New & Upcoming Canadian Albums: Alessia Cara and Art d'Ecco Announce 2025 Releases

We're back with our calendar of new and upcoming Canadian albums.

Singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith and folk favourites Good Lovelies have new reissues this week, while punk icons D.O.A. are feted with an all-star tribute.

There is also a new EP from country artist Lindsay Ell, new releases from veteran jazz singer Diana Panton, Americana artist Skinny Dyck, family punk band The Discarded, queer pop exponent T. Thomason (check out our Fresh Sounds pick), hip-hop dynamo Duane “D.O.” Gibson, Celtic/roots stars Leahy, Toronto electro-soul up and comer Maddee Ritter, Montreal post-punk band Victime and more.

Alessia Cara has announced a new album, with her Valentine’s Day 2025 gift to her fans, Love & Hyperbole. Acclaimed glam rocker Art d'Ecco coincidentally releases his fourth album, Serene Demon, on Feb. 14, 2025 as well.

Montreal multi-instrumentalist-producer Jesse Mac Cormack announced a new EP titled GRIP, arriving on Nov. 25. Here's a new advance single and video, “La Vérité,” featuring both Toronto’s singer-songwriter Charlie Houston and French artist BRÖ.

Here are all of the upcoming releases.

October

16: Jane's Party, The Best of Wild in the Woods Vol. 2

18: Twin Flames, Hugging the Cactus

18: The Free Label, Songs for Sienna (Westwood Recordings)

18: YASSiN & Sean Terrio, Just Try (Believe Digital)

18: Wolf Castle, Waiting For The Dawn (Forward Music)

18: Nap Eyes, The Neon Gate (Paper Bag Records)

18: Japandroids, Fate & Alcohol

18: Hildegard, Jour 1596 (Chivi Chivi)

18: Wild Rivers, Better Now (Nettwerk Music Group)

22: Léolo, Mainland

23: Unknown Voidz,Deception By My Side

25: Simbo, SOUNDSORCERER VOL.2

25: Victime, En conversation avec (Mothland)

25: Ron Sexsmith, Cobblestone Runway & Retriever (limited edition vinyl & Cd reissues)

25: Good Lovelies, We Will Never Be The Same (anniversary reissue) (Outside Music)

25: D.O.A. & Guests, No Escape From What You Are (Sudden Death Records)

25: Skinny Dyck, Easygoing (Victory Pool Records)

25: Preeper Rhaye MacKay, Wood & Wire

25: The Discarded, The Green Door

25: Ollee Owens, Nowhere To Hide

25: Maddee Ritter, Songs about Love & Death (Best Breakfast/Majesticsilk)

25: MICO, Internet hometown hero (Wasted Years Ltd.)

25: Talia Schlanger- Latent Lounge live from The Hangar (Bandcamp)

25: Duane “D.O.” Gibson, The Story of How Young Duane Gibson Stayed Driven ( Believe Digital)

25: Darryl Gould + Kevyn Wright, empty the chamber (Bandcamp)

25: Alfie Smith, Every Rome Needs A Nero (Gilded Tooth)

25: Lindsay Ell,love myself (Universal Music Canada)

25: Brittany Kennell, Pink Collar - Deluxe edition ( Symphonic Distribution)

25: Leahy, Live In Concert

25: T. Thomason, Tenderness (Six Shooter Records)

25: Billie Zizi,Levitate

25: Diana Panton, soft winds and roses

25: Lia Kuri, Motherland

30: Frank Mighty Nexterday

31: Maya Malkin, it's a me thing

November

1: Jeremie Albino, Our Time in the Sun ( Good People Record Co./Easy Eye Sound)

1: Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon, First Sounds (One Little Independent/Envision Records)

1: Flower Face, Girl Prometheus (Nettwerk)

1: Jennifer Castle, Camelot (Solstice Radio)

1: Ilya Osachuk, The Answer

1: No Codes - Usual Suspects

1: OMBIIGIZI, Shame (Arts & Crafts)

1: SHEBAD, Music is the Answer

1: The Henrys, Secular Hymns and Border Songs (Bandcamp)

1: Lenka Lichtenberg, Feel With Blood (Six Degrees)

1: Alfie Smith, Every Rome Needs A Nero (Gilded Tooth)

1: Laila Biali, Wintersongs

1: Christopher Whitley, Almost As Soft As Silence

1: Astrocolor, Stargazing – AstroJazz Vol. 2

1: Skye Wallace, The Act of Living ( Tiny Kingdom)

1: Owen Riegling, Bruce County - deluxe version(UMC)

1: Sandy Bell, Break of Day: Songs for Colin

1: Carn Davidson 9, Reverence

1: The Matinee, End of Scene - B-Sides EP

6: Tamar Ilana & Ventanas, Azadi (Lulaworld)

8: Les Dales Hawerchuk,Attaque à cinq (Bravo)

8: Les Breastfeeders , La ville engloutie (Bonsound)

8: ROSIER, elle veille encore l

8: The Tragically Hip, Up To Here (box set)

8: Pamela Morgan, White Fleet Suite

8: Dan Fortin, Cannon (Elastic Recordings)

8: Louie Sanchez, S/T (Next Door Records)

8: We Are Wolves, title TBA

8: Yoo Doo Right, From the Heights of Our Pastureland (Mothland)

8: Angell & Crane, S/T (For The Living And The Dead)

8: Homeshake, Horsie (Deluxe) (Dine Alone Records)

8: Les Dales Hawerchuk,Attaque à cinq ( Bravo)

14: King Cruff, WHAT HAVE I ‘DON (Tuff Gong Collective/Universal Music Canada)

15: Alvvays, S/T -10th anniversary vinyl only reissue

15: Marcus Trummer,From The Start (Gypsy Soul Records)

15: Paesler, when things do not dry they are heavy (ArtHaus)

15: Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt, Forever Stories Of: Moving Parties (Earshift Music)

15: Shawn Mendes, Shawn

15: Ryland Moranz , Better/Worse

15: Ghost Orchid, S/T

15: Stefan Gnyś, Horizoning (We Are Busy Bodies)

15: His His, Good Gold Cassette (Victory Pool Records)

15: Kylie V, Crash Test Plane(Royal Mountain Records)

15: Sunnsetter -Heaven Hang Over Me (Paper Bag Records)

15: Maclayne, off the deep end

15: Tim Baker, Full Rainbow of Light

20: MOONRIIVR, Tascam Series EPs (Victory Pool Records)

25: Jesse Mac Cormack, GRIP (Secret City Records)

28: Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks, Another Christmas Day

29: Ruby Singh, Vox. Infold 11

December

5: Carmen Braden, A Hard Light

6: Lubalin, haha, no worries (Cult Nation)

6: Cory Marks, Sorry For Nothing (Better Noise Music)

13: Menno Versteeg, Why We Run ( Royal Mountain Records)

13: Movieland, Then & Now

January

17: Marlaena Moore, Because You Love Everything (Session/Bonsound)

17: The Weather Station, Humanhood ( Next Door Records)

17: Ken Presse, Someday

24: Motherhood, Thunder Perfect Mind (Forward Music)

24: Sarah Page & Patrick Graham, Littoral States

31: Gus Engelhorn, The Hornbook (Secret City)

31: N NAO, Nouveau Langage ( Mothland)

31: Featurette, Panic Pills (via Division11).

February

14: Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR, S/T (Six Shooter)

14: Art d’Ecco, Serena Demon (Paper Bag Records)

14: Alessia Cara, Love & Hyperbole

21: Basia Bulat, Basia’s Palace (Secret City Records)

21: Silverstein, Antibloom I Pink Moon (UNFD)

27: JJ Miller, Hometown Believer