New & Upcoming Album Releases: Kid Koala's New Soundtrack, Tim Baker's Expanded Holiday Album

As holiday music takes over the release schedule, there are some notable releases from Canadian artists this week.

Innovative Montreal DJ, graphic novelist ,director and producer Kid Koala has taken his highly-praised live cinematic theatre experience The Storyville Mosquito across the U.S., Europe, Asia and recently Mexico and it checks into National Arts Centre for a two-week run, Dec. 3-13. Coinciding with the performance, a limited-edition, physical-only 10 inch picture disc vinyl has just been released featuring its never-before-issued soundtrack.

East Coast singer-songwriter and former Hey Rosetta! frontman Tim Baker has just released a deluxe version of 2024's much-praised holiday-inspired album, Full Rainbow of Light. This edition features three new songs: a cover of Jackson Browne's “The Rebel Jesus,” plus two originals, “A Little Bit of Room” and “Every Ribbon.” Baker describes the latter tune as "Quite sad, but wrapped in bright paper so to speak. It’s a song about someone dreading Christmas, not because they’re some cartoonish Scrooge, but because the good memories of Christmases now gone are too painful to relive.”

Baker is now playing his annual Christmas shows, with select solo dates across Ontario plus three full band concerts with his 'All Hands' band back in Newfoundland. Shows info here.

Also in the holiday mood is acclaimed pop singer-songwriter Jeffery Straker, who has just delivered a seasonal album, A Very Prairie Christmas. He is supporting it with a series of Christmas shows out west. Details here.

Also serving up new material this week are Hamilton hard rockers The Dirty Nil, with Live At The Dine Alone Store, Calgary new wave outfit Betaboys, withGreat Pretenders, double bassist and composer Hugo Blouin, with Le buffet and experimental duo Géraldine Eguilluz and Michel F Côté, with hoRs TempS.

Here is the full album release calendar.

November

25: Dylan White, Fronds

25: Johnny Max Band, Johnny Max & His So-Called Friends

27: Evensun, S/T

27: Johnny 99, Mr. Lonely (North Country Collective)

27: Alex Mason, Breaking the Blue Sky

27: David Vertesi, Cardiography - Anniversary Acoustic Edition (Tiny Kingdom Music)

December

1: The Jellyfish, S/T

2: Jeffery Straker, Very Prairie Christmas

5: The Dirty Nil, Live At The Dine Alone Store

5: Hugo Blouin, Le buffet (Ambiances Magnétiques)

5: Géraldine Eguilluz and Michel F Côté, hORs TempS (Ambiances Magnétiques)

5: cleopatrick, SCRAP

5: Matt Lang, All Night Even Longer -deluxe edition

5: Tim Baker, Full Rainbow of Light - deluxe

5: Betaboys, Great Pretenders (Bandcamp)

5: Kid Koala, The Storyville Mosquito - picture disc vinyl

8: Bryan Adams & Friends, A Great Big Holiday Jam (Bad Records)

12: Patrick Smith, Words Underlined (Lit Soc)

January 2026

9: Calling All Captains, The Things That I’ve Lost Out (New Damage Records)

16: Clothesline From Hell, Slather On The Honey

21: Katie Tupper, Greyhound (Arts & Crafts)

23: 54-40, PORTO

23: Dana Sipos, Golden Molten

23: Jo Passed, Away (Youth Riot Records)

30: Softcult, When A Flower Doesn’t Grow (Easy Life Records)

30: Gab Bouchard, Encore

30: New Saint, Santo

30: Luca Fogale, Challenger (Nettwerk Music Group)

February

6: Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laughter In Summer (Transgressive)

6: Nick Schofield, Blue Hour (Backward Music)

6: Daphni, Butterfly

13: Boy Golden, Best of Our Possible Lives (Six Shooter Records)

13: LARKK, Cinders

27: Bibi Club, Amaro (Secret City)

27: The Sheepdogs, Keep Out Of The Storm

27: Garrett T. Willie, Bill's Cafe

March

13: Malinowski, Under A Landslide of Stars

13: Marie Celeste, Tout ce qui brille

19: Gnarwhal, Lucid Machines

20: Edwin Raphael, I Know A Garden

27: Wintersleep, Wishing Moon (Dine Alone)

April

10: Les Louanges, Alouette! (Bonsound)