New & Upcoming Canadian Releases: New Shad Collaboration, Klô Pelgag Returns, Shawn Mendes Album Delayed

The calendar of new and upcoming albums includes some promising projects and reissues from Canadian artists.

Rock veterans 54•40 have a new live album, and there are also new releases from acclaimed singer-songwriter Jadea Kelly, indie rockers Secondhand Dreamcar, and Meko Brain, the solo project of Zeus' Mike O'Neil.

Those delivering deluxe reissues of hit albums are Barenaked Ladies, Chromeo, Busty and the Bass and The Dears. Shawn Mendes' fifth studio album, Shawn, has been pushed back to Nov. 15 from its original Oct. 18 release date. Read more on that here.

The two most prominent new offerings this week are from acclaimed long-running hip-hop artist Shad and Quebec rising star Klô Pelgag.

Shad's new release is a four-song EP entitled Reel Speakers, and it is a fully collaborative effort with renowned Michigan producer/DJ 14KT. Here is a sample.

There is already plenty of buzz around the new Klô Pelgag album Abracadabra. The singer-songwriter has won one Juno and 20 Félix awards and earned a Polaris Prize shortlisting. This new album is self-produced, and you can check out its advance trailer here.

Here is the full calendar of new and upcoming Canadian albums.

October

3: Cadence Weapon,ROLLERCOASTER (Deluxe) (MNRK Music)

4: Mia Kelly, To Be Clear

4: Ada Lea, notes EP (Next Door Records)

4: Caribou, Honey (City Slang)

4: Kevin Breit, There's This

4: Chantal Kreviazuk,Colour Moving and Still - anniversary reissue (Sony Music Entertainment Canada)

4: Les Hay Babies, Tintamarre

4: Great Lake Swimmers, In Pieces: An Acoustic Retrospective

4: HotKid,Downtown (Fortune Stella Records)

7: Opeongo, Eventual Mt. Lee

7: Shad and 14KT, Reel Speakers (Secret City Records)

9: Zyla, Dingleberries(Bandcamp)

9: Meko Brain, Wonderment (Victory Pool Records)

9: Busty and the Bass, Deluxe Version of Forever Never Cares

10: Chromeo, Adult Contemporary - deluxe edition

11: Klô Pelgag, Abracadabra (Secret City Records)

11: 54•40, Live At El Mocambo

11: The Dears, No Cities Left: The Definitive 20th Anniversary Edition Vinyl

11: Barenaked Ladies, Barenaked For The Holidays (Reissue)

11: Secondhand Dreamcar, Answer The Call

11: The August Arrival, Hillsides

11: Eldritch Priest, Dormitive Virtue (Halocline Trance)

11: Pillow Fite, Hard Feelings, Soft Promises (LHM Records)

11: DJ Uncle Fester and Stephen Hero, The Squeeze

11: Jadea Kelly, Weather Girl

14: Justine Giles,Another Chance

18: 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: Nicky Lawrence, Ugly Black Woman (Gypsy Soul Records)

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

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

18: Sean Davis Newton, Bird Brain

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

18: Japandroids, Fate & Alcohol

18: Hildegard, Jour 1596 (Chivi Chivi)

18: The Lookout, I Know The Future

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

22: Léolo, Mainland

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: Ollee Owens, Nowhere To Hide

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

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

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

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

25: Leahy, Live In Concert

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

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: 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: Carn Davidson 9, Reverence

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

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: 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: 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: 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: Tim Baker, Full Rainbow of Light

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

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)

January

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

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

24: Motherhood, Thunder Perfect Mind (Forward Music)

24: SARAH PAGÉ & PATRICK GRAHAM , Littoral States

31: Gus Engelhorn, The Hornbook (Secret City)

31: N NAO, Nouveau Langage ( Mothland)

31: Featurette, Panic Pills (via Division11).

February

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

27: JJ Miller, Hometown Believer