New & Upcoming Album Releases: Austra Delivers 'Chin Up Buttercup' and Colter Wall Returns With 'Memories And Empties'

An eclectic grouping of new work from some noted Canadian artists was released this week.

Austra, the acclaimed electro-pop project of Toronto vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis, just released her fifth album, Chin Up Buttercup.

The album’s name references the societal pressure to just paste on a smile and keep going, and the record was fuelled by a devastating breakup. Co-produced by Stelmanis and Kieran Adams (Diana, The Weather Station), it combines hypnotic dance floor anthems and strong melodies. Last month, Austra announced early 2026 tour dates across North America, the UK and EU. Check the itinerary here.

Acclaimed Saskatchewan country/roots singer-songwriter (and rancher) Colter Wall returns with a new album, Memories And Empties. “I wanted to make a straight-ahead country album,” he says of the record. "There’s some cowboy vernacular and western-isms that crept their way into a few of these songs, but mostly, I was pointed towards more country themes. And the sound is representative of that.” Wall just announced U.S. tour dates running from Dec. 9 to March 14.

Others serving up new releases this week include experimental artist Magella, with The Pearl, Toronto post-punk outfit Odonis Odonis, with a self-titled album, roots-rockers The Bros. Landreth, with Dog Ear, Maritime folk favourite Old Man Luedecke (a deluxe edition of She Told Me Where To Go), jazz guitarist Tim Brady (For Electric Guitar), synth-pop veterans Men Without Hats (On the Moon) and Yves Jarvis (a deluxe version of his acclaimed All Cylinders).

Those announcing upcoming release dates include Katie Tupper (Greyhound), Bedouin Soundclash leader Malinowski (Under A Landslide of Stars), Daphini aka Dan Snaith, with Butterfly, and Wintersleep (Wishing Moon).

Here is a full calendar of new releases.

November

6: Cris Derksen, The Visit

6: Hotel Mira, The After Party (604 Records)

7: Jade Lemac, It's Always At Night (Warner Music Canada)

7: The Dears, Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!, (Next Door Records)

7: Crasher, Odditi Populaire (Mothland)

7: Optikz, The Optikz EP

7: Alexisonfire, Copies of Old Masters Volume 1

7: Duke & Goldie, Romance & Ramblin’

7: Days of Lavender, Already Everywhere7: Niall Mutter, Silver

7: Noah Franche-Nolan, Rose-Anna (Cellar Music)

7: Finger Eleven, Last Night On Earth

7: Virginia to Vegas, an examination of it all

7: Lorraine Leckie, Goddamn Outer Space

7: Jets Overhead, Ordinary Dreamers - Rarities and Demos, Vol. 1

7: Lighthouse, One Fine Morning - Anniversary Edition

7: Aretha Tillotson, Kinda Out West

7: Alex Cuba, Indole

7: Eliana Cuevas & Jorge Glem, Mi Pequeña

7: Crasher, Odditi Populaire

7: Peter Katz, Everything Unfolding

7: The Hunter Brothers, All Kinds of Country (Open Road Recordings)

11: KeAloha, My Book of Prayers

12: Eddie Schwartz, Film School

12: Rise Carmine, Come In Closer (Paper Bag Records)

13: Magella, The Pearl

14: Odonis Odonis, S/T ( Royal Mountain Records)

14: Austra, Chin Up Buttercup (Pink Fizz/Domino)

14: Yves Jarvis, All Cylinders (Deluxe) (In Next Door Records)

14: Siibii, S/T (Ishkōdé Records)

14: The Bros. Landreth, Dog Ear

14: Hélène Barbier, Panorama ( Bonsound)

14: Gaspard Eden, Crooked Lines (Coyote Records)

14: Tim Brady, For Electric Guitar (People Places Records)

14: Jess Moskaluke, The Encore Mixes EP, (MDM Recordings Inc.)

14: Nicholas Craven Criminally Attached (Roc Nation)

14: Colter Wall, Memories And Empties Memories and Empties (La Honda Records)

14: Old Man Luedecke, She Told Me Where To Go (Deluxe edition) (Outside Music)

14: Men Without Hats, On the Moon

21: Raj Ramayya, Spice Oddity (Hopeful Tragedy Records)

21: Boutique Feelings, Shwaya, Shywya (Mothland)

21: Limblifter, I/O -vinyl reissue (Record Record Label )

21: Jill Barber, A Holly Jolly Jill Barber Christmas (Outside Music)

21: Odds, Nest -vinyl reissue (Record Record Label )

21: Sam Salmon & the Grand Manan Bandits, Down For Life (Forward Music/Big Turnips)

21: Just Jillian, Story of Mine

21: Rheostatics, The Great Lakes Suite (Cordova Bay)

21: Anna Pidgorna,Invented Folksongs (Redshift Records)

21: Tate McRae, So Close To What - deluxe

21: Ruby Singh & The Future Ancestors, Celestial Libations

21: TUSH, Heavy Weather

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

December

1: The Jellyfish, S/T

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

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

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: Dana Sipos, Golden Molten

26: 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)

27: Bibi Club, Amaro (Secret City)

27: Garrett T. Willie, Bill's Cafe

March

13: Malinowski, Under A Landslide of Stars

19: Gnarwhal, Lucid Machines

20: Edwin Raphael, I Know A Garden

27: Wintersleep, Wishing Moon (Dine Alone)