New Indie Albums 2020 Release List
Indie Albums 2019
Indie Albums 2018
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.
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.
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.
The 1975 will follow up 2018’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships with a new album titled Notes On A Conditional Form (Feb 21). 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. New York indie veterans Nada Surf will release their ninth studio album Never Not Together on February 7th.
This list is regularly updated, so check back soon for new information. A list with indie albums 2019 can be found here.
New Indie Albums 2020
| date | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Slowly Slowly | Race Car Blues | UNFD |
| 28 Feb | Ratboys | Printer's Devil | Topshelf |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Nap Eyes | Snapshot Of A Beginner | Jagjaguwar |
| 27 Mar | Pearl Jam | Gigaton | Universal |
| 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 | Hinds | The Prettiest Curse | Mom + Pop |
| 3 Apr | M. Ward | Migration Stories | Anti/Epitaph |
| 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 | Gerry Cinnamon | The Bonny | AWAL |
| 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 | Jerskin Fendrix | Winterreise | untitled |
| 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 | DMA's | The Glow | Illusive Sounds |
| 24 Apr | Harkin | Harkin | Hand Mirror |
| 24 Apr | John Carroll Kirby | My Garden | Stones Throw |
| 24 Apr | The 1975 | Notes on a Conditional Form | Dirty Hit |
| 1 May | The Psychedelic Furs | Made Of Rain | Cooking Vinyl |
| 8 May | Cold Years | Paradise | self-released |
| 8 May | The Airborne Toxic Event | Hollywood Park | Rounder |
| 8 May | The Blinders | Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath | Modern Sky |
| 15 May | Declan McKenna | Zeros | Columbia |
| 15 May | Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit | Reunions | Thirty Tigers |
| 15 May | Weezer | Van Weezer | Crush, Atlantic |
| 15 May | Moses Sumney | græ | Jagjaguwar |
| 29 May | Hockey Dad | Brain Candy | The Owl/BMG |
| 29 May | Static | X | |
| 29 May | Sweet Whirl | How Much Works | Chapter Music |
| 12 Jun | Henry Green | Half Light | Akira Records |
| TBA | Flyying Colours | Fantasy Country | Club AC30 |
| TBA | Hundreds | The Current | Embassy of Music |
| TBA | Marsicans | TBA | Killing Moon |