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Daniel Caesar at The Mod Club in Toronto at NXNE in June 2025.
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Daniel Caesar Enters a Reflective New Era with 'Son of Spergy,' deadmau5 Announces First Album in a Decade
Other new albums this week come from rockers Big Wreck and The Trews, and singer-songwriters Bahamas and Begonia.
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It's one of the busiest release dates of the year for Canadian artists.
Leading the list is Daniel Caesar, whose much-anticipated album Son of Spergy is out today via Hollace Inc. and Republic Records/UMC.
The Canadian R&B star has been through a tumultuous few years, as he described in an exclusive Billboard and Billboard Canada cover story this summer. It brought him to a purer place, one filled with introspection, nostalgia and reckoning with his religious upbringing. The album was executive produced by fellow Canadian singer-songwriter Mustafa and features Sampha, Bon Iver, Yebba, Blood Orange and more. Listen to the new single "Root of all Evil" below.
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Bahamas (Afie Jurvanen) also has a new album out today, and it's a provocatively titled one. With five Junos, a Grammy nomination, platinum-selling albums and more than a billion streams across platforms, he has had an acclaimed career as a Canadian singer-songwriter. We're not share whether to take the title of his new record, My Second Last Album, (his seventh studio release) seriously.
His previous album, Bootcut, had a country feel, while the new one features a more familiar breezy indie-folk Bahamas sound. Recorded at DreamDate, the compact studio built by friend and collaborator Joshua Van Tassel, the album features the pair playing every instrument across its 10 tracks.
Another critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter, Begonia (Alexa Dirks), has just released her third album, Fantasy Life. The powerhouse vocalist reportedly wrote its 13 songs in L.A. heat, then recorded them in the middle of winter in her hometown of Winnipeg. The record is described as being "about the mundane and the magical, the delusional and the hopeful."
Veteran rockers Big Wreck launched their ninth album, The Rest of the Story, at Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Theatre last night (Oct. 23). In a recent interview with The Globe & Mail, frontman and guitar hero Ian Thornley praised the new record's producer, Nick Raskulinecz, noting that "he is great with perspective. You get deep inside a song and it’s great to have a bird’s-eye view. You have to have the big picture in mind. He’s also great with wild, out-of-left-field ideas, arrangement-wise." A Grammy-winner who has worked with Rush, Foo Fighters and Deftones, Raskulinecz also produced Thornley's 2009 album, Tiny Pictures.
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Today also brings a major album announcement from electronic music powerhouse deadmau5. The yet-untitled 2026 album will be his first in a decade, following 2016's W:/2016ALBUM/. The Billboard Canada cover star has released the first single, "Ameonna," out today via mau5trap. It's a familiar spacey-but-driving deadmau5 sound, slowly unfolding over its hypnotic seven-plus minutes. Listen below:
Here is the full calendar of new Canadian music releases:
October
17: The Barr Brothers, Let It Hiss (Secret City)
17: bbno$, S/T (Broke Records/CMG)
17: Rachel Bobbitt, Swimming Towards the Sand (Fantasy)
17: Royal Wood, Dear John (Cordova Bay Records)
17: William Prince, Further From the Country (Six Shooter)
17: Terra Lightfoot - Home Front (Sonic Unyon)
17: Bob Moses, BLINK
21: The Boojums, S/T (Having Fun/We Are Busy Bodies)
21: RALEIGH, Fate Is Criminal
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22: Clela Errington, Walkin' Each Other Home
22: The Pairs, Together On A Rock
22: Chad Ross, Future Site of C.ROSS (Echodelick Records)
23: Skinny Dyck, More Easy(Victory Pool)
24: Daniel Caesar, Son of Spergy (Hollace Inc./Republic)
24: Ark Identity, Deluxe Nightmare
24: Julianna Riolino, Echo In The Dust (Moonwhistle)
24: John Borra, Last Dance at The E Room
24: Begonia, Fantasy Life (Birthday Cake Records)
24: Lily Sazz, What Just Happened
24: Douance, À la prochaine
24: Alexandra Kay, Second Wind
24: Jerry Leger, Waves Of Desire (DevilDuck Records)
24: The Mendozaz, The Completely Fictional History Of This Great Nation of Canada
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24: Jory Nash, The Light Still Shines On The Main
24: The Strumbellas, Burning Bridges Into Dust (Glassnote Records)
24: Alonekitty, Sad Not Sad
24: NADJIWAN, Now Is The Right Time Of Year
24: Bahamas, My Second Last Album
24: Rebecca Foon, Black Butterflies (Envision Records)
24: Liona Boyd, This Thing Called Love (Universal)
24: Big Wreck, The Rest of the Story
24: The Trews, The Bloody Light
24: Lindsay Ell, Fence Sitter
24: Kyle Wildfern, What a Life!
24: Jerry Leger, Waves Of Desire
24: Noam Lemish, There’s beauty enough in being here
24: Anthony D’Alessandro, City Lights
24: Ouri, Daisy Cutter
29: Evan Redsky, THE LANGUAGE OF FISHERMEN
30: JEEN, For the Romance
30: Les Secrétaires Volantes, Méconium and Thermoplastique (double album vinyl)
31: Shad, Start Anew (Secret City Records)
31: The Boojums, The Boojums (Having Fun Records / We Are Busy Bodies)
31: sundayclub, Bannatyne (Paper Bag Records)
31: THE 456, Life On The Head Of A Pin
31: Gaspard Eden, Crooked Lines (Coyote Records)
November
1: SHEBAD, Music is the Answer (Stripped)
3: His His, '25 (Victory Pool)
3: The Mendozaz, The Completely Fictional History of This Great Nation of Canada
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: Alexisonfire, Copies of Old Masters Volume 1
7: Duke & Goldie, Romance & Ramblin’
7: Days of Lavender, Already Everywhere
7: Niall Mutter, Silver
7: Noah Franche-Nolan, Rose-Anna (Cellar Music)
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
11: KeAloha, My Book of Prayers
12: Eddie Schwartz, Film School
12: Rise Carmine, Come In Closer (Paper Bag Records)
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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: 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: 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: Ruby Singh & The Future Ancestors, Celestial Libations
21: TUSH, Heavy Weather
December
1: The Jellyfish, S/T
26: Sean Stephens, Lest I Remember
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January 2026
9: Calling All Captains, The Things That I’ve Lost Out (New Damage Records)
23: Jo Passed, Away (Youth Riot Records)
23: Dana Sipos, Golden Molten
30: Softcult, When A Flower Doesn’t Grow (Easy Life Records)
30: New Saint, Santo
February
6: Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laughter In Summer (Transgressive)
6: Nick Schofield, Blue Hour (Backward Music)
13: Boy Golden, Best of Our Possible Lives (Six Shooter Records)
27: Bibi Club, Amaro (Secret City)
March
19: Gnarwhal, Lucid Machines
20: Edwin Raphael, I Know A Garden
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