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.
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This list is regularly updated, so check back soon for new information.
New Indie Albums 2021
January 2021
February 2021
March 2021
April 2021
May 2021
June 2021
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
Date
Artist
Album
Label
January 2021
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
9 Jan
Casper Clausen
Better Way
City Slang
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
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
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
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
New Fragility
CYHSY, Secretly Distribution
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
February 2021
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
12 Feb
A.A.Williams
Songs From Isolation
Bella Union
12 Feb
Julia Stone
Sixty Summers
BMG Rights Management (Australia) Pty Ltd.
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
Nothing,Nowhere.
Trauma Factory
DCD2
19 Feb
Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs
Real One
Dine Alone
19 Feb
Wild Pink
A Billion Little Lights
Royal Mountain
26 Feb
Architects
For Those That Wish To Exist
Epitaph
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
March 2021
5 Mar
Dodie
Build a Problem
5 Mar
Gabrielle
Do It Again
BMG
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
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
12 Mar
Bad Boys
Threesome
Jury Music
19 Mar
Alice Phoebe Lou
Glow
self-released
19 Mar
David Gray
Skellig
AWAL
19 Mar
Michael Beach
Dream Violence
Goner
19 Mar
Morgan Wade
Reckless
Thirty Tigers
19 Mar
New Pagans
The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All
Big Scary Monster
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
Ben Howard
Collections From The Whiteout
Republic
26 Mar
L'Impératrice
Tako Tsubo
26 Mar
Noga Erez
Kids
City Slang
April 2021
2 Apr
La Femme
Paradigms
Disque Pointu
2 Apr
Twinkid
Nobody Likes Me
Om
9 Apr
Caoilfhionn Rose
Truly
Gondwana
9 Apr
Clamm
Beseech Me
Meat Machine
9 Apr
Nick Waterhouse
Promenade Blue
Innovative Leisure
9 Apr
The Fratellis
Half Drunk Under A Full Moon
16 Apr
Elise Davis
Anxious. Happy. Chill.
Tone Tree
16 Apr
Low Island
If You Could Have It All Again
Emotional Interference
16 Apr
Son Lux
Tomorrows III
City Slang
16 Apr
The Offspring
Let The Bad Times Roll
Concord
16 Apr
Saint Raymond
We Forgot We Were Dreaming
Cooking Vinyl
16 Apr
Art D'Ecco
In Standard Definition
Paper Bag
23 Apr
Ade
Midnight Pizza
Trickwork
23 Apr
Ditchbird
Real Enough for You Now
23 Apr
Kimbra
LP4
23 Apr
Royal Blood
Typhoons
30 Apr
Ashley Monroe
Rosegold
Mountainrose Sparrow / Thirty Tigers
30 Apr
Girl In Red
If I Could Make It Go Quiet
AWAL
30 Apr
Glüme
The Internet
Italians Do It Better
30 Apr
Manchester Orchestra
The Million Masks Of God
Loma Vista
30 Apr
New Madrid
New Madrid
Lemonade
30 Apr
Rural Tapes
Rural Tapes
Smuggler Music
May 2021
1 May
Weezer
Van Weezer
Crush, Atlantic
7 May
Blue Cactus
Stranger Again
Sleepy Cat
7 May
Fougére
Still Life
Studio Fougére
7 May
Mia Joy
Spirit Tamer
Fire Talk
7 May
White Flowers
Day By Day
Tough Love
14 May
Sarah Neufeld
Detritus
One Little Independent
14 May
Shaed
High Dive
Photo Finish
14 May
St. Vincent
Daddy's Home
14 May
Miljon
Don’t They Know
Studio Barnhus
14 May
Mob Rich
Why No Why
republic
14 May
The Black Keys
Delta Kream
Warner
14 May
Counting Crows
Butter Miracle Suite One
BMG
21 May
Gary Numan
Intruder
self-released
21 May
Dayglow
Harmony House
AWAL
21 May
Gruff Rhys
Seeking New Gods
21 May
Holiday Ghosts
North Street Air
FatCat
21 May
Jim McCulloch
When I Mean What I Say
Violette
21 May
Lambchop
Showtunes
City Slang
21 May
Lord Huron
Long Lost
Republic
21 May
Sons Of Raphael
Full Throated Messianic Homage
Virgin
21 May
Prosperina
Flag
Fuzzorama
21 May
Waterparks
Greatest Hits
300 Entertainment
21 May
Tyne-James Organ
Necessary Evil
Dew Process
28 May
Elder Island
Swimming Static
28 May
Penelope Trappes
Penelope Three
Houndstooth
June 2021
4 Jun
James
All The Colours Of You
DSPs
8 Jun
Sun Kill Moon
Welcome To Sparks, Nevada
Caldo Verde
11 Jun
AFI
Bodies
Rise
11 Jun
Garbage
No Gods No Masters
Stunvolume / Infectious
11 Jun
Islands
Islomania
Royal Mountain
11 Jun
Maroon 5
Jordi
222 / Interscope
11 Jun
Sleater-Kinney
Path Of Wellness
Mom + Pop
25 Jun
BOI
Coron O Chwinc
Recordiau Crwn
25 Jun
Cautious Clay
Deadpan Love
The Orchard
25 Jun
Coma Culture
Camouflage
Repost Network
25 Jun
Keuning
A Mild Case of Everything
25 Jun
Robbing Millions
Holidays Inside
PIAS
25 Jun
The Telephone Numbers
The Ballad Of Doug
Meritorio
July 2021
2 Jul
The Go! Team
Get Up Sequences Part One
Memphis Industries
9 Jul
DZ Deathrays
Positive Rising: Part 2
Alcopop!
9 Jul
Soda Blonde
Small Talk
Velveteen
16 Jul
Barenaked Ladies
Detour de Force
16 Jul
Chet Faker
Hotel Surrender
Detail / BMG
16 Jul
Clairo
Sling
Fader
16 Jul
Eliza Shaddad
The Woman You Want
Rosemundy
16 Jul
James Vincent McMorrow
Grapefruit Season
Columbia
16 Jul
Jodi
Blue Heron
Sooper
16 Jul
Oscar Lang
Chew The Scenery
Dirty Hit
16 Jul
Pizzagirl
softcore mourn
Heist or Hit
16 Jul
Tones And I
Welcome To The Madhhouse
Elektra
23 Jul
Dusted
III
AWAL
30 Jul
Billie Eilish
Happier Than Ever
Universal
August 2021
6 Aug
The Umbrellas
The Umbrellas
Slumberland
11 Aug
The Crystal Casino Band
Not About You
self-released
13 Aug
Chorusing
Half Mirror
Western Vinyl
20 Aug
Darrin Bradbury
Advertisment
Anti-
20 Aug
Deafhaven
Infinite Granite
Sargent House
20 Aug
Girlpuppy
Swan
Royal Mountain
20 Aug
Jake Bugg
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
RCA
20 Aug
Nathan Ball
Under the Mackerel Sky
Warner
20 Aug
Strange Bones
England Screams
FRKST / 300 Entertainment
20 Aug
Sturgill Simpson
The Ballad of Dood and Juanita
20 Aug
Tom Rosenthal
Denis Was A Bird
Tinpot
20 Aug
Lorde
Solar Power
Universal
27 Aug
Chubby And The Gang
The Mutt's Nuts
Partisan
27 Aug
Madi Diaz
History Of A Feeling
ANTI-
27 Aug
Kiefer
When There's Love Around
Stones Throw
September 2021
3 Sep
Bad Waitress
No Taste
Royal Mountain
3 Sep
Hot Mustard
Mother Sauce
Color Red
3 Sep
Imagine Dragons
Mercury - Act 1
Interscope
3 Sep
Pearl & The Oysters
Flowerland
Feeltrip
3 Sep
Monnone Alone
Stay Foggy
Meritorio
3 Sep
Tora
A Force Majeure
Ninety Days
10 Sep
Colleen Green
Cool
Hardly Art
10 Sep
Fables
Minds
self-released
10 Sep
James Blake
Friends That Break Your Heart
Republic
10 Sep
Matthew E. White
K Bay
Domino
10 Sep
Sleigh Bells
Texis
Lucky Number
10 Sep
Wildflower
The Ocean Rose
Night Bloom
17 Sep
The Band Camino
The Band Camino
Warner
17 Sep
The Felice Brothers
From Dreams To Dust
Yep Roc
17 Sep
Spearmint
Holland Park
Hitback
24 Sep
Ada Lea
one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
Saddle Creek
24 Sep
Boys Noize
Polarity
BNR
24 Sep
She Drew The Gun
Behave Myself
Submarine Cat
24 Sep
The Reytons
Kids Off The Estate
24 Sep
Public Service Broadcasting
Bright Magic
PIAS
24 Sep
Ruby Fields
Been Doin’ It For A Bit
24 Sep
X Ambassadors
The Beautiful Liar
Polydor
October 2021
1 Oct
Boy Scout
Wayfinder
Anti-
1 Oct
Brandi Carlile
In These Silent Days
Low Country Sound/Elektra
1 Oct
Spector
Now Or Whenever
Moth Noise
1 Oct
Pond
9
Spinning Top
1 Oct
Strand Of Oaks
In Heaven
Thirty Tigers
1 Oct
The Accidentals
Vessel
self-released
8 Oct
Alice TM
Little Body In Orbit
Whatever's Clever
8 Oct
LALA LALA
I Want The Door To Ope
Hardly Art
8 Oct
Oh Wonder
22 Break
Island
8 Oct
Shannon Lay
Geist
Sub Pop
15 Oct
David Keenan
What Then?
Rubyworks
15 Oct
Elan Tamara
We Can Fal
Kews
15 Oct
Le Ren
Leftovers
Secretly Canadian
15 Oct
Julia Shapiro
Come With Me
Suicide Squeeze
15 Oct
Joy Crookes
Skin
Insanity
15 Oct
Finneas
Optimist
Interscope
15 Oct
The Darkness
Motorheart
Cooking Vinyl
15 Oct
Lone
Always Inside Your Head
Greco-Roman
22 Oct
Hand Habbits
Fun House
Saddle Creek
22 Oct
KINDER
Different
Lapsang House
22 Oct
La Luz
La Luz
Hardly Art
22 Oct
My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket
ATO
22 Oct
Parquet Courts
Sympathy For Life
Rough Trade
22 Oct
Tom Lumley & The Brave Liaison
Everything's Affected
self-released
22 Oct
Oscar And The Wolf
The Shimmer
PIAS
22 Oct
Levitation Orchestra
Illusions & Realities
Gearbox
29 Oct
The War On Drugs
I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Atlantic
29 Oct
Charlotte Cornfield
Highs in the Minuses
Polyvinyl
29 Oct
Susto
Time in the Sun
New West
29 Oct
The Parrots
Dos
Heavenly Recordings
November 2021
5 Nov
Houndmouth
Good For You
Dualtone
5 Nov
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
The Future
Stax
5 Nov
Dijon
Absolutely
Dark Green
12 Nov
All The Luck In The World
How The Ash Fell
Humming
12 Nov
Oberhofer
Smothered
Telefono
12 Nov
Warbly Jets
Monsterhouse
Rebel Union
12 Nov
ZUZU
Queensway Tunnel
Planet Z
19 Nov
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Raise The Roof
Warner
19 Nov
Adele
30
Sony
December 2021
3 Dec
Mumble Tide
Everything Ugly
Fancy
3 Dec
Laura-Mary Carter
Town Called Nothing
3 Dec
Lottery Winners
Something To Leave The House For
Modern Sky UK
3 Dec
Laura Lee & The Jettes
Wasteland
Duchess Box
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New Indie Albums 2022
Date
Artist
Album
Label
January 2022
14 Jan
Palace
Shoals
Fiction
14 Jan
The Lumineers
Brightside
Universal
14 Jan
Fazer
Plex
City Slang
21 Jan
Band Of Horses
Things Are Great
BMG
21 Jan
Boy Harsher
The Runner
Nude Club/City Slang
21 Jan
Anna Ash
Sleeper
Black Mesa
28 Jan
Eeels
Extreme Witchcraft
E Works
February 2022
4 Feb
Erin Rae
Lighten Up
Thirty Tigers
4 Feb
Greta
Forever We'll Be Dancing
W.A.S Entertainmen
4 Feb
The Slow Show
Still Life
PIAS
11 Feb
Johnossi
Mad Gone Wild
BMG
11 Feb
Empath
Visitor
Fat Possum
11 Feb
Eddie Vedder
Earthling
Seattle Surf/Republic
18 Feb
Metronomy
Small World
Because Music
19 Feb
Shout Out Louds
House
PIAS
22 Feb
Alt-j
The Dream
Canvasback / Infectious Music
22 Feb
Spinn
Outside Of The Blue
Modern Sky UK
25 Feb
Lady Bird
We
Alcopop!
25 Feb
Johnny Marr
Fever Dreams Pts 1-4
BMG
25 Feb
Gang Of Youths
Angel in Realtime
Warner
25 Feb
Basia Bulat
The Garden
Secret City
March 2022
4 Mar
Moon Panda
What On Earth
Fierce Panda
4 Mar
Nilüfer Yanya
Painless
ATO
4 Mar
Peach Pit
From 2 to 3
RCA
April 2022
8 Apr
Let's Eat Grandma
Let's Eat Grandma
Transgressive
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