New & Upcoming Releases: Album News from Drake & PartyNextDoor, Cold Specks and More

Drake and PartyNextDoor finally announced the release date of their new joint album this week. That's the biggest addition to our weekly-updated calendar of new Canadian albums, but there were also some other notable artists with album news.

That list includes country star Brett Kissel, critic's favourites Cold Specks and Destroyer, rootsy rockers The Burning Hell, singer-songwriters Digawolf and Thea May and East Coast blues/roots act Matt Andersen.

Canadian artists with new albums out this week include funky Montreal combo Busty and the Bass, veteran pop hitmaker Gino Vannelli, Ethopian-Canadian rapper Naya Ali and acclaimed Juno-nominated singer-songwriter AHI.

Here is the full album release calendar:

January

31: Charlie Houston, After I Die (Arts & Crafts)

31: The Weeknd, Hurry Up Tomorrow (XO and Republic Records)

31: Gus Engelhorn, The Hornbook (Secret City)

31: N NAO, Nouveau Langage ( Mothland)

31: Featurette, Panic Pills (via Division11)

31: Jann Arden, MIXTAPE

February

3: Nia Nadurata, Still Living With My Parents (Arts & Crafts)

4: Zyla, Birge Park (Bandcamp)

6: Busty and the Bass, The Mannequin

7: Gino Vannelli, THE LIFE I GOT (TO MY MOST BELOVED)(COA Productions)

7: Naya Ali, We Did The Damn Thing (Bonsound)

7: WeFound a Lovebird, With Friends Like These

7: AHI, The Light Behind the Sun

11: Errol Eats Everything, S/T

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

14: Drake and PartyNextDoor, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U

14: Customer Service, to you, after 2000 years (Royal Mountain)

14: Fernie, Hopeless Dreams

14: Raj Ramayya, Love Thy Brown Brother

14: Alessia Cara, Love & Hyperbole

14: Neil Young, Oceanside Countryside (Reprise)

18: Mark McLaughlin, All I Can Say

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

21: Ariane Racicot, Danser avec le feu

21: Tate McRae, So Close To What (RCA Records)

21: Saya Gray, SAYA (Marion Murata Records)

21: Christina Petrowska Quilico & Jacques Israelievitch, Mozart Complete Sonatas & Variations For Piano & Violin(Parma Recordings)

21: Silverstein, Antibloom (UNFD)

21: Laurie Torres, Après coup (Tonal Union)

21: Men Without Hats, Live (Shocore)

26: Pierre Kwenders, Tears On The Dancefloor (Moonshine / ADA Warner)

27: JJ Miller, Hometown Believer

28: CJ Wiley, So Brand New (Tiny Kingdom)

28: Naomi SV, Timescape

28: Filmmaker, An Invitation to an Accident (Record Record Label)

28: Brett Kissel, Let Your Horses Run

28: Sacred Wolf Singers X Simon Walls, L’nu’k Mawiejik (The People Gather Together).

28: The Hylozoists, La Fin Du Monde (Record Record Label)

28: hHead, Jerk/Fireman (Record Record Label)

28: Ron Ledoux, Views, Visions & Destinations

28: Don Amero, Broken Record: Part 1 - Heart

March

6: The Shuffle Demons, Are You Really Real (ALMA Records)

7: No Frills, Sad Clown(We Are Busy Bodies)

7: Spiritbox, Tsunami Sea, (Pale Chord /Rise Records)

7: Morgan Toney, Heal The Divide (Ishkode)

7: The Burning Hell, Ghost Palace ( You've Changed Records)

7: Housewife, EP Girl Of The Hour

7: Frog Eyes, The Open Up

14: cleopatrick FAKE MOON, (Nowhere Special Recordings/Thirty Tigers)

14: Shiv and The Carvers, Tell Me You Love Me Again

14: Real Sickies, Under a Plastic Bag

21: RUSH, RUSH 50 (UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records)

21: Thea May, Brought to You by Tragedy (Ishkōdé Records)

.28: Salin, Rammana

28: Destroyer, Dan’s Boogie (Merge)

28: Bria Salmena, Big Dog (Royal Mountain)

28: The Blue Stones, Metro (Thirty Tigers)

28: Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry) (Mothland)

April

4: Sister Ray, Believer (Royal Mountain Records)

4: young friend, motorcycle sound effects (Nettwerk)

4: Endray, S/T

8: Terry Gomes, Some Chunes

9: Cold Specks, Light for the Midnight (Secret City Records)

11: Amanda Rheaume, The Truth We Hold (Ishkōdé Records)

11: Captain Tractor, East of Edson (Revisited), 30th Anniversary Edition

11:Mona Lissa, Queen of Games

11: Casper Skulls, Kit-Cat ( Next Door Records)

18: Drew Smith, Leaf by Leaf.

25: Digawolf, Trapline

25: Rachella Wred, Leave The Light On

25: Braden Lam, The Cloudmaker's Cry

25: Bells Larsen, Blurring Time (Royal Mountain)

25: Matt Andersen, The Hammer & The Rose (Sonic Records)

25: METÒ, Wed To The Moment

May

9: Hanorah, Closer Than Hell (Ensoul Records)