If your playlist is in need of a mid-summer refresh, you have plenty of options amongst today's new releases.

Roots music fans are especially well-catered to, with new offerings from US veterans Loretta Lynn, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer, and The Yawpers, plus young Canadian contenders Kacy & Clayton and Camille Delean.

On the alt-rock side, a new title from Grizzly Bear and a reissue from Interpol merit mentions.

Happy listening!

August

18: Interpol - Our Love To Admire - reissue (UMC)

18: Grizzly Bear -- Painted Ruins (RCA)

18: San Eco - S/T (Beatphreak)

18: Ron Pope - Work (Brooklyn Basement Records)

18: Dan Blakeslee and The Calabash Club - The Alley Walker (Independent)

18: Rick Estrin - Groovin' In Greaseland (Alligator)

18: Kacy & Clayton-- The Siren's Song (New West)

18: Camille Delean- Music on the Grey Mile (Independent)

18: Loretta Lynn - Wouldn't It Be Great (Legacy)

18: The Duke Spirit -Sky Is Mine (Handwritten Records)

18: James Heather- Stories From Far Away On Piano (Ahead Of Our Time)

18: The Accidentals - Odyssey  (Sony Masterworks) 

18: Ray Wylie Hubbard - Tell The Devil I’m Getting There As Fast As I Can  (Bordello Records/Thirty Tigers)

18: The Yawpers - Boy In A Well (Bloodshot)

18: The Two Tens - On Repeat (Man Della Records)

18: Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer - Not Dark Yet  (Silver Cross Records/Thirty Tigers)

18: Everything Everything - A Fever Dream

19: Liona Boyd - No Remedy For Love (Universal)

21: James Blonde - S/T (Indie)

25: Old Dominion - Happy Endings (RCA)

25: Iron & Wine - Beast Epic (Sub Pop)

25: The Cadillac Three - Legacy (Big Machine Records)

25: Queen Moo - Mean Well (Topshelf Records)

25: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains (Matador)

25: Susanne Sundfor - Music For People In Trouble (Bella Union)

25: Gogol Bordello - Seekers and Finders (Cooking Vinyl)

25: The Fall -The Fontana Years - Six CD box set (UMC)

25: Fairbanks & the Lonesome Light -Nothing to Escape (Independent)

25: Wild Ponies - Galax (Gearbox Records)

25: Leif Erikson - s/t (Arts & Crafts)

25: Fifth Harmony - S/T  (Syco/Epic Records)

25: Jack Cooper - Sandgrown (Trouble In Mind)

25: Karen and the Sorrows - The Narrow Place (indie)

25: Buffalo Sunn- The Long Road (Reekus Records)

25: Aron D'Alesio - S/T (Paper Bag)

25: Woolworm- Deserve To Die (Mint)

25: Betty Moon - Chrome (Current)

25: Kim Churchill -Weight Falls (Cadence Music)

September

1: Goodbye Honolulu -No Honey (Fried Records)

1: Bicep -s/t (Ninja Tune)

1: Soft Fangs - Fractures  (Disposable America) 

1: Tender - Modern Addiction (Culvert Music)

1: Hayley Thompson-King -Psychotic Melancholia (Independent)

1: Rush - A Farewell to Kings= Reissue (UMe/Anthem/ole) 

1: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (DFA/Columbia)

1: Walter Trout - We're All In This Together  (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)

1: The Script - Freedom Child (Columbia)

8: Alvvays - Antisocialites  (Royal Mountain Records)

8: Belle Game - Fear/Nothing ( Arts & Crafts)

8: Mon Doux Saigneur - S/T (Grosse Boite)

8: Thomas Rhett - Life Changes (The Valory Music Co.)

8: Charlie Parr - Dog (Indie)

8: The Waterboys - Out Of All This Blue

8: Van Williams - The Revolution (Fantasy)

8: Partner - In Search of Lost Time (You’ve Changed Records)

8- Julie & The Wrong Guys - S/T (Dine Alone)

8: Cricketbows - Communion (Indie)

8: Jonny Lang - Signs (Concord)

8: Moonsville Collective - Moonsville III (Indie)

8: Ghetto Priest - Every Man For Every Man (Ramrock)

8: Lomelda - Thx  (Double Double Whammy)

8: The Dream Syndicate-  How Did I Find Myself Here? ( ANTI-)

8: Death From Above - Outrage! Is Now (eOne)

8: Pierre Kwenders -MAKANDA at The End of Space, the Beginning of Time (Bonsound)

8: Odesza - A Moment Apart (Counter)

8: The National - Sleep Well Beast (4AD/Beggars Group)

8: Faith Healer -Try ;-) (Mint)

8: Francesco Tristano - Piano Circle Songs (Independent)

8: Bash & Pop - Friday Night Is Killing Me (Omnivore Recordings)

8: Gregg Allman - Southern Blood (Rounder Records/Concord/UMC)

8: Nosaj Thing - Parallels (Innovative Leisure)

8: The Diaphonoids-  Blessed Poisons (People In The Sky)

8: Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine (RCA)

8: Tom Russell - Folk Hotel (Proper Records)

8: Paul Brady - Unfinished Business (Proper Records)

8: Ace Frehley - Anomaly (eOne Music)

8: Nice Horse - s/t (Coalition)

8: Comeback Kid- Outsider (New Damage)

8: Chad VanGaalen -Light Information (Sub Pop)

8: Lowest of the Low - Do The Right Now (Pheromone Recordings)

8: Scooter Brown Band - American Son (Red River/Sony Orchard)

8: Loka - Northern Oscillations (Indie)

15: Jesse Cook  - Beyond Borders

15: The Lone Bellow - Walk Into a Storm (Independent)

15: Al Basile -  Quiet Money (Sweetspot Records)

15: Timmy's Organism - Eating Colors (Detroit Magnetic Tape Company)

15: Wyclef Jean -Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee (Legacy)

15: Stacey-  First Move EP (Independent)

15: Fink -  Resurgam (R'Coupd)

15: Emily Haines - Choir Of The Mind (Last Gang/eOne)

15: The Texas Gentlemen - TX Jelly (Indie)

15: Johnny Rawls- Waiting for the Train (Catfoord Records)

15: The Contortionist- Clairvoyant (eOne Music)

15: Elliott Brood -Ghost Gardens (Paper Bag Records) 

15: Wilderness of Manitoba - Across The Dark (Pheromone)

15: Kayla Diamond - Beautiful Chaos (Slaight Music/Cadence)

15: Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold (Roswell/RCA)

15: Skellums- If You Have To Leave (Rent & Debt Records)

15: Bruce Cockburn - Bone On Bone (True North)

15: Sass Jordan - Racine Revisited (Linus Entertainment)

15: Murder Murder -Wicked Lines and Veins (Indie)

15:  Superfruit - Future Friends (Part Two) (RCA)

15: Buffalos Bay -Living Under The Reef (Indie)

15: Willie Watson -Folksinger Vol. 2  (Acony Records)

15: Dennis Johnson -  Rhythmland (Root Tone Records)

15: Radney Foster - For You To See The Stars (Devil's River Records) 

15: Mike Gordon - OGOGO ( Megaplum / ATO Records.)

15: Prophets Of Rage  -S/T ((Fantasy Records)

15: Quinn XCII -The Story Of Us (Columbia)

15: Dee Dee Bridgewater - Memphis... Yes I'm Ready (Okeh)

15: David Myles - Real Love (Little Tiny Records)

15: Yusuf/Cat Stevens The Laughing Apple (Cat-O-Log/Decca)

15: Son Little - New Magic (ANTI-)

15: Benny Turner - My Brother's Blues (Nola Blue)

15: The Karpinka Brothers -Talk Is Cheap (Indie)

15: Fake Palms - Pure Mind ( Buzz & Pleasence Records)

15: Queen of Swords - S/T (Indie)

15: Lynn Jackson- Follow That Fire (Busted Flat)

22: Eilen Jewell - Down Hearted Blue (Signature Sounds)

22: Petra Glynt - This Trip (Vibe Over Method)

22: JP Cooper - Raised Under Grey Skies (Island Records)

22: Peter Stampfel & the Atomic Meta-Pagans - The Cambrian Explosion (Don Giovanni Records)

22: Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers -- The Long-Awaited Album  (Rounder)

22: Various Artists – Version Dread  (Studio One)

22: Tricky - Ununiform (False Idols)

22: Misty Coast - S/T (Club AC30)

22: Jon Langford - Four Lost Souls (Bloodshot)

22: The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request, Reissue (ABKCO/Universal)

22: Jordan Rakei - Wallflower (Ninja Tune)

22: Midland - On The Rocks (Big Machine)

22: Lee "Scratch" Perry & Subatomic Sound System -Super Ape Returns To Conquer (Black Ark)

22: Haley Reinhart - What’s That Sound? (Concord)

22: Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun (Sargent House)

22: Peach Pyramid -S/T (Oscar St Records)

22: Linda Perhacs - I’m a Harmony  (Omnivore Recordings)

22: Megan Nash - Seeker (Acronym Records)

22: Neon Dreams - Wolf, Princess & Me (Dreaming Out Loud)

22: Shilpa Ray-  Door Girl (NSPY)

22: Spandau Ballet - Through The Barricdes reissue (Sony)

22: Sons of Texas - Forged By Fortitude (Razor & Tie)

22: Enter Shikari - The Spark (Indie)

22: Beliefs - Habitat (Outside)

22: The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful  (Island Records/Universal)

22: Metz -Strange Peace (Royal Mountain/Sub Pop)

22: Twist -Benefits EP (Buzz Records)

22: Lights - Skin&Earth (Universal)

22: Shannon Lay- Living Water (Mare/Woodsist)

22: Luna – A Sentimental Education (Double Feature Records)

22: The Afghan Whigs - Up In It, Congregation, Uptown Avondale - Reissues (Sub Pop)

22: Van Morrison -Roll With the Punches (Exile Productions)

29: Vessels - The Great Distraction (Different Recordings)

29: UFO -The Salentino Cuts (Cleopatra Records)

29: Young'Uns - Strangers (Hereteu)

29: Max Webster - The Party Box set (ole Label Group/ Anthem Legacy/ Universal Music Canada)

29: Awaken I Am - Blind Love (Indie)

29: Lex Audrey - God Given EP  (Las Vegas Records)

29: Wolf Alice- Visions Of A Life (Dirty Hit/RCA)

29:  ELO - Out of the Blue (Legacy Recordings)

29: Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent (Domino)

29: Propagandhi - Victory Lap (Epitaph)

29: Raleigh - Powerhouse Bloom (Indie)

29: Fever Dreams-  Squid’(Club AC30)

29: Mo Kenney- The Details (Pheromone)

29: Art Pepper - West Coast Sessions (Omnivore)

29: Aaron Roche - HaHa HuHu (Indie)

29: J. Roddy Walston & The Business-  Destroyers of the Soft Life  (ATO Records)

29: Shania Twain- Now (UMG)

October

6: The Weather Station - S/T (Outside)

6: Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry (Sub Pop)

6: Blue Hawaii - Tenderness (Arbutus)

6: Weaves - Wide Open (Buzz Records)

6: Whitney Rose - Rule 62 (Six Shooter)

6: Kelela  -Take Me Apart (Warp Records)

6: Original Blues Brothers Band - The Last Shade of Blue Before Black (Severn Records)

6: Avishai Cohen - 1970 (Sony Masterworks)

6: Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand  (Domino)

6: Boogát- San Cristobal Baile Inn (Maisonnette Music)

6: Mendilow and his Ensemble - The Forgotten Kingdom  (Indie)

13: Terra Lightfoot - New Mistakes (Sonic Unyon)

13: Mauno -Tuning (Idée Fixe)

13: Giant Hand - Old Cosmos  (Paper Bag)

13: Barney Bentall - The Drifter & The Preacher (True North)

13:- Downchild -Something I've Done (Linus Entertainment)

13: The Barr Brothers - Queens of the Breakers (Secret City)

13: Sina Bathaie  - Ray of Hope ( Windcatcher Records)

13: The Who Tommy – Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Eagle Rock)

13: Lawrence Rothman -The Book of Law  (Downtown/Interscope Records)

20: LeRiche - X-Dreamer EP (Indie)

20: Tyminski - Southern Gothic (Indie)

20: Giraffage -Too Real (Counter Records)

27: Slaughter Beach, Dog - Birdie ( Big Scary Monsters)

27: Kenny Chesney - Live in No Shoes Nation (Sony)

27: Peter Case -On the Way Downtown (Omnivore)

27: Theory of a Deadman - Wake Up Call (Indie)

November

3: Liam Corcoran - Nevahland (Indie)

3: Lemon Bucket Orkestra - If I Had The Strength (Outside Music)

3 Converge -The Dusk in Us  (Epitaph)

 

Canadian releases are in red