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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | The Dirty Nil | Fuck Art | Dine Alone |
| 8 Jan | Aaron Frazer | Introducing... | Dead Oceans |
| 8 Jan | Henrik Appel | Humanity | PNKSLM Recordings |
| 8 Jan | Lice | Wasteland | Settled Law |
| 8 Jan | Passenger | Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted | Nettwerk Records |
| 9 Jan | Casper Clausen | Better Way | City Slang |
| 15 Jan | You Me At Six | SUCKAPUNCH | Underdog / AWAL |
| 15 Jan | Buck Meek | Two Saviors | Keeled Scales |
| 15 Jan | Celeste | Celeste | Polydor |
| 15 Jan | Midnight Sister | Painting The Roses | Jagjaguwar |
| 15 Jan | Pearl Charles | Magic Mirror | Kanine Records |
| 15 Jan | Pom Poko | Cheater | Bella Union |
| 15 Jan | Shame | Drunk Tank Pink | Dead Oceans |
| 15 Jan | Sleaford Mods | Spare Ribs | Rough Trade |
| 22 Jan | James Yorkston And The Second Hand Orchestra | The Wide, Wide River | Domino |
| 22 Jan | Kinlaw | The Tipping Scale | Bayonet |
| 22 Jan | Lonely The Brave | The Hope List | Easy Life |
| 22 Jan | Moon Taxi | Silver Dream | 12th South Records |
| 22 Jan | Rhye | Home | Vista |
| 22 Jan | Still Corners | The Last Exit | Wrecking Light Records |
| 29 Jan | Anna B Savage | A Common Turn | City Slang |
| 29 Jan | Arlo Parks | Collapsed In Sunbeams | Transgressive Records |
| 29 Jan | Baio | Dead Hand Control | Glassnote |
| 29 Jan | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | New Fragility | CYHSY, Secretly Distribution |
| 29 Jan | Goat Girl | On All Fours | |
| 29 Jan | Lucero | When You Found Me | Thirty Tigers |
| 29 Jan | Modern Hinterland | Diving Bell | Fandango |
| 29 Jan | Steven Wilson | The Future Bites | |
| 29 Jan | The Besnard Lakes | The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings | Fat Cat |
| 29 Jan | The Luka State | Fall In Fall Out | Shelter / BMG |
| 5 Feb | Black Country, New Road | For the first time | Ninja Tune |
| 5 Feb | Colin Macleod | Hold Fast | So Recordings |
| 5 Feb | Foo Fighters | Medicine at Midnight | Roswell, RCA |
| 5 Feb | Peace Chord | Peace Chord | Unheard of Hope |
| 5 Feb | Sarah Mary Chadwick | Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby | Ba Da Bing! |
| 5 Feb | slowthai | Tyron | |
| 5 Feb | Sun June | Somewhere | Run For Cover Records |
| 5 Feb | TV Priest | Uppers | Sub Pop |
| 5 Feb | The Hold Steady | Open Door Policy | Thirty Tigers |
| 5 Feb | The Staves | Good Women | Atlantic |
| 12 Feb | A.A.Williams | Songs From Isolation | Bella Union |
| 12 Feb | Django Django | Glowing in the Dark | Because Music Ltd. |
| 12 Feb | Julia Stone | Sixty Summers | BMG Rights Management (Australia) Pty Ltd. |
| 12 Feb | Luna Shadows | Digital Pacific | 1 Records |
| 12 Feb | Pale Waves | Who Am I? | Dirty Hit |
| 12 Feb | Pentatonix | The Lucky Ones | RCA Records |
| 12 Feb | Run River North | Creatures In Your Head | Monster Calling Home |
| 12 Feb | Teenage Wrist | Earth Is A Black Hole | Epitaph Records |
| 12 Feb | Virginia Wing | private LIFE | Fire Records |
| 15 Feb | Isabella James | Isabella James | |
| 19 Feb | Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | Hunter and the Dog Star | Shuffle Records |
| 19 Feb | Katy Kirby | Cool Dry Place | Keeled Scales |
| 19 Feb | Mogwai | As The Love Continues | Rock Action |
| 19 Feb | Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs | Real One | Dine Alone |
| 19 Feb | Tash Sultana | Terra Firma | Mom+Pop |
| 19 Feb | The Wedding Present | Locked Down And Stripped Back | Scopitones |
| 19 Feb | Wild Pink | A Billion Little Lights | Royal Mountain |
| 21 Feb | Architects | For Those That Wish To Exist | Epitaph |
| 21 Feb | Kid Kapichi | This Time Next Year | self-released |
| 26 Feb | Maximo Park | Nature Always Wins | Prolifica Inc |
| 26 Feb | Roosevelt | Polydans | City Slang |
| 26 Feb | Cloud Nothings | The Shadow I Remember | Carpark |
| 26 Feb | Elijah Wolf | Brighter Lighting | Trash Casual |
| 26 Feb | Glitterer | Life Is Not A Lesson | Anti- |
| 26 Feb | Julien Baker | Little Oblivions | Matador |
| 26 Feb | Lost Horizons | In Quiet Moments | Bella Union |
| 26 Feb | Lucy Spraggan | Choices | Cooking Vinyl |
| 26 Feb | Mouse on Mars | AAI | Thrill Jockey |
| 26 Feb | Nightshift | Zöe | Trouble in Mind |
| 26 Feb | Elijah Wolf | Brighter Lighting | Trash Casual |
| 5 Mar | Dodie | Build a Problem | |
| 5 Mar | Jane Weaver | Flock | Fire Records |
| 5 Mar | Mason Hill | Against The Wall | 7hz |
| 5 Mar | The Anchoress | The Art Of Losing | Kscope |
| 5 Mar | Teenage Fanclub | Endless Arcade | PeMa |
| 5 Mar | Tigers Jaw | I Won't Care How You Remember Me | Hopeless |
| 5 Mar | Tom Grennan | Evering Road | Insanity |
| 5 Mar | William The Conquerer | Maverick Thinker | Chrysalis |
| 5 Mar | Zara Larsson | Poster Girl | Black Butter |
| 12 Mar | Lake Street Dive | Obiously | Nonesuch |
| 19 Mar | Black Honey | Written & Directed | Foxfive |
| 19 Mar | Alice Phoebe Lou | Glow | self-released |
| 19 Mar | Michael Beach | Dream Violence | Goner |
| 19 Mar | Middle Kids | Today We're The Greatest | Lucky Number Music |
| 19 Mar | Otzeki | Now is a Long Time | Akira |
| 19 Mar | Sarah Louise | Earth Bow | |
| 26 Mar | The Antlers | Green To Gold | Transgressive |
| 26 Mar | Citizen | Life In Your Glass World | Run For Cover |
| 26 Mar | Noga Erez | Kids | City Slang |
| 2 Apr | La Femme | Paradigms | Disque Pointu |
| 9 Apr | London Grammar | Californian Soil | Universal |
| 9 Apr | The Fratellis | Half Drunk Under A Full Moon | |
| 16 Apr | Low Island | If You Could Have It All Again | Emotional Interference |
| 16 Apr | Only Sun | Tangled Mind | Modern Sky |
| 16 Apr | Greta Van Fleet | The Battle at Garden's Gate | Lava / Republic |
| 16 Apr | Saint Raymond | We Forgot We Were Dreaming | Cooking Vinyl |
| 30 Apr | Amy Shark | Cry Forever | Sony |
| 1 May | Weezer | Van Weezer | Crush, Atlantic |
| 21 May | Gary Numan | Intruder | self-released |
| 8 Jun | Sun Kill Moon | Welcome To Sparks, Nevada | Caldo Verde |
| 11 Jun | Beach Riot | Subatomic Party Cool | Alcopop! |
| 9 Jul | DZ Deathrays | Positive Rising: Part 2 | Alcopop! |
| 13 Jul | Fickle Friends | Weird Years | Cooking Vinyl |
| 13 Jul | Kimbra | LP4 | |
| 13 Jul | Lana Del Rey | Chemtrails Over the Country Club | |
| 13 Jul | Royal Blood | LP3 | |
| 13 Jul | Travis Scott | Utopia |