New & Upcoming Album Releases: U.S. Girls Announces New Album 'Scratch It,' Bibi Club Drops New Music

The Canadian music calendar is filling with spring and summer releases.

There are a number of new artists with anticipated albums out this week. Indie-pop duo and Polaris Prize longlisters Bibi Club have released a deluxe edition of their Feu de Garde, while prolific (over 20 albums and EPs) Toronto roots-rock veterans Skydiggers have released Dreams & Second Chances and acclaimed folk-rocker Ryan Wayne has put out his second solo outing, Functioning Dysfunctionals.

Emerging folk-roots outfit Robert Thomas & The Sessionmen deliver The Way We Roll, alt-pop duo Bestfriend return with Bestfriend Has An Identity Crisis, Sudbury singer-songwriter Kate Maki releases her seventh solo album, Impossible Knot, and Newfoundland folk duo Rube & Rake put out their third album, Good Time After Bad.

Critical favourite and Polaris Prize shortlister U.S. Girls (Meg Remy) has also announced she will release her next full-length album, Scratch It, on June 20 on Royal Mountain and 4AD. It is being described as "a rock and roll album that bleeds soul." The first single "Bookends" pays tribute to late Power Trip frontman Riley Gale, which ponders death as the equalizer for all human history.

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Here is the full list of new and upcoming Canadian album releases.

May

1: Hermitess, Death & The Fool

1: The Vaniers, So Bad, So Good

1: Kevin Hearn, Portland Parish

2: Lights, A6

2: Goodnight Sunrise, GET A LIFE

2: Kelly Bado, Belles âmes (Good People) (Odd Doll Records)

2: Marie Dresselhuis, A Little Quiet At First

2: Lowest Of The Low, Over Years and Over Night (Sonic Envy)

2: Henry Burnz & WILLA, 418

2: Abigail Lapell, More Songs About Love

2: Propagandhi, At Peace (Epitaph)

2: The Lightning Struck, Century Storm

2: Tumble, Lost In Light

2: PUP, Who Will Look After The Dogs?

2: Reuben and The Bullhorn Singers, All These Roads

2: Moonshine, MS for Location, Vol. 6 ( Moonshine/ADA Warner)

2: Tean Dream, Shine

6: Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Triste Animal

6: Men I Trust, Equus Caballus

9: Kate Maki, Impossible Knot

9: Hanorah, Closer Than Hell (Ensoul Records)

9: Kara-Lis Coverdale, From Where You Came (Envision Records)

9: Bestfriend, Bestfriend Has An Identity Crisis (Nettwerk)

9: Ryan Wayne, Functioning Dysfunctionals

9: Skydiggers, Dreams & Second Chances

9: Robert Thomas & The Sessionmen, The Way We Roll

9: Rube & Rake, Good Times After Bad (LHM Records)

9: Tsundial, S/T

9: Skydiggers, Dreams & Second Chances

9: Bibi Club, FEU DE GARDE (LES BRAISES)- Deluxe edition (Secret City)

9: Preoccupations, Ill at Ease (Born Losers)

12: Mike Trask, Beet

14: Absolute Treat, Shattered Love (Victory Pool)

15: Wardrobe, Common Touch

16: Ensign Broderick, Come Down and Mirror Ring

16: Alex Henry Foster, A Nightfall Ritual (Hopeful Tragedy)

16: Chinese Medicine, The Trans Agenda (Twin Fang)

16: The Commoners, Live In The UK

16: Larry Kurtz & The Lawbreakers, Take A Ride

16: Shawny - Go Go Stop -Music & Movement for Kids

16: Tanika Charles, Reasons To Stay

16: Dan Mangan, Natural Light ( Arts & Crafts)

16: EKKSTACY, forever

20: Gordon Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane, Double Take

23: David Celia , Organica (vinyl edition)

23: New Chance, A Rock Unsteady, (We Are Time)

23: Cassia Hardy, In Relation (Mint Records)

23: Ryland James, Heart of Me ( 21 Entertainment Group)

23: L.O.E (Last of Eden), I Was Not Magnificent

23: Flara K., Seasons

23: Two Hours Traffic, I Never See You Anymore

23: Stephane Archambault, Point

25: Alexander Gallant, Rubber Monster Suit (Tibet Street Records)

26: The Dirty Nil, Free Rein To Passions (Dine Alone)

27: Opal Dar, Birds Hurting Birds Who Hurt Birds

30: Amy Millan, I Went To Find You (Last Gang Records)

30: Mint Simon, Chimera

30: SamWoy, Even Sad Boys Like to Have Fun (Hidden Ship)

30: Foxwarren, 2 (Arts & Crafts)

June

3: Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira, Here To Stay

6: Born Ruffians, Beauty’s Pride (Wavy Haze Records)

6: Suzie Ungerleider, Among the Evergreens (MVKA)

6: Hannah Marcus, Ten Bones from a Virgin Graveyard ( Bar/None Records)

6: Ambre Ciel, still, there is the sea

6: Mother Mother, Nostalgia (Warner Music)

6: Monkey House, Crashbox (ALMA Records)

6: Nadah El Shazly, Laini Tani (Backward Music)

6: Curtis Nowosad, I Am Doing My Best ( La Reserve)

6: Various Artists, ANTHEMS: A Celebration of Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People (Arts & Crafts)

6: Ken Yates, Total Cinema

6: The Knocks and Dragonette, Revelation (Neon Gold Records / Futures / Virgin)

6: Dominique Fils-Aimé, Live At The Montreal International Jazz Festival

6: Steve Marriner, Hear My Heart (Cordova Bay Records)

6: Empanadas Ilegales, Sancocho Trifásico (We Are Time)

6: Ambre Ciel, still, there is the sea (Gondwana Records)

13: Common Holly, Anything Glass ( Paper Bag Records)

13: CHXMERAS, Second Sight

13: Sandra Sutter, Shadow Stories

13: Mike Elliott, Let You Go (Busted Flat Records)

13: Steven Taetz, Fruit

13: Yawn, wish i could've

13: APACALDA, There's a Shadow in my Room and it isn't Mine

20: Sunshine Makers, The Sun Still Shines (Lovetown Records)

20: Celeigh Cardinal, Boundless Possibilities - Deluxe Edition

20: Meggie Lennon, Desire Days ( Mothland)

20: Drives the Common Man, Grief and Purpose (Red Music Rising)

20: U.S. Girls, Scratch It

25: The Souljazz Orchestra, Manifesto (vinyl)

27: Royale Lynn, Black Magic (Epitaph Records)

27: Penny & The Pits, Liquid Compactor (Forward Music)

July

11: Tami Neilson, Neon Cowgirl (Outside)

11: Hughes, S/T

11: Karma Glider, From the Haze of a Revved Up Youth (Mothland)

22: JP LeBlanc, All In My Blood--Je l’ai dans le sang ( Acadian Connection)

25: The Dirty Nil The Lash (Dine Alone Records)

August

1: Debby Friday, The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life (Royal Mountain)

22: Chambers Deslauriers, Time To Ride (40 Below Records)

29: The Beaches, No Hard Feelings (AWAL)

September

12: Camilla Sparksss, ICU Run (On The Camper Records)