 | New Pagans | The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All | Big Scary Monster | |
| Mar 19 | Otzeki | Now is a Long Time | Akira | |
| Mar 19 | Sarah Louise | Earth Bow | ||
| Mar 19 | Lana Del Rey | Chemtrails Over the Country Club | ||
| Mar 26 | The Antlers | Green To Gold | Transgressive | |
| Mar 26 | Ben Howard | Collections From The Whiteout | Republic | |
| Mar 26 | Citizen | Life In Your Glass World | Run For Cover | |
| Mar 26 | L'Impératrice | Tako Tsubo | ||
| Mar 26 | Noga Erez | Kids | City Slang | |
| Apr 2 | La Femme | Paradigms | Disque Pointu | |
| Apr 2 | Twinkid | Nobody Likes Me | Om | |
| Apr 9 | Caoilfhionn Rose | Truly | Gondwana | |
| Apr 9 | Clamm | Beseech Me | Meat Machine | |
| Apr 9 | Flyte | This Is Really Going To Hurt | Island | |
| Apr 9 | London Grammar | Californian Soil | Universal | 12 Feb |
| Apr 9 | Nick Waterhouse | Promenade Blue | Innovative Leisure | |
| Apr 9 | The Fratellis | Half Drunk Under A Full Moon | ||
| Apr 16 | Low Island | If You Could Have It All Again | Emotional Interference | |
| Apr 16 | Only Sun | Tangled Mind | Modern Sky | |
| Apr 16 | Elise Davis | Anxious. Happy. Chill. | Tone Tree | |
| Apr 16 | Greta Van Fleet | The Battle at Garden's Gate | Lava / Republic | |
| Apr 16 | Low Island | If You Could Have It All Again | Emotional Interference | |
| Apr 16 | Son Lux | Tomorrows III | City Slang | |
| Apr 16 | The Offspring | Let The Bad Times Roll | Concord | |
| Apr 16 | Saint Raymond | We Forgot We Were Dreaming | Cooking Vinyl | |
| Apr 16 | Art d'Ecco | In Standard Definition | Paper Bag | |
| Apr 23 | Ade | Midnight Pizza | Trickwork | |
| Apr 23 | Ditchbird | Real Enough for You Now | ||
| Apr 23 | Kimbra | LP4 | ||
| Apr 23 | Royal Blood | Typhoons | ||
| Apr 30 | Teenage Fanclub | Endless Arcade | PeMa | |
| Apr 30 | Ashley Monroe | Rosegold | Mountainrose Sparrow / Thirty Tigers | |
| Apr 30 | The Pale White | Infinite Pleasure | AWAL | |
| Apr 30 | Amy Shark | Cry Forever | Sony | |
| Apr 30 | Manchester Orchestra | The Million Masks Of God | Loma Vista | |
| Apr 30 | New Madrid | New Madrid | Lemonade | |
| Apr 30 | Rural Tapes | Rural Tapes | Smuggler Music | |
| Apr 30 | The Coral | Coral Island | Run On Records | |
| May 1 | Weezer | Van Weezer | Crush, Atlantic | |
| May 7 | Alfie Templeman | Forever Isn’t Long Enough | Chess Club | |
| May 7 | Blue Cactus | Stranger Again | Sleepy Cat | |
| May 7 | Fougére | Still Life | Studio Fougére | |
| May 7 | Iceage | Seek Shelter | Mexican Summer | |
| May 7 | Mia Joy | Spirit Tamer | Fire Talk | |
| May 7 | White Flowers | Day By Day | Tough Love | |
| May 14 | Sarah Neufeld | Detritus | One Little Independent | |
| May 14 | Shaed | High Dive | Photo Finish | |
| May 14 | Mob Rich | Why No Why | republic | |
| May 21 | FACS | Present Tense | Trouble in Mind | |
| May 21 | Gary Numan | Intruder | self-released | |
| May 21 | Dayglow | Harmony House | AWAL | |
| May 21 | Holiday Ghosts | North Street Air | FatCat | |
| May 21 | Jim McCulloch | When I Mean What I Say | Violette | |
| May 21 | Lord Huron | Long Lost | Republic | |
| May 21 | Prosperina | Flag | Fuzzorama | |
| May 21 | Tyne-James Organ | Necessary Evil | Dew Process | |
| May 28 | Elder Island | Swimming Static | ||
| May 28 | Penelope Trappes | Penelope Three | Houndstooth | |
| Jun 4 | The Telephone Numbers | The Ballad Of Doug | Meritorio | |
| Jun 8 | Sun Kill Moon | Welcome To Sparks, Nevada | Caldo Verde | |
| Jun 11 | Beach Riot | Subatomic Party Cool | Alcopop! | |
| Jun 11 | AFI | Bodies | Rise | |
| Jun 11 | Garbage | No Gods No Masters | Stunvolume / Infectious | |
| Jun 11 | Islands | Islomania | Royal Mountain | |
| Jun 11 | Red Ribbon | Planet X | Danger Collective | |
| Jun 18 | Tigercub | As Blue As Indigo | Blame | |
| Jun 25 | Coma Culture | Camouflage | Repost Network | |
| Jun 25 | Lucy Dacus | Home Video | Matador | |
| Jul 9 | DZ Deathrays | Positive Rising: Part 2 | Alcopop! | |
| Jul 9 | Soda Blonde | Small Talk | Velveteen | |
| Jul 16 | Pizzagirl | softcore mourn | Heist or Hit | |
| Aug 20 | Jake Bugg | Saturday Night, Sunday Morning | RCA | |
| TBA | Travis Scott | Utopia | ||
| TBA | Jade Bird | TBA | AWAL | |
| TBA | Ider | shame | self-released |