New Indie Albums 2019 Release List
2019 is going to be another exciting year for the indie music scene. With lots of new albums from bands such as Foals, Vampire Weekend and White Lies in the making, 2019 promises to be just as good as 2018. 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 Alice Merton (January 18th), Anteros (March 22nd), and George Ezra’s younger brother Ten Tonnes (April 5th). London quintet Ten Fé and Reading’s Sundara Karma have announced their sophomore albums. The 1975 will follow up the recently released A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships with a new album titled Notes On A Conditional Form. On February 11th, while Two Door Cinema Club teased their fourth album with a colourful video clip.
Vampire Weekend and Foals have both revealed that they will be releasing new albums in 2019. Foals have recently signed a publishing deal with Transgressive and have revealed they will release two albums in 2019, namely Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 and 2.
Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig wrote a lenghty instagram post in which he revealed that the band have indeed finished recording a new album titled Father Of The Bride and contains 18 songs. The first new songs, Harmony Hall and 2021 were released in Januar. Koenig further confirmed “there will be three 2-song drops every month until the record is out”.
This list is regularly updated, so check back soon for new information. A list with indie albums 2018 can be found here.
| Date | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jan | Red Rum Club | Matador | Mom+Pop |
| 11 Jan | Friska Viljor | Broken | Crying Bob |
| 11 Jan | Minor Majority | Napkin Poetry | self-released |
| 18 Jan | De Staat | Bubble Gum | Caroline |
| 18 Jan | Steve Mason | About The Light | Domino |
| 18 Jan | Alice Merton | Mint | Modern Sky UK |
| 18 Jan | The Twilight Sad | It Won't Be Like This All The Time | Rock Action |
| 18 Jan | Sharon Van Etten | Remind Me Tomorrow | Jagjaguwar |
| 25 Jan | Balthazar | Fever | PIAS |
| 25 Jan | Blood Red Shoes | Get Tragic | Jazz Life |
| 25 Jan | Júníus Meyvant | Across The Borders | Record |
| 25 Jan | Keuning | Prismism | Pretty Faithful |
| 25 Jan | Mozes and the Firstborn | Dadcore | Burger |
| 25 Jan | Press Club | Late Teens (UK Release) | Hassle |
| 25 Jan | Sunflower Bean | King of the Dudes | Mom+Pop |
| 25 Jan | The Yacht Club | The Last Words That You Said To Me Have Kept Me Here And Safe | Beth Shalom |
| 25 Jan | Toy | Happy In The Hollow | Tough Love |
| 1 Feb | Andy Burrows & Matt Haig | Reasons To Stay Alive | Caroline |
| 1 Feb | Calva Louise | Rhinoceros | Modern Sky UK |
| 1 Feb | Girlpool | What Chaos Is Imaginary | Anti- |
| 1 Feb | Highasakite | Uranium Heart | Propeller |
| 1 Feb | Joseph J. Jones | Built On Broken Bones Vol. 2 | Caroline |
| 1 Feb | Jungstötter | Love Is | PIAS |
| 1 Feb | Rustin Man | Drift Code | Domino |
| 1 Feb | Tiny Ruins | Olympic Girls | Marathon Artists / Milk |
| 1 Feb | White Lies | Five | PIAS |
| 8 Feb | Chain Wallet | No Ritual | Jansen |
| 8 Feb | Health | Vol. 4: Slaves Of Fear | Loma Vista |
| 8 Feb | Panda Bear | Buoys | Domino |
| 8 Feb | Yak | Pursuit Of Momentary Happiness | Caroline |
| 15 Feb | Methyl Ethel | Triage | 4AD |
| 15 Feb | Jon Fratelli | Bright Night Flowers | Cooking Vinyl |
| 15 Feb | Benjamin Francis Leftwich | Gratitude | Dirty Hit |
| 15 Feb | Gemma Ray | Psychogeology | Bronzerat |
| 15 Feb | Mantra | Dreamland | Dine Alone |
| 15 Feb | Perfect Son | Cast | Sub Pop |
| 15 Feb | RY X | Unfurl | Infectious |
| 15 Feb | SWRMS | Berkeley's On Fire | Fueled By Ramen |
| 15 Feb | William The Conqueror | Bleeding on the Soundtrack | Loose Music |
| 22 Feb | Bayonne | Drastic Measures | Mom+Pop |
| 22 Feb | Desperate Journalist | In Search Of The Miraculous | Fierce Panda |
| 22 Feb | James Yorkston | The Route To The Harmonium | Domino |
| 22 Feb | Feels | Post Earth | Wichita |
| 22 Feb | Susanna & The Brotherhood Of Our Lady | Garden of Earthly Delights | Susanna Sonata |
| 22 Feb | Telekinesis | Effluxion | Merge |
| 1 Mar | Anteros | When We Land | Distiller |
| 1 Mar | Fews | Into Red | PIAS |
| 1 Mar | Gang of Four | Happy Now | Pledge Music |
| 1 Mar | Hozier | Wasteland, Baby! | Rubyworks Limited |
| 1 Mar | The Japanese House | Good At Falling | Dirty Hit |
| 1 Mar | Pond | Tasmania | Marathon Artists |
| 1 Mar | Self Esteem | Compliments Please | Fiction |
| 1 Mar | Skinny Lister | The Story Is... | Xtra Mile |
| 1 Mar | Teen | Good Fruit | Carpark |
| 1 Mar | Tom Walker | What a Time To Be Alive | Relentless |
| 1 Mar | Sundara Karma | Ulfilas' Alphabet | Chess Club/RCA |
| 1 Mar | Weezer | The Black Album | Crush Music |
| 8 Mar | Foals | Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 | Transgressive |
| 8 Mar | Indoor Pets | Be Content | Wichita |
| 8 Mar | Amanda Palmer | There Will Be No Intermission | Cooking Vinyl |
| 8 Mar | Sigrid | Sucker Punch | Island |
| 8 Mar | Ten Fé | Future Perfect, Present Tense | Some Kinda Love |
| 8 Mar | Sticky Fingers | Yours | Sureshaker |
| 8 Mar | The Coathangers | The Devil You Know | Suicide Squeeze |
| 15 Mar | Brian Jonestown Massacre | Brian Jonestown Massacre | A Recordings |
| 15 Mar | Huntly | Low Grade Buzz | Barely Dressed |
| 15 Mar | Sophie Zelmani | Sunrise | Oh Dear |
| 15 Mar | The Cinematic Orchestra | To Believe | Ninja Tune |
| 22 Mar | American Football | American Football (LP3) | Big Scary Monsters / AL!VE |
| 22 Mar | ex hex | It's Real | Merge |
| 22 Mar | Fil Bo Riva | Beautiful Sadness | 12.50 |
| 22 Mar | Lambchop | This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You) | City Slang |
| 22 Mar | Lucy Rose | No Words Left | Arts & Crafts |
| 22 Mar | Nilüfer Yanya | Miss Universe | Ato |
| 22 Mar | Strand of Oaks | Eraserland | Dead Oceans |
| 22 Mar | Wallows | Nothing Happens | WEA International |
| 29 Mar | Brutus | Nest | Hassle |
| 29 Mar | Orville Peck | Pony | Sub Pop |
| 29 Mar | Para Alta | Greatest Hits 2016-2019 | Kissability |
| 29 Mar | Small Feet | With Psychic Powers | Barsuk |
| 29 Mar | The Maine | You Are Ok | Myrna Music Group LLC |
| 29 Mar | The Strumbellas | Rattlesnake | Glassnote |
| 29 Mar | Two Year Vacation | Slacker Island | Clouds Hill |
| 29 Mar | White Denim | Side Effects | City Slang |
| 5 Apr | Cassia | Replica | Destiller |
| 5 Apr | Circa Waves | What's It Like Over There? | PIAS |
| 5 Apr | Damien Jurado | In the Shape of a Storm | Loose |
| 5 Apr | Jaws | The Ceiling | self released |
| 5 Apr | Martha | Love Keeps Kicking | Dirtnap |
| 5 Apr | Matt Maeson | Bank On The Funeral | Warner |
| 5 Apr | Pup | Morbid Stuff | BMG |
| 5 Apr | The Drums | Brutalism | ANTI- |
| 12 Apr | All Tvvins | Just To Exist | Faction |
| 12 Apr | Band Of Skulls | Love Is All You Love | So |
| 12 Apr | Fontaines D.C. | Dogrel | Partisan |
| 12 Apr | Glen Hansard | The Wild Willing | Anti- |
| 12 Apr | The Leisure Society | Arrivals & Departures | self-released |
| 19 Apr | Cage The Elephant | Social Cues | RCA |
| 19 Apr | Jade Bird | Jade Bird | Glassnote / AWAL |
| 26 Apr | Bailen | Thrilled To Be Here | Fantasy |
| 26 Apr | Bear's Den | So That You Might Hear Me | Communion |
| 26 Apr | Catfish And The Bottlemen | The Balance | Island |
| 26 Apr | Dreamers | Launch Fly Land | Fairfax |
| 26 Apr | Foxygen | Seeing Other People | Jagjaguwar |
| 26 Apr | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Fishing For Fishies | |
| 26 Apr | Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres | Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres | Strap Originals |
| 26 Apr | Soak | Grim Town | Rough Trade |
| 26 Apr | The Damned Things | High Crimes | Nuclear Blast |
| 3 May | Alaskalaska | The Dots | Marathon Artists |
| 3 May | Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes | End Of Suffering | International Death Cult |
| 3 May | Joy Williams | Front Porch | Sensibility / Thirty Tigers |
| 3 May | Little May | Blame My Body | Dew Process |
| 3 May | Patience | Dizzy Spells | Night School Records |
| 3 May | SYML | SYML | self released |
| 3 May | Tacocat | This Mess Is a Place | Sub Pop |
| 3 May | Ten Tonnes | Ten Tonnes | Warner |
| 3 May | The Ninth Wave | Infancy (Part 1) | Destiller |
| 3 May | Truth Club | Not An Exit | Tiny Engines |
| 3 May | Vampire Weekend | Father Of The Bride | Columbia |
| 10 May | Mac DeMarco | Here Comes The Cowboy | Mac's Record Label |
| 10 May | The Get Up Kids | Problems | Big Scary Monster |
| 10 May | The Skints | Swimming Lessons | Mr Bongo / Easy Star |
| 17 May | Alex Lahey | The Best Of Luck Club | Dead Oceans |
| 17 May | Com Truise | Persuasion System | Ghostly International |
| 17 May | The Head And The Heart | Living Mirage | Warner / Reprise |
| 17 May | The National | I Am Easy To Find | 4AD |
| 24 May | Hayden Thorpe | Diviner | Domino |
| 24 May | Honeyblood | In Plain Sight | Marathon Artists |
| 24 May | Joan As Police Woman | Joanthology | PIAS |
| 24 May | The Amazons | Future Dust | Fiction |
| 24 May | whenyoung | Reasons To Dream | Virgin EMI |
| 31 May | Childcare | Wabi-Sabi | Get Well Soon |
| 31 May | Pip Blom | Boat | Heavenly / PIAS |
| 31 May | Sinkane | Dépaysé | City Slang |
| 31 May | Yonaka | Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow | Atlantic |
| 7 Jun | allusinlove | It's OK To Talk | Good Soldier Songs |
| 7 Jun | Charlie Cunningham | Permanent Way | Infectious |
| 7 Jun | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Celebrity Mansons | Parlophone |
| 7 Jun | Is Bliss | Strange Communication | Club AC30 |
| 7 Jun | Lust For Youth | Lust For Youth | Sacred Bones |
| 7 Jun | The Divine Comedy | Office Politics | Divine Comedy |
| 7 Jun | Yeasayer | Erotic Reruns | Park The Van |
| 14 Jun | The LaFontaines | Junior | So Recordings |
| 14 Jun | Calexico and Iron & Wine | Years to Burn | City Slang |
| 14 Jun | DMA's | MTV Unplugged (live) | BMG |
| 14 Jun | Kate Tempest | The Book Of Traps And Lessons | Caroline |
| 14 Jun | Two Door Cinema Club | False Alarm | Prolifica Inc (PIAS) |
| 14 Jun | Tusks | Avalanche | One Little Indian |
| 21 Jun | Hatchie | Keepsake | Double Double Whammy |
| 21 Jun | Hot Chip | A Bath Full of Ecstasy | Domino |
| 28 Jun | The Black Keys | Let's Rock | Warner |
| 12 Jul | Bleached | Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough | Dead Oceans |
| 12 Jul | Bloc Party | Silent Alarm Live | |
| 12 Jul | Palace | Life After | Fiction |
| 12 Jul | Tycho | Weather | City Slang |
| 26 Jul | Mini Mansions | Guy Walks Into A Bar… | Fiction |
| 9 Aug | Sam Fender | Hypersonic Missiles | Polydor |
| 16 Aug | Husky Loops | I Can't Even Speak English | Fighting Ourselves |
| 16 Aug | No Hot Ashes | Hardship Starship | Modern Sky UK |
| 23 Aug | New Model Army | From Here | Ear Music |
| 23 Aug | The Night Café | 151 | AWAL |
| 30 Aug | Black Futures | Never Not Nothing | Music For Nations |
| 30 Aug | Ilgen-Nur | Power Nap | Euphorie |
| 4 Oct | The Darkness | Easter Is Cancelled | Cooking Vinyl |
| 18 Oct | Mark Lanegan Band | Somebody's Knocking | Heavenly |
| TBA | The 1975 | Notes on a Conditional Form | Dirty Hit |
| TBA | Blaenavon | Everything That Makes You Happy | Transgressive |
| TBA | Clean Cut Kid | Painwave | Babe Magnet |
| TBA | Foals | Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2 | Transgressive |
| TBA | The Night Café | 151 | AWAL |